Profiles in Social Entrepreneurship
how teams, partnerships, and collaborations can help forge innovation during chaotic times
On Sunday, August 16th, join us for three conversations on why forming solid partnerships, teams, and collaborations can lead to rapid pivots, the ability to innovate, and survive during chaotic times. Meet three different social ventures that were forged out of two pandemics— Coronavirus and systemic racism. Meet three projects / pivots that are changing the people get things done in trying times— Cook it Forward, Just Bakery/Short Stack Eatery, and the Dane County Collaboration of Black Service Providers (DCCBSP).
Enjoy three dynamic sessions with Madison-based entrepreneurs who are committed to social good, economic equity, and strengthening community.
Social Good Madison is a collaborative initiative with the purpose of building the ways and means for individuals and organizations to grow robust social ventures that intentionally operate to address inequalities and expand prosperity. As a project of Collaboration for Good, it is designed to reduce economic and wage equity, increase the communities capacity for social good, and identify and support new leaders. We are growing a community of individuals and organizations willing to a stand and push forward on stopping institutionalize racial & economic bias.
Cook it Forward (CiF) is a COVID-19 response pivot collaboration. The collaboration involves local farms, downtown Madison restaurants, food distribution sites, and black-and-brown led nonprofits providing last-mile delivery services. It targets the food insecure, who also has accessibility and mobility issues while adhering to economic equity principles. Moderated by Annette Miller, EQT by Design
Carmella Glenn and Alex Lindenmeyer met at the 2017 Social Good Summit after Carmella had introduced Just Bakery to Madison and the world. Since then, they have partnered, strategized, supported, and created a fantastic professional partnership that strengthens both of their business. This has allowed them to both think, test, and try new things through this period of social unrest that has nourished their ventures.
Join Brandi Grayson, CEO, Urban Triage as she discuss how collaborations can strengthen, support, and extend the reach of small social enterprise. Brandi built Urban Triage to lead regional efforts to empower Black families, mobilize community resources, and create transformative justice. The building and growing of partnerships to add allies, amplify power & voice, build movements, and reduce financial risk. Brandi will be joined by Tara Wilhelmi, EOTO, LLC / Culturally Rooted, and Clyde Mayberry, CEO, The House Urban Arts Initiative, Inc.
Systems are hard to break down. So while we work to breakdown centuries of instutitionalizd racism, eeconomic inequality, health inequality, sexism, classism, and so much more. Let us also, take the time to focus, and dedicate energy to create alternatives. Your alive now, heelp us adjust the world for the living.
