Thank you to a wonderful group of Corner to Corner entrepreneurs! We were delighted to host this year’s Impact Investing Pitch Night for businesses interested in becoming part of the 2025 funding cohort.?Special thanks to Shana Berkeley, Jaron E. Spicer and the entire Corner to Corner team! Team Vanderbilt (HD M., Mario Avila, Margarita Orlova; Parker Willmon, Jenny Main, Sallie Bailey) is excited for the year ahead!
Corner to Corner
非盈利组织
Nashville，TN 1,088 位关注者
Working toward economic and educational equity, grounded in the love of Christ. @CornerToCorner on social platforms
关于我们
Corner to Corner co-creates economic participation and growth with underestimated Nashvillians through knowledge, tools, and networks. We are based in Nashville, tackling economic inequity from its roots: through early opportunities for young creators and by working with early-stage entrepreneurs. We transform the joy of creation into economic flourishing. Starting in middle school, by increasing knowledge-based learning through Script to Screen. And then again with Academy participants, engaging entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. Script to Screen is a creative after-school program that helps kids fall in love with reading through their love of movies. Our young creators watch a popular film while reading the script at the same time and collaborate with their peers to create an entire movie – from plot points to dialogue and everything in between. Literacy is a key factor in predicting future earnings, with a solid proficient reader earning $29k on average more than peers not reading at a proficient level. In collaboration with Vanderbilt, pilot data found that our program boosted students’ confidence with reading, and 55% of our young creators grew a full grade level. The Academy is a 10-week program that equips community members with the skills they need to plan, start, and grow their own small businesses. The Academy helps neighbors create a sustainable economic engine for their families and community. The Academy has graduated nearly 700 entrepreneurs, each in various stages of small business ownership, and 88% of our Academy Alumni are Black women. In 2021 alone, our entrepreneurs were responsible for putting $13 million back into the neighborhood economy here in Nashville. The Academy Amplified is our supplemental program dedicated to offering our Academy Alumni continued support through opportunities like Business to Business mentoring, video marketing classes, and our new pilot small loan program, The Academy Invested, among others.
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https://cornertocorner.org/
Corner to Corner的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
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- 11-50 人
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- Nashville，TN
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- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2011
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PO Box 60646
US，TN，Nashville， 37206
Corner to Corner员工
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Soon after each cohort's graduation, our Academy Alumni Program hosts Welcome Week for our newest entrepreneurs. Our team adds them to our app, introduces them to weekly resource emails, and also hosts a couple of educational classes. With the help of our amazing partner, Netta Dobbins-Cunningham, our newest Academy Alumni got an in-depth explanation of how customer-focused marketing can help their business continue to grow and expand. We're so thankful for Netta's incredible expertise!
Fractional CMO & Marketing Consultant | B2B Creator | Linkedin Top Voice | Tennessee's Grow with Google Digital Coach | EMBA Candidate at Vanderbilt University
Each year, I have the honor of speaking to the recent Corner to Corner graduates about customer-focused marketing, and it’s always one of the highlights of my year! These new entrepreneurs are fired up about turning their dreams into thriving businesses, and I love sharing actionable strategies to help them make it happen. Here are 3 lessons from the workshop that YOU can apply to your business today: 1?? Understand your customers' journeys. Not everyone is in the same place. Some are just discovering you, others are considering you, and some are loyal customers already. You can’t use the same message for all of them. Take the time to identify where they are in your marketing funnel (awareness, consideration, conversion, or loyalty) and craft your marketing accordingly. 2?? Diversify your marketing channels. One channel won’t do all the work! A mix of channels helps you meet your customers where they are. For example, use social media to raise awareness and answer questions, while email marketing can drive conversions and build loyalty. Think about the role each channel plays in your strategy. 3?? Don’t sell—offer value. Nobody likes the hard sell. It's the quickest way to get blocked honestly. Instead, focus on identifying your customers’ pain points and showing how your product or service solves them. This helps you build credibility. --- ???? Welcome! I’m Netta, a marketing strategist specializing in helping organizations build revenue-generating brands that stand out. Get actionable marketing insights delivered to your inbox every week—subscribe to my newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dcYcbWue
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Earlier this year, Shana sent an email to her Joy List Crew that looked like this… "This week, I had five separate meetings about data.?FIVE! ?? ? Data about our entrepreneurs, data about our staff, data about our graduates, data about our grants, data about our money - data about it ALL! ?? ? I had to constantly remind myself that just because we don’t have certain data right now, it doesn’t mean that I’m not good enough, or that my team and I aren’t doing our best." Yep. It was all about data - the equally overwhelming and thrilling hot topic of 2024 for our team. And just last month, we found out Corner to Corner was featured in Imagine Nashville’s Final Report!! Why is this a big deal? Well, “Imagine Nashville is a citywide, community-led initiative guided by the belief that we must share our dreams and ideas to shape our future. So, we have been working to reach across geographic, socioeconomic, racial and ethnic lines, and age differences to ensure everyone has a chance to share their wildest dreams, their most practical concerns, and, most of all, their ideas for how we should go forward.” AKA - they're Data People! It was a total full-circle moment to see the work we are doing recognized by our community members. Check it out below. (Section B, third bullet point!)
