Social Impact Startups Roundup with Ernie Ting (August 25, 2022)

Are you a founder who has created a startup to tackle an important, but extraordinarily difficult social problem? Is your goal as much to have a substantial social impact as to generate profits or create wealth? If so, you may face different challenges than more conventional startup founders, and have fewer models to emulate.

On August 25, 2022, we’re convening a group of social impact founders to create a network of FN members with similar interests who are facing similar challenges. The group will serve as a support network for dual-purpose founders on this less-traveled path.

The new group will provide a forum for sharing insights and helpful experiences, making introductions, offering information resources, brainstorming, and mentoring. It will also serve as a space for listening, encouraging and affirming each other on our journeys.

This initial event is open to FN members and social impact founders in the broader startup ecosystem. We’ll introduce ourselves and the challenges we’re addressing, and discuss the opportunities to help each other and perhaps work together to leverage the value of Founders Network for social impact founders.

Agenda:

• A briefing from Ting on common challenges in the social impact sector
• Around the horn: introductions and business challenges
• Next steps

Ernie Ting is the CEO of CivImpact Labs, launching news, communication and social applications that better inform the public, reduce political polarization, and positively impact our society and democracy. He is a pioneer of innovative approaches that promote healthy social interaction and help business, civic and media organizations influence and engage their audiences and communities in a responsible way. Ting is a social scientist with extensive prior experience in the government and nonprofit sectors as well as business, and as an economics and management consultant.

Guests Are Welcome!

Please bring a guest! Every member can bring one (1) guest to each event. Each guest must be a full-time tech startup founder so they can bring new perspectives, skillsets, and experience to your chapter.

All guests must be full-time tech startup founders and you can register them directly on this function page. See How to Register a Guest here.

Confidentiality Reminder

All information shared within Founders Network is strictly confidential. We are built on a foundation of trust, and the community takes confidentiality seriously. Investors, members, and staff all share experiences and opinions off the record. In this roundtable forum, we continue to model our fnValues of Reciprocity, Humility, Authenticity and Inclusivity.