Kelley Impact Competition

Make positive community change as a Kelley Impact Competition participant

The Kelley Institute for Social Impact (KISI) hosts an annual case competition to bring together socially minded students at Indiana University. Made possible by a gift from Kelley School of Business alumnus Lance Breitstein, BS'11, the Kelley Impact Competition challenges students to find and implement solutions to a social issue in Bloomington, Indiana. 

In addition to financial awards for top student teams, $10,000 in seed money supports the implementation of the winning idea to create lasting change in the community.

Interested in learning more? Please contact KISI at kisi@indiana.edu.

Kelley Impact Competition: Students launching real-world solutions for a local community partner

Watch the video to hear how past Kelley Impact Competition winners implemented their innovative ideas and became change makers doing good.

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Kelley Impact Competition: Students launching real-world solutions for a local community partner

The Kelley Impact Competition incentivizes the smartest students in the country to learn more about the issues in their community, find solutions, and make a real difference in the world around them.

Lance Breitstein, BS'11, Kelley Impact Competition benefactor

The Kelley Impact Competition partnership is providing the Community Justice & Mediation Center with the tools, resources, and person-power to deepen our capacity to better meet the conflict resolution and restorative justice needs of our community. We have been given the chance to think outside the bo, and to truly explore and co-create innovative solutions with our incredible Kelley student team. The project has the potential to become a replicable model that can be shared with other community mediation centers around the country.  It is not often that nonprofits are given this type of funding opportunity.

Liz Grenat, executive director, Community Justice & Mediation Center

The students are amazing—smart, dedicated, inquisitive, resourceful. They take (the Kelley Impact Competition) seriously, so the competition is very worthwhile because they want to see their ideas implemented. It would be a worthwhile endeavor for any organization.

Juliette Kniola, volunteer, National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Bloomington Area (NAMI-GBA), Kelley Impact Competition 2021 community partner