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2024 Launch Pad Award
A platform for workforce development programs and community colleges to better support job seekers with plenty of valuable experience – but no bachelors degree Joe Janey is the winner of the 2024 CASE Launch Pad prize, which awards $10,0000 and mentorship to a current Fuqua MBA students with an impact enterprise idea. Joe will use Launch […]
2024 Kirby Prize Finalists
Five incredible social enterprises stood out from a pool of over 200 applicants in this year’s selection process for the F.M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact. We are thrilled to announce these five finalists, whose work spans across several continents, impact areas, and business models – and who are all working tirelessly to achieve meaningful […]
Class of 2025 Fuqua Impact Scholars
Meet the new class of Fuqua Impact Scholars in Social Impact The social problems that we face as a global community are urgent and we need leaders with the skills, courage, and support to drive for a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. This is why CASE was thrilled to partner with Fuqua’s Office of […]
2023 Launch Pad Award
Translating lived experience into innovation to support female domestic workers in India Arya Diwase is the winner of the 2023 Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Launch Pad prize, which awards $10,0000 and mentorship to a current Fuqua MBA students with an impact enterprise idea. Arya will use Launch Pad funds to travel to […]
Welcome 2022-2023 CASE and CASE i3 Fellows
Each year, CASE selects a group of Fuqua MBAs to serve as CASE and CASE i3 Fellows. These students have stood out to us in their passion and commitment to taking a deeper dive into their social impact or impact investing learning with their peers, and in their ability to act as ambassadors for CASE’s work within Fuqua and […]
2022 Launch Pad Award
Translating lived experience into innovation to increase access for food allergy consumers Eighty nine million Americans avoid buying at least one of the top-9 allergen food products. Of these 89 million, 25 million have a severe or moderate allergy, 7 million have a mild allergy, 32 million have food intolerances. Twenty-five million are indirect avoiders […]
CASE Announces 5 Finalists for the F.M. Kirby Scaling Social Impact Prize
From a pool of 130, five social enterprises stood out above the rest in this year’s competition for the Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact, which CASE has the privilege to manage. One of these five will ultimately be awarded the prize – a $100,000 unrestricted grant to support their achievement of impact […]
Stakeholder Capitalism Wisdom from Jay Coen Gilbert
November 2021 As a McKinsey consultant turned founder of a sports apparel company, turned co-founder of the benefit corporation movement, turned leader of an economic systems change movement, Jay Coen Gilbert sees his professional journey as a process of awakening and widening the aperture of his impact lens. As the kickoff speaker for CASE’s 2021/22 […]
Optimizing for Impact: Managing investments to meet goals for impact – and expectations of regulators
Originally posted 9.13.21 on ImpactAlpha. NEW: The United Nations Development Programme and CASE at Duke have released a free online training for global enterprises and investors on impact measurement and management for the SDGs. CASE and ImpactAlpha will launch Optimizing for Impact, a multiweek selection of lessons and video clips from the course. We’ll kick it off with […]
Pivoting to Impact: Changing Sectors in Pursuit of Social Change
Tiffany Hsieh, Duke MBA class of 2018 and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Scholar, always knew that she wanted to focus her career on ensuring equitable opportunities for others through education. What she didn’t know, however, is that she could take a number of different paths in a variety of sectors, such […]