Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS)

Resource Organization: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS)

Accelerating the development of large-scale solutions and educating tomorrow’s change makers in response to urgent planetary challenges.

sustainability.stanford.edu

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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
  • Courses

Sustainability Leadership Practicum (SUST 240)

The Sustainability Leadership Practicum provides an opportunity for students in the SUST master's program to practice, integrate and internalize core lessons from the program curriculum. Students will independently complete a 120-hour Practicum project of their own design, collaborating on a complex sustainability challenge with an outside partner and working through the types of constraints often faced by decision makers and leaders...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, Masters Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • 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

Rising Environmental Leaders Program (RELP)

The Rising Environmental Leaders Program through Stanford Woods Institute works to develop the next generation of environmental leaders. This year-round program is open to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and offers hands-on experiential learning and networking opportunities.
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

energyStartup Summer Internships: Type 2 ( Industry-supported Energy Internships)

The TomKat Center works with several exciting sustainable energy startup companies to help recruit talented Stanford undergraduate and masters students for paid summer internship positions.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Sustainability and Earth Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SESUR)

The Sustainability and Earth Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SESUR) is a 10-week summer research program for Stanford undergraduates, from any area of study, who want to learn more about environmental science and the planet we live on. Students find a project - or propose one of their own - and work with a faculty member...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • 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
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

energyCatalyst Grants

By augmenting curriculum with experts and experiences, TomKat energyCatalyst Grants aim to cultivate interdisciplinary thinking and introduce or deepen students’ knowledge around sustainability concepts...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

energyStartup Summer Internships: Type 1 (TomKat Center-supported Internships)

The TomKat Center offers a limited number of paid summer internships to Stanford undergraduate students at exciting Stanford-affiliated sustainable energy startup companies.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

TomKat Center Graduate Fellowships for Translational Research

This competition is open to Stanford doctoral students performing translational research for sustainable energy or other sustainability challenges. These fellowships are meant to support advanced doctoral students (third year and beyond) to pursue...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

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