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T-2 weeks until Impactathon Tacoma with .blue and .

Don’t miss this special event to build your social enterprise ideas—- and have the chance to win up to $1000+ in cash and in-kind prizes.

Space is literally limited by the beautiful space (Center for Urban Waters) …so don’t delay in signing up!

www.impactathon.co

*special doorbuster surprise for the first 20 Impactathoners who arrive to the event!

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Three teams from a 2021 one-day Impactathon at Soka University continued working on their ideas through a multi-month student venture competition that involved 85 university teams and awarded over $100k in prizes across categories.

All 3 teams that participated in Impactathon went on to sweep the top three places in the semifinals of the Social Enterprise category.

Those accolades are inspiring— speaking to the determination and hard work of the students and support.

But more so, it shows us that unlocking our inner problem solver and unleashing of our inner social entrepreneur can continue to guide belief in our potential.

Receiving notes like these is our “why.”

This student will graduate in 2023 and has accepted a full-time role. Her experience in social enterprise continues to inspire her to find like-minded communities of entrepreneurial impact-drive problem solvers.

Join the movement. The next Impactathon is in Tacoma, WA on 4/29

www.impactathon.co

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Very excited to announce an upcoming full-day Impactathon in Tacoma--- open to the public!

https://impactathon23-tacoma.eventbrite.com

Have you ever wanted to brainstorm and build creative, business solutions to local issues including protecting water and wildlife, housing, crime, pollution, climate change.

Have you wanted to form a team and learn the basics of social entrepreneurship? Have you wanted to pitch to judges and win up to $1K in cash or in-kind prizes for your idea?

It's all happening on Saturday, April 29th at the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma. Join this special Impactathon, hosted by Washington Maritime Blue .blue and . No team or idea is required--- we will help guide you along the process. Just come with your enthusiasm and willingness to work on an idea.

We are honored to have the following local leaders involved:
Impact Talk Speakers, including:
Kristin Ang, Port of Tacoma Commissioner
Nigel Sharp 💧🚀, CEO of Aquagga Inc.

Judges, including:
Tim Strege, Executive Director of the William Factory Small Business Incubator
Andrew Fry, Director, School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington Tacoma
Patricia Beard, Business Development Manager at City of Tacoma
Joshua M Berger, Founder and President/CEO of Maritime Blue
Ston Nguyen, Director of Startup253
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We look forward to welcoming local ecosystem partners to share information about incubator, accelerator, pitch, funding, and other support programs in the greater Tacoma area. If you would like to be involved, please comment below or DM us.

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"Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.”
- Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures Entertainment

What is the story your social enterprise is telling?

How is your community adding, sharing, and building the story.

As social impact founders, sometimes we don’t realize that we are building brands alongside impact, alongside business models.

This is an invitation to build a brand with clarity, intentionality, and as invitation for your community to become its greatest champions.

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Excited for Impactathon Mini this weekend at Soka University! This is a special one for students, alumni, and the campus community.

It will feature and adapted model— with a focus on supporting teams pursuing the Global Social Innovation. Challenge (GSIC).

Register at impactathon.co.

No. 22– let’s go!!!

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They say it takes over a decade to become an “overnight success.”

At Innov8social we wouldn’t know—- it’s been over a decade and we are still working, partnering, pivoting and growing with intentionality. ☺️

It is gratifying for efforts to be seen—-to be recognized by others who have had to lead through grit with resilience, for a greater purpose.

The women recognized on this list are total rockstars in Tacoma and greater Pierce County.

Honored to see founder ’s name included. A chance to connect with other like minded social impact leaders and social entrepreneurs.

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We are excited to be supporting a new impact ecosystem building initiative with to help take early-stage ideas and teams (such as, those formed in an Impactathon) and help teams further develop ideas & get ready to participate in and pitch at the (Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge) in June!!

Soka students and alumni of any of the 6+ Impactathons ….you are invited!!

