Working Together to Improve Your Community through Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility

1. Starting a SAGE Team at Your High School Working Together to Improve Your Community through Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility

2. Are there teens at your high school who: • Have a GREAT business idea that can make a lot of money and/or improve your community? • Want to start their own socially-responsible business OR social enterprise? • Want to develop leadership, teamwork and project management skills?

3. Do These Teens: • Like to travel to exciting new places? • Want to meet successful business and civic leaders? • Want to create better futures for themselves and their children?

4. SAGE’s Vision and Mission SAGE Vision • Creating better futures through social enterprises, socially responsible businesses and community service. SAGE Mission • To help create the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders whose innovations and social enterprises address the major unmet needs of our global community.

5. What You Need to Do (3 Steps) 1.Identify a business venture, form a team of at least two more teens at your school, and find an adult ally/sponsor • The business must be either be a • Socially responsible business (SRB) or a • Social enterprise business (SEB) 2. Operate the business during the year • Focus on: • Marketplace viability • Social impact 3. Travel to the SAGE national tournament to present your business to a panel of leaders (by invitation only: your invitation will be extended only if you meet certain reporting benchmarks during the year) Note: the highest-rated SRB and SEB will be invited to participate in the SAGE World Cup (most recent World Cup hosts have been USA (2005), China (2006), Ukraine (2007), Nigeria (2008), Brazil (2009), South Africa (2010), USA (2011), USA (2012). Future plans include: Nigeria (2013), Ukraine (2014), South Korea (2015)

6. Key Milestones Each Year (USA Example) By December 1, 2012: Submission of your intent to participate (online) By April 1, 2013: Submission of an acceptable annual report (online) May 25-May 27, 2013: Travel the SAGE USA National Tournament (to be determined; it may be in Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco, Buffalo, or New York City!)

7. SAGE Competition #1: SRBJudging Criteria (100 points total)

8. In their annual report and verbal presentation, how effective were the students in demonstrating that they were: Innovative and Impactful in Operating Their SEB? Note: Social enterprise businesses (SEBs) directly address social needs through their products or services or through the numbers of disadvantaged people they employ; they can be legally structured either as nonprofits or as for-profit businesses, but in either case must be profitable SAGE Competition #2: SEB

9. SAGE Competition #2: SEBJudging Criteria

10. In their oral presentation, how effective were the students in: Responding to judges’ questions during the mandatory seven-minute Q and A session following the 13-minute oral, multimedia presentation. Q & A from Judges (7 minutes)

11. Other Things to Consider • Each country will send its two winning teams to the World Cup; however, if a country conducts only one competition (SEB or SRB), only the winning team will qualify for the World Cup • A number of special awards (to be determined) will be given at the World Cup in both competitions (e.g., “best social enterprise businesses addressing the Millennium Development Goals”)

12. How To Fund A SAGE Team • Recruit a Business Advisory Board (BAB) that includes successful entrepreneurs and business leaders • Approach civic organizations and leading businesses to seek their support; some businesses, like Target, Staples, & Best Buy, provide small grants to local schools for leadership/community activities like SAGE). • As your SAGE business grows, more companies will support you by providing BAB members and financial resources

13. Other Information • A high school or organization can have many SAGE teams, as long as each team: • Consists of at least three active teens • Selects one SEB or one SRB to focus its effort (but not both) • Each team can only enter the same business for a maximum of three years

14. SAGE World Cup History • The 2006 SAGE World Cup took place August 3-6, 2006 in Shanghai, China. • The 2007 SAGE World Cup took place August 1-6, 2007 in Odessa, Ukraine. • The 2008 SAGE World Cup took place July 21-28, 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria. • The 2009 World Cup took place in Brazil in August 2009 • The 2010 World Cup took place in Cape Town, South Africa in July. • The SAGE World Cup in 2011 was in Niagara Falls/Buffalo NY on July 22-26. • The SAGE World Cup in 2012 was in San Francisco, CA USA on July 27-31 • The SAGE World Cup 2013 is tentatively planned for Abuja, Nigeria in 2013

15. For More Information: SAGE USA:  Mr. Peter C. Eimer, MBA Assistant Professor of Business D’Youville College 320 Porter AvenueBuffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-7609 pce633@aol.com SAGE GLOBAL: Dr. Curt DeBerg SAGE Founder California State University, Chico College of Business Chico, CA 95929-0011 530-898-4824 cdeberg@sageglobal.org http://sageglobal.org