SOCAP strives to offer diverse content across the spectrum of business and capital innovation advancing social and environmental impact. SOCAP Open is a public submission platform that helps us source suggestions directly from our community. As in past years, SOCAP16 will include interactive sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and storytelling opportunities. By proposing a session idea and/or voting, we invite you to add your unique voice to the conversation.
Submit Your SOCAP Open Proposal Here
As you plan your submission, consider the most effective, engaging format for your content idea. The SOCAP16 themes are available to help you gain an understanding of some primary areas of programming, but we always welcome a variety of topics connected to the social impact movement. Don’t forget to check out the SOCAP Open FAQs and our Tips for Crafting a Winning SOCAP Open Idea as you develop your proposal.
Education is a central factor in both individual and community economic stability. In order to address and break down the structural barriers inhibiting citizens and neighborhoods from achieving financial self-sufficiency, a drive for creative, innovative solutions for workforce preparation, skill building, credentialing and access to professional networks, …
African American students are more likely to take on debt—and more debt—than white, Latino, and Asian American students. Today, the majority of all college students—at two-year and four-year, private and public institutions—rely on grants and loans to pay tuition but at what cost to their future financial …
For those living in food deserts, choosing to eat healthy is often unrealistic. For people in affluent neighborhoods, overpaying for healthy meals on-the-go is reality. What if there was another way? By taking the first step to educate and support low-income families, while ensuring access to affordable …
BUILD, a Redwood City-based organization serving high school students in under-resourced school districts, uses entrepreneurship to develop the skills necessary for high school, college and career success. Beginning in 1999 with four students, BUILD now serves more than 1400 students each year in Boston, Washington, DC and …
At the heart of the intersection of money and meaning lies an enlightened negotiation. In this interactive session, you will learn to integrate in business and in life three universal laws of Enlightened Negotiation®: trust, flexibility and strength. Whether you’re an experienced negotiator, entrepreneur, or conscious capitalist, …
As the world morphs, there will always be new problems to solve, but how are we equipping the next set of social entrepreneurs to tackle them? This panel will discuss the leading tools and tactics to embed teaching social entrepreneurship to young adults and young students.
As the world morphs, there will always be new problems to solve, but how are we equipping the next set of social entrepreneurs to tackle them? This panel will discuss the leading tools and tactics to embed teaching social entrepreneurship to young adults and young students.
The Womanity Foundation has been working for 11 years to elevate the voice and foster the empowerment of women in emerging economies and fragile states. It has holistically addressed girls’ enrollment and learning outcomes in Afghanistan, and is currently piloting unprecedented vocational training courses for Afghan high …
Kids effectively took the lead by nagging parents to action on recycling, seatbelt use, littering, anti-smoking/drug campaigns. The missing one-third of the population, not yet involved in climate change discussion, are elementary school aged children, parents and teachers. The best way to reach parents is through children …
The American healthcare system is broken and those most at risk are people with a serious illness (think: cancer, heart disease) or those who are nearing the end of life (think: our aging parents). Unfortunately, people are often not empowered to speak up for the kind of …
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 1-15
Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting. - JUNE 16-28
Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP16 Content Team. - JUNE 29
Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
