Open Project Night: 2024 Kickoff

Open Project Night: 2024 Kickoff

Open Project Night (#OPNHOU) is a monthly event convening Houston’s changemakers and collaborators around ideas for improving Houston.

Impact Hub Houston is proud to bring you a monthly opportunity to come together to work on solutions for some of Houston’s most pressing issues. Our city is full of changemakers across all ages, cultures, skillsets, and industries. This is your chance to conned and collaborate for the greater good.

Open Project Night has been hosted across the Impact Hub global network for a few years, and we are carrying the torch locally to support #Changemakers, #SocialEntrepreneurs, and #ImpactSupporters in their efforts to create the change they wish to see in the world.

The Global Goals can only be met if we work together. Investments and support is needed to ensure innovative technological development, fair trade, and market access in Houston. To build a better world, we need to be supportive, empathetic, inventive, passionate, and above all, cooperative.

Here’s how it works:

  • New theme each month in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • This month’s focused Goal is SDG #17: Partnerships for the Goals
  • Anyone can sign up to participate (whether you have an idea/project or just want to provide feedback, advice, or support)
  • 1-2 guest speakers will kick-off project presentations
  • Open Mic for anyone else to pitch will follow (2 min max per pitch)
  • Everyone moves to the virtual working room for open networking & collaboration

Event Schedule // 5:30 PM- 8:00 PM CST

5:30pm – 6:00pm Open Networking

6:05pm- 6:45pm Project Presentations + Q&A

Your Open Pitch should be max of 2 mins each and answer the following questions before the community can provide feedback:

  1. Brief personal introduction + What is your project/idea?
  2. What stage are you currently at? (idea/testing/implementation etc)
  3. What are your next series of steps?
  4. What are you currently looking for in the way of talent/skills from the community?

6:45pm-7:30pm Move over to the Working Floor to connect and collaborate with other changemakers.

7:35pm – 8:00pm Closing and Next Steps

GUEST SPEAKERS TBA

International Women’s Day Social Hour

International Women’s Day Social Hour

Let’s celebrate Intl. Women’s Day with a fun-filled social hour, honoring women and gender expansive people’s achievements!

International Women’s Day Social Hour

Celebrate International Women’s Day at the Impact Hub Baltimore! Join us for a fun-filled social hour dedicated to empowering and honoring women and gender expansive people from all walks of life.

This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to connect, network, and share stories with like-minded individuals who are passionate about gender equality and women’s rights.

All genders are welcome to come and be inspired by the incredible achievements of women worldwide while enjoying great company. Let’s celebrate the remarkable women and gender non-conforming people who have shaped history and continue to make a difference today!

Psst… You’re also welcome to stay after the social hour for a free Skillshare that will teach changemakers how to avoid costly penalties from this new law effecting businesses and nonprofits!

Time: Immediately after the social hour, 6:00-7:00 PM

Skillshare Title: The New CTA: Corporate Transparency Act of 2024

Description: CTA no longer refers to just “Call to Action” in business, now it has a another meaning… the Corporate Transparency Act. Starting January 1, 2024, this new federal reporting law will require businesses to submit reports to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Register here for this learning event to prepare what you need to comply with this new federal reporting law. Attendees will leave with the skills they need to avoid costly monetary and criminal penalties.

Presenter Bio:

Chayla C. Jackson, Esq. is a business attorney, business strategist, and legal coach. She is also the founder of Legacy Legal & Consulting Firm, a virtual law firm for CEOs on the go. With her Georgetown Law teaching background, Chayla empowers business owners and her clients to understand the law without getting lost in the legalese. She has been featured in the Baltimore Business Journal and Voyage Baltimore Magazine for her work of building solutions for business owners to get access to the legal education, services, and contracts they need to DIY legal safely and legally protect their business. Chayla is a Maryland native and graduate of University of Maryland, College Park and Georgetown Law.

The New CTA: Corporate Transparency Act of 2024

The New CTA: Corporate Transparency Act of 2024

Join this free, hybrid event to avoid costly penalties from this new law effecting businesses and nonprofits!

CTA no longer refers to just “Call to Action” in business, now it has a another meaning… the Corporate Transparency Act. Starting January 1, 2024, this new federal reporting law will require businesses to submit reports to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Register for this hybrid learning event to prepare what you need to comply with this new federal reporting law. Attendees will leave with the skills they need to avoid costly monetary and criminal penalties.

Agenda:

  • International Women’s Day Social Hour: Allies to women everywhere are invited to join us in celebrating all the contributions and success women-identifying people add to our community
  • Hybrid Learning Workshop led by Chayla Jackson, Esq

Who should attend?

