DartUp
The student club, and where you meet everyone else working on this. Turn up with nothing prepared. DartUp also runs the Social Blueprint Challenge, its own venture competition, so it is how a first idea gets in front of a panel.
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Pillars / Co-curricular
You already care about a social or environmental problem.
This is where you turn care into action.
Most people find this career by accident, years too late. You do not have to.
Outcomes
What you leave with
01
See a problem whole
Systems thinking, applied to a problem you pick yourself.
02
Proof you can do it
Research, a venture, or a term inside an organization.
03
People who reply
Founders, investors and alumni, met in small rooms.
04
A clearer answer
Whether this is your work, known before you graduate.
The programs
Five ways in
Enter at any point. Most students start with the club and follow it somewhere they did not expect.
Purpose Lab
An afternoon spent working out which problem is actually yours, and what your contribution to it might be. Worth doing before you commit to a venture, and worth doing if you have no idea where to begin.
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You choose a problem and spend two terms understanding it properly: its history, who holds power in it, and why the obvious fixes have already failed. You present what you find to a panel, and the strongest team represents Dartmouth at the global final in Oxford with everything paid for.
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A term spent finding out whether your idea survives contact with reality, with mentors who will tell you the truth about it. Education comes first: what counts is what you learn, including learning that it does not hold.
Learn moreHult Prize
The global student competition, with a million dollars of seed funding behind the winning team. You compete on campus first, then against universities worldwide.
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And three things that put you in the room
These run continuously. What is open changes each term.
Conference delegations
You go as a delegate with a badge, into the rooms where practitioners and funders are actually talking to each other. Not a lecture hall. SEID covers registration, airfare and accommodation.
Open now
SOCAP in Chicago, the largest annual gathering in impact investing, and the Cerrito Forum in Paraguay. Both this October.
Internships
A full term inside a mission-driven organization, on a defined project with somebody senior responsible for you. Dartmouth's calendar is why organizations say yes: you can work full time in winter or spring, when almost no other students are free.
Open now
Seven roles with Fundacion Paraguaya, the organization behind the Poverty Stoplight, running January to March in Asuncion.
Practitioners on campus
Founders dinners, the Open Table series at South House, panels and convenings, all kept deliberately small. You can end up at a table of eight with somebody who has spent thirty years on the problem you are just starting to think about.
This year
The founder of Fundacion Paraguaya, who created the Poverty Stoplight. The chief executive of VisionSpring. The founder of Haqdarshak. The co-founder of BroadReach.
Closing
Start before you are ready
Come to a DartUp meeting. Nothing to prepare, nothing to commit to.
seid@dartmouth.eduExplore the other pillars
Curriculum, faculty engagement, and experiential learning.