At Goodie Nation, we often talk about being "intentionally good" - the act of consistently making an extra effort to support diverse founders and social entrepreneurs with capital, customers, advice, and storytelling. And to create an "intentionally good" culture, one should spend one hour doing one of these things per month for six straight months. ...
Today marks an inflection point for Goodie Nation as we welcome the 30 recipients of the 2023 Lenovo Evolve Small Grant into our Intentionally Good community. But these companies are not the tech startups we normally support, they represent some of the highest-potential diverse-led CPG brands and Brick-and-Mortar companies across the US and Canada. Each ...
Continuing in our mission to close the Relationship Gap, I'm thrilled to announce Goodie Nation is partnering with New York City-based Company Ventures to support the diverse-led startups in their Boost founder fellowship program. Boost is a 4-month pre-accelerator designed to help catalyze the success of underrepresented tech founders in NYC. Through this collaboration, Boost ...
Today, I'm excited to announce our new partnership with the African-American Student Union, a student club at Harvard Business School, to support the semi-finalists and finalists of the 4th annual Black New Venture Competition (BNVC). Startups will receive complimentary dedicated support from a Goodie Nation Portfolio Manager, access to the Goodie Nation community of investors ...
This time last year Ama Kessie, our former part-time Investor Relations Manager and 2019 Georgia State University graduate, was a full-time nurse. By June of this year, she was the Startup Partnerships Coordinator at Dropbox Docsend - a rapid and nontraditional development in her career. The story of how that happen truly embodies our culture ...
Big news today in our mission to close the Relationship Gap for those underrepresented in tech. We've partnered with Tech Equity Collective, an initiative started by Google, to launch the Tech Equity Collective Impact Fund, a $1 million fund to improve tech career prospects for Black professionals. Applications are welcomed from Black and allying organizations ...
Last month was incredibly action-packed for Goodie Nation as we worked with Venture For America, BILL, Lenovo, Venture Atlanta, Verizon, Mastercard, Silicon Valley Bank, BLCK VC, and Google for Startups and launched our Fall 2022 apparel collection. Getting Gen Z into Atlanta’s Startup Community with Venture For America Ayah Rashid (Venture For America) joined our ...
Three years ago on this date, Kapor Center announced Goodie Nation was one of 10 winners of the Tech Done Right Challenge. As a winner, we received a $100,000 grant that allowed us to launch the Intentionally Good program. We started with a pilot cohort of 10 Atlanta-based founders, and we asked what it would ...
Today we excited to announce our newest (and coolest) campaign for those who want to do more about closing the Relationship Gap for social entrepreneurs and diverse founders - a monthly recurring group dubbed Society of the Good. The Society of the Good is a group of everyday people, change makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who ...
We are thrilled to announce that Goodie Nation is now accepting cryptocurrency donations to help support our mission of close the Relationship Gap for diverse founders and social entrepreneurs, thanks to our partners at Pledge.to. "At Goodie Nation, we make sure the founders in our program are at the forefront of innovation - essentially ahead ...
