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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution: Impact Investing Group The goal of the Impact Investing project is to invest a fund (that will initially originate out of a grant/endowment from Swarthmore College). This fund will be initially invested by pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors while abiding by the social, governmental, environmental principles of Impact Investing. Over the course of a couple of years, returns on investments will be allocated to the spin-off fund that Swarthmore entrepreneurs can apply for. The returns generated from the investments will financially support more mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs at their spinout/scaling stages. In parallel, students at the Swarthmore Investing club can gain educational and practical experience in investing by giving assistance to the pro bono Swarthmore alumni investors network. They will be the guardians of the Impact Investing fund. This educational partnership will secure a pipeline of socially minded-investors that are making returns for Swarthmore entrepreneurs.

As a result, the Impact Investing project will not only educate future socially-minded investors, but it will also incentivize young entrepreneurs to prove themselves and gain access to spin-off funding opportunities. The Impact Investing project will<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thereforebe a merit-based, socially-minded, and educational incentive for Entrepreneurship. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stakeholders:

* <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian~~: normal; font-variant-position~~: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~~Swarthmore Finance and Investment Office~~Stakeholders: ~~will be key in securing the initial grant and endowment for the Impact Investing project.~~

*~~~~~~Lang Center for Civic~~ Swarthmore Finance and ~~Social Responsibility~~Investment Office: will ~~connect mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs~~ be key in securing the initial grant and ~~project leaders to~~ endowment for the Impact Investing project.~~~~

*~~~~Lang Center for ~~Innovation~~ Civic and ~~Leadership~~Social Responsibility: will ~~educate and nurture~~ connect mature Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders ~~in their initial entrepreneurial stages~~to the Impact Investing project.~~~~

*~~~~~~Swat Careers~~Center for Innovation and Leadership: ~~can be helpful~~ will educate and nurture Swarthmore entrepreneurs and project leaders in ~~finding Swarthmore alumni who are willing to work pro-bono or train students on how to invest money~~their initial entrepreneurial stages.~~~~

*~~~~~~Swarthmore Alumni Office~~Swat Careers: can be helpful in ~~their outreach to investors~~ finding Swarthmore alumni who are ~~in the Swarthmore alumni network~~willing to work pro-bono or train students on how to invest money.~~~~

*Swarthmore Alumni Office: can be helpful in their outreach to investors who are in the Swarthmore alumni network. *Swarthmore Investment Club: will be exposed to best practices in Impact Investing. They will support and assist pro bono investors of the Impact Investing project. This educational experience will ensure the sustainability of the pro bono investor pipeline.~~~~

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'''Strategic Priority #3.2 (Lamia 2018):'''Develop spin-off opp'''ortunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by''''''connecting these entrepreneurs to the resources needed for them to accelerate in the ‘real world’.'''

Potential Components

*~~~~Business network - connection to established UX designers, marketing freelance, other entrepreneurs in the industry etc. *Connection to real investors - alum network, potential opportunity to pitch in front of them

*~~~~Connection to ~~real investors - alum network~~other pitch competitions (including some that other students have already pitched at and have connections to) ex. Global Startup Ecosystem, University Startup World Cup, ~~potential opportunity to pitch in front of them~~

*Scholarship opportunities to real business accelerators like Draper University, Y Combinator, 500 Startups etc. in San Francisco and elsewhere<ul style="~~font~~margin-~~size~~left: ~~11pt; background-color: transparent~~40px; "><li>~~Connection to other pitch competitions (including some that other students have already pitched at and have connections to) ex. Global Startup Ecosystem, University Startup World Cup,~~Funding for summer cohort in these accelerators as an additional option for "summer impact funding"</~~span~~li></ul>

*~~~~~~Scholarship opportunities to real business accelerators~~ Accepting credit for programs like Draper University~~, Y Combinator, 500 Startups etc. in San Francisco and elsewhere~~towards an entrepreneurship course (Under Economics? Peace & Conflict Studies?) [longer term goal]

*~~~~Office space on campus for established student-~~variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white~~run business -business address and temporary space~~: pre-wrap;">Funding~~ for ~~summer cohort in these accelerators as an additional option for "summer impact funding"~~team establishment

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~~Accepting credit for programs like Draper University towards an entrepreneurship course (Under Economics? Peace & Conflict Studies?) [longer term goal]~~

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~~Office space on campus for established student-run business - business address and temporary space for team establishment~~

Some of these resources may exist independently under different programs or as autonomous activities, but there is no formalised means of connecting them and centralising the steps for a mature entrepreneur to scale beyond Swarthmore.~~~~

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