Join an info session!!

(Screenshot the image and tap on the QR code or go to the link).

If you are a past Impactathoner (not from Soka) interested in participating— send us a DM! There may be ways to get involved.

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feedback like this is the big why behind working on ways to invite new, passionate, dedicated problem solvers to the social enterprise space. ✨

We are involved in a few exciting impact ecosystem-building happenings! And, you're invited.

Friday Jan 27th - South Sound Tech Conference - hosted by University of Washington Tacoma and Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County.

Founder Neetal Parekh will be speaking on a panel on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Technology.

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1st Impactathon Mini in the PNW - hosted by Startup253!

This "Quick Pitch Edition" is open to everyone.
Join us at TractionSpace (710 Pacific, Tacoma)
from 4-6pm on Friday 1/27.

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Cheers to 2023!✨

Great catch up with , , .hrmsz,

Looking forward to a year of gathering, connecting, creating, and growth.

If you have ever dreamed of starting or furthering your social enterprise…stay tuned for new opportunities ahead.

Wishing you all good things in the new year. ✨

As we face increasingly complex global and local issues— could cross-generational collaboration support the next level of social innovation problemsolving?

Join Connecting the Dots — an interactive, online discussion, hosted by Nalini Saxena this Friday (2-5pm PST) -- to talk about the power of cross-generational social innovation.

Will be sharing a opening remarks, leading into a deeper conversation.

We have had participants ages 13-80 join Impactathons and noticed unique discussions and chasms crossed in some of our cross-generational teams. The proof is in the pudding, those teams have often received awards in the events.

We gather wisdom at all stages of our lives– and collaborative events like Impactathon and hackathons flatten age-based hierarchies and allow us to collaborate on the same plane.

We would love to hear your voice as part of this conversation!

Check out stories for the link.

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As we face increasingly complex global and local issues— could cross-generational collaboration support the next level of social innovation problemsolving?

Join Connecting the Dots — an interactive, online discussion, hosted by Nalini Saxena this Friday (2-5pm PST) -- to talk about the power of cross-generational social innovation.

Will be sharing a opening remarks, leading into a deeper conversation.

We have had participants ages 13-80 join Impactathons and noticed unique discussions and chasms crossed in some of our cross-generational teams. The proof is in the pudding, those teams have often received awards in the events.

We gather wisdom at all stages of our lives– and collaborative events like Impactathon and hackathons flatten age-based hierarchies and allow us to collaborate on the same plane.

We would love to hear your voice as part of this conversation!

Check out stories for the link.

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Impactathon® 20 at Soka University of America, hosted by Bridges to Business — a Recap⁣
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Undergraduate and graduate students came together to form teams, identify and begin mapping issues and root causes, ideating solutions, proposing business models, and pitching to judges.⁣
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Congratulations to all participants for your hard work and courage to pitch.⁣
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Awards included:⁣
Best Overall - HealthySlice - Improving mental health and creating job opportunities for refugees.⁣
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Best Marketability- PoliBuddy - Increasing participation in civic life by amplifying the election process and promoting political literacy.⁣
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Most Likely to Create Impact - RETRONICS - Addressing ewaste through redirecting electronic devices from landfills to classrooms.⁣
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Best Presentation and Storytelling - HeyFi - Introducing the next generation to financial education through gameified experiences.⁣
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People’s Choice - HeyFi⁣
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Impact Talk Speakers :⁣
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♾️ Makoto Hamamoto Eyre, Homeostasis Systems Corp shared how his company decided on addressing CO2 removal.⁣
♾️ Minara El-Rahman of Mora Cosmetics shared how her company calculates COGS and addresses financials to ensure profitability + sustainability. ⁣
♾️ Billy Price of BILLY Footwear shared how his personal story inspired the founding of his company and tips to pitch effectively.⁣
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Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal, Attorney, Investor⁣
Tom Havens, Startup Advisor, Branding⁣
Isabelle Bart, Impact Innovator⁣
Jesse Giovanni Sánchez, Education Equity Activist⁣
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Judges provided thoughtful insight and asked questions to encourage deeper thinking and action. ⁣
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Impact Catalysts and event team:⁣
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Impact Catalysts listened to practice pitches , provided constructive feedback that shaped final presentations, and supported the event remotely.⁣
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Host:⁣
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Mary Patrick’s continued vision includes kickoff events like Impactathon and connects them to longer-term opportunities so teams can continue building and iterating. ⁣
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Facilitator:⁣
Neetal Parekh, Innov8social, Impactathon®

