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Good morning everybody! It’s only been a few days since the Thanksgiving break, but I’m sure you’re already itching for the weekend — we definitely are.
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Yesterday, we hosted our first community event — Tomorrow Today: An Intro to Unconventional Activism. We were joined by Anjali Chandrashekar and Karen Mac, along with 20 members of the Tomorrow family, at our space in New York City. We engaged in some incredible discussions over some delicious home-made tacos about everybody’s own journey as an unconventional activist. In fact, we were so caught up in the discussion that neither of us ended up taking any digital pictures — we’ll be asking yesterday’s event attendees to send them along, and we’ll share them next week!
Also, we’ll be hosting our next event very soon, and we’d love to have you join us. Stay tuned for the details!
Abhi Ramesh, Founder of Misfits Market
The original inspiration came from a funny apple picking experience with some friends at a farm in Pennsylvania that Misfits actually works with now. When I was apple picking, I got really bored and saw that a bunch of the apples that had fallen from the tree, were a little misshapen, or had some spots on them. That’s when I noticed someone actually coming along, grabbing those apples, and putting them in this separate giant bin, to be stored in a cooler.
A little later on, I asked the farmer about what happens to the apples that he stored in the cooler—there were thousands of them! He said that they didn’t really know what to do with them. They stored some of them for a little bit, tried to sell what they could to famers markets, and then the rest got composted, tossed, or fed to the pigs.
Read his interview here.
Misfits Market is a subscription service for "ugly" organic produce and is designed to break the cycle of food waste. The organization has helped rescue more than 10 million pounds of food since its 2018 inception.
The Impact Fellowship. The Impact Fellowship is a 2-week program in NYC for tech students who want to build a better world! Applications for 2020 are now live!
The Unknown Fund. “Anonymous” (yes, that group) is going to invest and donate $75 million of bitcoin in startups that help create anonymity ideas. Applications are up!
Free Money for Social Enterprises. Techcrunch released a long list of institutions that are supporting for-profit social enterprises with cash and community support, and in many cases without dilution.
Tech Jobs for Good helps mission-driven companies hire the best tech talent in the United States. Every Friday, we’ll highlight a few amazing recent opportunities.
For more, check out their site here. If your company’s looking to post a job and reach purpose-driven and passionate people, please reach out.
Monday: Representatives from around the world have been gathering in Madrid all week to discuss the climate crisis — we’ll be covering the key outcomes next week. Plus, despite what people may think, we are inching in the right direction — extreme poverty is down, life expectancy is up, solar energy is getting cheaper, and more.
Tuesday: Communities need to start building sustainable food systems to address global hunger and nutrition challenges — check out guidelines from the World Economic Forum on how to do so. Also, when trying to build smart cities, it’s important to involve the local community in the design from the get-go. Finally, it was Giving Tuesday — around the world, nearly $2 billion were raised online and offline!
Wednesday: Algorithms are increasingly becoming an integral part of the criminal justice system, but they simply do not work. Also, carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is a trillion-dollar approach to pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere by using it for industrial purposes. Finally, China is getting even scarier — researchers are using blood from Uighurs in their internment camps to figure out how DNA samples can be used to recreate an image of a person’s face.
Thursday: Public-private partnerships are an awesome approach to improve education in society — check out how a city in South Carolina is innovating in an incredible way. Also, carbon credits have long been considered one of the better ways to reduce emissions — unfortunately, they may not work.
Tomorrow Today
🎟️ Date and time for the next one to be announced soon!
Change cannot be achieved alone, only together. In that spirit, we are hosting community events at our space in New York City. Eat some food, learn from some seasoned, unconventional activists, and meet others aspiring to change the world!
Why are we hosting this?
For us, community is the center of everything. In an age of prolific digitization, there's a great need for greater human connection. It's almost necessary to carve out time and space to purposefully engage in person. While it's amazing to be able to discuss and interact with multiple people online and exchange stories and insights, we don't think anything beats the experience of sharing a meal.
Igniting Tomorrow
💰 $100k-$250k Pre-Seed Funding
UPDATE: We’ve already had multiple people reach out and share their ideas. It gets us super excited to learn more about the projects and companies everyone is working on. Please keep reaching out. We’ll be releasing more information around this in the upcoming year.
Many of you are either already working on a number of world-changing things or have ideas bursting out of you every day. Our goal is to see unconventional activists like you succeed. Let us help connect you into the space and access the financing you need to get started. If you’d like to share your ideas (or know a friend working on something exciting), please reply to this email!
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