The Social Enterprise Greenhouse has accepted a new cohort for its Food Accelerator program, and this seems like as good a time as any to sing SEG’s praises.
Founded to help bring social ventures – companies designed to solve a social challenges while at the same time being a business, profit motive included for many of them – SEG claims a network of more than 400 social enterprises and more than 300 business and community leaders who contribute their time and money to help birth these do well by doing good enterprises.
SEG lists 71 ventures on its website that have taken part in its programs, including Big Picture Soda (which was founded by Met School students and which uses profits to fund college scholarships), Capital Good Fund (a nonprofit lender that reaches underserved populations with appropriate financing options) and Edesia (maker of peanut-based nutrition products for undernourished children the world over).
This latest 15-member cohort, all Rhode Island food businesses, may not change the world overnight. But they certainly can make a difference here, and that is the whole idea.
