SEG launching seventh Impact Accelerator

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Greenhouse will launch its seventh Impact Accelerator cohort on Jan. 19.
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Greenhouse will launch its seventh Impact Accelerator cohort on Jan. 19.

PROVIDENCE – Social Enterprise Greenhouse will launch its seventh Impact Accelerator cohort on Jan. 19.

The event will be held at the SEG Hub at 10 Davol Square, Suite 100, from 6-8 p.m.. Nine New England-based businesses were selected for the program by a panel of business and community leaders in categories of education, design and well-being.
The participating enterprises are:

Impact in Education

  • DinnerxChange, an app which enables a mobile dinner table conversation between parents and children. The teacher enters a few words from a student about their day to promote conversations at home.
  • Finnest is a next-generation mobile banking solution for pre-college youth. Its mission is to better help young adults understand the value of money and handling it responsibly. Finnest is tailored to the needs of this age group, which it says is completely overlooked by the current banking system.
  • Rhode Island Parent Magazine is a local parenting resource. The magazine works to promote the work of community projects and organizations. The magazine is available free to readers and has a 15,000 circulation with 400 distribution locations throughout Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts.
  • Simply.fund is an online giving platform designed specifically for quick and easy fundraising campaigns. By leveraging the power of crowdfunding and social media, simply.fund makes the fundraising process fast, easy and delivers the highest profits of any other school fundraising program.

Impact in Design

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  • Labels That Matter preserves local culture, the planet and social development of communities worldwide through promoting the creativity of Chilean and Brazilian up-and-coming designers and artists.
  • The Steel Yard is an industrial arts center, craft school and shared studio. The Public Projects Department earns revenue for the Steel Yard through public art commissions. It collaborates with local artists, vendors and industry to produce custom, community-specific metal work with a clear focus on supporting the local creative economy.

Impact in Well-being

  • COAAST is a nonprofit organization that offers arts-based, community-engaged programming to address the opioid epidemic. It directly serves communities devastated by overdose deaths, high school students, communities of faith, health care professionals, and rehab and recovery communities. Its programs harness the arts to create therapeutic and educational goals.
  • Inspirited Living is an intentional community where people connect to encourage, uplift, and celebrate all that’s being done in this world “for good.” It shares inspiration and stories of courage in the Street Light Magazine, and offers training and products that encourage, uplift and support well-being.
  • PetsEmpower is a foundation and referral network umbrella organization giving domestic violence survivors a positive alternative regarding their pets. It ensures peace of mind that their pet is taken care of and provides reunification and other services.

The Social Enterprise Greenhouse Accelerator program is a 12-week blended learning model providing social entrepreneurs with knowledge, networks and resources they need to accelerate their businesses.

The program’s purpose is to help create more successful, sustainable “do well, do good” businesses in Rhode Island and the region, leading to more social good, according to SEG.

Upon graduation, participants will receive priority access to the SEG loan fund that provides below-market interest rate loans to high-potential social enterprises.

Social Enterprise Greenhouse CEO Kelly Ramirez said this is SEG’s signature program.

“Since 2011 we have accelerated 89 social impact ventures; of these, 47 are operational, and 36 are scaling and growing their business and impacts, creating 412 jobs as a result,” Ramirez said in a statement.

The Impact Accelerator program concludes with a graduation and final pitch event on April 13. The Impact Accelerator is funded in part by the Newman’s Own Foundation.

Learn more about the Impact Accelerator program HERE.

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