We’re thrilled to partner with Stella’s Women’s Venture Summit for a special edition of Village Up’s Real Talk! 🎉 This event will feature an incredible all-women lineup of speakers who are breaking barriers and paving the way for female founders in the startup ecosystem. For those who don’t know, Real Talk is all about honest conversations that challenge the status quo and address the real issues founders face—like access to capital and building inclusive networks. And what better place to do this than at the Women’s Venture Summit, a game-changing event that has helped raise over $200 million for women-led companies! Join us for a powerful session that promises to inspire and empower women to take giant leaps for womankind. We can’t wait to see you there! Know an inspiring woman who’s redefining access in the startup space? We’d love your nominations for our Real Talk speakers lineup - please feel free to send the Real Talk interest form at https://bit.ly/40HeZD0 or tag them below with a short note on why you’re nominating them.
Village Up San Diego
Civic and Social Organizations
To increase diversity and access to the San Diego startup tech ecosystem
About us
A collaborative initiative to increase diversity and access to the San Diego innovation economy. Our goal is to bring together affinity groups to identify existing barriers to entrepreneurship and talent recruitment from underserved communities and to develop pathways to overcome them. Ultimately we want to create a model that is replicable in other communities.
- Website
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https://linktr.ee/Villageupsd
External link for Village Up San Diego
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 1 employee
- Headquarters
- San Diego
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- DiversityandInclusion, CoalitionBuilding, Partnership, Collaboration, and Survey
Locations
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San Diego, US
Employees at Village Up San Diego
Updates
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Here is an overview of events we have coming up in the next few months! We would love to see you all at these awesome events. All of these aim to connect diverse founders in the San Diego #innovation ecosystem through our deep discussion and fostering meaningful connections to foster an inclusive community.
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At Village Up's recent board retreat, we reaffirmed our commitment to supporting diverse founders by focusing our efforts on two key opportunities: improving mental wellness and increasing resource access. We are discontinuing our monthly Affinity Meetings and subcommittees to reorient our resources toward those focus areas, including an exciting new program slated for early 2025 to foster peer support for founders. We are also committed to maintaining our signature Community Engagement Initiatives like the Real Talk with Diverse Founders series and quarterly networking mixers. We continue to adapt to the evolving needs of our community, and love your feedback about how we can continue to fulfill our mission to improve access and equity by coordinating resources across the San Diego entrepreneurial ecosystem. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please get in touch with us at [email protected] #community #diversity #equity #inclusion #diversity #startup #sandiego #diversefounders #entreprenuers #mentalhealth #wellness #community
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Hear from one of our former interns, Noel Jensen! She started with us with no marketing experience. In her role as social media coordinator, she learned how to create content and develop systems to put together marketing campaigns to amplify our mission. Her experience with us paved her career path after SDSU. Our integrative operations is an immersive internship program that provides hands-on experience in running a nonprofit in aspects of event planning, fundraising, and communications with real-world impact and engaging key stakeholders. Want to join our team? Fill out this interest form: https://bit.ly/VUinterni0
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We would like to take a moment to thank our sponsors of the Inclusive Champions Awards! County of San Diego Office of Equity and Racial Justice Aquillius City Heights Community Development MyPoint Credit Union We appreciate your involvement and we could not have done it without your help. Your participation at our events allows us to continue fostering an inclusive community and celebrating diverse founders.
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Hear from one of our Inclusive Champions Awards winners, Katty Ibarra on how she helps others through her work and why #diversity and #inclusivity should be a part of every business. Thank you to Rylie Jennings from Baddies Mean Business for capturing this meaningful conversation at our event!
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Congratulations to our Inclusive Champions Awards winners! Alex Waters of the The Program Labs Katty Ibarra of the San Diego & Imperial SBDC Network Women's Business Center Amber Tarrac, CEcD, ACE of FounderFuego These individuals demonstrated an outstanding commitment to fostering #inclusivity and driving #diversity in the San Diego innovation ecosystem! Thank you CA State Assemblymember Dr. Akilah Weber and City of San Diego Council President Sean Elo-Rivera, J.D. for the certificates of recognitions. Sonia Steinway Julius Alejandro, M.S. Sam Gonzalez Alexis Villanueva, MS Maisha Cobb, PhD, MBA Megan Costello Michael Amin Iman Kelsey Coney Rachel Lozano Castro Theresa Cunningham, MA, PHR TJ Harris Aquillius Rylie Jennings Samantha Scholl Adriana "Adri" Brunner City Heights Community Development MyPoint Credit Union County of San Diego Office of Equity and Racial Justice. Join our Village Circle program so that we can host more events like this in the future! Join here: https://shorturl.at/45uio. #diversity #equity #inclusion #sandiego #award #community #changemakers #empower #businessowners #nonprofit #business
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We had an amazing time at our first-ever Inclusive Champions Awards last week! Thank you to everyone who attended and congratulations to all the nominees and winners. It was truly a great night celebrating #diverse founders and all their hard work towards an #innovation ecosystem. Huge thank you to all our sponsors for making this event possible. All the proceeds raised from ticket donations will go towards our mission of supporting #changemakers and hosting more #networking mixers. Join our Village Circle Program so that we can put on more events like this in the future. Join here: https://shorturl.at/45uio. Thank you to Smooth Flicks for capturing these special moments at our event!
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Hear from our Executive Director Julius Alejandro, M.S. on what it means to be an Inclusive Champion and why we value them in our #community. Thank you to Rylie Jennings from Baddies Mean Business for being our #podcast vendor and for capturing this meaningful conversation at our event! Stay connected with us by signing up for our newsletter and other contribution you can help by clicking: https://bit.ly/Vi77up
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In honor of San Diego Pride, we recognized the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+) in our Village Up network. From one of our founders Sonia Steinway, team members Madison Cicchitto, and frequent collaborators Taylor Fields Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez #pridemonth #sandiego #LGBTQIA #Entreprenuership #collaboration
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