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Aqua Cultured Foods Raises $2.1M

HPA

Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced a $2.1M HPA participated in the round, which included participation from other investors including Supply Change Capital, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventures, Hanfield Venture Partners, Lifely VC, Conscience VC, Kingfisher Capital, Big Idea Ventures, among others. Pre-Seed Round.

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Impact Hub Bradford: journey in inclusive innovation

Impact Hub

Participants leave their programmes equipped with the tools and networks necessary for sustainable growth and success, demonstrating Impact Hub Bradford’s dedication to making a lasting impact in their community.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture. We were identified as having a culture that was extremely risk averse and complacent, with very low levels of entrepreneurial activity. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations.

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Standing up for Justice

Surdna Foundation

Until the late 1980s, Surdna’s grantmaking centered on education (scholarships), culture (arts organizations, libraries, etc.), It took the board and staff a year to settle on language that captured our ethos and aspirations: fostering sustainable communities in the United States guided by principles of social justice.

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge. Shifting power.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. The success of small/local business is incredibly vital for a sustainable economy. Carina Boston Pinales.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions. I wish I had access to several data from different cultural settings and understand how the ecosystem differs and evolves in different countries. This can be done by creating ecosystems that support micro-enterprise businesses.