The competition will have a total of four (4) winners. Each winner will receive a prize of Php100,000 each.

• Luzon           1 winner
• Visayas        1 winner
• Minadanao    1 winner
• NCR             1 winner

Another Php100,000 is also at stake for finalists who meet the special criteria set by Starbucks.      

Finalists will also have an opportunity to attend a three-day training on Social Enterprise Planning and Development wherein they can also get some useful tips to help them prepare for the final presentation.

Apart from the cash prize, winners also benefit from a business incubation facility to help increase their venture’s viability.

We are looking for a new breed of entrepreneurs who dream up innovative solutions to help solve problems in their communities.

This new breed of people are called Social Entrepreneurs - a distinct group of individuals with a definite and more positive attitude towards entrepreneurship.

Social Entrepreneurs* act as change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.

They change the face of business by spotting social problems and issues and find innovative ways to address them.

They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.

I am a Changemaker is a social enterprise business plan competition, awarding seed capital directly to the best social enterprise idea that best meets our criteria.

It provides a vehicle for taking innovations from idea to reality, and is a real-world exercise for improving your skills in:

• Starting a Project/Business
• Pitching ideas to possible investors
• Building networks

No matter what your idea may be, we challenge you to unleash your ideas, energy and idealism to affect positive social change in our society. Social enterprise ideas can come from any field – the arts, education, science, etc. The only limit to the range of projects eligible for the award is your ambition and imagination.