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This spring saw the launch of a new Harvard competition, the Venture Good contest, in which student teams use the power of the marketplace to devise ways of helping society. The goal of the contest is to encourage the creation of self-sustaining social and arts enterprises - ventures that can actually make enough money to reasonably employ the participants, but whose fundamental purpose is simply (or complicatedly) to make the world a better place. The 2004 Venture Good contest was sponsored by the undergraduate Harvard Social Enterprise Club with the $1,000 prize for best plan donated by iRobot Corporation, a Burlington-based robotics technology firm.