1. WELCOME TO THE
GENERATOR DINNER
February 21, 2013
Oct 16, 2012
Fall Generator Dinner

2. Morgan
O’Neill

3. WELCOME TO THE
GENERATOR DINNER
February 21, 2013
Oct 16, 2012
Fall Generator Dinner

4. Innovative and feasible
ideas that make a positive
change in the world
anywhere in the world

5. What’s possible
up to $10k per team
+
3 x $1500
community choice awards

6. Arlene Ducao OpenIR
Vitor Pamplona Netra
Morgan O’Neill Recovers.org
Mario Bollini Leveraged Freedom Chair
winners’ panel

7. Mario Bollini
Leveraged
Freedom Chair
(GRIT)
2008 winner

8. Arlene Ducao OpenIR, 2012 winner

9. Vitor
Pamplona
Netra
2010 winner

10. Morgan
O’Neill

11. Arlene Ducao OpenIR
Vitor Pamplona Netra
Morgan O’Neill Recovers.org
Mario Bollini Leveraged Freedom Chair
winners’ panel

12. What the judges
will look for
Team composition
led by full-time MIT student(s)

13. What the judges
will look for
Innovation
demonstrate alternative options +
how your idea is different

14. What the judges
will look for
Impact
where did your idea begin
who are you working with
what’s value will you add

15. What the judges
will look for
Feasibility
what’s possible in next 15 months
scope
right team + partners
future plan

16. 1 – Submit a Scope Statement
Enter Final chance: Wed Feb 27
Submit at least one Scope Statement
Now
2 – Submit a Proposal
Friday, April 5
3 – Community Choice Vote
Friday, April 19 - Monday, April 29
4 – Poster & Judging Session
Monday, April 29
5 – Awards Celebration
Thursday, May 2
Winners Retreat on May 28 and 29

17. MENTORS
please
stand up

18. 60 second
pitches
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19. special award
2013 Yunus Challenge
education
resources at
http://web.mit.edu/idi

20. The Phase I Fellowship Eligibility Criteria
• Six Phase I Fellows will receive $5k for • Graduating from MIT June 2013.
travel and materials. • Have a new or improved hardware
• Fellowship: June-Sept 2013. device to meet a defined Base of the
• Improve on the design of your Pyramid need.
technology through needs and market • Be available to work full-time on the
analysis, value chain analysis, and user project and spend 6-8 weeks in the
testing. target market.
• Join a dynamic learning community of • Have project-based experience in a
young social entrepreneurs. developing country.
• Access D-Lab workspaces, receive • Have a community partner and a
mentorship, develop new skills, and technology mentor committed to
cultivate partnerships. your project.
d-lab.mit.edu/scale-ups/apply smithra@mit.edu

21. 60 second
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or share your skills

23. AquaFiltro: Water for
Life
Credit: PATH
Need: safe & affordable drinking water
Solution: ceramic water filtration
– Cheap & aesthetic
– Faster & more convenient
Impact: better life quality
– Health improvement
– Job creation & economic improvement

24. Changing the Attitude of Autism Abroad by Educating Families
The Problem: The Solution:
The attitude and stigma A dynamic online resource for families to
associated with autism is in dire consult if their child is formally or
need of reform particularly in informally diagnosed with autism
third world countries of Africa
and Asia. •Help with informal self-diagnosis via basic
checklist
•40% registered Nigerian nurses
attribute autism to supernatural •Educational resources for the disorder to
causes such as spirits or the devil curb the mentality that autism is a fatal
and hopeless disease, which needs
•Social stigma and lack of “curing”
government acceptance in
countries such as India and •Forum for families in similar situations to
China prevent families from interact with one another
taking much needed early
intervention procedures
•Success stories of autistic individuals, who
have conquered social stigma
----------------
Aparna Sud
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2013
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Sloan School of Management
asud@mit.edu | 781-367-4010 Sources: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, Psychology Today

27. LEARN X
MOBILE LEARNING MARKETPLACE
CONSUME BUY
Content Needs A Mobile Learners Need A
Platform SELL
Marketplace
Creators Need Distribution
Channel yscaira@mit.edu