  • Current and future business owners
  • Trust-operating businesses
  • Nonprofits because losing your exempt status will subject you to this new law
  • All genders welcome

Presenter Bio:

Chayla C. Jackson, Esq. is a business attorney, business strategist, and legal coach. She is also the founder of Legacy Legal & Consulting Firm, a virtual law firm for CEOs on the go. With her Georgetown Law teaching background, Chayla empowers business owners and her clients to understand the law without getting lost in the legalese. She has been featured in the Baltimore Business Journal and Voyage Baltimore Magazine for her work of building solutions for business owners to get access to the legal education, services, and contracts they need to DIY legal safely and legally protect their business. Chayla is a Maryland native and graduate of University of Maryland, College Park and Georgetown Law.

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Future Founders Day | 4th Edition

Future Founders Day | 4th Edition

Are you an Impact Hub Founder to be? Then this event is for you! Join us and learn everything about bringing Impact Hub to your city!

Welcome to the fourth edition of our Future Founders Day – a free online event for entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders ready to open an Impact Hub in their cities.

Impact Hub is a global network of over 25,000 individuals working together to drive positive change in 115+ locations worldwide. For more than 15 years, we have supported Impact Makers and cultivated valuable insights on how to build and operate businesses that prioritize our planet and its people. We are seeking aspiring founders who share our passion for creating a sustainable future and are interested in opening an Impact Hub in their city.

Join our Future Founders Day on February 29th, where we will provide you with all the essential information you need to kick-start your journey toward building a successful Impact Hub. During the event, you’ll gain an exclusive glimpse into the Impact Hub Business Model and Vision. You’ll also hear inspiring stories from successful Impact Hub co-founders who are making a real difference in their cities, and learn about the best practices for designing the physical space with the local community. Here’s what’s on the agenda:

  • Welcome: Let’s get to know each other!
  • Insights: Impact Hub Network Vision and Business Model
  • Impact Hub Experiences: Gaia Montelatici, from Impact Hub Belgrade, and John-Paul Parmigiani, from Impact Hub New York and Metropolitan Area
  • Diving deep: Space Co-design, our best practices! with Duygu Vatan, IH Ankara co-founder
  • Questions and Closing

We are looking forward to seeing you on February 29th! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team at [email protected]

Вищі школи Швейцарії

Вищі школи Швейцарії

На зустрічі ви дізнаєтесь про вищі школи в Швейцарії та зможете в інтерактивному форматі прокласти шлях до обраної професії.

❓А ви знали, що в Швейцарії є близько 70 вищих навчальних закладів, які включають університети, вищі школи прикладних наук, вищі школи мистецтв, педагогічні, технічні вищі школи та інші типи вищих освітніх закладів.

❓Але як зрозуміти свій шлях в вишу школу?

❓ І чи потрібен саме університет для досягнення своїх цілей? Чи може вища школа прикладних наук буде більш ефективною?

❓ Вам 15-20 років і вам цікаво дізнатися про вищі школи?

📆 То ж приходьте в Пн, 26.02.2024 о 16:30-19:30 на презентацію+воркшоп «Вищі школи в Швейцарії».

На зустрічі ви:

  1. Дізнаєтесь про вищі школи в Швейцарії
  2. Отримаєте відповіді на свої питання
  3. Зможете в інтерактивному форматі прокласти шлях до обраної професії
  4. Познайомитеся з іншими українцями вашого віку та поспілкуєтеся в неофіційній обстановці з ними, а також зі спікеркою та організаторками.

🥇Наша фахівчиня Тоня Стріклер (http://linkedin.com/in/antonina-strickler) працює в фармацевтичній компанії Takeda на посаді заступника директора, є керівницею з операцій з продуктами. Вона має більше 12 років роботи в Швейцарії, а ще навчання в вищій школі прикладних наук FHNW. То ж Тоня поділіться власним досвідом вступу та навчання в школі, а також порівняє вищі навчальні заклади в Україні та Швейцарії.

А ще з 2016 року Тоня є частиною команди Children-UA, з якою ми організували 8 освітніх таборів (4 з них в Швейцарії) для 20 українських підлітків з інтернатів.

📍Адреса: Impact Hub Basel, Horburgstrasse 105, 4057 Basel

📆 Коли: 26.02.2024, 16:30 – 19:30

⚡️ Якщо у вас помінялися плани, повідомте нас на

[email protected], щоб ми могли ваше місце віддати комусь іншому.

