Benefits

An opportunity to


  • showcase your ideas to bring sustainable social transformation
  • interact with investors, venture capitalists and academicians who support social ventures
  • be mentored by people associated with nurturing social ventures
  • have fun with activities of the competition at Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • to travel to UC Berkeley, USA to present your plan in front of a global judging panel and meet the investors
  • use prize money to grow your business
  • get to know other students from different countries

Prize Distribution - Southeast Asian Regional Competition

Using GSVC judging criteria, the judging panel will award prizes to the most outstanding blended value ventures that show the highest, most integrated financial and social returns.

  • Grand Prize (two teams): $4,000 each. The winning teams will represent Southeast Asian Region in the Global Round at UC Berkeley in April 2010.
  • Best Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Prize (1 team): $2,000. The plan of SIA winner will be submitted to the Global Round to complete to win the Best global SIA Prize.

Subsidized travel


  • For schools from from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore,Thammasat Business School provides the scholarship for the travel and board cost for 2 team members from each team that is selected to present the plan in the Southeast Asian Final at Thammasat Business School, Thailand. Other team members and the faculty representative are welcome to attend at their own expenses.
  • For schools from Australia and New Zealand, Thammasat Business School provides the accommodation for 2 team members from each team that is selected to present the plan in the Southeast Asian Final at Thammasat Business School, Thailand. Teams will be responsible for their own travel cost. Other team members and the faculty representative are welcome to attend at their own expenses.
  • Thammasat Business School subsidizes the travel and accommodation costs for $2,000 for 2 team members from each winning teams from the Southeast Asian Final to attend the GSVC Global Round at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, USA.