Unique connections for leaders with shared experiences and common goals.
Our affinity groups create space for leaders to connect on shared identity, tackle a shared goal, and use peer-learning to integrate a new skill or knowledge into their work. They make a large community feel smaller and offer our entrepreneurs low-lift ways to regularly connect and lean into their leadership.
Affinity Groups
CFOs & Finance Leaders
Designed for senior finance professionals to share best practices and strengthen the financial health of their businesses.
Faith-Based Enterprises
A nonsectarian group for ESEs that are funded or that receive resources from religious institutions/funders (or ESEs that would like to access these types of supports)
Food & Beverage Industry
A group designed to discuss challenges and opportunities in hiring, growing sales, and supporting employees in the Food and Beverage industry.
Green Jobs
Created for ESEs who want to learn best practices for paid job training in eco-friendly industries.
Leaders of Color
Formed for BIPOC leaders to connect away from the added weight of leading teams, organizations, and community efforts to make sense of the news, make space for themselves, and gain tools to strengthen their teams and their enterprise.
Product-Based Enterprises
Established for ESEs that have launched or are interested in launching a product line, with a focus on business and sales strategies.
Refugee Serving Enterprises
Created for ESEs focused on seizing the unique opportunities (while addressing the specific challenges) related to working with refugees and asylees.
Collaboratives and Communities of Practice
Co-working groups with a shared interest or common goal. Our collaboratives form in pursuit of a shared, strategic objective for which we need collective wisdom and coordinated action to execute. And our communities of practice come together as a co-learning space designed to exercise a specific concept or skill.Â
Resourcing Employment Social Enterprises Together (RESET)
A national and California coalition advocating for capital, resources, and policy change to support employment social enterprises across the US.Â
Listen4Good
Formal 18-month cohort working through the process of improving data collection practices to better align program design with longer-term participant success.