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

Nine teams Invited to New York for Final Round of Undergraduate Competition

J.P. Morgan announced today the nine undergraduate finalist teams for the Good Venture Competition, which will take place at J.P. Morgan’s New York headquarters on January 17 and 18, 2008.  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. 

Finalist teams will present their case to a panel of senior J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking executives for why the philanthropic non-profit organization they’re representing should receive the grand prize - a $25,000 donation from J.P. Morgan. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony following the competition on January 18. 

An unprecedented 101 teams from 76 schools around the world entered the undergraduate competition this year.  Students championed programs that included a grassroots effort to provide electricity to remote villages in India, a nutrition-focused organization working to decrease the level of malnourishment in targeted Latin American communities, and a capital-contributing microfinance intermediary for micro-entrepreneurs in China.

Prior to being selected, each competing team, of up to four members, chose an existing organization to represent. Teams then submitted proposals to compete on behalf of their organizations.

J.P. Morgan will select a winner based on which team most aptly demonstrates a scenario in which the financial investment will yield discernible social returns.  The graduate portion of the 2007 competition concluded on December 7, with a $25,000 check awarded to Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP), a non-profit organization presented by an international team from Italy, Spain and the U.S.  Visit jpmorgan.com/goodventure to view photos of past competitions and for more information.

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

The Campus Kitchen Project
Washington & Lee:  Casidhe Horan, Caroline Mann, Kelly Will

Comrades of Children Overseas (COCO)
Newcastle University:  Carla Bromhead, Joseph Duckworth, Jenny Lawton, Sarah Marriott

Community Development Network
Mount Holyoke University: Getrude Chimhungwe, Susan Masaga

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC)
Harvard University: Simy Kabaria, Angela Mayorga, Jessica Walters, Yangyang Yu

Gardens for Health International
Brown University / Yale University: Julie Carney, Emma Clippinger, Hae-in Lim, Emily Morell

Power to the People
Columbia:  Craig Danton, Nimit Mehta, Ramya Pratiwadi

Power Up Gambia
University of Pennsylvania: Bradley Baillargeon, Kathryn Cunningham, Jay Parekh, Beatrice Wong

The UCD Good Adventurers
University College Dublin: Laurence Banville, Barry Colfer, Patrick Rath

Vida Jovem
Stanford University:  Araceli Ortiz

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