goodcompany Group

Good Capitalist is excited to have the GoodCompany Group as the 2012 hosting sponsor of Good Capitalist Lounge this year! With that excitement we are thrilled to have a group who is actively inspiring a new generation of professionals who can make a positive difference in our communities. Brought to you by:

GoodCompany is a nonprofit defined by the needs of social entrepreneurs, offering resources to remove barriers to social innovation at all stages of development. Our flagship program, GoodCompanys VenturePrep, is the countrys most intensive and most successful accelerator for social entrepreneurs. GCVP is designed to arm social entrepreneurs with the strategies and resources of the venture community, so that their innovations achieve maximum impact. Talent. GCV attracts leading social entrepreneurs to Philadelphia each summer for a 12-week boot camp. We must be doing something right to attract talent not only from start-up hubs in Boston, New York and San Francisco, but also the UK, India and China. Recognition. Our graduates win national awards in technology (DEMO), social enterprise (Skoll, Thiel) and academic (MIT, Wharton) competitions and have been named the top social entrepreneurs nationwide in the US, UK and India. Funding. We dont charge entrepreneurs or take equity in their companies. Our goal is for you to prove to skeptical investors that unmet social needs provide the foundation of new market opportunities. To date, our 30 graduates have raised more than $30 million in private capital to fuel social innovation.

GoodCompany Group: Green Village incubator launches, announces partnership with GoodCompany Ventures
GCVP is now accepting applicants for it 2012 summer program. For more information see: www.goodcompanyventures.org.

Welcome to The Good Capitalist Lounge 2012

Good Capitalist Party welcomes you to the Good Capitalist Lounge 2012. In 2011 and 2010 Good Capitalist has convened thought leaders, social entrepreneurs, Slackvists, #SocEnt tweeters, social investors & VCs, artists, design thinkers, techies, and Linchpins who want to do well while doing good. In 2012 Good Capitalist decided we needed something more than just a one night party. So, voila, the Good Capitalist Lounge was born. Three days of engaging conversations with established people in the field of social enterprise as well as up and comers. In this program you will find a list of our sponsors
Thank you to our Sponsors! New Media Ventures is the first national network of early stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change. Members join to learn more about opportunities that they couldnt find anywhere else. LoudSauce is the first crowdfunded media buying platform that lets you spread the word about ideas that matter. LoudSauces vision is to transform the medium of advertising from one that primarily drives consumption to one of civic participation.

in.gredients is a collaborative effort between business, community, and consumers with the goal of eliminating food-related waste while supporting local businesses and farmers. When they debut, in.gredients will be the first package-free and zero waste grocery store in the United States. Rebuild the Dream is a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. Using 21st-century digital technology, we advance highly inventive solutions that are designed to protect and expand the middle class, while creating pathways to prosperity for those who are locked out of it. Our goal is to put America back to workand pull America back together GivingCity is the guide to doing good in Austin. They offer actionable community content with the goal of connecting more Central Texans to philanthropy and improving communication and collaboration across the community. Through stories, profiles, first-person essays and in-depth features we offer volunteers, donors, philanthropists, nonprofit professionals, and anyone interested in civic engagement the information and inspiration they need to do good. Change My Town is a collaboration of several for benefit companies who use their business to support the community and non-profits. The organization was founded in 2011 with the intention of being a support system for small to medium sized companies whose core business model included a community component. By banding together under the Change My Town umbrella, members can better serve the community and share marketing resources. Ashoka Us vision is for colleges and universities everywhere to become more innovative and entrepreneurial through the institutional change efforts of a campus change team. In Ashoka U terms, we want every university to be a Changemaker Campus.

Makeshift is a quarterly print and online magazine about creativity in unlikely places, from the favelas of Rio to the alleys of Delhi. These are environments where resources may be scarce, but where ingenuity is used incessantly for survival, enterprise, and a self-expression. We believe in an industrial future fueled by networks of makers, from roadside engineers to co-working creatives. We are documenting a movement of hackers, sharers, and entrepreneurs innovating under resource constraints. Makeshift is about people, the things they make, and the context they make them in. MiniDonations is a 501(c)(3)-pending Social Benefit Organization (SBO), a program of the Austin Community Foundation, founded by Emiliano Lozano and Leo Ramirez, Jr., childhood friends who shared a vision of making philanthropy easy, affordable and accessible for everyone, regardless of age or budget. We support technology innovation and entrepreneurship in universities and colleges to create experiential learning opportunities for students, and successful, socially beneficial businesses.

Inkind Sponsors: Runa promotes healthy lifestyles and livelihoods by connecting producers and consumers through sustainable Amazonian products. We believe that its time for a new kind of energy. Energy that allows us to live a stimulating life: fully engaged and full of curiosity. Energy to do more of what we love and are called to do. Sustainable energy that attracts, connects, expands, and propels us into the world with a clear mind and an open heart.

