What We Do
AT DO GOOD X, our goal is to help you bring your business ideas for good to life. To do that, we’ve developed a collaborative approach with three components to jump start and develop your venture.
CONVENE
A community of early-stage entrepreneurs in an 8-week accelerator that will experience an interactive curriculum and gain tools to develop and scale business ideas for meaningful impact.
CHALLENGE
Entrepreneurs to advance business ideas that leave behind a social good footprint—a positive impact and legacy on people, communities, and the environment.
CONNECT
Change-makers with a community of peers, mentors, and investors that pledge support, resources, and connections needed to accelerate business ideas for good.
About Us
DO GOOD X is an 8-week accelerator designed for early-stage social entrepreneurs passionate about developing ventures that do good in the world. What do we mean when we say “do good?” For us, doing good means that these entrepreneurs want to make a positive impact on people, their communities, and the environment.
We provide underrepresented social entrepreneurs with a community of peers and mentors, an interactive process to clarify the focus and purpose of their business, and access to resources and technical assistance to advance their business.
We are driven by faith-rooted values that fight against the rapid growth of inequality and social inequity in communities around the world. And DO GOOD X supports leaders who are faithfully pursuing entrepreneurship to transform systems for the good of all people. Visit our FAQs for additional information.
Change-Makers
These change agents are committed to their faith, passionate about creating a just world, and driven to do good.
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- MENTORS
ALEX MERAB
ALEX MERAB
P.A.R. Solutions
Rochester Hills, MIP.A.R. Solutions aims to inspire and support growth in the Liberian agricultural sector by providing jobs that can stimulate the economy and teaching best practices for smallholder cashew farmers.
CARRILEA HALL
CARRILEA HALL
Statesville, NCGiven that 80% of persons with disabilities are unemployed, I want to start a food truck business that will employ persons with disabilities while also nourishing people’s bodies and souls in the community.
JOY SMITH
JOY SMITH
Chicago, ILEducating about the healing properties of essential oil-based products is the ministry God has placed inside of me. I want to provide education and personal care products, with a therapeutic benefit and free of hazardous ingredients.
SHELLEY BEST
SHELLEY BEST
Hartford, CTI want to help ‘soulprenuers,’ or spiritual entrepreneurs develop social enterprises to meet the needs of communities.
STEPHANIE MAYER
STEPHANIE MAYER
Nary Resort Wear
Long Island City, NYI want to create sustainable women’s luxury resort wear, ethically made by survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia to restore their hope and dignity, provide employment, and revitalize the traditional art form of weaving.
ANTHONY SANDUSKY
ANTHONY SANDUSKY
Village Life Reentry Support
Brooklyn, NYI want to heal our communities and reduce recidivism by creating a holistic support system for returning citizens that addresses the trauma of mass incarceration, police brutality, and gun violence.
BAIYINA ABDAS-SALAAM
BAIYINA ABDAS-SALAAM
Bourgeois Baby
Phoenix, AZI am inspired to develop environmentally safe, quality, and affordable baby products to close the access gap for low-income parents.
CHASMA SMITH
CHASMA SMITH
She Tried It
San Leandro, CAI want to build womxn’s courage and confidence by providing opportunities to try unconventional experiences curated with the intention of breaking social norms and challenging gender stereotypes in a safe space.
JULIUS JESSUP PETERSON
JULIUS JESSUP PETERSON
Decatur, GAI believe that I am called to teach, facilitate, and build in response to the violence that is occurring in our world.
MARGARET CONLEY
MARGARET CONLEY
Mending Life Concepts Empowerment Group
Cartersville, GAI want to help people work past trauma toward resilience by mending wounds and relationships that are detrimental to the healing process.
RYAN POWELL
RYAN POWELL
GoHealth Kids Fitness Deck
Detroit, MII believe the greatest responsibility of any productive society is stewarding the lives and futures of the next generation.
TABITHA SSONKO
TABITHA SSONKO
Cross-Continental Connections
Lebanon, PAI desire to bridge the gap among women of the African diaspora to improve social, cultural, and economic relations and to create sustainable models of engagement.
VELMA LOVE
VELMA LOVE
York, SCI want to leverage the power of storytelling for social change initiatives that addresses social division and disconnect in our communities.
ARMEL MARTIN
ARMEL MARTIN
Backyard Farms
Minneapolis, MNI pragmatically envision how diverse neighborhoods can grow food abundance where all people are nourished and embraced.
CALLID KEEFE-PERRY
CALLID KEEFE-PERRY
ARC
Arlington, MAI stand within a tradition that has long attempted to work toward justice in the present as guided by Jesus’ ministry of inclusion and rejection of Empire.
