DEADLINE OCTOBER 15, 2010 - SEVEN Fund Essay Competition: Faith-Based Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

$5000 prize. The SEVEN Fund (SEVEN) is pleased to announce its 2010-11 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on enterprise solutions to poverty from around the globe that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. The competition will award two (2) prizes of US $5,000. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). Winners will be announced on December 15, 2010.

We are reaching out to you in the hope we might partner to help promote the essay competition. We welcome your participation in this competition and invite you to share this call for essays on your website or with your email list. We'd ultimately like to inspire participants to articulate and share their experience and insights about working at the intersection of faith and prosperity.

For more information you can view the competition’s full details here: http://www.sevenfund.org/faith-and-development/

Writers are asked to submit a first-person narrative describing enterprise solutions to poverty that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. Illustrations may come from any domain, including healthcare, education, consumer products, human rights, and others; examples must represent innovative private solutions to public problems.

SEVEN (the Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. It does this through targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models - whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms - in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity, and progressive human values.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. We sincerely hope that you will consider participating in the publication and mission of our 2010-11 essay competition.

Sincerely,

The SEVEN Fund
http://www.sevenfund.org