How does winning $15,000 and solving the world’s problems sound? Great right? That’s the opportunity The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge is bringing students. The challenge see’s graduate students from around the world develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle our world’s most pressing challenges like water, energy, food, social mobility, climate change, education or healthcare.
The Challenge seeks to identify the next generation of sustainable finance practitioners, connect emerging leaders with industry professionals, and foster even greater emphasis on sustainability at graduate schools around the world.
Previous winners have seen huge amounts of investments into their proposed ideas. For example Fresh Coast Capital won the 2014 Challenge with their concept of helping post-industrial cities manage blight and increase their climate change resilience by planting hybrid poplar tree farms on vacant and contaminated land. As a result of winning, Fresh Coast has raised over $700K in start-up capital and in 2016 was awarded a $1M USDA Conservation Innovation Grant.
If you’re interested in developing the worlds next great creative solution, you can read more about it here. The deadline for entry is the 20 February 2018.
