The Social Enterprise Greenhouse network is pleased to host 16 promising social ventures in the 5th SEG Accelerator cohort:
West Elmwood Housing’s Sankofa World Market is a weekly market connecting residents of Providence’s West End with opportunities for increased income and healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate foods.
Entrepreneur: Rachel Newman Greene
Increment develops playthings for inclusion, to encourage independence and exploration among children of all abilities.
Entrepreneur: Cynthia Poon & Maeve Jopson
HMSolution provides prepackaged water treatment systems for the removal of arsenic and 15 other chemicals to water suppliers at 10 times lower operational costs.
Entrepreneur: Margaret Lengerich & Constanza Lengerich
Murray / Zoll & Associates assists private, non-profit, and government agencies with documenting, evaluating, and improving their programmatic investments and offers low-bono services for emerging charitable organizations.
Entrepreneur: Katie Murray & Susan Zoll
CleanPowerPerks rewards people that choose clean energy with exclusive discounts from sustainable businesses + brands. By partnering with clean power providers, they accelerate adoption of wind and solar in the US.
Entrepreneur: Tess O’Brien
EarthFrendz creates recycled fashion and employs impoverished men and women in India.
Entrepreneur: Priya Samant
EbenGroup uses a one-for-one model selling rucksacks and giving school supplies to those in need as well as 10% of the profits to educational programs.
Entrepreneur: Candace McCreary
EcoMadera Forest Conservation is a sustainable forestry and wood products company that promotes a co-operative ownership structure and manages forestland in Ecuador.
Entrepreneur: Peter Pinchot
Fit2Cook offers educational programs for children to promote healthy eating and lifestyles into adulthood.
Entrepreneur: Karen Salvatore & Tracy DeSantis
Food4Good offers nourishing meals for the hungry, subsidized by purchased meals, all from a low-overhead cost food truck.
Entrepreneur: Julius Searight
Moving Mountains provides outdoor education programming for urban youth to promote academic achievement and social-emotional development.
Entrepreneur: Ivy Sokol
Rhode Island Urban Debate League engages students in policy debate programs in order to improve academic outcomes and increase college readiness.
Entrepreneur: Ashley Belanger
TextUp combines a web app and an automated texting hotline to increase transparency and improve access to social services for the homeless and near-homeless.
Entrepreneur: Eric Bai
Accountability Lab is an innovative non-profit organization that empowers citizens in developing countries to build creative tools for integrity and anti-corruption in their communities.
Entrepreneur: Anne Sophie Lambert & Blair Glencorse
evox OmniMedia, PBC is a Quality of Life Television Network and Marketplace that provides content and over 14,000 eco-friendly products that serve the $1.4 Trillion global LOHAS Market.
Entrepreneur: Xavier Dubois
The Social Enterprise Greenhouse network is pleased to host 16 promising social ventures in the 5th SEG Accelerator cohort:
Swell Organics will repurpose old mill & manufacturing spaces with highly efficient indoor vertical farming systems known as Aquaponics producing fresh local produce year round.
Entrepreneur: Ethan Tucker & Ely Beckman