Do Gooders, StartingBloc Boston and Venture Cafe -
Uniting People with Dreams with People with Resources
Thursday, November 18, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
You must RSVP - Space is limited and going fast!!!
Heard a lot about “Do Gooder Drinks,” but haven’t been able to make it out to one of our weekly happy hours? Are you wondering what a “Do Gooder” is and what organizations support and promote “doing good?” Here is your chance to learn more about Do Gooder Drinks and some of our awesome friends from StartingBloc and Venture Cafe. Come learn about the StartingBloc Fellowship program and what Venture Cafe has in store for entrepreneurs!! Many thanks to Root Cause and The Social Innovation Forum for their support, as well!
Whether you are an aspiring social entrepreneur, college student, non-profit staffer, CSR enthusiast, philanthropist, C-level executive, venture capitalist, angel investor, thought leader or researcher, you want to meet as many connectors and cool people as you can.
Do Gooder Drinks gives you an opportunity to take a step back from networking, programming and whiteboarding and allows you to grab your favorite libation and get to know your fellow Do Gooder. We provide you a cool place to meet up; free food; the coolest people in Boston and Cambridge who are doing amazingly “good” things and invite some movers and shakers (VC’ers, Angel Investors, innovation centers, etc.) and connectors from our Rolodex with no pressure, speeches or sales pitch. Simply put, we want to create a comfortable environment to meet like minded people, make new friends and build your network.
Free drinks and wine provided by Venture Cafe.
Free food provided by Root Cause’s
Social Innovation Forum.
Directions: Located near Kendall Square T Stop (red line) on the 4th Floor in the Cambridge Innovation Center located at One Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
You must RSVP - Space is limited and going fast!!!
About
Do Gooder Drinks (http://dogooderdrinks.tumblr.com/ and @dogooderdrinks on Twitter)
Do Gooder Drinks is the brainchild of Justin Kang and Mike Tith. They met as Fellows at Startingbloc’s 2010 Institute for Social Innovation. After many lively conversations over plenty of beers, a few napkins and a pen Mike stole from the waitress, they both realized that Boston and Cambridge had everything San Francisco, Palo Alto, NYC, etc. had to support social entrepreneurs - great universities; amazing talent; incubators and labs and investors.
The only thing missing was a nightlife for Do Gooders to meet one another! Justin and Mike are proud to give birth to Do Gooder Drinks!
StartingBloc
StartingBloc educates, inspires and connects emerging leaders to drive social innovation across sectors. Starting Bloc’s signature leadership development program, the StartingBloc Fellowship, exposes young leaders to new models for achieving social impact. The organization’s vision is that, as StartingBloc Fellows ascend to positions of influence, they will use the StartingBloc network to launch innovative organizations, guide policies and spearhead cross-sector partnerships that tackle social, economic and environmental challenges around the world. The StartingBloc community currently consists of 1350 Fellows representing 221 colleges and over 53 countries.
Venture Cafe (http://www.venturecafe.net/)
The Venture Café, currently in its alpha stage, is in session each Thursday from 3-8pm. The cafe is a resource for the Boston entrepreneurial and innovation communities with the mission of creating fresh and useful conversations. As the Venture Cafe prepares to enter into its permanent home in Kendall Square, the founders project that the marriage of innovation and creativity with a European-style cafe space will facilitate collaboration and build a greater sense of community in Kendall Square.
Root Cause and The Social Innovation Forum
The Social Innovation Forum is the strategic philanthropy program of Root Cause, a research and consulting firm dedicated to mobilizing the nonprofit, public, and business sectors to work together in a new social impact market. Each year, the Social Innovation Forum partners with leading local funders to select outstanding nonprofit organizations, or Social Innovators, working on the most pressing social issues in Greater Boston. We provide these Social Innovators with consulting and executive coaching support and introduce them to a network of social impact investors interested in supporting them with cash and in-kind donations, volunteer time, and personal referrals or connections.