We work directly with artisans to facilitate access to international markets for their handmade goods; access that creates incomegenerating opportunities for the artisans that are greater than those available locally. The goods we sell tell the story of the powerful and positive effects of microcredit for impoverished people around the world. Each one of our artisans has had access to a micro-loan of just a few hundred dollars (on average) to enable her to increase her earning potential and improve her way of life.

The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service. Each year, the program will expose a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students from throughout New York University to the cross-disciplinary skills, experiences and networking opportunities needed to advance and support their efforts to realize sustainable and scalable patternbreaking solutions to society's most intractable problems.

Since 2005, StartingBloc has been training the next generation of leaders on how to do well and do good. Through the StartingBloc Fellowship, we select the brightest young leaders and provide them with access to the resources they need to address the most pressing global challenges of our time. The most critical resource that our Fellows gain access to is a tight-knit community of social innovators based across the country and the world. HourSchool is a social school built from your community. We believe everybody has something they can teach. People learn the most, and are most willing to learn, when they are learning from their peers. Our mission is to empower more people to become teachers, and to enjoy the emotional and financial rewards that teaching provides.

Triple Pundit is an innovative new-media company for the business community that cultivates awareness and understanding of the triple bottom line. We provide expert editorial coverage and group discussions on sustainable business in the 21st century.

Our mission with SocMetrics is to help great products succeed. We help leading agencies and brands identify and engage topical influencers and turn them into advocates.

By designing and curating with a conscience, Holstee offers a place for mindful shoppers to find meaningful products.

Olibert is the first international and only fully vertically-integrated footwear and accessories brand exclusively Made in Africa.

Change Chats: SATURDAY Alex Pappas, Co-Founder, Hour School Ruby Ku, Co-Founder, Hour School "From Homelessness to Peer Teaching - How design research & synthesis help make the leap" Saturday, 11 a.m. @HourSchool Damian Madray, Co-founder, The Glint Redesigning Heroism Saturday, 12:30 p.m.

@followtheglint Paul Yansoy, Cheif of Staff and Council, Treehouse Jason Ballard, VP Sustainability and Education, Treehouse Make Sustainable Living Obtainable. Saturday, 2:00 p.m. @TreeHouseOnline Good Capitalist happy hour! Come meet other #GCLounge Attendees and find collaboration opportunities to create a Good Economy! Sneak peak at some of our RSVPS: http://socmetrics.com/lists/930?c=788593 Saturday, 3:00-5:00 p.m. SUNDAY Jared Malan, Co-Founder, CEO We&Co (@jfals82) TJ Muehleman, Co-founder, CTO (@tjmule) Fred Castellucci, Director of Marketing (@fwc3) Sustainability in a Service Based Economy: If you're not nice to your server, you're not a GOOD person. Sunday, 9:00am @weand_co Brian Nunnery, in.gredients Reduce, Reuse, THEN Recycle: How pre-cycling can change the world Sunday, 10:30 a.m. @in_gredients Monica Williams, GivingCity David Sandal, ChangeMyTown Gagan Dhillion give.it Jason Aramburu, re:char "Community Impact Fair" Different ways to make a difference in your community Sunday, 12:00 p.m. Nathaniel Koloc, ReWork ReWork - Meaningful Work for Top Talent Sunday, 1:30 p.m. @ReWorkJobs Nathaniel Koloc, Bold Academy Finding Clarity and Confidence in Boulder, Colorado Sunday 2:15 p.m. @BoldAcademy Steve Daniels, Makeshift Makeshift Innovation: Lessons from the Grassroots Sunday, 3:30 p.m. @mkshftmag MONDAY Ross Baird, Executive Director, Village Capital Democratizing Entrepreneurship Monday, 10:30 a.m. @VillageCapital Jeffrey Hollender, Co-founder of Seventh Generation and CEO of Jeffrey Hollender Partners LLC The Future of American Business: How sustainability & entrepreneurship can revive our economy. Monday, 12:00 p.m. @JeffHollender

Colin Mutchler, CEO, LoudSauce Christie George, Director, New Media Ventures Natalie Foster, CEO, Rebuild the Dream How Political Startups are Accelerating the Good Economy Monday, 2:00 p.m. @LoudSauce @newmediaventure @RebuildDream Catch us on the web: www.thegoodcapitalist.com facebook.com/goodcapitalistparty @GoodCapitalist #GCLounge Founding Partners: It all started in January 2010 when a small tweetup in the NYCs west village connected a handful of people interested in social entrepreneurship. Add a few months later to Austin, Texas during SXSW and what was supposed to be a happy hour for 50ish people turned out to draw 700 folks from all over the country and across a vast array of fields and backgrounds:. The 2010 event brought together social entrepreneurs, educators, students, freelancers, big corporate types, nonprofits and socially responsible businesses all eager to create a new economy... a Good economy. Thanks to the hustle and passion of, Martin Montero, the founder of GCP, the party has more than doubled in size each year. We would like to thank our amazing founding partners