This creative community space provides students with leadership coaching, mentoring opportunities with local businesses, foundations, nonprofits and NGOs, financial support and training to further their ideas.
Opportunities offered include: Fellows Program, Tune Up Tuesdays, and Scale Your Impact.
Fellows Program
An eight week fellowship, during the fall, spring, and summer semesters designed to support students transforming ideas into impact. The Fellows program provides students the space, resources, and opportunities to explore, test, or scale up their idea, project, or venture. Each week, students spend time participating in 1:1 coaching sessions with field experts, engaging in workshops that provide insights to valuable tools and resources, and immersing themselves in group activities with their peers who are also tackling a variety of social issues.
Tune Up Tuesdays
Have an idea that aims to create positive social change, working on an impact project, need help with your model, marketing, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, or anything else? Sign up for Tune Up Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to take your idea, project, or venture to the next step.
Scale Your Impact
A signature activity at the Do Good Accelerator that provides customized support and resources to students and alumni looking to extend their reach and create a larger social impact. Scale Your Impact is seeking groups who have already begun implementation, have had success to date, and are ready to scale.
Use Do Good Accelerator to…
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Find a lab/office for my venture
The Do Good Accelerator membership is available to all current UMD students and alumni working on a social-impact idea, project, venture, and/or organization. Membership is offered based on program participation, project feasibility, and space availability. If offered membership, it is active for one year (to exclude the summer semester). After one year, members can renew their membership based on the initial criteria. Sign up for membership here.
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Find an entrepreneurship program
The Do Good Accelerator offers an eight week fellowship program, Do Good Accelerator Fellows, as well as a 1-year mentorship program, Scale Your Impact. Students accepted into the Do Good Accelerator program are eligible to receive up to $3,000. Find entrepreneurship events throughout the academic year, a number of workshops, gatherings, and social-impact events to support all students. In addition to the Accelerator's own events, the Institute offers workshops in conjunction with organizations including Candid. To keep up with all events, visit the Do Good calendar of events.
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Find entrepreneurship events
Find all of the Do Good Accelerator's upcoming events, as well as other activities and workshops offered by the Do Good Institute by visiting the Do Good calendar of events.
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Get business advice for my venture
Have an idea that aims to create positive social change, working on an impact project, need help with your model, marketing, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, or anything else? Join us for Tune-Up Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to take your idea, project, or venture to the next step. The Accelerator is pleased to offer additional support for current UMD students, through coaching, to inspire action and impact. Current students engaged in classes, teams, projects, and organizations which place an emphasis on social impact are eligible to receive coaching support.
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Identify/apply for funding & grants
There are three options for applying funding and grants through the Do Good Accelerator:
Scale Your Impact is an advanced, year-long mentorship and project development program for current and alumni Terps. The signature program provides customized support that focuses on effective partnership cultivation and development, fundraising strategy, and impact measurement to University of Maryland students and alumni looking to extend their reach and create a larger social impact. Scale Your Impact is seeking groups who have already begun implementation, have had success to date, and are ready to scale. During the fall, spring and summer semesters, the Do Good Accelerator offers an eight week fellowship program, designed to support students where they need it most, as they work diligently to increase their community impact.
The Do Good Accelerator Fellows program provides students the space, resources, and opportunities to explore, test, and scale up their initiative. The ideal student for this program is one who is in the implementation phase.
Do Good Mini-Grants can provide funding for the development and implementation of student-led, student-run proposals which aim to create a positive social or environmental impact. Receive up to $500 to support your project or venture! Read about teams that were awarded Mini-Grants last year: Spring 2022 Recipients, Fall 2021 Recipients
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Learn about entrepreneurship
The Do Good Accelerator provides students the space, resources, and opportunities to explore, test, and scale up their initiatives. Students will gain access to "Do Good" events, projects, courses, and academic programs that help grow their knowledge, expertise and experience in nonprofit management, philanthropy, social innovation, and civic engagement. The Do Good Campus serves as a catalyst to ensure all University of Maryland students graduate equipped and motivated to do good in their careers, their communities, and the world.