Application Deadline: October 21st 2014

Feb 2 – Dec. 15 (10 Months)
Where: Santa Clara University, 500 `el Camino Real Santa Clara, United States

The Global Social Benefit Institute Accelerator Programme (GSBI) works with entrepreneurs whose organizations are addressing the worlds most pressing problems with market-based solutions. This includes for-profits, non-profits, and hybrids with impact in base of pyramid communities, or, whose primary beneficiaries are living below the poverty line. The social entrepreneur who attends should hold a senior leadership role within the organization, with the authority to make top-level strategic decisions.

This program is for leaders of social enterprises that:

• Place equal or greater emphasis on social impact vs. financial return
• Serve the underserved (those that for reasons of economics, gender, geography, etc. have unequal access to energy, clean water, information and communication technology, education, health, or economic development and livelihood opportunities)
• Address a problem that affects more than one million people worldwide
• Have a product or service with measurable social impact
  
  The social entrepreneur must be committed to creating an organization that:
• Is capable of attaining financial sustainability
• Reaches increasingly larger numbers of beneficiaries
• Measures systematically their social impact

Minimum eligibility for the program:

• Demonstrated impact in base of pyramid communities
• Validated business model
• Proven technology, product, or service
• Operational for at least two years