Design, Develop, and Launch Your Social Entrepreneurship Idea
Make Good is an accelerator course to help you design, develop, and launch your idea — whatever it is — within a community of peers. Along the way, you’ll get the input of skilled practitioners and experienced entrepreneurs.
All of us have agency to do good in the world and make things better for everyone. At RootedGood, we believe that good ideas don’t take root in a vacuum, but instead in community. With the right people around you and the right tools at hand, it’s possible to create projects that benefit people, communities, and the planet.
Designed for early stage entrepreneurs, Make Good is for anyone starting to dream about what is possible — for those that can’t sleep at night because they have to do something! Our tools will help you define, refine, and launch your project.
Make Good is part of Common Awards in the UK, which is validated by Durham University.
This 3-day introduction is designed to help entrepreneurs align people, ideas, and resources (PIR).
Jumpstart will help determine that you are the right person, with the right idea, and the right resource model. It’s all about getting clear about the problem you are trying to solve!
You will leave the Jumpstart with what you need to get started and test your idea
The Accelerator is a week-long immersive experience where you go from having an idea to being ready to launch. It is the core of the Make Good course.
Sessions will take you through:
You will leave the accelerator with confidence, a supportive peer community and a combination of resources and support so that you are ready to launch your project.
An alternative to the “shark tank” model, Pitch and Pledge is the culminating event of the Make Good course.
Participants present their idea to audience members who come ready to pledge various resources like funds, in-kind support, and relational connections. As an entrepreneur, you will leave the pitch and pledge with valuable resources to help you succeed.
Over the last nine years, 222 entrepreneurs have gone through Make Good in the UK and US. The majority have gone on to launch successful projects.
If you are interested in the research report from our work in the UK contact us.
A significant reason for our success is that Make Good isn’t just derived from theory. It was designed by practitioners — and it is rooted in action.
The Make Good course is delivered in the context of a learning community built to allow a peer network to emerge. The materials, which are designed for cluster-based learning, engage every participant in a cycle of input, reflection, problem solving, and design thinking.
In 2020/21 we will begin training and licensing organizations to run the Make Good accelerator course in their own communities. If you are interested in being part of the first cohort to be trained, get in touch!
“Life changing, brilliant, dynamic, great networking, a place where dreams come to life.”
“It was a great week helping me think about what we do in both the general and the specific. A really practical module, well presented, with great people. You really pushed us to wrestle with what we are doing and why – and how to make it happen. The content and process was superb – and being away created space to think about it so that when I returned home I could immediately put stuff into action. I can’t say it loudly enough how valuable it was.”