The Mentor Capital Network is hosting its 12th annual Sustainable Business Plan Competition. The deadline to apply is January 15th, 5PM USA Eastern time.

Over the past 11 years, more than 800 for-profit social enterprises have participated in our Sustainable Business Plan Competition.

However, our Sustainable Business Plan competition is not about competition. Just the opposite. Its about astounding collaboration between mentors and social enterprise creators. It’s the investment in expertise that defines WJF. Through our competition, we connect entrepreneurs who are passionate about their ideas and inventions with a team of mentors who have the experience and perspective to support these entrepreneurs to create and grow successful enterprises.The skills and knowledge this network of people share is something we call mentor capital.

The process: nearly 1,000 volunteer mentors have donated $3 million of mentor capital to more than 800 for-profit social enterprises. We mobilized $750,000 in mentor capital in the last year, and expect to increase that to $1.2 million in 2015.

The result: over 450 for-profit enterprises have been launched, creating thousands of jobs and impacting millions of people.

http://www.williamjamesfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=1504

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Many thanks to Dawn McGee CEO Goodworks Ventures, LLC https://highstakesfoundation.wordpress.com/ for bringing this to our attention.