City Startup Labs Henry Rock City Startup Labs aims to create a skilled class of entrepreneurs among the formerly incarcerated while exploring how entrepreneurship can be a tool of restorative justice for communities in need of reconciliation and returnees needing to have trust restored. Entrepreneurship can be twenty-first century workforce development for returning citizens who build…
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation John Searby The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation educates and advocates to protect the Catawba-Wateree River Basin for all who depend on and enjoy it. An experienced network of diverse community members, engaged volunteers and professional staff provides dedicated, talent and resources to protect and enhance our river today and for future generations. The Catawba Riverkeeper…
Attach Families Inc. Katherine Noto Developmental trauma may negatively impact a child’s emotional, psychological, and physical health throughout childhood and adulthood. Attach Families provides foster and adoptive families with the specialized knowledge and training to understand developmental trauma and how to recognize signs and symptoms, and also helps children heal from it by providing access to neurofeedback…
Wells Fargo People’s Choice Grand Prize Winner ($20,000)
Second Place Winner ($7,500)
Third Place Winner ($2,500)
Coaches’ Award Winner ($1,000)
INTech Camp for Girls is the winner of our second annual SEED20 Community Vote! For fourteen days, the community-at-large was invited to cast a vote of confidence for one of the organizations in the SEED20 Class of 2018! At SEED20 OnStage, we announced that INTech Camp for Girls was the winner of the $1,000 SEED20 Community Vote!…
Family Impact Fund Ann Barnes Robertson Family Impact Fund interrupts the cycle of poverty, empowering two generations at a time. By providing tuition assistance to young children from low-income families for high-quality early education, Family Impact Fund allows their parents to maximize their employment or continue their education. The impact: young children learn, working parents succeed…
Voted on by all forty volunteer coaches from our community and twenty student ambassadors and young professionals from Davidson College who worked with the SEED20 Class of 2018, the $5,000 SEED20 Coaches’ Award is truly a special award! The coaching teams and nonprofits spend a lot of quality time together during the SEED20 journey – not only as individual…
Renaissance West Community Initiative William McDonald, Jr. Renaissance West Community Initiative (RWCI) tackles intergenerational poverty with a holistic approach that includes mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-career education pipeline, and community wellness programming. RWCI seeks to diversify its revenue by attracting social entrepreneurs whose focus is to develop new income streams from nontraditional sources and employ residents.
Our dynamic judging panel — comprised of Jay Bilas, Corri Smith, and Jason Terrell — selected the $7,500 3rd Place Award Winner. We caught up with Sam Fleming, Executive Director of 100 Gardens, about the impact of winning at SEED20. SEED20 is the best “program” type of experience we have participated in. After doing accelerators and similar…
