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Submissions, commenting and voting for SOCAP Open is now closed. Featuring content created and produced by our community is key to SOCAP’s impact, relevance and meaning.Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Accelerating Microbusinesses in Local Economies
Poor communities have 27% fewer microbusinesses per capita than their higher-income counterparts. Given the hyper-local processes that guide microbusiness development, bridging this microbusiness gap requires a commitment to cultivating and delivering the right blend of knowledge, networks and start-up capital to the most promising micro-entrepreneurs. This session showcases innovative microbusiness development programs that offer place-based solutions to local ecosystem development; including Atlanta’s Start:ME program which leverages the tested Village Capital model of acceleration. This session will seed connections and broaden conversations that focus attention and resources on microbusinesses and the communities in which they are (and are not) working.
accelerator programs, community development, local economics, microbusiness, placed-based solutions
Panel
Peter Roberts (Professor at Goizueta Business School), Brian Goebel (Director of Start:ME), Mark Hand (Venture Partner at UnLtd USA)
Jimmy Lee (CEO of Good City Chicago), James Johnson-Piett (President of Urbane Development, LLC)
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Important 2015 Dates
- June 7th: Final day to submit an idea.
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- June 20th – June 29th: Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP15 Content Team.
- June 30th: Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
we should reduce poverty of poor people by giving them and capacity building them to use non affordable tools like briquet ting machines a sell to them which i invented
simon munywe
please give a scholarship to attend the conference
Simon, you can apply for a scholarship here: https://socap15.socialcapitalmarkets.net/get-involved/social-entrepreneur-scholarship-2/ The deadline is June 30th.