Essential Tools for Impact Entrepreneurs 🔧

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Join our 3rd Cohort!

We are excited to launch the third Entrepreneurship 4 Good: Impact Leaders Cohort - designed fo entrepreneurs ready to take their impact idea or new venture to the next level.

Terri Barreiro, adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota and co-author of Social Entrepreneurship: From Issue to Viable Plan customized this series for Impact Hub to help you know your impact, understand your customer, create a viable plan and pitch to launch or grow.

Part graduate course, part online-accelerator, this program will include;

9 learning sessions held Wednesdays between 10/13-12/15 (Time TBD)
Private coaching
Peer exchanges
Viable business plan
Polished elevator pitch

Learn more & apply by 9/27!

Upcoming Programs

Latino Business Week Pop-Up

The Twin Cities is thriving with established and up-and-coming Latino-owned businesses just waiting to share their products with you! From sustainable hand-poured candles to designer sneakers to delicious food, we are excited to bring you this pop-up shop just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month.

For one week and one week only, join us at the beautiful Gaviidae Common Skyway in downtown Minneapolis for a Latino, local, and lively shopping experience.

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Essential Tools for Impact Entrepreneurs

Impact Hub MSP is excited to offer a new series - Essential Tools for Impact Entrepreneurs. Take one or take them all to get started on your journey of becoming a Social Impact Entrepreneur!

Tuesday 9/28, 9-10:30am - Know your customer

This session will illustrate proven methods to get authentic user feedback, including Customer Discovery & Value Proposition Design, in order to reduce risk, save time and improve success. You will leave with tools necessary to keep your user's voice at the center of your work.

Thursday 10/14, 3:00-4:00pm - Discover your path to impact

This session will help you get clear on the impact you want to have through the Logic Model framework that is used by nonprofit and social impact ventures around the world. You will leave with a statement of your desired impact and a clear path on how to get there.

Tuesday 10/26, 2-3:30pm - Start your social business

This session will teach you how to use the Business Canvas Model to take ideas out of your head and get them on paper! You will leave with a business plan framework, a Business Canvas, and an understanding of how to use that over the various iterations as your idea moves into launch stage.

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Upcoming Events

Change Can't Happen in Isolation: Convergence of the Sustainable Development Goals

hosted by Impact Hub MSP

Monday 9/20
1:15-2:15pm

The COVID-19 Pandemic has compromised the world’s commitment to the 2030 Agenda for The Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 3 - Good Health & Wellbeing has risen to the top of priority goals for many. However, the interconnectedness of the goals has become even more apparent as we work towards recovery.

The social impact entrepreneurial community is one of the leading producers of bold interventions making an impact on health, economic and social recovery efforts.

In this inspiring panel, we will highlight the innovative startups responding to COVID and the convergence of efforts working towards the broader 2030 goals.

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Impact Retail and Sustainable Products Summit

Social Venture Circle and the American Sustainable Business Council invite you to join the Impact Retail and Sustainable Products Summit on September 21, 12-4pm. This virtual event is designed to support impact retailers navigating the current e-commerce landscape of impact retail and support them as they seek to improve their businesses, expand their impact, and enhance their leadership.

The Impact Retail and Sustainable Products Summit is hosted in partnership with GoodCarts.

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Member News

Member Hosted Events at TCSW21

In every corner of the Twin Cities Metro Area there’s a hacker, builder, artist, engineer, and entrepreneur whose efforts power the future economic vitality of this great state. During this week, we celebrate their efforts in the form of attention, praise, and investment… if you feel so bold. It’s an entire week of Minnesota-made innovations on display.

We are so excited for this year’s Twin Cities Startup Week! See this curated list of events hosted by Impact Hub MSP and our amazing members!

Sistah Co-Op Job Opening!

Sabrina Jones with SJC Body Love and Sistah Co-op is hiring for a part-time Retail Associate.

Check it out!

Whole-System Facilitation Introduction

Join Rada Yovovich and Julie Delene in this introductory session to explore how to improve all your meaningful conversations.

Explore how you can become a whole-system facilitator and expand your skills with this repeatable, adaptable and fun approach that guides purpose and passion forward.

Learn more about the Facilitation Training Program.

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Celebrating SDG 17

SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

At Impact Hub, we believe that change cannot happen in isolation. We need to collaborate! SDG 17 articulates the importance of global, regional, national and local partnerships built upon a shared vision and goals.

We are proud to partner with many amazing organizations in the Twin Cities including; Chameleon Shoppes, Cogent Consulting, Global Shapers, Social Enterprise MSP, Forge North, MINN, The MN Cup, TCSW. Thank you for your commitment to social impact!