Center for Social Impact

1. March 1, 2018

   Students share winning ideas for pop-up retail in Detroit

   A Detroit Economic Growth Corp. plan to support entrepreneurs just getting started got a boost from U-M students in the annual Social Impact Challenge.

2. January 10, 2018

   U-M, Detroit nonprofit collaborate on Social Impact Challenge

   The seventh annual Social Impact Challenge will see U-M students focus on pop-ups that encourage neighborhood revitalization and small business development in Detroit.

3. March 20, 2017

   Winners announced in Flint-focused Social Impact Challenge

   A student team from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has won the 2017 Social Impact Challenge, which focused on ways to advance entrepreneurship efforts in Flint. 

4. May 11, 2015

   Ross School’s Center for Social Impact celebrates its first year

   Growing demand for cross-sector and multidisciplinary paths toward social-impact careers inspired the launch of a new Center for Social Impact in 2014-15.

5. February 17, 2015

   Graduate students to pitch Detroit industrial redevelopment ideas

   The 2015 U-M Social Impact Challenge Finals on Wednesday will evaluate graduate student proposals for creative redevelopment of an abandoned Detroit industrial site.