As we gear up for hosted at Soka University by Soka Bridges to Business…here are a few images from the last one earlier this year!

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Our cohort officially kicked off our time at the Maritime Blue Tacoma Incubator program with last night’s Meet & Greet.

The Innov8social table featured our main projects for the next year:

1. The Pineapple Friends’ book series - social impact books for young learners.

2. Impactathon in the PNW.

Wonderful to see friends, colleagues, and members of Tacoma local business and community.

Scroll to the end to meet our youngest future reader and honorary Pineapple friend ☺️✨

Much work ahead this year— but incredibly grateful to be able to pursue it, especially with the support and belief of .blue , our small & mighty team, amazing friends, and the Innov8social and Impactathon communities!

On to 20 with the global citizenship-minded students of !!

Excited to share that Innov8social will be participating in the Washington Maritime Blue incubator program in Tacoma, 2022-2023!

The focus will be iterating and evolving the Impactathon® model and publishing the children's books that introduce a problem-solving mindset to young learners.

Why join an incubator at this stage in the company's existence?

Innov8social (and I :) are new to the PNW and this provides a 'fresh start' of kinds and a chance to listen and understand how this work can serve the community and support + amplify the social enterprise ecosystem here.

The Impactathon model also shifted a great deal during covid, moving to online and hybrid formats, which have worked but have felt really different from the live events. This incubator program and cohort create a 'safe space' to think through how to evolve the model to be a better product-market fit.

I am proud of what we have been building over the last decade. But, it still has room to grow into the vibrant, abundant, creative business we envision. This incubator is a chance to address & delegate challenge points, cultivate strengths, and look at this work with a new lens.

And, Innov8social is brand new to children's books! I am excited about creative events for littles (did someone say 'tiny hackathons' ? :) that could emerge to support and empower a problem-solving mindset for our young learners who watch the news and are cognizant of the many pressing issues that may be down the pipeline, especially in relation to our oceans and waterways.

Hope to be able to contribute any of the ecosystem building experience we have to Tacoma and to this program. We're honored and excited to join such a vibrant community of founders. Thank you Maritime Blue for the support and belief in this work. Let's do this! ✨
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Much has been written about this and will no doubt be discussed in board rooms, legal offices, classrooms, and among founders and social entrepreneurs.

TLDR; Patagonia's founder Yvon Chouinard and family have transferred their ownership of the company to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. That rounds out to a cool $3b.

It's generally thought to be hard to become a successful entrepreneur, but then you have a founder who is described (and quoted) as going from never having wanted to be a businessman to becoming the ultimate 'reluctant billionaire.'

His vote of 'no confidence' extends to the stock market--- one reason he opted not to take the company public--- which arguably would have multiplied resources for causes the company supports; but with the risk of not being able to maintain his vision and standard for prioritizing environment and community.

To be clear, this is a game changing move. Not only for Patagonia and the legacy of Chouinard...but for how we push the boundaries of how social impact is extended beyond the enterprise.

Excited to explore this through deeper discussions ahead!

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Take 2 😉. Thank you Andy Vargo of Andy Vargo] for the warm invitation to join the Own Your Awkward podcast and share a trait that could be considered “awkward”…but can actually be a superpower!

Did you know 15-20% of people may be considered “highly sensitive people”(HSP) or empathic? I explored this concept through an audiobook by Anita Moorjani. , called “Sensitive is the New Strong”.

