Tag: Social Enterprise Greenhouse
Man Up wins $50K in Nonprofit Innovation Lab ‘Shark Tank’ event
PROVIDENCE – Man Up Inc., a Providence-based nonprofit that helps individuals of color advance their careers, was the winner of the Nonprofit Innovation Lab...
Hair care business grows from side gig to full-time operation
The irony of products formulated for natural hair care is that they’re often unnatural.
Kerlyne Jean-Baptiste, owner and CEO of KerlyGirl LLC, identified that unmet...
SEG to launch virtual accelerator program in Spanish
PROVIDENCE – Social Enterprise Greenhouse is launching its first accelerator program in Spanish, the organization announced on Tuesday.
The 12-week program will be held virtually,...
Tech volunteers save the day for small retailers
Lori Lyons spent the first 48 hours after the state issued stay-at-home orders in a sleepless haze of research into how to transform her...
Strength in numbers? Some struggling nonprofits eye an alliance
While many nonprofits are fighting for survival amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steamship Historical Society of America knows better than most what it is...
A question of equity: Can R.I. level the field for minority...
As small-business owners clambered to get in on the federal payroll relief program launched in the wake of COVID-19, Anna Mangeni held back.
Her business,...
Business incubator born in response to COVID-19
Jo Lee’s new business was on the fast track to success.
In a single year, she’d transformed PopUp Rhody LLC from an idea into a...
ONE Neighborhood Builders awards $125K to health equity zone partners
PROVIDENCE – Six organizations that partner with the Central Providence Health Equity Zone have been awarded a total of $125,300 in grants from ONE...
Startup shake-up: Entrepreneurs scramble to revamp business plans
Like many college seniors, biomedical student Abbie Kohler and engineering student Greg Fine were disheartened to have their final semester suddenly cut short and...
Embrace pandemic challenges
We’ve all heard the proverb, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” In business rarely does it ring truer than in a financial crisis.
The COVID-19...