We are excited to announce the members of our second SOCAP cohort!
In 2018, Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation announced a special partnership with Social Capital Markets (SOCAP), sponsoring members of the Byron Alumni community to participate in a curated experience through the annual SOCAP conference’s Social Entrepreneurs Scholar Program. Recipients of the scholarship have the opportunity to pitch and receive feedback on their ventures during the Impact Accelerator, and receive mentorship through a one-of-a-kind “dream meeting” during the conference among investors, entrepreneurs and social impact leaders.
Learn more about the 2019 Scholars below:
Intentionalist
Laura Clise, 2018 Fellow
At Intentionalist, we believe that where we spend our money matters. Our online platform connects consumers to small businesses and the diverse people behind them. Through our directory, guides, and events, we make it easier to identify and support small brick and mortar businesses owned by women, people of color, veterans, families, members of the LGBTQ community, and differently abled people. Intentionalist helps to close the gap between what we care about and what we’re able to do about it, so that we can all contribute to vibrant and inclusive communities through everyday decisions about where we eat, drink, and shop. #SpendLikeItMatters
Playground of Empathy
Micah Kessel, 2018 Fellow
Playground of Empathy’s mission is to empower a visionary emotional awareness and prosocial evolution in communities around the globe through biometrically responsive and playfully immersive explorations of how our emotions are constructed. These physical city location hubs will leverage interdisciplinary collaborations in narrative, design, data, cognitive science, and social science to create deeply immersive, interactive, and innovative experiences that innovate the space of art, entertainment and serious play.
CompostNow
David Paull, 2017 Fellow
CompostNow is a compost pick up service for homes and businesses. We exist to divert food waste from landfills and build soil for local farms and gardens. We make it easy and fun for people to compost whether you live in an apartment or home. Our vision is to close the loop on food waste by empowering community members and local businesses to divert their compostables from the landfill and, instead, use those nutrients to build nutrient-rich soil. Closing the loop on food waste is imperative in building healthy soil, creating resilient, local food systems, and fighting climate change.