Evaluate

Objective: Evaluate

Evaluate the viability of your ecoventure ideas.

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Startup Law: Sustainability

Stanford law students, working under the supervision of the Stanford attorney teaching team, provide pro bono legal assistance and support to non-profit and for-profit startups focused on climate, sustainability, and impact.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Winter
  • Other

Emergence Accelerator Program

The Emergence Accelerator Program supports a cohort of highly driven social and environmental student entrepreneurs and ventures each year from across campus. Through key impact entrepreneurship workshops, coaching from successful founders, one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals, and facilitated networking and connections to prospective funders, students are supported to ideate, develop, and launch purpose driven ventures that address our most pressing health challenges.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
  • Courses

Integrative Design, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital for Sustainability (SUST 234)

This course aims to empower students with knowledge, orientations, and skills to evaluate pressing sustainability challenges and design entrepreneurial solutions that advance sustainability and deliver lasting positive change. Through case studies, frameworks, and hands-on projects, students learn about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of start-ups and venture capital, nonprofits and philanthropy, and other business models that can achieve co-benefits and sustainable outcomes....
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP)

The Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP) is intended to provide next stage funding (up to $500k) to PIs to move existing interdisciplinary environmental research projects toward actual solutions implemented by public stakeholders and private market actors. To be considered, projects should demonstrate both significant progress in identifying solutions and strong potential by private market or public end users...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Environmental Venture Projects (EVP)

The Stanford Woods Institute EVP program provides seed grants from $10,000 to $200,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems of the environment and sustainability. Research projects are evaluated for their intellectual merit, potential to solve critical problems, the integration of the disciplinary strengths...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Other

Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI)

The Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) works with public, private and development institutions to engage Stanford researchers in developing the finance and policy tools needed for the transition toward a decarbonized and climate-resilient global economy
  • Entrepreneurship: Partial Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Other

Stanford Climate Ventures Playbooks Collection

A collection of specific playbooks for climate entrepreneurs, covering a range of topics from customer discovery, to product documentation, to IP licensing, to fundraising.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Bay Area Climate Justices Fellowships

The Haas Center for Public Service offers five Partnerships for Climate justice in the Bay Area (PCJ In the Bay) fellowships to supports partnerships between Stanford students, faculty and staff, and Bay Area community leaders to help build equitable climate change solutions.
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Impact Design Immersion Fellowship (IDIF)

MBA students who want to gain a deeper understanding of a problem and the people most affected by it can apply to IDIF for summer funding to spend time interviewing stakeholders, developing relationships with experts and mentors, and getting feedback on prototypes of possible solutions.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Energy Impact Summer Fellowships

In conjunction with the Haas Center, the TomKat Center will provide stipends to Stanford undergraduates who wish to work on a sustainable energy project with significant social impact. Spend 8 weeks next summer...
  • Entrepreneurship: Partial Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer

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