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Opportunity Funding Corporation (OFC) Venture Challenge Championship 

Purpose:

This competition is intended to foster the entrepreneurial spirit, encourage development of innovative service or product concepts, and develop business leaders who aggressively pursue excellence, are fearless strategists and are committed to building effective organizations. The OFC Venture Challenge is open to the nation's HBCUs that offer graduate programs in business. Each team is expected to prepare an original business plan and presents the plan to venture capitalists, many of whom are ready to invest.  This program has so far generated more than $266 million in capital and financing for hundreds of minority-owned organizations.

2007        1th Place, National Award &  Most Outstanding Business Plan Award
               Students:  Daniela Paval/Christine Powell/Tandon Martis/Amir Pirzadeh                 Principal Advisor: Dr. Tavakoli

2006        4th Place, National Award &  Most Outstanding Business Plan Award
               Students: NA 
               Principal Advisor: Dr. Tavakoli

2005        1st Place, National Award &  Most Outstanding Business Plan Award
               Students: Charles Dickens, Christine Gable, Evelyn McCray, Daniela Pavel
               Principal Advisor: Dr. Tavakoli

2004        2nd Place, National Award &  Most Outstanding Business Plan Award
               Students: J. Fort, T. Martyn, J. Nunnery, E. Ocalan, and M. Wong
               Principal Advisor: Dr. Tavakoli

2003        2nd Place, National Award
               Students: Amos Green, Irina Howard, Aamir Khan, and JoAnn Seymour
               Principal Advisor: Dr. Tavakoli