Understanding Your Startup's Impact

Whether you are already in business, or have an idea that you're exploring, join us as we walk through social entrepreneurship, a popular rising standard in today's business landscape.
Discover how pioneering companies like Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia, Blue Earth Compost, and Asarasi are making a difference through their ventures here in CT. Explore why impact is crucial for businesses, methods to pinpoint your business’ significant impacts, tools for measuring impact, and tactics to convey impact effectively for business advancement.
We will discuss these questions and more:

• Why does impact matter to a business?
• How does impact fit into the business model?
• How do you identify the impacts that matter most to your businesses?
• What tools and frameworks can you use to make it easier to measure impact?
  Participants will walk away with new tools and frameworks to take action right away, including take-home worksheets you can revisit and work through both during and after the workshop.

Whether you're an established entrepreneur or nurturing an idea, this event is for you. reSET’s Executive Director, Sarah Bodley, will be facilitating this interactive workshop. Sarah is a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience leading mission-driven organizations focused on entrepreneurship and the arts.

Sarah Bodley has an extensive background, having served as Executive Director of Empowered Women International, Associate Director of Women's Empowerment Programs at the Latino Economic Development Center, and Executive Director of Doug Varone and Dancers. She has also provided consultancy services for nonprofits such as the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence, Women’s Education Project, and Community Development International. Passionate about systems change, sustainability, equality, and justice, Sarah advocates for businesses to be agents of positive societal transformation. With a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase and an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College, her diverse expertise underscores her commitment to creating a better world.

Host or Publisher reSET Social Enterprise Trust