Partners

Partner Application

Extreme Partner Information 2025

Thank You for your interest in becoming a partner of Extreme!

We are excited to learn more about your organization. The purpose of this form is to gather information about your work and share your interest in potentially partnering with Extreme in 2025. We will review the details you share, and if there is a match between your organization and our ability to work together, we will reach out directly to the email you share on your form. Please provide as much information as you can so we can identify possibilities in how we might partner with you & the communities you work closely with!

To support your application, here’s a little more about Extreme:

Extreme is a two-quarter elective course jointly offered by the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Each year, up to 40 graduate students across Stanford University sign up to learn how to use the latest innovation and design methods to address real-world challenges of poverty in collaboration with partners and the communities they serve. The result is real implementable solutions that have touched the lives of 150 million people worldwide.

Our goal for every project is to deliver a usable, feasible and viable solution with an actionable, targeted implementation plan. Unlike many university partnerships, we do not engage in extractive research, but have a continuous collaboration with our partners and community from early immersion to delivery.

We equate responsibility with delivery. Our student teams are focused, and graded, on their ability to utilize our tools and methods to provide tangible solutions with a strong possibility for impactful implementation.

Our ability to behave responsibly in our work is an evolving effort, in which we value our partners’ guidance.

Name

Organization Name

Website and Social Media channels (if available)

Legal Structure

Number of Full Time Staff

1 - 10 10 - 30 30 - 100 100+

If you publish financial details, or are willing to share, please provide your latest annual total revenue and expenditure.

Organization's Physical Address - Please provide the address of the location where students will visit to meet your team and engage with the community members you want us to work with.

Senior Leader - Who will be the most senior leader in your organization who will be responsible for approving our partnership and be the ultimate decision maker. This is often the CEO, Executive Director, or Head of Projects or New Initiatives. Please provide name, title and email address.

Project Champion - Who will be the team member assigned to work on a regular basis with the student team. This person should be: Familiar and well connected to the community you serve, Available to engage with the student team for approximately a half a day per week during the project, Willing to engage actively with the student team, Able to work in English Please provide name, title and email address.

Please provide the names, titles and email addresses of any other team member you may want to engage in the project, and what their roles might be.

As part of our project partnership, we will also aim to appoint a "Local Coach". This is a person who is familiar with the type of work you do, the environment that you work in, and the community you work with, BUT not a member of your team. This gives our students another source of information and assistance without impacting your team. If you have anyone you would like to suggest for this role, please provide their name(s), email(s) and a link to their profile(s) here.

While some of our students will be fluent in multiple languages, the primary language of our program is English. If translation will be needed to interact with you and/or the community you work with, and you can help with translation, please indicate how that might work. (Sometimes the Project Champion above also acts as a translator, sometimes organizations have translators on staff). If you cannot provide translation services we will endeavor to make arrangements for the students.

Briefly outline your organization's mission and activities.

Briefly indicate where you see the challenge area you would like the students to investigate. The Teaching Team will work with you to fully describe this challenge so that we are both confident that it has the potential to deliver something useful for you, and appropriate for the student's work in the class. You are welcome to identify more than one challenge area.

Please indicate what Audio and Video communications options you have for: a.) Partner to Student communication, b.) Community to Student communication (for example, video conferencing available at partner office, audio calls with community members). Also indicate which communications products work best for you, your team, and your communities (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, Whatsapp, Voice calls, Text, etc.)

In early Nov, a member of the Teaching Team will want to visit the location where the students will meet you and your community. This is usually a 1-2 day visit, where we confirm the final details of the partnership and student challenge, answer any remaining questions you might have, meet your team, and in particular your designated Project Champion, meet with some of the community members you serve, and check on arrangements for the student visit. Please indicate what dates would be suitable for this visit, who from your organization we can meet, and any travel or accommodation details we should be aware of. Share your dates of availability for this Teaching Team Visit between: Oct 26 - Nov 10, 2024.

During the last two weeks of March, two members of your student team will travel to your location for a 7-8 day community engagement trip. They will NOT be accompanied by a Teaching Team member. Exact dates will depend on student's calendars and travel arrangements. Please indicate: How will they travel from Airport to your site, What accommodation is available, Should they stay in a nearby hotel/hostel/home stay, Confirm that the Project Champion will be available for the entire student visit, How will they travel to visit community during the visit (If you have hosted students, interns or volunteers at this location before, usually the arrangements made for them will work for our students too).