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Project Pyramid started in 2006, and since then, it has brought together Vanderbilt students from multiple disciplines to engage meaningfully with socially conscious organizations across the globe. An interdisciplinary, student-led program that uses in-classroom and hands-on learning experiences to examine the causes and symptoms of global poverty, addressing the innovative and entrepreneurial ways or ganizations attempt to alleviate poverty. Seeking to establish market-drive

On Saturday, November 12, the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures hosted the annual Hult Prize @ Vanderbilt, the local round of the global competition in which students from around the world pitch a venture that aims to address one of the world’s most pressing challenges. This year, the Hult Prize challenge is: redesigning fashion to make it more sustainable . The local round of the Hult Prize, in which students have just a few weeks to meet with their team, create a ven

In the second half of the 2021-2022 school year, graduate students from across a variety of Vanderbilt’s schools came together in Project Pyramid, an interdisciplinary class taught at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management by TFC Director Mario Avila. As part of the program’s unique experiential learning component, teams of students were paired with social enterprises across the globe whom they worked as consultants for. The projects varied in scope and final deliver

Author Lacie Blankenship of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management interviews Social Enterprise Pitch Competition winners and TFC staff. 

Article written by Lacie Blankenship of Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. Original article can be accessed here . Full text of the article can be found below. Students create and pitch original business models with a goal of generating 500 jobs in the Middle Tennessee region. By Lacie Blankenship Planned and executed by the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures (TFC) , the first Vanderbilt Social Enterprise Pitch Competition kicked off in mid-Oct

Olivia Cochran (M.Ed. Leadership & Organizational Performance '22) How many times have you heard the word “unprecedented” in the last year? Well, add another tally to your list because the Turner Family Center hosted an unprecedented sixth annual Social Ventures Summit, creating an entirely virtual event in light of the on-going coronavirus pandemic and social distancing guidelines, along with the largest snowfall Nashville has seen in years coinciding with the week of Summi

Original Story: Kara Sherrer, Vanderbilt Business Link:  https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2018/02/06/tfc-summit-brings-together-12-social-impact-speakers-100-students The third annual summit is largest yet for Turner Family Center for Social Ventures On January 27, more than 100 students from Nashville gathered in the Vanderbilt Law School to hear from a dozen social impact speakers. Hosted by the  Turner Family Center for Social Ventures  (TFC), the third annual summit g

Original Story: Nathaniel Luce, Vanderbilt Business Link:  https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/11/15/1-million-hult-prize-challenge-2018-kicks-off-vanderbilt/ Vanderbilt Business and Turner Family Center host first-round pitch competition; Team SoLLago advances to regional finals How do you harness the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people? That’s the challenge put to teams vying for $1 million in the  Hult Prize competition , a global event that

by Seth Robertson | Oct. 21, 2016, 2:36 PM The Turner Family Center for Social Ventures , a student-led organization at Vanderbilt University committed to alleviating poverty through market-driven forces and enterprise, will host one of the opening rounds of the international Hult Prize Challenge on Nov. 7. Billed as the “Nobel Prize for students,” the annual Hult Prize awards $1 million in seed capital for the best business plan to help solve an issue of grave importance