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Thank you for your interest in the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas 2025 Social Innovation Accelerator.

Please answer the following questions to see if your organization will be a good fit for the Social Innovation Accelerator program. A member of the Social Innovation team will reach out to you with a link to the official application within 72 hours of completing this questionnaire.

Thank you for your interest and the impact you're making in our community!

If you have any questions or need any technical support, please contact socialinnovation@unitedwaydallas.org.

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* 1. Please confirm that the Founder/Executive Director or a member of the Senior Leadership Team (someone who drives decision-making at the organizational level) from your organization will be the primary program participant and attend all Bootcamp sessions and program activities.

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* 2. Organization Name

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* 3. Program/Venture Name (if different from organization name)

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* 4. Organization Address and Contact Info.

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* 5. Organization Online Presence

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* 6. Is your organization a nonprofit 501c3, for-profit, or hybrid venture?

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* 7. Please choose the Stage of Innovation that best applies to your venture. While UWMD supports many programs in social impact, the Accelerator program is specifically designed for organizations that are already operating legal entities. Accelerator candidates are typically in either the growth stage or mature stage (organization with a new innovative program or service).

UWMD Stages of Innovation:

Idea: An Idea-stage venture is at the starting line. It is defining the problem and potential solution, and exploring value proposition. The Social Innovation Accelerator is not designed idea-stage ventures.

Discovery: A Discovery-stage venture has launched and is hypothesis testing, building a validated business model, and exploring customer insights. It must be legally formed or have a fiscal sponsor. The Social Innovation Accelerator is not designed for Discovery-stage ventures. Discovery-Stage organizations are best served by the United Way Social Innovation Incubator.

Experimentation: An Experimentation-stage venture is launching and piloting a developed product, iterating and refining its process based on feedback loops, and is working on being legally formed, if not already. It must be legally formed or have fiscal sponsor. The Social Innovation Accelerator sometimes serves Experimentation-stage ventures.

Growth: A Growth-stage venture has completed a pilot and is scaling - growing operations and funds, building out a business plan, creating and expanding new systems, and incorporating feedback. It must be legally formed. The Social Innovation Accelerator does serve Growth-stage ventures.

Mature: A Mature-stage venture has successfully scaled and has reached a sustainable level of ongoing funding and operations. It can include model replication. Mature organizations overall can be served by the Social Innovation Accelerator only if they are implementing a new and innovative program within the larger organization that will have clearly defined local leadership.

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* 8. Does your organization have a Board?

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* 9. What problem are you trying to solve and how are you solving it?

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* 10. Can you fulfill the time commitment of a 9-month program, approximately 8 hrs/week during Bootcamp (August-September) and 1-5 hrs/week during the Milestone Accelerator (October-January)?

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* 11. Please identify your venture's focus area. If you believe you are addressing more than one impact area, please select the area that your venture primarily focuses on or most directly addresses.

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* 12. United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (UWMD) programs require that organizations serve individuals in Dallas, Collin, Rockwall, and/or southern Denton Counties. Please confirm that you serve individuals in one or more of these counties.

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