By Sarah Hidey, Co-Managing Director/Director of Resource Development, and Adam Brock, Director of Strategic and Business Planning A few weeks ago, Marshall Ganz, Tamara Kay and Jason Spicer published an opinion piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Social Enterprise is Not Social Change.” In their piece, the authors claim that the fields of social enterprise and [...]
By Sarah Hidey, Joining Vision and Action I’m thrilled to introduce a good friend of mine (a Denver native) as our latest Changemaker—BC Serna. If there are two words I would use to describe BC, it’s storyteller and connector. He lives to tell stories of GOOD and of positive impact through photography and video—highlighting [...]
By Sarah Hidey, Co-Managing Director Yesterday afternoon I gathered with 200 other nonprofit and foundation professionals in Colorado for the third annual State of the Sector event held at the Studios at Overland Crossing, hosted by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Community Resource Center. This event brings together stakeholders to celebrate the sector [...]
Huffington Post Image Sarah Hidey, Senior Financing Associate at Joining Vision and Action This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend an event at Shorter Community AME Church, Urgent Call to Action for White & Non-Black POC Allies, which was organized by Indivisible Denver at the request of the Movement for Black Lives. This [...]
By Sarah Hidey, Joining Vision and Action Who hasn’t heard about (and envied!) Google’s work environment? Healthy food offered around the clock, “nap pods” (sign me up!), the ability to bring pets to work, generous family leave policies and several other innovative “perks.” I think many of us would agree: These perks would probably make [...]
By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action For over three years, Sarah Hidey helped JVA clients raise money—through grantwriting and through social enterprise development. Using her MBA and her background in international development, as well as her passion for social enterprise, Sarah helped our clients plan earned income ventures, and developed our initial version [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, JVA Consulting At JVA, we are all terribly proud these days of Sarah Hidey, our Social Enterprise and business planning guru, who was recently named one of the Denver Business Journal’s “40 under 40.” Selected from a pool of several hundred nominees, Hidey says she was honored just to be nominated. “There [...]
By Sarah Hidey, JVA Consulting Two weeks ago, 1,900 innovators, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, venture capitalists, students and capacity builders from 45+ countries descended on Fort Mason Center in San Francisco for the annual Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference. SOCAP’s annual gathering showcases 1) innovators who have created new business models for global and community [...]
Last week, September 3–6, JVA’s Sarah Hidey and Amber Alarid attended the SOCAP13 conference—“a world-renowned conference series dedicated to increasing the flow of capital toward social good.” After attending sessions related to the various themes, including communities, health, art and meaning, we wanted to share with you what we took away from the conference. Below [...]
By Sarah Hidey, JVA Consulting Among the hip Broadway street corridor filled with unique stores, an amazing ice cream shop (Sweet Action) and other fun bars and shops sits Hope Tank—one of the coolest social enterprise boutiques I’ve ever been in! Founded by social worker turned social entrepreneur, Erika Righter, in February 2012, Hope Tank [...]
