Community Capacity Builders Program for Social Entrepreneurs can be delivered as a Challenge Lab.  Challenge Labs focus on a specific wicked problem or a couple of wicked problems that participants are challenged to address.  They incorporate a participatory budgeting process that provides participants with the opportunity to:

• develop relationships with a broad range of community stakeholders that have an interest in the Lab's target problems, and
• receive funds towards the implementation of their initiative 

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The phases of the Challenge Lab process include:

• Form a Solution Ecosystem Reference Group for the wicked problem or problems
• Obtain prizes and engage judges for the Challenge
• Promote Challenge and recruit participants 
• Participants undertake Community Capacity Builders Program for Social Entrepreneurs
• Mentors are recruited from the solution ecosystem for each wicked problem
• Program participants are matched to mentors
• Participants theory of change, business model canvas and pitch deck are forwarded to their mentors
• Participant's initiatives are promoted to solution ecosystem stakeholders
• Prizes are awarded through a participatory budgeting process with the winners decided by the solution ecosystem stakeholders