NEW: RI Social Enterprise Greenhouse to Launch Newest Class at Founders’ League
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG), a Providence-based nonprofit which helps launch and advise social entrepeneurs and enterprises, announced on Tuesday its 2015 Accelerator class. Twenty-one social entrepreneurs from around the country will participate in a twelve-week program designed and delivered in partnership with Brown University. The launch event will take place on January 15, 2015 at the Founders League, 95 Chestnut Street, Providence, RI 02903, from 6:00PM – 8:00PM.
Now in its 5th year, the SEG Accelerator serves as a launch pad for some of the region’s most successful social enterprises, including Solar Sister, an organization aiming to eliminate energy poverty, Maternova, an e-commerce marketplace helping to save mothers and infants in childbirth, and Capital Good Fund, a nonprofit providing financial services to underserved families.
Some of the participants include: HMSolution, which provides prepackaged water treatment systems for the removal of arsenic and 15 other chemicals to water suppliers at 10 times lower operational costs, EarthFrendz, which creates recycled fashion and employs impoverished men and women in India, and Fit2Cook, offers educational programs for children to promote healthy eating and lifestyles into adulthood.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Our network of more than 150 business and community leaders is our secret sauce. Because of their contributions of time and financial resources, we are able to support social entrepreneurs and their businesses throughout their life cycle, from ideation all the way to funding,” said Kelly Ramirez, Social Enterprise Greenhouse CEO. “Businesses that do well and do good are shaping the future of our community by creating jobs and transforming lives.”
Social Enterprise Greenhouse states its goal as "creating positive social and economic impacts by supporting social entrepreneurs and enterprises with the tools and networks they need to thrive. We are a network of business and community leaders who contribute time, expertise and money to create jobs and support positive change through social enterprise."
Related Slideshow: RI Experts on the Biggest Issues Facing Public Education
On Friday November 22, the Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University, the Latino Policy Institute of Roger Williams University, the Rhode Island Association of School Committees, the Providence Student Union, and RI-CAN: Rhode Island Campaign for Achievement Now will host Rhode Island leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors for a symposium on "the civil rights issue of the 21st century, adequacy and equity and the State of Education in Rhode Island."
Weighing in on the the "three biggest factors" facing education in the state today are symposium participatnts Gary Sasse, Founding Director of the Hassenfeld Institute for Leadership; Christine Lopes Metcalfe, Executive Director of RI-CAN; Anna Cano-Morales, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees, Central Falls Public Schools and Director, Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University; Tim Duffy, Executive Director, RI Association of School Committees; and Deborah Cylke, Superintendent of Pawtucket Public Schools.
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