Global Social Business Incubator

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"Global Social Business Incubator (GSBI). Based at Santa Clara University, it provides an innovative mix of both physical and virtual collaboration and education to enable social entrepreneurs to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. GSBI has a two week “course” they offer each year, as well as pre and postcourse mentoring and collaboration using a wiki platform with a distributed network of experienced entrepreneurs and business experts who volunteer to help the social entrepreneurs grow their organizations through better business plans, financial models, improved presentation skills and fundraising strategies." (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.3)


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See: Networked Innovation Initiatives