The Social Good Summit (SGS)

On Friday, August 13th, 2021 from 12:00 PM - 2 PM, the Social Good Summit will offer an engaging, panel session on, Race and Entrepreneurship. Our goal is to focus on "how entrepreneurial ecosystems respond to the call for diversity, equity, and inclusion without harming active and aspiring BIPOC entrepreneurs." 

It has been a trying, frustrating, last few years. From the pandemic and its devasting effects on lives, livelihood, and business to the readily, more visible, effects of racism captured by video, data, increased commentary, and more. There has been so much harm done to black, brown, indigenous, people of color communities, especially across genders.

This session will move people and programs with 'good intentions' from just trying to help to 'viable actions' that actually support black, brown, indigenous, people of color, especially across genders. Join the conversations or just listen. But be there.

We provide access to past events and associated news for the public record and general use. Unfortunately, we did not have an event page for the 2015 Social Good Summit.

In a city of two worlds - a thriving white-collar white community and a Black community that has been politically and economically neglected for ages - Madison’s racial disparities have been strongly of economic origin. When a Black adult in Madison is five times more likely to be unemployed and six times more likely to be impoverished than a white adult, we as a community must strive to bridge Madison’s racial gap from an economic standpoint. — Lew Bank, The Economics of Bridging the Racial Gap

In 2015, Collaboration for Good, Horizon Coworking, and Doyenne joined forces to address the growing disconnect between Madison's goals for economic equity and it's definition of entrepreneurship. The Social Good Summit brought together over 130 entrepreneurs of all races and genders to a comprehensive, content-filled day of meaningful conversations focused on turning intent into tangible, real-world action. The community demanded more with a passion and this led us on the path of making the Social Good Summit (SGS) a flexible framework, disguised as an event that could gather, focus, and direct community energy on furthering social good.

We cannot succeed as a community, as a state, or as a nation, if the place where you were born pre-determines where you end up. —Zach Brandon, Greater Madison Chamber Of Commerce

Each year, the Summit has transformed into what is needed to allow community participation in solving problems and supporting social good ventures. In 2017, this produced the showcase for our Social Good Accelerator (SGA), which we plan to expand and strengthen again in 2018. We're redefining entrepreneurship in Madison to include the disenfranchised, to strengthen the community, and to build prosperity that grows and expands beyond traditional boundaries.