This month the Personal Investment Enterprise program is sharing the opportunity below for business entrepreneurs interested in learning about Shared Prosperity Catalyst from Ideas42 Venture Studio.
Ventures for Shared Prosperity
Starting a business is risky, and for many individuals without a personal financial safety net, or access to a network of individuals with significant capital to fund their venture, the risk is simply too high. We view this as an unacceptable barrier to entry for entrepreneurship and believe that it is both unfair, and reduces the volume and quality of new businesses as many individuals with the talent, motivation and passion to start their own business are unable to. At the ideas42 Venture Studio we can’t guarantee your success, but we can reduce your risk of trying to build an amazing business, and support those entrepreneurs who don’t have access today.
As a part of the Shared Prosperity Catalyst we are recruiting talented individuals to join our 18-month business co-building program. The first cohort will start in January, 2021, and we are going to focus on building businesses that reduce the excess costs of poverty in America. Do you have the heart and soul of an entrepreneur? A passion for solving huge social challenges? Apply today to join our first cohort of entrepreneurs.
Not sure you are ready to apply? Attend a Q&A session or session 2 to learn more about what we provide our entrepreneurs, how we think about building scalable, impactful businesses, and why we think tackling the problem of the excess costs of poverty is an important one. At the ideas42 Venture Studio we believe we can help improve the lives of individuals living in poverty by partnering with talented entrepreneurs to build and scale software powered, behavioral science informed businesses that address some of the diverse, complex and structural causes of poverty in America.
ABOUT THE PERSONAL INVESTMENT ENTERPRISE (PIE) PROGRAM
The Personal Investment Enterprise (PIE) program is a local savings program provided through Community Action Programs of Boulder County and Mile High United Way. The program is designed for low-income families to enroll in financial literacy classes and save through a matched saving account at a rate of 4 to 1. The first step in applying to the program is to attend an orientation meeting with Nino Gallo at Community Action Programs at Boulder County. Nino may be reached at 720-672-5961 or at ngallo@bouldercounty.org. For more information on the PIE program visit Boulder County PIE webpage or Mile High United Way PIE webpage. To see if you qualify, take this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrelimPIE.
