Are You The Next Ben & Jerry’s?
Join Our Core!
Ben & Jerry’s and Ashoka are on the search for 11 young people from around the world who are using business to create change in their communities.
Join Our Core was inspired by our co-founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who back in 1978 decided to launch a business with an economic, product and social mission, all of equal importance. A movement was starting all over the world with people using business to create social and environmental change, like Ashoka’s Bill Drayton who coined the idea of the ‘social entrepreneur’.
Ben & Jerry’s and Ashoka are launching Join Our Core to find the globe’s top socially conscious entrepreneurs; offering eleven winners across Europe & Asia a €10,000 cash investment, social business mentoring from Ashoka, and a trip to Ben & Jerry’s in Vermont. To top it all off, the winners will also have their businesses featured on a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!
Entrants need to be between 18-34 years of age and a resident of UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Japan or Singapore. The first 100 people submitting entries by September 19th will each win a year’s supply of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream. We will invite a shortlist of finalists to London, Tokyo or Singapore to pitch their project to a panel of judges, who will pick one winner per country!
Think you got what it takes? Deadline for entries is October 15, 2014. Enter now!