Rockefeller Tulane Urban Innovation Challenge
Rockefeller Tulane Urban Innovation Challenge Calling all aspiring social innovators! The Rockefeller Foundation and Tulane University's Urban Innovation Challenge invites people of all ages, backgrounds, experience levels and geographic locations working in urban revitalization, health, public education and economic development to come up with a solution to a systemic problem in New Orleans. You provide the plan, and in turn, they provide the funding to turn your idea into a sustainable and successful business. Four winners will each receive a $45,000 stipend to spend the year living and working in the learning labratory that is New Orleans. Along the way, you'll receive mentors and support from Tulane University, including an office and access to the college's resources. After the program is complete, your business can continue to grow and be poised to join incubators like Ashoka or Echoing Green. Now, about the plan itself: the point is to think big. Beyond just revitalizing a specific program, the strongest applicants will offer radical, original ways to create change citywide. For example, Tulane Community Health Center's evolution since Katrina demonstrates a process of creating new, more efficient ways to deliver healthcare to New Orleanians, such as mobile medical units and neighborhood-based healthcare centers. The goal is to come up with an approach that is so effective in an urban environment that it creates positive change across the city. Initial applications, which center around a 3-page proposal for your year-long program, will be accepted until December 1st, 2010. Applicants do not need to be living in New Orleans currently. Expat readers of NOLAlicious, take note! The program will run March 2011 to March 2012. For more information, visit the Urban Innovation Challenge website. Yours,
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