My “awkward” is that I realize I may fall into this category. I shared this with Andy and talked about how being empathic or sensitive can shift how we work and interact in different settings—- but, with awareness can make us leaders and contributors who lead with empathy and kindness and ensure the same for our teams and stakeholders.

Hope you enjoy our fun conversation…and that it helps you, if you may be on the HSP side or can help you support a colleague or team member who may be.

Love that we can continue learning about ourselves at every stage of our work and careers!

Click the bio of Andy Vargo] to hear the episode.

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Sometimes we are reminded that our work, words, and intentions are always creating ripples.

Because we see a glimpse of how the dots are connecting downstream.

Inspired to see that an Impactathon sparked a connection with the integrative law practice of Conscious Contracts in Zambia.

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Calling all impact problem solvers and social entrepreneurs…THIS is an issue ready for a solution:

“Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project in Bennington College working to eliminate plastic pollution, and environmental nonprofit Last Beach Cleanup reported that the U.S.’s already measly rate of recycling has decreased in the last few years. According to their analysis, hardly any plastic waste was recycled last year.

The organizations collected data from the National Academy of Sciences, which found that ONLY ABOUT 6% of plastic items were recycled in 2021.” -

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In recent , teams have introduced recycling solutions— this is a powerful study and set of statistics that show a real need for recycling support. Don’t give up, ✨✨

A warm welcome to new followers and 👋 to those have been with us for much longer!⁣
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As we engage on platforms like the Clubhouse app, articles, and the new web show--- a new voices are joining the conversation.⁣
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Glad to be in community with you. And wanted to take a moment to introduce Innov8social's work and mission.⁣
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Innov8social believes in co-creating and empowering robust impact ecosystems to support our mission of making social entrepreneurship more accessible, actionable, and transformative.⁣⁣
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For us, this includes co-convening events like IMPACTATHON to bring together diverse people and groups across the impact spectrum to ideate, collaborate, and connect.⁣⁣
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And, creating content such as The Impact Podcast by Innov8social and the new IMPACTATHON Show, and articles.⁣
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And, sharing through social media, Clubhouse, talks and workshops, and consulting.⁣
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Through ways like this, we hope to empower multiple generations and iterations of social impact changemakers.⁣⁣
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How can we help you reach your impact potential? What gaps or challenges do you face or see others in the field face? ⁣
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Let's shine a light on these issues, so we can move forward in meaningful ways together and strengthen ecosystems in the process. ⁣
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According to Business Insider, "TOMS had a 300 million dollar loan due in 2020. Credit rating agencies expected it wouldn't be able to pay....in late 2019, a group of TOMS creditors officially took over the company from Bain Capital and Blake Mycoskie in exchange for debt relief. When Business Insider reached out to TOMS, a representative said that, quote, "The new owners support TOMS future growth and are investing 35 million dollars into the company."⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Truly global, and truly focused on entrepreneurship— the event brought together thousands of audacious, bold, and innovative entrepreneurs from across the globe. Many of them, perhaps not coincidentally, prioritized creating social impact in their work.⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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On this day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring with a nuance we have deeper context to understand.⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reading his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" I find cogent articulations I have seen in articles and social media posts from the past year.⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"IN ANY nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham."⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How might we 'listen' more deeply to MLK Jr. on this day and to those who carry on his message today...⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“Failure” is one framing— another is to see it as learning leading to “pivots” both for the idea and possibly the career path of the team members.⁣
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What has been your experience with pivoting, failing forward, and finding ways to keep moving forward?⁣
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This is question 46 in the book. More at 51Questions.com.⁣
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"𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 we dream, we work, we achieve, and we 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡." - Impactathon® Participant⁣⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A photo from the first on 5 Things Every Founder Should Know About Social Entrepreneurship held in partnership with in 2015 at their first location in in the .⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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