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title: "Global Social Venture Competition"
description: "How the Global Social Venture Competition funded impact startups from 1999, scored ventures on social return, and shaped modern impact investing."
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# Global Social Venture Competition

The Global Social Venture Competition, or GSVC, was a business plan contest that funded early-stage social ventures and judged them on measured impact.

**Contents**

- What the GSVC did
- Why it mattered for impact investing

Full text: https://jinafin.com/t/y1nwcsvrxxns2p325b8s/