Big Ideas @ Berkeley Marketplace

Big Ideas @ Berkeley marketplace lets alumni, corporate and foundation partners, friends, and family support Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about tackling major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and technology-based entrepreneurship. Supporters can sponsor a “Big Idea” in the following ways:

• Make financial or in-kind contributions to specific projects
• Sponsor a future "Bears Breaking Boundaries" contest
• Help raise funds (using ChipIn) from their friends and colleagues
• Provide students with advice and connections to potential partners.

"Cal students have great ideas for addressing some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. This marketplace will help them mobilize additional financial and in-kind resources to support their ideas, and recruit additional committed students."

- Robert Birgeneau, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor

"Big ideas at Berkeley inspired me to pursue and develop a concept that I had always thought was pie in the sky. Now I see the idea as ripe opportunity for transportation reform, and myself as an agent of change."

- Kevin Shively (2006 Bears Breaking Boundaries/Green Cities winner)

"This is absolutely AWESOME! Incredibly well constructed and one of the most innovative student services I've seen in all my time here."

- Ilan Gur, Ph.D. - Materials Science & Engineering, UC Berkeley

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