We're proud to announce that our founder, Joey Womack, has been selected to the board of directors for Startup Atlanta - the city’s non-profit focused on bolstering local entrepreneurship. Read more on the announcement on Hypepotamus.
14 Aug 2020 In Atlanta, Tech Startups By Shara C
We're proud to announce that our founder, Joey Womack, has been selected to the board of directors for Startup Atlanta - the city’s non-profit focused on bolstering local entrepreneurship. Read more on the announcement on Hypepotamus.
13 Oct 2019 In Intentionally Good By Joey Womack
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 ...
17 Jan 2019 In Goodie Impact K-12, Hack The Violence By Joey Womack
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 …
30 Aug 2018 In Goodie Impact Stories, Hack Gentrification By Joey Womack
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 ...
01 Aug 2018 In Hack Gentrification, Hack Health, Hack The Violence By Joey Womack
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 ...
27 Jun 2018 In Goodie Impact Pre-Accelerator, Hack The Violence By Joey Womack
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 ...
16 May 2018 In Goodie Impact Pre-Accelerator, Hack Gentrification By Joey Womack
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 ...
18 Mar 2018 In Goodie Impact Pre-Accelerator, Hack Gentrification By admin
We’re proud to announce that we’ve partnered with UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, and Village Capital, an organization that finds, trains and invests in entrepreneurs solving real-world problems, to launch the VC Pathways program in Atlanta. VC Pathways is a national program that will train and support African American, Latinx and female founders to …
22 Oct 2017 In Goodie Impact College By admin
On October 16, 2017 the student-led group CS + Social Good (Computer Science + Social Good) at Georgia Tech invited two of Atlanta’s top social entrepreneurs on campus to discuss social entrepreneurship. The panel discussion focused on where computer science intersects with social impact, and how the community can use technology to create positive change …
09 Oct 2017 In Atlanta, Goodie Ideation, Hack The Violence By admin
Goodie Nation took Atlanta’s annual A3C Hip-Hop Festival by storm with another successful design thinking lab to “hack the violence.” Held on on Friday October 6th at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in downtown Atlanta, Goodie Ideation @ A3C brought together a mixed batch of founders: attorneys, authors, stylists, artist managers, and mobile app developers …
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