CUBE
CUBE: Drawing on a history of student activism
Located in the Campus Y, UNC’s Center for Social Justice and Social Innovation, CUBE provides social entrepreneurs at Carolina with a number of interconnected benefits: capacity building outside the classroom; elite coaching and mentoring from seasoned entrepreneurs; co-working space; and seed funding for venture development. All of this is managed from a central location at the heart of campus.
What It Offers
Social Innovation Challenge: A Competition for CUBE Program Participants
Every year, CUBE welcomes competitors to the pan-university Social Innovation Challenge, in which UNC students, faculty, and staff compete to receive a 1-year residency in CUBE. Becoming a CUBE venture means free 24-7 co-working space, up to $5,000 seed funding, and access to all kinds of mentorship and capacity-building workshops.
One-Stop Shop for Support
CUBE social ventures can access seed funding, mentoring, pro-bono support services, individualized assistance to benchmark their progress, and expert feedback from nationally-renowned social entrepreneurs.
Social Innovation Workshop Series
CUBE also offers a social innovation workshop series, which is made accessible not only to CUBE ventures but to anyone at UNC or even from across the Triangle. These workshops are offered on late afternoons and are designed to help you with a wide spectrum of issues and questions you’re bound to wrestle with at one point or another while growing your new social venture. CUBE workshops cover everything from legal incorporation and liability issues, human-centered design thinking, and organizational messaging, to leadership, crowdfunding and fundraising, marketing, and entrepreneurial finance. Workshops are tailored to both current and aspiring social entrepreneurs.
Community of Social Innovators
CUBE is a place where you can meet and interact with other social innovators from across many disciplines, and where you can learn from your peers, faculty, staff, alumni, coaches, mentors, and entrepreneurs-in-residence.
For More Information:
Visit the Space:
3rd Floor of the Campus Y
180 E. Cameron Avenue,
Chapel Hill, NC 27514