Network

Social Venture Circle (formerly Investors’ Circle and Social Venture Network) is a national membership network that equips entrepreneurs, impact investors, and capacity-builders with connections, money, and expertise in order to build businesses that drive the NEXT economy: one that is regenerative, equitable and prosperous for all.  Since 2011, Solidarity Capital Group’s managing director is an SVC member and founding President of the SVC North Carolina local network.

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the North American trade association of angel groups and private investors that invest in high growth, early-stage ventures.  The Angel Resource Institute is its education and research affiliate.  SCG team members have participated in a number of ACA/ARI sponsored offerings.

B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good™. Its vision is that one day all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the Best for the World® and as a result society will enjoy a more shared and durable prosperity.  Solidarity Capital Group is a Certified B Corp since 2013, a founding investor in the affiliated B the Change Media company, and a very active participant in the North Carolina and global communities of Certified B Corporations.

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development identifies, enables and promotes high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerates the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina.  SCG and its portfolio companies frequently leverage CED’s extensive network, member programming, and expertise.

The Research Triangle chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors sponsors directors’ educational programming, networking, and a local directors’ registry.  Solidarity Capital Group team members have attended NACD’s Directors College, and NACD graciously performed the initial directors search for our advisory board.

The Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA) is the premier organization of lower middle market private equity funds and investors that hosts the annual Venture Capital Institute.  SCG’s managing director is a 2009 alum of the VCI.

Slow Money NC builds resilience in our local food economy by facilitating the making of low-interest loans to local, sustainable food and farming businesses.  A number of Solidarity Capital Investors are similarly also Slow Money NC investors.

SOCAP is an annual event series that connects leading global innovators – investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs – to build the capital market at the intersection of money and meaning.  SCG’s managing director has attended many SOCAP events in San Francisco since 2009.

Duke’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.  In 2011 CASE also launched its Initiative on Impact Investing (i3).

UNC’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) creates leaders for the world we envision using business to innovate for global change.

The Development Finance Initiative (DFI) at the UNC School of Government partners with local governments to attract private investment for transformative projects by providing specialized finance and development expertise. Since its founding in 2011, DFI has partnered with more than 85 communities to design and attract investment for development projects that accomplish local goals.  SCG team members have attended their signature annual Development Finance Toolkit workshop, and benefited by their expertise when engaging in mixed-income neighborhood and community development projects.

Leadership Triangle is a non-profit organization established in 1992 to build leadership capacity and promote regionalism across the separate communities of the Triangle (Chatham, Durham, Orange and Wake Counties).  It does this through leadership development classes, social networking, public forums and an annual Leadership Summit and award celebration.  SCG’s managing director gratefully acknowledges benefiting from LT’s 2011 Regional Class, the generous collaboration of the LT Alumni Network, and the honor of being named 2017’s recipient of the LT’s Goodmon Award for Economic Development.

The The Justice Theater Project produces compelling theater experiences that create community dialogue and give voice to social concerns.  The JTP has been SCG’s preeminent arts partner organization since 2016, beginning with our collaboration to help shape the JTP’s 2016-2017 “Economic Justice?” season.

Congregations for Social Justice is a Wake County coalition of socially concerned diverse faith leaders and congregations, collaborating to advance progressive changes in the arenas of affordable housing, immigration, criminal justice, and additional issues impacting our most marginalized brothers and sisters.  SCG has for many years found CSJ to be an inspiring, informing, and invaluable faith partner organization in advancing these and other areas of shared concern.

The Economy of Francesco is a November 2020 international meeting between young scholars and activists in the field of Economics, convened by Pope Francis in Assisi, Italy.  The title of the event clearly refers to the saint of Assisi, an example par excellence of care for the least of the earth and for an integral ecology, but it also refers to Pope Francis.  Ever since he wrote Evangelii Gaudium and then Laudato Si’, he has denounced the pathological state of so much of the world ‘s economy extending an invitation to put in place a new economic model.  As fellow change agents for a new economic model, we at SCG are eagerly awaiting to see what may emerge when this seminal convening gathers in Assisi this November.