Social Venture Fund

We have just launched our National Call for Business Plans. Click on the posting below for details. Please direct all business plans and comments to: [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

The SvF is excited to bring on a new class of fellows for 2011-2012. To learn more about the fund you can attend one of the two info sessions listed below. We strongly encourage that you attend one of these sessions before applying to the fund. Info Sessions Wednesday, 9/7 7:30-8:30am, R1240 4:30-5:30pm, E0540 For [...]

It’s Go Blue Rendezvous at Ross and we are always excited to meet admitted students and spread the good word on impact investing. Please join us on Saturday, April 9 at Meet the Clubs and the Coalition for Good Happy Hour. We’d love to chat about the Fund, what we’re all about, impact investing, and [...]

A huge congratulations to our incredible animator Olivia Su, who won the competition and visualizing our story. And thank you to Peter Benedetto for being a fantastic producer, and Emily Tsiang and Lauren Miller for their tenacity in seeing this effort through.

CLIENT The UM Social Venture Fund, recently featured in BusinessWeek and at the Clinton Global Initiative, is one of the first student-led social venture capital funds in the country. We invest in social enterprises that make positive impacts in their communities. We are looking for multimedia designers to create an animated promotional 90-sec video. COMPETITION [...]

Dear Friends of UM Social Venture Fund (SVF), It has been an exciting year for us here at the University of Michigan | Ross School of Business! From being featured in BusinessWeek to starting due diligence on our first project, we’ve been busy building one of the first student-led social venture capital funds in the [...]

SvF hosts a brunch with Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO and Founder of Acumen Fund, during the University’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Fund partnered with the Center for Entrepreneurship, MPowered, William Davidson Institute, Zell Lurie Institute, the Non-Profit Management Center, the Erb Institute, Ross, the Law School, and the Engineering School.

“The 18th Annual Net Impact Conference, 2020: Vision for a Sustainable Decade, hosted by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan from October 28-30, challenged more than 2,500 professionals and students to envision their role in working towards a sustainable future. For three jam-packed days, we brought into focus innovative business solutions [...]

The SvF Social Enterprise Pitch Forum provides an opportunity for current and future social entrepreneurs to present their business plan to a panel of judges, and to get meaningful feedback on their ideas and approaches. The session will focus on enterprises in four areas: Education, Environment, Health and Nutrition, and Urban Revitalization. In the first [...]