We Accelerator Social Good,
Are You a Social Entrepreneur? |
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Are you a social entrepreneur? Do you know a social entrepreneur? We're looking for enterprising individuals looking to change the world, starting locally. We want to work with a diverse set of individuals—people of color, women, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, the elderly, the disabled, and more; working on a diverse set of issues— food, health, literacy, technology, art, racial inequities, etc. Whether your venture is a for-profit, non-profit, cooperative, or hybrid organization, the Social Good Accelerator will work with you where you are and move you forward. We're changing the face of entrepreneurship by changing the face of and intent of entrepreneurs. No jumping through hoops. Our application is quick and easy and takes you to the next step of our process— a telephone interview to quickly collect additional details we need, provide you with the information you should know, answer any questions you may have, and allow you to determine your readiness for this adventure. Apply! Undecided? Let's meet for coffee. You can schedule a face-to-face meeting with a member of our application committee. Just email s...@collab4good.org or call (608) 241.3616 ( leave a voicemail message with your name and phone number • this number does not accept text messages) to schedule. |
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What's Happened To Date?Last year, we piloted our Social Good Accelerator (SGA) and it was amazing! We got to work with 25 awesome projects (meet a few of them below) and doing some amazing work. The projects represented an array of fields— health, food, racial justice, mindfulness, technology, and more.
But that's not all… we also got to work a variety of individuals and organizations who are also interested in changing the face of entrepreneurship in Madison and accelerating social good. So we expanded our process for developing an ecosystem that supports "social good".
We're moving forward. We're officially the Social Good Accelerator (SGA) and we're looking for our next cohort of projects to work with. Take a few moments to learn about some of our pilot projects. |
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Meet a Few of Our ProjectsAn Update in Two Sentences |
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Madison Reading Project
provides books to children living in poverty. They are on their way to meeting their goal to handout over 30,000 books; and expanded that goal to get more books for and about children of color into the hands of every child via Code:Read— an 8 hr hackathon/coding day on Saturday, April 21st, 2018. |
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Just Bakery
is a 12-week job and career training program that also teaches life skills, designed to meet the formerly incarcerated. Their students now receive ServSafe certification, college credits from Madison College, and recently opened a storefront where they'll gain customer service, marketing, and other skills. |
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Madison Brain Masters
is using neurofeedback to reduce anxiety, ADD, and aggression in over 5,000 Dane County School Aged children. With new community partnerships they are providing services to neighborhoods with need, thus reducing the stress of missed appointments, the time and travel issues, and most importantly, the cost of providing treatment. |
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Hope & a Future
is building a lightly staffed, intergenerational neighborhood. They've gained new board members and raised $150,000 as part of a capital campaign to work on Phase 2 of their project which includes 12 housing units - 8 for healthy seniors and 4 housing units for young, at-risk families. |
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This is a series of four emails. Each will highlight four of our 25 pilot projects.
Not everyone will receive each message, but an email entirely devoted
to updates on the Social Good Accelerator is forthcoming. |
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