DWIGHT FORD
DWIGHT FORD
Davenport, IAMy wife, Kit, and I want to create a space of hope for women healing from violence and abuse.
ELIZABETH BIEDRZYCKI
ELIZABETH BIEDRZYCKI
Valley Learning Lab
San Antonio, TXI am passionate about the local church and exploring creative ways to sustain work in ministry.
GREG KAUPER
GREG KAUPER
Creative Weekends
Dallas, TXI want to create space and a healthy model for communities to come together to exercise creative muscles and discover new abilities.
HAZEL CHERRY
HAZEL CHERRY
Little Sisters Speak
Washington, D.C.I am committed to manifesting a world where women, particularly Black Women, are free.
JOSEPH KITCHEN
JOSEPH KITCHEN
Joseph Kitchen Project
Washington, D.C.I am driven by my deep passion to connect to and support those who often are ignored and seen as a threat or the source of a problem instead of the solution.
KIT EVANS-FORD
KIT EVANS-FORD
Davenport, IAI am driven to bring forth love, hope, and peace to women healing from violence and abuse.
LAKISHA LOCKHART
LAKISHA LOCKHART
Richmond, VAThe young people I work with inspire me to create a world in which they are represented, reflected, and have their voices, bodies and entire beings matter.
LYVONNE BRIGGS PICOU
LYVONNE BRIGGS PICOU
Oakland, CAI am fiercely committed to addressing the taboo and stigma attached to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in the Black community.
NEICHELLE GUIDRY
NEICHELLE GUIDRY
Atlanta, GAI want to curate safe, supportive and empowering spaces for Black women.
NIKKI HOSKINS
NIKKI HOSKINS
Thres(hold)
Chicago, ILI want to build eco-justice oriented tiny houses for lower socioeconomic African American families.
SHONDA GLADDEN
SHONDA GLADDEN
Indianapolis, INI want to cultivate communal spaces, curate stories and create resources to inspire ALL—particularly marginalized people—to live fully into their best selves.
TYLER SIT
TYLER SIT
Backyard Farms
Minneapolis, MNI am dedicated to making sure that neighborhoods can become safer and greener without displacing the poor and people of color.
J. HOWARD KUCHER
J. HOWARD KUCHER
Baltimore, MDMy work in social enterprise stems fully and completely from my conviction that it is a better way to live out my faith in caring for my fellow human and restoring human dignity.
JERMAIL SHELTON
JERMAIL SHELTON
Atlanta, GAI have a strong desire to empower people to believe in their wildest dreams and goals while standing up to their internal fears and self-doubts.
KEVIN L. NICHOLS
KEVIN L. NICHOLS
Oakland, CAGiven my commitments and Catholic background, I want to support and empower faith-based entrepreneurs who want to create a positive impact.
KHALIL & NICOLE THOMPSON
KHALIL & NICOLE THOMPSON
Atlanta, GAAs entrepreneurs, we are driven by our faith, serving others, and being an example to our children so they see us living a life of purpose and a life without regret.
KIMBERLY BUTLER
KIMBERLY BUTLER
Atlanta, GAI help creative entrepreneurs define their mission and vision, set goals, and refine business/personal rhythms and processes to promote healthy work-life patterns.
LINDA KAY KLEIN
LINDA KAY KLEIN
Brooklyn, NYIt is a deep honor for me to hold space for world-changing social entrepreneurs to chart their paths forward and advance. I do it because if they are successful, the world advances, and all of us with it.
LUKE KELLER
LUKE KELLER
Clarkston, GAFrom an early age, I was taught that it is the responsibility of those who have access to means to serve those faced with injustice. Ultimately, what I create—in business or for pleasure—will come from my desire and commitment to serve.
MATT ELSBERRY
MATT ELSBERRY
Alpharetta, GALife is too short to separate the good you want to do in the world from the paid work you do to sustain yourself.
Opportunities
DO GOOD X Startup Accelerator
Atlanta, GAThis 8-week accelerator includes a 3 ½-day Jump Start, a 6-week online course, and concludes with a 5 ½-day intensive Boot Camp and a final pitch event. During this transformational experience, Fellows will complete an interactive curriculum that taps into core motivations to launch a venture for good and provides tools needed to succeed. Check back for applications for the 2020 accelerator on February 3, 2020!
DO GOOD X Mentors
Atlanta, GAMentors support early-stage entrepreneurs participating in the DO GOOD X 8-week Startup Accelerator. Mentors participate throughout the 8-week accelerator and provide expertise, guidance, and encouragement.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
DO GOOD X Pitch for Good
Atlanta, GAHear DO GOOD X Fellows pitch business ideas that address a problem people or communities face. Here, money isn’t the only form of investment. Join a community of investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders ready to pledge resources, connections, or expertise to support.
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