📌 Реєстрація на зустріч є обов’язковою. Кількість місць обмежена до 24 осіб.

Ваші Женя Лавічка та Маріна Хаслер

Ко-організаторки проекту для української молоді в Базелі

Youth Support Program

Impact Hub Basel, Children-UA

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Реєструючись на цей захід, ви погоджуєтесь на фотографування під час заходу та погоджуєтесь, що фотографії можуть бути використані для офіційної комунікації проекту Youth Support Project.

The State of the Funds Up

The State of the Funds Up

Come hear and learn from some dynamic personal finance leaders and their incredible testimonials.

The State of the Funds Up Challenge

Join us for the State of the Funds Up Challenge at Impact Hub Houston, Main Street, Houston, TX, USA. This in-person event is to celebrate and share personal testimonials of those who participated in the Houston Money Challenge. This is your chance to hear from personal finance leaders while enjoying lite bites, fun, giveaways, and the money challenge.

Sponsors include: Duo Wealth Advisors, Chic-Fil-A, and Creed Global Media

Community Partners: United Way, Lift Fund, Impact Hub Houston, Houston Area Urban League, LatinX StartUp Alliance, and Equiliberty.

Event Organized by SpenDebt

A bout SpenDebt

SpenDebt is a financial technology company on a mission to save a million families from financial fatalities every time they swipe their debit card or have a banking transaction. SpenDebt’s application delivers small, micropayments (ex. $1.00) allowing consumers the ability to spend-and-payoff debt. SpenDebt offers a B2B2C SaaS alternative payment method for account receivable teams recovering payments from their customers, including arrearages, by leveraging their customers’ spending behaviors.

Build your collaboration strategy

Build your collaboration strategy

Find and level with the best partners in the textile supply chain to grow your business.

Collaborations between social enterprises and established businesses in strategic partnerships is a complex, risky and challenging process. However, it also has huge benefits to make more impact faster, smarter and cheaper.

In the Impact Nation program, we have developed a methodology together with ABN AMRO and TNW to support social enterprises and established businesses to identify opportunities to collaborate and make more impact faster.

In our session, we invite social entrepreneurs and established companies from the Dutch textile industry to join us for an interactive session to uncover the secrets of successful strategic partnerships.

As a social entrepreneur, you will also learn to speak the language of medium-sized companies from this industry and use this in your sales strategy. As an established business, you can meet innovative entrepreneurs and explore potential collaborations.

After this session you have:

1) New inspiration on the latest impact trends in textile

2) Knowledge on what Open Innovation is and how it can support you in tackling your impact challenges

3) New ideas based on talks with potential partners to actually solve your biggest impact challenges

Program:

14:00-14:10 Walk-in

14:00-14:05 Introduction

14:15-14:30 Guest talk from alumni Resortecs

14:30-15:00 Talk: Inspiration on innovation & collaboration in textile

15:00-16:00 Discussion: Open innovation methodology (with ABN AMRO)

16:00-16:25 Break

16:25-16:45 Interactive session

16:45-17:00 Wrap-up

17:00-18:00 Drinks

Hosted by: Impact Hub Amsterdam, ABN AMRO (Impact Nation and ABN AMRO Social Impact Fund)

Pictured: By Rockland, which designs, produces and supplies fully customised sustainable workwear in collaboration with well-known and up-and-coming Dutch designers. The company uses materials such as GOTS-certified cotton while considering wear resistance and washability criteria. Rockland’s production occurs in Europe’s slow fashion studios.

SIA Türkiye 2023 – Ödül Töreni & Topluluk Buluşması

SIA Türkiye 2023 – Ödül Töreni & Topluluk Buluşması

Dünyayı değiştirme potansiyeli olan fikirleri dinleyeceğimiz ödül töreninde buluşuyoruz.

SIA Türkiye 23’te Beklenen An Geldi!

Sosyal etki odaklı genç girişimcileri destekleyen Social Impact Award programının 6 finalisti, jüri karşısına çıkıyor. Programa seçilen 6 ekip, iş geliştirme atölyeleri, eğitimler, mentorluk, koçluk desteği ve topluluk buluşmaları içeren yoğun bir kuluçka programından geçti. Şimdi sıra, finalistlerin, toplumsal ve çevresel meselelere ilişkin geliştirdiği çözümleri dinlemeye geldi.

4 Ekim Çarşamba günü, Impact Hub İstanbul’da, saat 13.00’da gerçekleşecek etkinliğimizde, 6 girişimci sunumlarını yapacak ve jürilerimizin değerlendirmeleri sonucunda, SIA 23 Türkiye’nin kazanan 3 girişimi belirlenecek.

