Unique connections for leaders with shared experiences and common goals.

Our affinity groups create space for leaders to connect on shared identity, tackle a shared goal, and use peer-learning to integrate a new skill or knowledge into their work. They make a large community feel smaller and offer our entrepreneurs low-lift ways to regularly connect and lean into their leadership.

Affinity Groups

Formed for BIPOC leaders to connect away from the added weight of leading teams, organizations, and community efforts to make sense of the news, make space for themselves, and gain tools to strengthen their teams and their enterprise.

Created for ESEs focused on seizing the unique opportunities (while addressing the specific challenges) related to working with refugees and asylees.

Shaped as a safe space for leaders who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system.

Designed for senior finance professionals to share best practices and strengthen the financial health of their businesses.

Established for staffing ESEs to better calibrate and benchmark expectations, work through mutual challenges, and find a sense of connection with people working toward a common purpose.

Collaboratives and Communities of Practice

Co-working groups with a shared interest or common goal. Our collaboratives form in pursuit of a shared, strategic objective for which we need collective wisdom and coordinated action to execute. And our communities of practice come together as a co-learning space designed to exercise a specific concept or skill. 

A national and California coalition advocating for capital, resources, and policy change to support employment social enterprises across the US. 

Formal 18-month cohort working through the process of improving data collection practices to better align program design with longer-term participant success.