J.P. Morgan announces Finalists for Graduate Good Venture Competition

Nine teams invited to New York for Final Round of Graduate Competition

J.P. Morgan announced the nine graduate finalist teams for the Good Venture Competition, which takes place at J.P. Morgan’s New York headquarters on December 6-7, 2007.  Good Venture is a socially responsible competition for graduate and undergraduate students that launched in the U.S. in Fall 2006, and is now an international competition for socially responsible students around the world.

Finalists will present their case to a panel of J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking senior executives for why the philanthropic non-profit organization they’re representing should receive funding. The winning team’s organization will receive direct funding of $25,000 from J.P. Morgan. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony following the competition on December 7. 

An unprecedented 77 socially conscious teams from 48 schools entered the competition this year, championing programs ranging from a grassroots survivor’s organization in Rwanda and a unique after-school program in Chicago to a women’s initiative to foster entrepreneurship in Ghana. 

Prior to being selected, each competing team of up to four members chose an existing organization to represent. Teams then submitted funding proposals to compete their organization’s potential funding.

To select the Good Venture winning team, the J.P. Morgan panel of judges will be looking for the team that can most aptly demonstrate a scenario where the financial investment will yield discernible social returns.  The 2006 graduate winners were from the Haas School of Business (Berkeley) Lenders for Community Development. Visit jpmorgan.com/goodventure to view photos of last year’s event and for more information.

Finalists for the 2007 J.P. Morgan Good Venture Graduate Competition:

America Scores
University of Chicago:  Leif Sverre Elsmo, Kevin Paul Knapp, Erika Williams, Kamilah Williams-Kemp

Humura
Columbia University / New York University:  Jean-Baptiste Rudatsikira, David Russell, Hope Tumukunde

Lend a Hand India
Stanford University: Ellen Kim, Rajni Rao

Paper for All
Harvard Business School: Emmanuel Cassimatis, Christine Raschke, Siddhart Shenai, Caroline Wang

Rediscovery
Harvard Business School: Adam Heltzer, Lauren Mehler, Arden O’Conner

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Instituto de Empresa / Hamline University:  Teresa Escardo Etchenique, Brent Latham, Amanda Phillips, Alfredo Vaghi

Riodan Programs
Cornell University / University of Virginia: Pierre LeVeaux, Shaun Mathews, Susan Ngo

Seeding Labs
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences: Paul Cruickshank, Nina Dudnik

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