28. Allison Rosenberg
allison.e.rosenberg@gmail.com

29. Lab-X Foundation
Make. Break. Innovate.
Incentive based unique educational programs to promote socio-economic growth in
developing countries. Focused on undergraduate colleges with limited resources.
Problem: Less than 0.1% of over 1 million
engineering students gets world class
education or hands on learning in India. A
huge pool of talents is wasted due to lack of
proper resources, guidance and global
exposure.
Innova (summer 2013) allows
Our Programs: students from small city
•Intern Me colleges to solve problems of
•Innova Ketan Dande, Associate Director, Lab-X
rural areas, and ensures faculty with SJ Kuruvilla, during first collaboration
•Techie involvement in research. event with Start Up Village, India
•Inspire Students work in villages,
First operation thereby promoting social Founders:
conducted in Jan intermixing, technology Sampriti Bhattacharyya(MIT)
2013 in Cochin for acceptance and in the process Ketan Dande (Robert Bosch )
“Intern ME”. Two come up with low cost Chris Garry (UMass)
US internships are technologies for indigenous Indian Partner: Startup Village
being given out. startups.
www.labxfoundation.org sampriti@mit.edu

30. Common Scholarship Application
Filtering Criteria
Initiative
"Common App" for Scholarships
•Increase Applicant Pool of students
applying to scholarships.
•Seeking coders for preliminary
version of website!
Contact us!
Kezi Chengkezi@mit.edu
Margaret Shaw mmshaw@mit.edu

31. Ultimate Goal: Create Website that
Fosters Non-Profit Collaboration
• Utilizes Geospatial Overlap and Volunteer
Network to Evaluate Collaboration for Funders
Geospatial Overlap Volunteer Network
Mapping of Geospatial Effective Analyzing Number of Mutual
Radius Volunteer Connections
If Interested please contact Chris Goldstein at cgoldstein13@gmail.com

32. YouVest – Crowdfunding for Social Enterprises
Company overview Founding team Distinctiveness
– YouVest will become the world’s – Track and evaluate project
– Rodolfo Gonzalez
leading crowdfunding platform impact using IRIS metrics
for social enterprises
– Users generate Social Impact
– Rockefeller Foundation
– Robert Hale Portfolios per dollar invested
estimates individuals could
invest US$4.4B in social – Projects will create videos to
enterprises but lack platform to share their story and vision of
track and evaluate social and social change
– Pranav Ramkishnan
financial impact – Investors build social capital by
– Social Enterprises struggle to sharing their portfolios with the
articulate and track their impact YouVest community to get peer
– YouVest will promote Crowd – Chiharu Shiraai recognition for their impact
Impact Investing as new asset
class by using IRIS impact metrics
– Projects raise funds in USA, but Target market Goals
will be deployed whenever Net income Projects
projects are running Capital Amount
4.8 9,100
Company history 5M
– YouVest was founded in Fall 2012 by a Expansion
group of MIT students who are
4,600
passionate about having great social 1M Institution 2.2
impact
– Semifinalist of the MIT 100K Elevator 100k
Dissemination Crowd
Pitch contest 2012 0.2 600
– Raised seed funding in December 2012 Social Enterprises Investors
2013 ‘14 ‘15 2013 ‘14 ‘15

33. Project Togo-bulance:
Building a bicycle-ambulance for transportation
between AED, a community-run HIV clinic, and
the two public hospitals in Kara, Togo, West
Africa
(adapted from the Zambulance)
Please contact Elizabeth Shanahan: shanahae@mit.edu

34. 60 second
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35. Find a
themed table
Health, Accessibility Agriculture, Processing
Education, Training Mobiles, ICTs
Energy, Environment Housing, Transportation
Water, Sanitation Emergency, Disaster Relief
Employment, Entrepreneurship Wild Card

36. Sign up or reach out at
Sign up or reach out at
globalchallenge@mit.edu
globalchallenge@mit.edu
globalchallenge.mit.edu
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