The Social Venture Innovation Challenge (SVIC) is an idea-stage competition with the goal of inspiring a large and diverse group of students and community members to develop innovative, solution-orientated thinking and providing a forum to shine a light on these ideas. The SVIC engages aspiring and practicing student and community social entrepreneurs in designing novel, sustainable, business-orientated solutions to some of society’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. SVIC winners receive awards that help bring needed resources to advance these promising models."W_Cs";C_E_Ds";"C_S_P_Cs";"L_G_B_T_Qs";"C_S_P_Ds"