Representative: Emmanuel Threatt Hope Vibes is a nonprofit whose focus is to bring awareness, hope and real solutions to the homeless epidemic by providing dignity through personal hygiene products, mobile laundry and shower vehicles and conversation. How did your organization start? Hope Vibes was organically founded in July 2016 when Executive Director, Adrienne Threatt, shared…
Representative: Neil Cottrell The Joe Martin ALS Foundation empowers families to overcome the challenges of living actively with ALS. Children, often forgotten as caregivers, need help as well. Joe’s Camp provides an opportunity for these kids to have fun and connect with others who understand ALS and how it affects their life. What is the…
Representative: Shannon Houlihan Para Guide enables para-visually impaired individuals to experience a more enriched life through guided physical activities including swimming, cycling, running, walking and group exercise. How did your organization start? In 2016 the co-founders began training with Charlotte area visually impaired individuals and realized a need for guides, grants and transportation. What is…
Representative: Becky Santoro Foster Village Charlotte creates a village of support for our local children in foster care and those caring for them by meeting urgent needs, providing support to stabilize foster homes, and advocating for lasting change in the child welfare process. Foster Village Charlotte is a community beyond the system. What is the…
Representative: Amanda Griffin Junior Achievement (JA) offers K-12 programs that inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. The JA Company Program helps students fill a need or solve a problem by creating, launching and operating their own start-up business while developing the skills needed to pursue possibility and collaboration. What is…
Congratulations to the SEED20 Class of 2019! We are pleased to announce the 20 nonprofits who will be a part of the 8th annual SEED20 experience! Selected for their relevance, innovation, and potential for tangible community impact, the SEED20 Class of 2019 is… A Better World Toolbag for Success (a program of Beatties Ford Road Vocational Trade…
SEED20’s 2019 Presenting Sponsor: Wells Fargo Social Venture Partners is pleased to announce Wells Fargo as the presenting sponsor of SEED20 2019. The program culminates in SEED20 OnStage, an event where ten nonprofit participants compete for cash awards by making three-minute pitches to a live audience and panel of judges. We spoke with Jay Everette,…
INTech Camp for Girls is the winner of our second annual SEED20 Community Vote! For fourteen days, the community-at-large was invited to cast a vote of confidence for one of the organizations in the SEED20 Class of 2018! At SEED20 OnStage, we announced that INTech Camp for Girls was the winner of the $1,000 SEED20 Community Vote!…
Voted on by all forty volunteer coaches from our community and twenty student ambassadors and young professionals from Davidson College who worked with the SEED20 Class of 2018, the $5,000 SEED20 Coaches’ Award is truly a special award! The coaching teams and nonprofits spend a lot of quality time together during the SEED20 journey – not only as individual…
Our dynamic judging panel — comprised of Jay Bilas, Corri Smith, and Jason Terrell — selected the $7,500 3rd Place Award Winner. We caught up with Sam Fleming, Executive Director of 100 Gardens, about the impact of winning at SEED20. SEED20 is the best “program” type of experience we have participated in. After doing accelerators and similar…
Our dynamic judging panel — comprised of Jay Bilas, Corri Smith, and Jason Terrell — selected the $12,500 2nd Place Award Winner. We caught up with Cole Monroe, President of the Board of Directors of Transcend Charlotte, about the impact of winning at SEED20. These funds will help Transcend Charlotte continue to change the the lives of transgender Charlotteans. One…
On April 16th, the largest audience to date at SEED20 OnStage voted for the Wells Fargo People’s Choice Grand Prize. We caught up with Zach Bolster, founder of ChemoCars, about the impact of winning $20,000 at SEED20. SEED20 was an incredible experience filled with inspiring and smart people. We were honored to be selected as the grand prize winner –…