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The Sabin Prize is now open to all students and faculty with innovative ideas on entrepreneurship and sustainability. The Sabin Prize supports student and faculty efforts to start a sustainable for-profit business through cash prizes totaling $25,000.

This venture prize competition also provides quality feedback from professional judges, extensive mentoring from faculty, and opportunities for participants to meet and pitch their ideas to top venture capitalists and leading industry professionals. The Sabin Environmental Venture Prize (the “Sabin Prize”) is an initiative created with the generous support of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and managed by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (“the Center”). It will be awarded to the best Yale student and/or faculty ideas for a product, service, project or program that advances a more sustainable way of life. The Sabin Prize seeks to:

• Stimulate applications of entrepreneurship and innovation to address issues of sustainability;
• Promote multi-disciplinary approaches to environmental/social problem solving;
• Generate ideas that are scalable, achievable, quantifiable, and financeable; and
• Educate about how entrepreneurs turn a concept into a successful reality.

Please note the important dates for the Sabin Prize application:

• Monday, December 19, 2011 5:00 pm - Round #1 - Letter of Interest: Due for those interested in competing for the Sabin Prize

• Monday, March 19, 2012 5:00 pm - Round #2 - Applications: Due for the prize by the students and/or faculty team to be evaluated by a panel of judges that are professional investors to determine the finalists

• Thursday, April 19, 2012 - Round #3 - Finalists Presentations: Delivered to a panel of judges and a public audience on the venture to determine a final winner

If you have any questions, please contact Stuart DeCew at (203) 432-3736 or stuart.decew@yale.edu.