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Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS

SPARK WORKSHOP on Root Impact: Building an Impact Ecosystem for Underserved Neighborhoods

OPEN TO ALL

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019
12:30–2:00 p.m.

Columbia Business School
Uris Hall, Room 307
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

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Refreshments included with RSVP

Root Impact was founded in 2012 as a nonprofit focused on building capacity for the social innovation sector. In 2017, Root Impact successfully opened HeyGround, a co-working space for more than 500 change-makers in Seoul, South Korea. Now, they’re planning to expand their operations to an underserved neighborhood of NYC such as the South Bronx.

They envision a world where everyone can make a real change. Root Impact helps young social entrepreneurs and change-makers who endeavor to bring positive changes to the world by building an impact ecosystem and a change-maker friendly environment including a co-living house, co-working spaces, and learning opportunities. This ecosystem helps change-makers further their missions, solve pressing issues, and sustain their growth.

About Spark Workshops

Spark provides social innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections, and potential solutions to help their social ventures. These workshops tap into the collective knowledge within Columbia University and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community.

Spark is a platform for ventures to make valuable connections, as the audience is a self-selected group interested in the topic area. Ventures are also able to gather ideas through group brainstorming to help them address specific questions or problems within the business organization.

These workshops are free and open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that social innovators aim to address.

If you are unable to attend this event but would like more information on Spark, please register for our mailing list.

If you would like to suggest a future Spark workshop, please contact: socialenterprise@gsb.columbia.edu.