Three of the eight finalists in this month’s ideablob competition for the best idea are Belmont students offering up social ventures. The winner will receive $10,000 from Avanta to help develop their venture.
Here are Belmont’s three finalists (in alphabetical order of the student’s name):
Noah Curran’s Turning Actions into Good (winner of “Sprint 1”) is a web-based non-profit charity which revolves around the kindness of strangers. The concept allows anyone to participate in a charity, regardless of financial status. Here is how the process works: Become a free member. Print off pre-made TAG-cards. Commit an act of kindness. Give the person a TAG-card which asks the stranger to do another act of kindness and go to the website to report about the deed that was done to them. After submitted, viewers can vote for the most touching act of the month. The leading vote getter would receive a cash prize.
Janice Dotti (winner of “Sprint 1”) wants to create a completely fair trade, completely organic coffeehouse that sponsors social justice causes while taking care with the environment. In addition to serving fair trade coffee, she will also only use fair trade sugar, tea, and cocoa as we educate our consumers on how their buying habits affect the working poor in developing countries. Every month, this coffeehouse would sponsor a social justice cause–promoting awareness to customers about worldwide issues of injustice. This coffeehouse will also have free wifi, live music, local art–all with a community emphasis.
Finally, Megan Lopez (winner of “Sprint 3”) presents an idea to create an informational website about how to raise your child naturally. From recipes to exercise programs to do with your children. Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in our country today. We need to instill habits in our children starting at birth, so they can maintain and carry them through for the rest of their lives. Organic Baby will be a tool for parents to use as a community blog, buy organic clothing and bedding merchandise, research the benefits of healthy organic foods, etc. She would later like to own her own baby organic clothing line.
Please go to ideablob and vote for our three finalists in this month’s best idea contest! You can vote for more than one idea, but you can only vote for each idea one time.
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