ONLINE: Investigating the Current Economic Landscape & Exploring Alternative Solutions To Venture Funding
In efforts to support Impact Entrepreneurship Initiativefellows and community members, our first event of the Spring 2023 semester seeks to investigate the economic landscape, explore alternative solutions to venture funding, and share old and new tools to help entrepreneurs navigate such uncertain landscapes with adaptability, resilience, and systems-thinking.
Join us virtually on for a panel discussion featuring a carefully crafted assembly of IEI alums and community members.
Panelists will sketch out common pitfalls in fundraising campaigns as well as offer helpful alternatives that may support founders in their developmental stages.
ABOUT EILEEN LEVEL:
Eileen Level, a champion of the cinema-going experience, has been working in the film festival industry since 2014, and since then has launched PaleFO Cinema, “Amplify Cinema. Impact Community”, amplifying voices through the cinematic arena which seeks to look forward to the evolution of the cinescape experience. Upon graduation, she has been piloting PaleFO Cinema a community-based cinema series to be produced and curated by youth in Brooklyn to revitalize underserved communities by first combating youth idleness and gang violence. In 2020, her project was accepted into the Social Impact Entrepreneurship Fellowship at The New School. In 2022 her project initiative was featured on the 100th edition cover page of the longest-running newspaper Canarsie Courier and she was awarded both The New School’s Media Management Outstanding Capstone Award and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Safe in the City Grant used to fund the launch.
ABOUT CHERYL BENNETT
Cheryl Bennett received her CUNY BA (2016) in Food Systems and Sustainability. It was a multidisciplinary degree drawing on nutritional science and the social sciences—anthropology, sociology, and geography—positing food as a driver of sustainable development. Cheryl was a University of Michigan Environmental Fellow in 2017 at The Nature Conservancy. She worked on the Billion Oyster Project restoring oyster reefs to New York Harbor in collaboration with New York City communities. She earned her M.S. in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School in 2019. Her focus was on sustainable food systems and ecotourism as drivers of environmental conservation. Her deep interest in bioremediation and agroecology, particularly in the Caribbean, has led to the purchase and restoration of an abandoned coffee farm in the Jamaica Blue Mountains. Cheryl is still in the process of that restoration, using her farm as a working model for agro-ecological principles.