Matthew Sobel dedicates summer to fighting homelessness

2016 Aug 15

Matthew Sobel co-founded the social venture Lazarus Rising, which fights homelessness by providing job placement skills to individuals without permanent housing. This summer, Sobel is a participant in the University of Delaware's Horn Program in Entrepreneurship's Summer Founders Program, a 12-week long pre-accelerator used to validate members' novel business ideas.

Summer Founders students receive mentoring, education and stipends while they work to develop their ventures.

Lazarus Rising has already been recognized as a promising enterprise, winning a total of $3,250 in seed money in two University of Delaware competitions. At the most recent competition in April, the organization reported laudable success - 82% of participants find employment.