Welcome to the SEVEN Fund Newsletter! Welcome to the September 2010 edition of the SEVEN Fund newsletter, with the latest on our current competitions and programs. We're pleased to announce the winners of our Morality of Profit competition. The grand prize of $20,000 was awarded to Daniel Pallotta. Mr. Pallotta is a leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector, founder of Pallotta TeamWorks which invented the multi-day AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days, and author of the landmark book, Uncharitable. We would also like to congratulate our second and third prize winners, Bradley Hobbs, a university professor, and Mary Halpine, former president of the World Youth Alliance. The winners were selected through a competitive review process that included a jury of journalists and experts on enterprise solutions to poverty. In addition to our winners, SEVEN would also like to congratulate four Honorable Mentions: Joshua Ruxin in Rwanda, Paul Schwennesen in the State of Arizona, Nyla Nox in Thailand, and Blake Goud in the State of Oregon. More than 2200 entries were received from 88 countries. SEVEN currently has four active competitions underway: our third annual request for proposals, an essay competition, a photography competition, and a business plan competition focused on creating prosperity in the Philippines. More information about each of our current programs is available in this newsletter. We also invite you to explore our profile pages for our role models, grantees , and judges, and our newly created Faith & Prosperity blog . We look forward to sharing more details with you about future programs in 2010. Best regards,
Michael Fairbanks
Andreas Widmer
Elizabeth Hooper
Michael Brennan
Jessica Ullrich |  Visit our Morality of Profit website to learn more about our competition winners and see the latest developments on the forthcoming book.
  The SEVEN Fund has published its annual open “Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty” request for proposals. The competition will award up to two research grants of no more than $100,000 each. Submission deadline for the Initial Letters of Interest is October 15, 2010.
 SEVEN is pleased to announce its 2010-11 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on enterprise solutions to poverty from around the globe that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. The competition will award two (2) prizes of US $5,000.
 The SEVEN Fund has selected Sudipto Das’ photo as the most recent winner of the “I am an Entrepreneur” monthly competition. Please visit our winners’ gallery to view the winning photo submissions from past months.
 The SEVEN Fund is pleased to announce the ‘Breakthrough Innovation Grant’ (BIG) competition in partnership with the Fisherman Foundation and MicroVentures Inc.’s Hapinoy Program in the Philippines. This business concept competition is open to all who aspire to create prosperity in the Philippines through new and viable business ideas that can be offered through the Hapinoy sari-sari store network. Proposals must be innovative, resourceful, scaleable, and fit the particular needs of the Philippines.
 Faithandprosperity.com provides commentary on enterprise solutions to poverty that are faith-based or faith-inspired. This blog explores topics that touch on the intersection of entrepreneurship and faith.
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Recently, SEVEN sponsored Mircorate’s 5th annual MIV survey. The results of the survey on the state of microfinance investment are below.
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