Get Paid to Co-found a For-Profit Social Venture this Summer
Get Paid to Co-found a For-Profit Social Venture this Summer
Co-found and develop a for-profit social venture during your summer break. Join one of our teams of social entrepreneurs and innovators working to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
You get to:
- Drive meaningful social change
- Work
with advisors from companies such as BlackRock, Dell Foundation, HSBC, Natixis,
Acumen Fund and Startupbootcamp
- Learn a proven
entrepreneurship framework and accelerated design thinking
- Build
your network
- Get paid
- Earn Equity
The biggest opportunity is post-graduation:
It’s the opportunity to step into a leadership position (with equity) in a funded start-up you co-founded.
About BonBillo
BonBillo is an incubator and support network for ambitious startups using technology to solve social, health and environmental problems. We work with entrepreneurs and university students to launch and grow social ventures. Our incubator provides social ventures with entrepreneurship training, top mentors, an accomplished peer group, workspace and financial assistance.
Our Philosophy
We believe that people, planet and profit thrive together. Many social and environmental challenges are large business opportunities. You can do good while doing well.
Program Overview
Summer – Validate social ventures using a data-driven entrepreneurial framework
End of Summer – Pitch for pre-seed funding to take your venture forward
Fall & Winter – Get customer feedback to iterate on working prototypes
Spring – Teams pitch investors to raise seed financing
Ventures from Fall 2017 Program
Student Skills Development – Address the gap between the skills of graduating university students and job market requirements
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing – Develop tools to improve transparency in sustainable investing
Combat Human Trafficking – Work with Unchained, an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking, to scale their awareness, prevention and education programs
For more information, visit bonbillo.com/ventures
Qualifications
- Must be pursuing a full-time MBA, Masters,
PhD, or undergraduate degree with an expected graduation date between May 2018
and May 2019
- Strong interest in social issues,
technology and business
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills
and independent motivation
- Excellent project management, interpersonal
and organizational skills, with the ability to drive and implement ideas in a
changing environment
- Available to work at our
incubator space at Impact Hub, CIC Boston
Compensation
You will receive
- $4000 stipend for living expenses
- Sweat equity in the venture you work on
Want to truly make the world a better place?
Do you want to do good while doing well?
If you’re a university student or social entrepreneur interested in helping launch a social venture, join our Boston Summer Incubator program.
To apply, send your resume to apply@bonbillo.com before April 15, 2018. Applications are reviewed as they are received.