A Summer with Inspiring Capital
…am leaving with memories to last a lifetime—thanks to Tuck GIVES for the support!
Aug 31, 2018
…am leaving with memories to last a lifetime—thanks to Tuck GIVES for the support!
Aug 31, 2018…support of funding from Tuck GIVES, has provided me with that opportunity and much more. The Maine Venture Fund is a professionally managed venture capital fund that invests exclusively in Maine companies that demonstrate a potential for high growth and public benefit. The Fund is run by a small team…
Aug 26, 2016…with the support of Tuck GIVES, I interned at the Maine Venture Fund—an evergreen fund that invests in Maine-based companies in order to create jobs locally. For my summer, I had two workstreams. First, I was tasked with conducting due diligence on one of the Fund’s portfolio companies in the…
Sep 13, 2018…with the support of Tuck GIVES, I was able to both gain experience working with a VC fund, as well as gain operational experience within two of their portfolio companies. The Maine Venture Fund is small VC fund that invests exclusively in Maine companies that demonstrate a potential for high…
Aug 31, 2017An Internship With The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation By Zoltan Czinkoczky T’18 As you walk around the headquarters of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation in Concord, NH, you sense that it’s a special place. First of all, the building used to be a Baptist church, among others. The walls along…
Sep 12, 2017…Society offered me a Tuck GIVES scholarship that made my MVF internship possible. Sunset in Portland. What was it like to be an intern at Maine Venture Fund? Maine Venture Fund (MVF)’s location is in Portland, Maine (which if you haven’t visited yet, should be at the top of your…
Jan 06, 2023…help fund off-campus internships (Tuck Gives, Maynard Entrepreneurship internship program) Interview forums – consortium of other schools in SF and Boston. In the spring, treks that bring students off-campus to explore jobs in these regions. Student-led treks – we have 16 planned for this year— including Tech trek to San…
Nov 29, 2012…Business, Government & Society’s Tuck Gives program and the Revers Center for Energy’s Career Exploration Fund, I had the opportunity to dive into this space firsthand through an incredible internship I worked with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), a non-profit with expertise in climate technology and sustainable seafood…
Oct 01, 2020…supported by funds from Tuck GIVES. The IFC’s Fintech team is one of the largest investors in financial technology companies in emerging and developing markets. Since 2010, the group has invested $180M in equity and debt in early- and growth-stage Fintech companies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Two months…
Aug 17, 2015By Xiaoxiao Yang T’17 I spent the summer working with Impact Hub, a global network of social entrepreneurship communities, co-working spaces, and programs. The first Impact Hub was founded in London in 2005 with the idea that people who had decided to dedicate their lives to new ways of confronting…
Sep 12, 2016…identifying ways TCP could partner. With the support of Tuck Gives, I was able to work in an organization that was making a social impact.
Oct 01, 2020They told me I’d be working on multiple engagements. “Two or three,” I thought. “Four would be pushing it, right? No way it’ll be any more than four—that’s too much to juggle.” Five full engagements and 10 weeks later, I am ecstatic to be back to the understated quiet and…
Sep 25, 2018My summer with the UNICEF Innovation Fund has been deeply fulfilling. Heading into the summer, I searched for experience within the venture capital and investing world. Coupled with my First Year Project with a Venture Capital firm focused on creating a social impact mandate for their new impact investing focused…
Sep 11, 2018Tolu Kehinde is an MD-MBA student from Nigeria, who moonlights as a New Englander. She is a believer in the transformative power of words in all forms and hopes to one day be able to say she contributed significantly to African healthcare. For close to a decade, I’ve had an…
Sep 28, 2018…the generous support of Tuck Gives, I participated in the Urban Leaders Fellowship (ULF). ULF is a concentrated leadership practicum focused on developing skills through hands-on policy crafting and practice. ULF, which was founded in 2011 by Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston, now operates in nine cities across the country.…
Nov 28, 2019