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DiverseCity Ventures backs tech-enabled, scalable companies with both positive social / economic / environmental impact, and high potential for outsized returns. We offer advisory services to pre-seed companies and target investments in outstanding early-stage companies.
Tech Funding Equity is a project developed within the Aspen Tech Policy Hub from January 2 - March 13, 2020. Fellows of this program are technologists who embark on a 10-week journey to learn and apply the policy making process. By the end of the program, fellows produce policy and advocacy outputs that can help solve a well-scoped policy problem.
This petition asks signatories to indicate their support for the current “accredited investors” definition to be replaced with regulations that promote equitable access to capital markets. This could be achieved by allowing investors to self-attest that they are aware of and able to tolerate an offering’s capital risk and illiquidity. Please sign to indicate your support for this policy change!
The most popular and highly rated book on conscious leadership. Distilled from decades of practice and experience with leaders around the world, you won’t look at leadership the same after this read.
Beatrice Chestnut's brilliant book, The 9 Types of Leadership, draws on the Enneagram, an amazingly accurate descriptor of personality, to help people in the workplace create more effective and fulfilling relationships.
The Enneagram is an ancient system of human development that shows us the limiting stories that keep us stuck in unhelpful patterns, and invites us into more expansive stories. For too long, conversations about the Enneagram and its personality types have been centered on and by whiteness. In The Enneagram for Black Liberation, certified Enneagram teacher and trained psychotherapist Chichi Agorom reclaims the Enneagram as a powerful tool for Black women to rediscover our wholeness and worth that existed long before systems of supremacy told us we weren't enough.
Beginning in 2022, FourthWave 2017 alumni, Emtrain, will provide diversity, equity and inclusion training for our current cohort, alumni, mentors, coaches and support team. Emtrain's mission is to create healthier organizations by developing peoples' skills, and to strengthen the social fabric of the workforce. They believe ethics, respect, and inclusion are core competencies and essential to a healthy workplace culture.
Organizations with women in leadership positions perform better. They surpass others in social responsiveness, sustainability, and financial performance. Recent evidence also indicates that companies with female board members are more successful than those without women, a key concern for organizational competitiveness. As a participant in our program, you will prepare yourself for your chance to make an impact on the modern business environment. #ITSTIME to close the gender gap in corporate governance.
The Black Corporate Board Readiness (BCBR) program accelerates diverse representation in corporate governance by accompanying highly experienced, qualified Black leaders through a structured executive education program. The BCBR program connects participants to seasoned board members, rigorously prepares them to excel, and builds a community devoted to better business performance and racial equity.