Announcing Applications for The First Annual Unreasonable Institute

The Unreasonable Institute gives ideas wings.

Beyond Profit is an official Pipeline Partner of the Unreasonable Institute and we are happy to reach out to our readers in an effort to attract the world’s most brilliant high-impact social entrepreneurs to apply to the Unreasonable Institute.

The Unreasonable Institute has officially begun its search for the world’s 25 most driven, most brilliant, high-impact social entrepreneurs. The Institute is looking for social entrepreneurs, between ages 20-30, who will develop social ventures that history may one day recall defined progress in the 21st century — ventures with the ability to measurably improve the lives of millions of people around the globe. The Unreasonable Institute exists for no other purpose than to find these young social entrepreneurs and give them everything they need to create this kind of impact. The 25 selected entrepreneurs will gather in Boulder, Colorado in May 2010 for a 10-week Summer Institute where they will receive rigorous entrepreneurial training, daily mentorship from seasoned changemakers, and connections to the seed capital they require to launch their ideas and scale their ventures. All interested applicants can sign up to apply immediately and see all of the details of applying by clicking this link. Official applications will open on November 15th.  Join us, and the Unreasonable Institute, in our quest to put the world’s greatest challenges in a museum (to paraphrase Muhammad Yunus) by finding the people who would have made George Bernard Shaw proud when he said “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man [and woman].”