
A Yale MBA's Social Enterprise Pitch: Act to Change
This lecture from Yale's Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship course presents a real-world case study of a pitch delivered by a Yale MBA student for Act to Change, a nonprofit focused on ending bullying against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Students see how the concepts taught earlier in the course, including problem framing, theory of change, and communications strategy, come together in an actual venture pitch. The session uses the pitch as a teaching example, showing both its strengths and areas that could be sharpened, giving students a concrete model to study before developing their own presentations. It is part of the course's applied unit on pitching, following lessons on deck structure and communications planning, and grounds the material in a specific nonprofit built to address a defined social harm.