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Congratulations to the graduating 2024 fall cohort at Corner to Corner on a huge accomplishment to support the local and national economy through the journey of entrepreneurship. This esteemed class will begin the journey of creating employment opportunities to help bring a increase value of $250m to the Metropolitan Nashville area with their unique gifts, talents, and ideas.
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?? Dr. DeAngelo Richardson, showing up to support a student, graduate, and business owner (Woman owned business) of Corner to Corner at their 2024 fall graduation as an alumni representative of Trevecca Nazarene University, a partner and sponsor of the Corner to Corner Entrepreneur Academy. ?? As referenced by Will Acuff, co-foudner of the Corner to Corner Academy during his graduation speech, (Matthew 22:39) loving your neighbor as thyself also means sharing your harvest with your neighbor to ensure their success. Leadership and service are both tied into the ability to sacrifice self-serving success to create success for others, promoting a unified system of collaboration to spread prosperity and opportunity to all. ?? Congratulations to all of the graduates who have completed a milestone in their lives to create transformative lives for others by sharing of their time, talents, and treasures. #Love #Leadership #Serive #Legacy #Education #Business
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We keep telling you that The Academy Celebration is unlike any event you've been to before!! Sam Davidson does a pretty good job at describing it, though! ?? ?? ??
There are some events I go to in Nashville and think, "Only they could pull this off." Case in point: Corner to Corner's Academy graduation. It's the excitement. It's the hype. It's the hope, the ambition, the work. Every detail is perfectly thought through and the pride seen on the faces of graduates and their families is tangible. Nashville needs this work and Corner to Corner's leadership is changing neighborhoods and families through entrepreneurship. I'm thankful we at Nashville Entrepreneur Center get to partner with them to help entrepreneurs keep climbing the ladder. What Shana Berkeley and Will Acuff and their team dreams and executes is inspiring. And so is their future vision. I'm thankful and lucky I get to watch.
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Educational Consultant | Behavioral Support Specialist | Founder of Riverside Coaching & Consulting
So proud to witness my friend Amber Gatling, MPH, cross the stage at Corner to Corner this week! Her commitment to her vision is nothing short of inspiring. Honored to share in this journey with such a powerhouse entrepreneur and friend. ?? #Entrepreneurship #Community #Inspired
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Last week, we threw a party for over 1,800 of our neighbors, for FREE, at Belmont University's Curb Center. It was our biggest caliber event yet, and it wouldn't have been possible without the incredible Social Bliss Events team, run by Sarah! Thank you for bringing our dreams to life, and making the magic happen for The Academy Celebration!
Talk about a slam dunk! I'm still not over our third graduation with Corner to Corner's Academy Team at Belmont University's Curb Event Center. I'm beyond grateful for the Social Bliss Events dream team for executing a 2000+ person evening. It's an honor to support our amazing clients! Backdrop: Hey Hey Creative - Gretchen Hanshew Smith, CMP, DMCP + Rita Davidson Balloons: LaMarvelous Balloons, LLC Photographer: Reneka Swims
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Meet us at the Belmont Curb Center at 4:00 PM TODAY to get your hands on this limited edition swag! We are celebrating BIG for our graduating entrepreneurs. FREE parking, food, dancing, photo ops, vendor shopping and MORE! Last minute RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gH8veMBs (You need to RSVP to get in!)
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You know it's going to be a good week when Corner to Corner is mentioned alongside The Nashville Black Market in The Tennessee Tribune's recent article, "7 Ways Black History Became Tennessee History" AND The Academy Celebration is just a week away, on Nov. 12th! The article talks about "Black-owned businesses in Tennessee [being] on the rise each day" and that will be showcased on 11/12 at the Belmont Curb Center when 180+ entrepreneurs walk across our graduation stage! Will you join us to see history in action? RSVPs are FREE - we've got the food, shopping, & entertainment covered, we just need YOU! Reserve your tickets ASAP: https://lnkd.in/gH8veMBs
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