Fwd: FW: The DSIC has evolved into Verb!
Anthony Nandaa
From: Peter Waiganjo Wagacha <pwaiganj...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:56 AM
Subject: FW: The DSIC has evolved into Verb!
To: SCI Acad Staff <sci-...@uonbi.ac.ke>, Anthony Nandaa <profn...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Fwd: The DSIC has evolved into Verb!
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From: Dell Social Innovation Challenge <in...@goverb.com>
Date: January 21, 2014 1:29:20 PM GMT+03:00
To: <lir...@uonbi.ac.ke>
Subject: The DSIC has evolved into Verb!
Reply-To: Dell Social Innovation Challenge <in...@goverb.com>
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Dear University Partners,
Thank you for your invaluable support of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge over the past seven years.
With your help, the DSIC grew into the largest student social entrepreneurship competition in the world with over 25,000 university students participating from more than 60 countries. Together we awarded over $800,000 in seed funding to impressive social ventures run by many of your students. These ventures continue to create meaningful social impact, such as bringing light to over 300,000 households in rural India, providing education for hundreds of poor girls living in the Kibera slum, and creating dignified jobs for U.S. military veterans.
We also built a global network of over 800 University Partners and we collaborated together to innovate social entrepreneurship education.
We are proud to announce that the DSIC has now spun out of the University of Texas at Austin into its own social enterprise, Verb. As Verb, our mission is to accelerate early-stage social entrepreneurs through massive competitions focused on important global issues. We will now partner with multiple companies, foundations and governments from around the world to produce a variety of social entrepreneurship competitions year-round. Our competitions will be open to all early-stage social entrepreneurs, whether they are students or not.
While there will no longer be a Dell Social Innovation Challenge, we do plan to continue to engage universities and student social entrepreneurs through our multiple competitions and online platform. Verb will continue to have a strong partnership with the University of Texas at Austin. In 2014 we will be launching an improved website, including many more resources for our entrepreneurs. Our first competition will be launching in February and we plan to lead at least five this year. Students and entrepreneurs can create a project page at any time.
We are eager to continue to partner with you to support early-stage social entrepreneurs around the world. We will be reaching out to you with information about our competition deadlines as well as other opportunities and resources for student social entrepreneurs. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us should you have any questions.
Thank you again for all of the support and partnership you have provided over the past seven years. I am confident that the next phase of our journey will be the most exciting yet.
With deepest thanks,
Suzi SosaCo-Founder and CEO, Verb Inc.
su...@goverb.comP.S. Click to watch the official Verb video!
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Nandaa Anthony,
Software Architect, Tutor & Mentor.
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