Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation welcome you to a virtual Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
About this Event
Welcome to Operation Innovation, the Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective virtual Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp! Join us for this two-day intensive with topics like:
DAY 1: ELEVATE YOUR IMPACT (Organization Focused)
- Coffee & Conversations- Lean Impact: Book & Author Chat with Ann Mei Chang
- Telling Your Story with Sandeep Atwal
- Models for Social Impact Workshop with Natasha Rogers @natashaloverogers
- "Doing Well While Doing Good!" Panel Discussion
DAY 2: EXPAND YOUR BRAND (Individual Focused)
- Coffee & Conversations- Fireside Chat with - Taneshia Nash Laird @taneshianashlaird
- Think Like a Socialpreneur: 7 Ways to Legally Monetize Your Mission with Toni Moore, Esq @tonimooreesq
- Business Pitch Workshop with Renae Bluitt @iamrenaebluitt
- "Creating Quality Content!" Panel Discussion with @iambyhaze, @PrinceDerekDoll, @jazmynedrake and @thefatsextherapist Moderated by @girlgetvisible
The first 50 registrants will receive a specially curated conference SWAG BOX. The winner of the Business Pitch Contest will win a $1000 CASH PRIZE to start their business!
Come for the full days or just the parts you can fit in. *All members are invited to join the conversation. Membership is easy- simply register for any session of The Collective and you are automatically a member!
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
People of color working in all levels of service in the nonprofit sector including Executives, Directors, Direct Service Staff, Entry Level staff, Board Members, and more.
Borrowing from language from the Facebook group NPOCunicorns - People of Color Nonprofit Professionals, we define People of Color as: "Black/African-American/African descent/African, Latin/Latina/Latino/Latinx, First Nations/Native American/Indigenous, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Asian, Southwest Asian, North African/Arab, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mixed-Race/Mixed-Ethnicity peoples.
Participation is geared to: "people of color, those who identify as, live their daily lives as, and understand themselves as people of color, and it includes white-passing and light-skinned people of color."
"We appreciate allies, advocates, and accomplices for justice." If you do not identify as a person of color, we ask you to serve as an ally, advocate, and accomplice in other spaces.
COST:
Advance registration is required. First 50 registrants will receive a specially curated conference SWAG BOX. Sessions are limited and will fill up fast.
Rutgers IEL has a “pay what you can” practice that helps cover program costs and continuing support for nonprofit leaders. The value of each day is $200. ANY amount helps to defray the costs of your seat and cover costs for those who cannot afford to make a contribution.
If you are unable to contribute to your ticket cost and need to register for a free seat, please email Vicki at [email protected] and we will be happy to help! If you are unable to attend due to other costs or barriers, please also reach out.
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The cost of this program has been underwritten by
MEET THE SPEAKER: ANN MEI CHANG
Ann Mei Chang is a leading expert on social innovation and author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good. Ann Mei served as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID and first Executive Director of the US Global Development Lab, engaging the best practices for innovation from Silicon Valley to accelerate the impact and scale of solutions to the world’s most intractable challenges. In addition, she was Chief Innovation Officer for Pete for America, Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, and Senior Advisor for Women and Technology at the U.S. Department of State.
Prior to her pivot to the public and social sector, Ann Mei was a seasoned technology executive, with more than 20 years’ experience at such leading companies as Google, Apple, and Intuit, as well as at a range of startups. As Senior Engineering Director at Google, she led worldwide engineering for mobile applications and services, delivering 20x growth to $1 billion in annual revenues in just three years.
Ann Mei earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellows’ class of 2011. She has been recognized as one of the “Women In the World: 125 Women of Impact” by Newsweek/The Daily Beast in 2013, "23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech" by Business Insider in 2019, and "20 Top LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs, Executives and Thought Leaders" by Global Shakers in 2019.
MEET THE SPEAKER
Taneshia Nash Laird
Taneshia Nash Laird is a social change agent and community developer who centers cultural equity in her work. She is the President and CEO of Newark Symphony Hall, a historic performing arts center located within the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Newark, NJ. Since her appointment in November 2018, she has expanded programming to respond to community needs and announced plans to restore the 1925 vintage concert hall in a $40 million renovation and leverage it for neighborhood revitalization in a process she calls Symphony Works.
Symphony Works calls for training local residents and entrepreneurs for the 500 jobs and opportunities for 50 small businesses created by Newark Symphony Hall's renovation and providing technical assistance and funding to turn local contractors into developers to undertake the parcel-by-parcel incremental redevelopment of the Lincoln Park area, a neighborhood rich in artistic history.
Taneshia previously served as Executive Director of the Arts Council of Princeton, notably as the first person of color in that role. During her tenure, she launched an instructional art program for adults with disabilities and created a grant-funded professional development program to ethnically diversify the teaching artist pool. Additionally, she secured new funding from family foundations, significantly increased free-to-the-public performing arts programming, and expanded all programming to appeal to diverse communities in terms of age, culture, and ability.
Taneshia has also served as Director of Economic Development & Acting Director of Housing Production for the City of Trenton (NJ), Regional Director of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, and was the Executive Director of the Trenton Downtown Association, where she initiated Destination Trenton, an award-winning arts and tourism program in NJ's capital city.
Taneshia is an adjunct professor in Drexel University's Entertainment & Arts Management Bachelor of Science degree program. As an entrepreneur Taneshia is the founder of Legacy Business Advisors, a consultancy serving social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and government agencies. She previously co-founded Legendary Eats in the Staples Center in Los Angeles with NBA legend James Worthy. With her late husband Roland, Taneshia also co-founded MIST Harlem, a popular entertainment center in New York City. Together Taneshia and Roland also co-authored the critically acclaimed book Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans.
A passionate advocate for increasing economic opportunity and access to arts and heritage, Taneshia was a special government employee during the Obama Administration as a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She was previously appointed by NJ Governor Jon Corzine to the governing body of the NJ Urban Enterprise Zone Authority. Her nonprofit board service has included the Preservation NJ, the Advocates for NJ History, and Artpride NJ where she co-chaired the equity, diversity and inclusion committee. In the summer of 2019 Taneshia was elected to a three-year term as president of the board of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
Widowed in 2013 and a pink lady warrior since an early stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2019, Taneshia is most proud of being a mom to aspiring ballerina and budding cellist Naima, age 10, and self-proclaimed future doctor Imani, who in 2019, two months shy of her 13th birthday, played violin with her youth orchestra in Sicily.
