SEG Awards First Round of Microgrants to Elevate Impact Businesses in Rhode Island

ocial Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG) awarded $80,000 to 16 distinct Rhode Island small businesses and nonprofits through its recently launched Microgrant Fund. Each awardee received up to $5,000 to support key activities or obtain the necessary tools that will help take ventures to the next level. SEG’s Microgrant Fund was established with an initial gift from donors Mary Elleen and Chris Patton earlier this year. 

In Honor of Mothers

In the SEG ecosystem, you have ventures who are working to ensure that all types of mothers have the support they need throughout the journey. We have ventures that support mothers walking through pregnancy, birth, and sometimes loss learning how to navigate postpartum, breastfeeding, and parenting, moving through parenting and working, creating communities for moms, and raising the bar for more equitable maternal healthcare especially for Black and brown mothers.

We’re Partnering with Pangea, the Largest College Freelance Network

“Since participating in the SEG Impact Accelerator in 2018, our team has consistently leveraged college talent to help us build and grow our product – a college freelancing marketplace now live on more than 1,500 campuses. We’re thrilled to partner with the SEG community to help more entrepreneurs access an affordable yet capable talent pool here in Rhode Island and across the country. With Pangea.app, SEG community members will get $100 of free work completed for them by a college freelancer of their choosing in anything from design, to engineering, to marketing and content creation,” said Adam. 

People. PLANET. Profit.

At SEG, we always talk about the triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit. It is what separates a social enterprise from a purely profit-based business. In the first module of … Read More