$50,000 in Cash and Prizes,
Including HIP Investor Inc’s Scorecard
for Sustainable Business Start-Ups

Summaries Due on November 16th – Decisions in December 2007

More info at: http://www.accountability-central.com/single-view-default/article/foundations-to-provide-50000-in-cash-and-prizes-to-sustainable-business-start-ups-summaries-due/

WASHINGTON, DC. – October 29, 2007 – The William James Foundation is teaming up with the Foundation for a Sustainable Future to offer more then $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Socially Responsible and Sustainable Business Plans and Start-Ups. The William James Foundation’s 5th annual Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition has been expanded to include an additional set of cash prizes for businesses that will address environmental sustainability issues such as population, consumption culture, technological innovation, and the planet’s limited resources.

Feedback is given to every qualified plan. The judges are experts in both social ventures and traditional business plans, and include community activists, Wall Street professionals, academics, and CEOs of national for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Each plan will be read multiple times from different viewpoints.

The competition is open to for-profit business (or business ideas) with at least one member who is a current student or has graduated within the past ten years. If you have already started your business, you can not have been in business for more than a year. If you are interested in submitting an entry, please see www.williamjamesfoundation.org for details and entry qualifications or contact ian.fisk@williamjamesfoundation.org.