Our current reality for knowledge workers is that we can now live just about anywhere and continue working for the same company. We have been witnessing over the past year the mass exodus of people moving away from coastal centers and areas with a high cost of living to cities like Miami and Austin, as ...
Goodie Nation Partners with Fulcrum Equity Partners for Financial and Resource Support
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
Atlanta Heroes Take a Hack at Gentrification Disparities
Contributed by: Mark Taylor II
Atlanta College Students Create Tech Ideas to Fight Eviction Caused By Gentrification
By Ashley Stewart With Contributions from Mark Taylor II Mission “How can you help 500,000 people facing eviction in gentrifying areas save money?” This is the capstone question that brought a talented group of co-eds from Atlanta Universities and Colleges into a room at Morehouse College’s Kilgore Student Center for “Goodie Ideation for College Students”. …
Talk of the Town: Atlanta Tackles Gentrification
Contributed by: Ebony Hillsman, Mark Taylor II Some would say Atlanta is bleeding and rumored to have the largest economic disparity in the nation. The cause? Rumor is: lack of diversity and inclusion in business development and access to resources. So we gathered a few friends, innocent bystanders and key players in the game …
Super-powered Youth Take on Gentrification in Atlanta
Our Mission It’s a sizzling hot on a Friday in the summer of July, and the alarm blares, alerting you to wake up and save the day for thousands of lives in your community. Do you get up and do something about it or annoyingly press the snooze button? If you chose the latter, …
The Rest of 2016 Is All About Gentrification Financial Inclusion Starting w/ Youth Next Friday
Big news! Spurred by a grant from Google, we’ll produce a six-month social impact innovation incubator affectionately dubbed Goodie Innovation [Econ Dev]: Atlanta x (Q3 + Q4 2016). It is designed to combine passionate people with subject-matter experts and highly-skilled professionals in an effort to produce ten (10) tech startups focused on gentrification financial inclusion. …