- Website
- Competition Organizer
Opportunity Funding Corporation, a 501(c)(3) organization
- Who's Eligible
- At least one member of the team must be a MBA or graduate business student at a participating historically-black college or university. Other members of the team could be from any discipline or undergraduate students. Entering teams must have won the business-plan competition at their school.
- Important Dates
Participating schools must complete internal competitions by February 27, 2011 and submit names of winners to OFC by March 1, 2011. Teams have until March 15, 2011 to register and submit their business plans. The finals take place from April 11-14, 2011 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta.
- Competition Prizes
Cash scholarships:
First Place: $10,000.00
Second Place: $5,000.00
Third Place: $3,000.00
Fourth Place: $2,000.00
Consolation (2): $1,000.00 each
- Other Info
Approximately 40 historically-black colleges and universities (HBCUs) participate by sending teams to this competition.
- Related Blog Posts
The OFC Venture Challenge for HBCU schools
- “Encouraging Entrepreneurship Among HBCU Students” by Michelle Anderson, Diverse (August 31, 2010). The story of one student who could not have translated his engineering concept into a business venture if it were not for the OFC Venture Challenge.
