Representative: Brittany Holbert In an effort to reduce medical costs and increase the mental health and overall well-being of its guests, Mooresville Soup Kitchen will be offering Fresh Start. This is a free 12-week program that will provide weight loss and nutrition education, exercise training, and group support to individuals who are clinically overweight or…
Representative: Charlie Petrizzo Project2Heal’s mission is to reduce the cost and time it takes to place a service dog with a person in need. This is accomplished this by nurturing, socializing and training purposely-bred Labrador Retriever puppies, for donation, to carefully selected service dog organizations. This approach leads to a very high success rate for…
Representative: Emily Kemmann Safe Families for Children is a movement fueled by compassion to keep children safe and vulnerable families intact. Volunteer host families, family friends, and family coaches temporarily host children and provide a network of support to families in crisis while they get back on their feet. Safe Families deflects children from entering…
Representative: Demi Knight Clark She Built This City empowers women and girls in the construction and manufacturing trades. The mission is to make startups, careers and exploration in these areas as interesting as the tech sector and to take on the challenge of #20Percentby2020. Through after-school programs, camps, workshops, career fairs and conferences, She Built…
Representative: Erica Reid Thompson Child & Family Focus has collaborated with the national nonprofit Friends of the Children to launch this program locally. The program provides Charlotte’s most vulnerable children with a long-term, salaried professional mentor, called a friend. This professional mentor is engaged for twelve and a half years no matter what. The program…
Representative: Reginald McNeil Transforming Youth Movement inspires social change and community transformation by connecting youth to positive people and experiences using their specific interest areas. The SHIFT Restitution and Community Service program connects court-involved and diverted youth to meaningful opportunities that enhance social skills, facilitate connections with positive adults in the community, promote civic engagement…
Representative: Queen Smalls Vision to Learn provides free vision services and glasses to children in low-income communities. By partnering with local community organizations, such as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Mecklenburg County Health, The Boys and Girls Club, and Freedom School Partners, Vision to Learn helps to eliminate barriers to vision care. Vision to Learn has provided over 25,000…
Representative: Jose Alvarez Prospera is an economic development, nonprofit organization that specializes in providing bilingual assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs trying to establish or expand their businesses. The organization offers a variety of services specifically designed for Hispanic small business owners to help them achieve prosperity through training, consulting, grants and access to capital. How did…
Over the last nine years, SVP has had the opportunity to foster social entrepreneurship in Charlotte. We are thrilled to announce the SEED20 class of 2020! Attach Families Inc. Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation City Startup Labs El Puente Hispano Emerge – The Art of Leadership Feeding Charlotte Friends of the Children – Charlotte (A program of…
When Sam Guzzie of Brand the Moth joined the 2019 class of SEED20, she shared that she was “honored to be a part of a class full of such amazing people working for the betterment of our society. Getting to meet such inspiring people was the best part for me, let alone to be included among them.” Brand…
Shaun Corbett, Executive Director of Cops & Barbers Inc., applied to be part of the 2019 class of SEED20 to embrace “the opportunity to be heard and to give the community that is normally voiceless a voice.” The organization was created in 2015 through a partnership between entrepreneur Shaun Corbett and then police detective Garry…
2019 SEED20 3rd Place and Community Vote winner, Para Guide, made some amazing progress this year! Para Guide Foundation enables para-visually impaired individuals to experience a more enriched life through guided physical activities. Shannon Houlihan, Para Guide’s founder and Executive Director, embraced the SEED20 process. “I hope to absorb as much information as possible as…