Submissions open for Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition

Deadline Date: February 19, 2025

Donor Name: UPenn Graduate School of Education

Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://www.educationcompetition.org

The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) is open to applicants worldwide advancing teaching and learning through innovation.

Considered the most prestigious and well-funded competition of its kind, the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition celebrates and nurtures purpose-driven ventures that seek to address inequities in education through innovation.

Focus Areas

• Since 2010, areas of focus have included (but are not limited to):
  • Urban Education
  • Connecting Research to Practice
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Technology in Grades K through 12
  • Special Education & At-Risk Students
  • Open & Collaborative Solutions: The Education Ecosystem
  • Online & Distance Learning in Higher Education
  • Global/Borderless Education Solutions
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Workforce Learning

Funding Information

• Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation Grand Prize: $40,000
• Second place award: $25,000
• Third place award: $10,000
• Audience Choice prize: $5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any individual is eligible to enter the Competition by submitting an Entry (defined below), except the following individuals are not eligible:
  • Anyone who is under 18 years old;
  • Any Competition judge;
  • Anyone who previously was named a Finalist or Winner of a prize in this Competition. (However, if a previous finalists or winner wants to enter a new educational entrepreneurship business plan, which the University determines, in its sole opinion and determination, is unrelated to the previous winning educational entrepreneurship business plan, then the previous winning Applicant may do so, subject to their or its compliance with all of the other eligibility requirements.);
  • Anyone for whom it would be illegal to enter this Competition in their legal jurisdiction of residence;
  • Any Penn Graduate School of Education faculty, lecturer, administrator, staff, or other employee.
• A group of individuals also may enter the Competition, so long as all of the individuals meet the requirements above for a single individual to enter. In other words, if one member of the group is ineligible to enter, the group is not eligible to enter. A corporation, partnership, or other legal entity, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, also is eligible to enter, provided it is legal for the entity to enter under applicable law. However, organizations entering the competition may not have raised more than the equivalent of US $2,000,000 from all investors during the prior twelve (12) months before the organization submits its Application Form.
• Additionally, organizations entering the competition may not have generated more than the equivalent of US $2,000,000 in gross revenue during the prior twelve (12) months before the date the organization submits its Application Form. Organizations that have raised more than this threshold, as determined in the sole opinion of the University, will be disqualified.
• Each Applicant is responsible for determining whether they are eligible to enter the Competition, based upon these Rules and the laws governing the applicant. The University of Pennsylvania (“University”) will not make this determination for you. However, if the University determines, in good faith, at some future time, that the Applicant was ineligible to enter the Competition or submit the Entry, the University may disqualify the Entry at any time, before or after the awarding of the prizes.

For more information, visit UPenn Graduate School of Education.