The Phoenix Project
Winner of the 2009 Governor’s Award for Volunteerism and Community Service
***New*** Apply to the 2010 Social Innovation Program
The Phoenix Project promotes sustainable solutions to social and economic problems by educating and empowering emerging social entrepreneurs and building community support for social innovation.
Our goals:
- To enlist public, private and nonprofit sector leaders in Virginia in a movement to identify and support successful tactics to solve social and economic problems.
- To educate, connect and engage Virginia’s top undergraduate and graduate students as the nation’s next generation of social entrepreneurs.
- To scale beyond Virginia successful programs and strategies to increase social innovation.
-Team Phoenix
Above: Members of the 2009 Social Innovation Program (Photo by Jenny Lea)
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