evacuteer.org in final three of $20,000 Tulane NewDay Challenge

NEW ORLEANS- Tulane University’s NewDay Challenge, a business plan competition surrounding social enterprises in New Orleans, has announced that evacuteer.org in in the final three for its $20,000 first place prize. We are very excited about this news and are crafting a dynamite final round presentation.

BEGIN RELEASE FROM TULANE:

Thank you to all the participants of Tulane’s first NewDay Social Entrepreneurship Challenge.  It’s clear from the range of proposals that the Tulane community is developing and testing many incredibly innovative solutions to our most pressing social challenges.

After two rounds of judging, we would like to congratulate the following three teams for progressing to the final round of the 2010 NewDay Social Venture Competition.

Drop The Chalk (Jonathan Rovick, Stephen Corburn, Kurt Gerwitz, and Jen Schnidman)

Nanofex (Justin Levy, Xavier Cabo, Julio Moscoso, and Ashton Prat)

Evacuteer.org (Louise Murphy, Robert Fogarty, and Guillermo Olivos)

On Friday, April 16, 2010, these three teams will pitch their social ventures
to a panel of five judges for the chance to win $20,000.

The panel will be made up of the following accomplished professionals:

1. Flozell Daniels, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
2. D’Juan Hernandez, Sun Energy Group
3. Nadiyah Morris Coleman, Lt. Governors Office of Social Innovation
4. Andrea Chen, Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans
5. Tim Williamson, Idea Village

Along with the Tulane Business Plan Competition, the final round of the NewDay Challenge will take place on Friday, April 16th in Goldring-Woldenberg II (GWII) at the Freeman School of Business.

Presentations will take place between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm.  Lunch will
be served in the Executive Dining Room of GWII from 12:00 – 1:00 pm.

Immediately following lunch, the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association will
host a panel discussion on entrepreneurship from 1:00 – 2:00 pm.
The panel of speakers will consist of our final round judges and Ben
Kleinman, a Tulane alumnus who specializes in intellectual property
rights.  The event is open to the public; however, space is limited.  To
secure your spot in the audience for the 2010 Tulane Business Plan
Competition, please follow this link to RSVP:
https://nykotai.wufoo.com/forms/rsvp-tulane-business-plan-competition/