HEROES OF THE NEW ECONOMY: The rise of social ventures & how you can power them
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Ladies, we’re tired of business as usual.
We’re dead tired of businesses and paradigms that elevate profit over everything else. We think you can do good & make bank. Fortunately, we’re not alone. The time has come for a new, kinder economy and new breed of business heroes.
This month we’re diving into social ventures. Not only are they driven by values and goals to improve the world we live in, mission driven innitiatives are good for business, and these businesses also have a pretty strong feminine presence. Yes, ladies are owning this growing market.
We have 3 amazing women joining us to share their insights: Emily Winslow (VP of Ops at PeakChange), Megan French Dunbar (co-founder of Concious Company Media) and Amber Nystrom (co-founder SDG Marketplace and Triple Revolution Collective) are here to share insights on social ventures, funding, and what the future holds.
So how do you get involved and what does that even look like for a socially driven startup or business? We'll dig into:
• What’s the New Economy - and how it solves deeper problems
• Examples of social ventures - in the PeakChange portfolio and Colorado community (Evrnu, Pharma Jet)
• How you can to participate and use your power to drive it's growth: Incubate (start your own or join one), venture (creative funding); Voice (storytelling & KPIs); Wallet (investment & philanthropic capital)
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6:00-7:00 = Mingling, Food & Drinks
7:00-8:00'ish = Presentation and Q&A
OUR SPEAKERS:
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Emily Winslow
As VP of Operations of PeakChange, Emily Winslow brings her passion for empowerment of women entrepreneurs, alleviation of poverty, and innovation for social change to life through impact investing. PeakChange supports and engages in both direct and indirect investment in startup, early-stage social ventures within the United States and internationally. At PeakChange, she provides a multidisciplinary approach in applying best practices for capacity building and structured innovation by providing management consulting services and developing customized performance metrics. Among her responsibilities, Emily is a PeakChange board observer for Investor’s Circle, Girls for a Change, ThinkImpact, and Unleesh.
Emily settled in Denver after receiving her Masters in International Development from the University of Denver Josef Korbel School. Emily's organizational memberships include Ellevate, Denver Young Professionals, Toniic, World Denver Young Professionals. Additionally, she is a Flock Mentor and SheEO Activator.
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Meghan French Dunbar
Meghan French Dunbar is Co-founder of Conscious Company Media, which is the first multimedia organization in the country that specifically focuses on purpose-driven business. The company’s flagship product — Conscious Company Magazine — was the first print and digital, nationally distributed publication in the United States to focus solely on sustainable and conscious business. After its launch in January 2015, the magazine was quickly picked up by Whole Foods Market, Target, HEB, Barnes and Noble, Kroger, and more. After more than two years on shelves, Conscious Company Magazine has firmly established itself as the authority in the space on the conscious business movement. The company has since broadened out to include events, research, career resources, and education, all with the intention of creating the world’s premier purpose-driven professional community.
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Amber Nystrom
Amber is a serial entrepreneur and among the foremost international pioneers in impact investing, social enterprise and global ecosystems and network innovation. She is among the world’s top Master Facilitators in global systems change, and brings to this work over two decades of senior leadership launching and scaling world first innovations that channel the power of entrepreneurs and markets to address humanity’s great challenges.
Amber is currently dedicated to a portfolio of work to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This SDG portfolio includes Prosparity, a financial platform to aggregate capital resources for the SDGs; a global collective action based “SDG Marketplace” and Summit Series; and a moonshot SDG Lab to vet, incubate and capitalize the world’s most promising 10X SDG breakthrough solutions. At the heart of this work, Amber is also leading a “Triple Revolution” global imperative to collectively mobilize women and millennials and the nearly $60 trillion wealth transfer they will receive into realizing the SDGs by 2030.
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