We are proud to announce that we have partnered with Fulcrum Equity Partners, a leading growth equity firm headquartered in Atlanta, to accelerate our work to help fill the funding gap for diverse-led (Black, Latinx, or Women) startups and social impact startups. Fulcrum Equity Partners is providing funding and will be donating their time and ...
Relationships Matter for Diverse-Led Startups & Social Impact Startups: What We Learned By Spinning Up The Intentionally Good Project in 90 Days
On May 31st, we received notification that we won a VilCap Community license grant from Village Capital for their accelerator curriculum and data collection tools. On June 13th, Joey Womack presented on creating an “intentional” culture to support diverse changemakers at SOCAP’s Spectrum conference. And on June 24th at 4:32pm, we received an email from ...
Goodie Nation Brings Awareness to the School-To-Prison Pipeline Ahead of Super Bowl LIII
Goodie Nation announced today that eleven mold-breaking digital marketing campaigns aimed at ending the school-to-prison pipeline will launch at their marquee event Goodie Innovation Weekend: Big Game x Big Impact, held January 26-27 at Google’s headquarters in Atlanta. Supported by funding from the Walton Family Foundation, Goodie Innovation Weekend concludes Goodie Digital: Disrupting The School-To-Prison …
How Civic Dinners Became a Civic Tech Platform
First ever filmed Civic Dinner 6/13/2016 at Bellina in Ponce City Market By Jenn Graham, Founder & CEO of Civic Dinners After a successful project with the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Millennial Advisory Panel in 2015, the concept of using dinners as a way to engage new voices in the regional planning process proved a viable ...
Introducing Goodie Impact Stories
Over the last 4.3 years, we've hosted a bunch of design thinking labs and hackathons, helped launch 50+ projects "for good", started initiatives around STEM, gentrification, violence, and health, and introduced thousands of people to the tech and social impact communities. It's about time we told the story of Goodie Nation: everything from the prequel ...
Goodie Nation Impact Pre-Accelerator Alumni Company Founder Named 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellow
Baiyina Jihad, founder of EdTech startup Beyond the Classroom, has been named a 4.0 School’s Tiny Fellow. Launched during our Hack The Violence Pre-accelerator cohort, Beyond the Classroom combines tech, literacy and mentorship in the fight to keep students in the classroom and off the streets. It's mobile application gives 3rd and 4th grade students ...
UBS and Village Capital Graduate Top Black/Latinx/Female Startups From Atlanta VC Pathways Program
Nine Startups Made Final Presentations to Investors at event hosted at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Office and sponsored by Venture Atlanta UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, and Village Capital, an organization that finds, trains and invests in entrepreneurs solving real-world problems, today announced the graduation of nine Atlanta-based startups from the inaugural ...