Redefining EntrepreneurshipShaping Our EffortsI'm writing to invite you to participate in the first annual, SocialGood Summit to be held at this year's Forward Festival (August 20-27). The Summit is an all-day event that will be held, Thursday, 20 August 2015, from 9:30am until 3:00pm at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID). Lunch will be served. This is a new event where we seek to explore ways to define entrepreneurship in terms that reconsider the value of social goodin all the work that we do. Entrepreneurship at its best incorporates the business of improving the world we live in —caring, sharing, building community, and unleashing new creative economies. Let's get good at it! |
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Redefining Entrepreneurship Panel
Amy Gannon, Co-Founder of the Doyenne Group, will challenge a panel of entrepreneurial leaders and grassroots community builders to answer core questions such as: "How should a city like Madison define what entrepreneurship means to us as a community, as we focus time, energy, and finances on developing entrepreneurs?" and "What definition of entrepreneurship do we value?" |
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Amy Gannon, Panel Moderator
Co-Founder, The Doyenne Group
Interim Dean, Edgewood College School of Business Amy Gannon advances gender equality in entrepreneurship by empowering women to start and grow ventures through peer mentorship and networking. She is also an Assistant Professor of Management at the Edgewood College School of Business. |
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- Allen Dines, Executive Partner at WISC Partners Fund
- Annette Miller, Emerging Markets and Community Development Director at MG&E
- Brandi Grayson, YWCA Director of Employment Services
- Christina Libs, Senior Launch Manager at Zendesk
- Gregory St. Fort, Executive Director of 100state
- Jessie Lerner, Executive Director of Sustain Dane
- M Adams, Co-Director of Freedom, Inc.
- Samba Baldeh, Alder for District 17
- Stephanie Rearick, Founder of the Dane County TimeBank and Mutual Aid Networks
- Will Green, Founder of Mentoring Positives
- William F. White, Partner at Michael Best & Fredrich LLP
- Zach Brandon, President of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce
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The 5 Really Big Questions
Facilitated by Eric Upchurch, Director of Development and Marketing for YWCA, Founder of ESUCEO, Inc., and Lead Organizer for the Young Gifted & Black Coalition
We will grab our lunch, catered by Steenbock’s on Orchard, over which we’ll engage as small groups in the afternoon's Really Big Questions workshop. Eric Upchurch will lead us as we dig into what it means for entrepreneurship to best deliver the socialgoods. We'll then come back together afterwards to compare and discuss what we found. |
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What's Next
After a break, Eric Upchurch will then lead participants in an open discussion about how to apply and act upon our new definitions of entrepreneurship. How will you apply the day’s discussion to your business? What future actions should we as a community take? |
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The Social Good Summit is a new event organized by the founders of Madison Nonprofit Day, ESUCEO Inc., The Rabble, Horizon Coworking, Mutual Aid Network, and Dane County TimeBank, in association with The Forward Festival, the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, Madison-area Urban Ministry (MUM), and the Young Gifted & Black Coalition. |
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