PROVIDENCE – Fourteen social enterprise participants will comprise the 2018 Social Enterprise Greenhouse Impact Accelerator cohort, which begins on Jan. 23, SEG announced this week.
The program includes a 12-week blended learning model developed and delivered in collaboration with Brown University. The cohort will work to refine, formalize and grow their social missions in that time, with help from advisers and coaches.
The 2018 Impact Accelerator ends with a demo day on April 26, 2018.
The cohort includes:
Anchor Strategies – An organization that works with funders and organizations to incubate concepts into action by bridging the gap between the two groups.
AS220 Industries Department – part of the AS220 nonprofit that began as a community darkroom and has evolved into four art programs.
Center for Community Transformation – A community organization devoted to equity, inclusion and sustainability that works to change structural conditions in communities and build community power.
GoPeer – An online platform that connects K-12 with nearby college students for in-person tutoring.
Pangeamart – A peer-to-peer local services and goods app.
Reentry Campus Program – A program devoted to lowering recidivism rates across Providence County by offering affordable post-secondary education for formerly and currently incarcerated individuals.
Riverzedge Arts – An organization that offers arts and entrepreneurship studio programs, hands-on job training and alternative routes to diploma attainment through client projects and grant-funded public works.
Tech Africa – An organization that focuses on enabling those experiencing disadvantage to become the agents in their own economic, health and social development through employment, specifically, through interactive mobile and web applications.
VeerSAFE – A program that provides online diabetes self-management education to insulin-dependent Commercial Driver License operators which satisfies the Federal Diabetes Exemption Program requirement for annual diabetes education.
Included in the cohort are five environmental-impact social enterprises, part of SEG’s new Water, Energy and Environment Initiative.
Eco Building Venture – An organization that develops innovative ecological building technologies.
HAPI Water Solutions – An organization that provides potable water with a compact atmospheric generator for a wide variety of users globally.
One Earth Center – An environmental advocacy organization.
SeaAhead – Bluetech Innovation Center – An organization that aims to bring together startups, corporations, academics and foundations to impact marine transportation, aquaculture, fishery processes, offshore alternative energy and “smart cities.”
What Cheer Flower Farm – An organization that grows flowers on reclaimed land in Providence, and works with local florists to re-purpose lightly used flower arrangements, and donate bouquets to organizations that provide community care.