Geleceğe iyi gelecek genç girişimcileri yakından tanımak ve mikro ölçekte de olsa, dünyayı değiştirebilme potansiyelimizi birlikte ümit etmek için siz de bize katılın, SIA topluluğumuzu birlikte büyütelim.

PROGRAM

13.00 – 13.15 KARŞILAMA

13.15 – 13.25 AÇILIŞ KONUŞMALARI

13.25 – 13.40 Çağrı Küpeli ile Merakın Peşinden Koş

13.40 – 14.22 SUNUMLAR: BÖLÜM 1

14.22 – 14.32 ARA

14.32 – 15.14 SUNUMLAR: BÖLÜM 2

15.14 – 15.44 JÜRİ DEĞERLENDİRMESİ

15.44 – 16.00 KAZANANLARIN AÇIKLANMASI & ÖDÜL TÖRENİ

16.00 – 18.00 NETWORKING & KOKTEYL

Circular Economy Investor Matchmaking Event (Online)

Circular Economy Investor Matchmaking Event (Online)

Join an afternoon of action-packed speed-dating event for investors and early stage Circular Economy startups.

If you are an investor (angel / VC/ family office / CVC / others) and are open to investing in Circular Economy startups, this event is for you.

Out of hundreds of applications, 14 circular economy startups were selected earlier this year to join the Circular Together Incubator, powered by Impact Hub Berlin. These startups are a select group of early stage circular economy startups, each with a unique approach to solving some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges. These startups have been hand-picked for their innovative ideas, strong potential for growth, and commitment to building a sustainable future. After 6 months of market validation and business model development, the teams are now in advanced stages of development.

The event is designed to bring together these promising startups and savvy investors who are interested in exploring investment opportunities in the circular economy space.

How it works

Before the event

We will share one-pagers of the teams with you over email, and you can indicate which teams you would like to be matched with.

We will then create a grid and send you a detailed briefing of the event. We try our best to give you your exact matches, but in interest of all requests, you might also be matched with a similar startup.

During the event

You will speed-date startups in Zoom breakout rooms, and will have 30 minutes per startup. Depending on interest, there might be more than one investors in a room, but at no point would there be more than two investors in each room.

After the event

After the event, we are happy to introduce you to other startups that you have been interested in, but didn’t get a chance to interact, but we leave it to you and startups to take the relationship forward.

Important:

If you prefer, you can also choose to not pre-select startups, and let us choose and match-make for you.

For any questions, feel free to reach out to circulartogether.impacthub.net.

About Impact Hub Berlin

Impact Hub Berlin empowers entrepreneurs and organisations to create innovative solutions for people and the planet. Since 2014, we’ve worked to connect, enable and inspire our network to scale their ideas for a future that works for all. We coordinate a community of impact-driven members, host a creative space for engaging events, and run a consultancy for business innovation and sustainability.

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Digital Event Series // Food-Tech Gründer im Gespräch

Digital Event Series // Food-Tech Gründer im Gespräch

OURZ & Friedhold, zwei Startups mit digitalen Lösungen für nachhaltigen Lebensmittelkonsum stellen sich vor.

Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84256616670?pwd=K1l0Ujk3U21kVmk0ODUzSEVrRVVPdz09

Wie können digitale Lösungen dazu beitragen, den Lebensmittelsektor fairer und nachhaltiger zu gestalten? Genau darüber möchten wir in der kommenden Episode unserer Digital Event Series mit den Gründern zweier aufstrebender Food-Tech Startups diskutieren:

OURZ nutzt Blockchain-Technologie, und ermöglicht Konsument*innen mit ihrer App die Herkunft und Qualität von Produkten genau nachzuverfolgen und somit bewusstere Kaufentscheidungen zu treffen.

Friedhold unterstützt Landwirt*innen mit einem smarten Software-Tool dabei, einen Online Handel in wenigen Schritten aufzubauen und ihre Produkte an Kund*innen aus ihrer Region zu vertreiben.

Für dieses Event bringen wir unser Green Tech und unser Sustainable Food Ökosystem quasi an einen Tisch.

Seid dabei und freut euch auf knackige Präsentationen der beiden Gründer. Wie immer haben wir aber auch ausreichend Zeit für eine Q&A-Session eingeplant, in der ihr Antworten zu all euren brennenden Fragen erhalten werdet.

Wir freuen uns schon riesig auf den Austausch mit euch!