Welcome to SIFP Seattle 2012
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High Level Sequence of Events
2012 Social Innovation Fast Pitch
Remaining Program Calendar
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Pitch Workshop by Jerry Weissman |
Monday, August 6th Davis Wright Tremaine |
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Video Pitch Clinic 1 |
Present, receive peer feedback, receive expert coach feedback, and go home with video of your pitch. ONLY ONE CLINIC PER APPLICANT. |
Friday August 10th, 8am - noon or 1-5pm. Fenwick & West (law firm) |
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Video Pitch Clinic 2 & 3 |
Present, receive peer feedback, receive expert coach feedback, and go home with video of your pitch. ONLY ONE CLINIC PER APPLICANT. |
Monday August 13th 8am - noon. Davis Wright Tremaine (law firm) |
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Quarterfinal Competition |
40 Quarterfinalists pitch in front of community judges and peers; 20 will advance to Semifinals and participate in October 18th main event. Ashoke runs a separate parallel quarterfinal compeition for their 16 participants; 8 advance to semifinals where they will be judged in separate tracks by at the same time as the other SIFP contestants. |
Thursday, September 6th University of Washington Foster School of Business |
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Semifinal Competition |
20 Semifinalists plus 8 Ashoka Youth Track Semifinalists pitch in front of community judges; 14 will advance to Finals and pitch on stage in front of ~1000 people at Fisher Pavillion on Oct. 18th. |
Wednesday October 3rd Perkins Coie (law firm)
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Final Competition |
28 Semifinalists and Finalists will participate in "poster-table" trade-show-like event to connect with the community; 14 finalists will pitch on stage to compete for grants and investments. |
Thursday October 18th Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center |
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Five Tracks of the SIFP Competition
One of the aspects to the 2011 SIFP program that participants liked most was the diversity of innovation we embraced. In the final competition, we had variety of presentations, including a 14-year-old with an innovative business plan around teaching kids financial responsibility, excellent university teams, three for-profit social businesses, and five non-profits ranging from early-stage to established organizations.
For the 2012 program, we are following the same model, with one important change, which is to divide the nonprofit group into two tracks: early-stage and later-stage organizations (for more on the definition of organizational stages, see http://sifp.net/apply). We have separate grants (or investments) for winners of each track, defined here.
