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BUS 4631 and BUS 4632:  BUSINESS PLANNING

The goals of these two courses are to show you how to create a business plan and how to evaluate existing plans. You learn by doing, with our one-on-one help. Read more about the Business Planning courses.

2009 Social Venture Plan Competition Showcase:  Program

2008 Social Venture Plan Competition Showcase:  Awards 

2007 Social Venture Plan Competition Showcase (below)

Care for Kids was the big winner at the Seattle Pacific University 1st Annual Social Venture Plan Competition Showcase held on the SPU campus on April 11th . The organization was chosen as the $2500 Grand Prize Award winner by the nearly 60 judges from the business and professional community and also took home the $500 Students’ Choice Award, with over two hundred students voting for the sixteen teams.

Care for Kids is a student run, non-profit organization that empowers America’s youth to make a difference in the world by offering low-cast, high impact opportunities to give. Its micro-donation strategy targets high school and college students whose $5 annual gift will provide health care for a Zambian Aids Orphan for one year. Freshman SPU Biology major Brandon Teng and University of Washington pre-med major Karman Tandon, founders of Care for Kids, were excited by the double vote of confidence in their start-up venture.

Five $1,000 runner-up prizes were also awarded at this first time event. Teams receiving those awards were:
Delgente Labor Agency, Business Administration major Stephen Mead’s plan for a non-profit organization that matches farmers in the Quincy Valley with migrant agricultural workers and improve the wages paid to workers.
Foci, SPU sophomore pre-majors Brice Budke, Tim Hemker and English major Zeek Earl’s idea for an on-line photo journalism source to bring into focus the social injustices facing our world.
Mobility in Motion, an organization set up to train and hire disable persons to manufacture wheelchairs and use the profits to donate wheelchairs to those in need, is the brainchild of SPU sophomores pre-majors Joel VanderHoek, Jason Williams and Kelly Hogan.
Motivo Coffee, owned by SPU senior Business Administration major Kelsey Diller and SPU graduate Julie Bodine, give non-profit organizations a means of raising funds through the purchase of gourmet coffee and tea.
Sweet Water Baby Clothing, which will produce socially and environmentally responsible a line of organic baby clothing intended to raise awareness and funds to aid children and families in Bangladesh through the purchase and installation of filters to decontaminate groundwater of arsenic, was entered by SPU sophomores Kaylee DiMaggio, political science major, Allison Kerr, history major, and freshman Gwen Rowland, majoring in theological studies.

Sixteen teams with nearly 40 students participated in the Social Venture Competition Showcase Round. The Showcase Round was the final round of the Social Venture Plan Competition. Earlier requirements included a series of seminars on the basics of business planning, evaluation of the teams’ written plan, and a coaching session with a community leader knowledgeable about their business idea.

Sponsors of the Social Venture Plan Competition are the Kathleen and Scott Cummins Foundation, the Herbert B. Jones Foundation, and Social Venture Partners. The competition is managed by the School of Business and Economics with support from the Career Development Center and the Office of Student Life.

SBE offers undergraduate and graduate emphases in Entrepreneurship designed to enhance learning and develop a greater depth of knowledge in specific practical subject areas of entrepreneurship including:

• Business opportunity recognition.
• Business plan preparation.
• Promotion of new business ideas.
• Strategic planning and acquiring venture capital
• Identification and development of individual leadership skills
• Honing communication, writing and presentation skills.

Through local and international entrepreneurial enterprises, SPU business students learn to assist real companies with real needs. In this innovative program, students write a business plan, analyze Harvard business cases and engage with community entrepreneurs, providing many benefits:

• An emphasis on entrepreneurship in related courses.
• Providing student consultants for the small business owners.
• Provide student-prepared business plans for local businesses.
• Prepare students to participate in local MIT Enterprise Forum meetings.
• Work with students to participate in the University of Washington's $35,000 business plan competition. For more information: http://bschool.washington.edu/cie/.
• Partnering with Richland's technology based Battelle Enterprises.

For more information about SBE's Entrepreneurship program, please contact Dr. Don Summers at (206) 281-2621 or email him at summed@spu.edu.