Check out Jennifer Bradshaw’s great article today on the Intersect Fund and our clients.
Where Profits and Compassion Intersect
Who says profits and social good don’t mix?
As I advise would-be entrepreneurs, I’m struck by how big a portion of my clients – even those of modest means – seek to contribute to their communities as they grow their businesses.
The intersection between business sense and social value is where Craig Cuccia, a co-founder of the nonprofit Reconcile New Orleans, has lived for more than a decade. Reconcile New Orleans is a job-training group that prepares adolescents for food service-industry careers by putting them to work in Café Reconcile, the group’s Zagat-rated restaurant.
Cuccia spoke in Newark last week at the 2nd annual Social Innovation Summit, a meeting of entrepreneurs, academics, and other social visionaries interested in applying private-sector problem-solving to persistent social ills.
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Intersect Fund’s Luis De La Hoz Featured on J&J’s Health Channel
Intersect Fund Spanish Program Coordinator Luis De La Hoz speaks with an interviewer from Johnson & Johnson’s Health Channel about social media marketing. The interview took place at Chicago’s LATISM (Latinos in Social Media) conference last week.
To read some of De La Hoz’s insight on immigrant entrepreneurship (in English), click here.
Connecting NJ to the Coffee World
Entrepreneur University graduate Benjamin Schellack is picky about his coffee.
He prefers cups of Joe made from beans grown in ideal conditions, purchased for a fair price from the famers who grew them, and roasted locally, ideally by a small company.
If Schellack lived in New York, Portland, or any number of other big cities, he could easily slake his coffee craving.
But Schellack lives in New Brunswick.
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