Springboard Innovation

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“Hatch innovation works to enable citizen innovators to launch enterprises that improve communities, locally and globally. The organization has been operating programs designed to increase the capacity of individuals and enterprise to solve community problems. Our approach has been to cultivate an "innovation ecosystem" in which caange leasders can flourish in any community. This framework continues to drive our programs: 1) teach the change maker inside each of us; 2) create a home for community innovators to find what they need; 3) create new tools that grow community captal; 4) build the ecosystem for citizen-led change.”

“Own events in hatchlab, including two "hatch:soup" events, a program that initiates budding community change agents to pitch to community members who pool their ticket price to give to the winner; the lauch of comcappdx and comcapor (where the governor spoke), two events that helped oregonians understand the concept and use of community capital; and a launch event for the social enterpreneurs raising funds. Over 1,800 people attended these events and workshops. Professionals, community members, and students come to meet like-minded people. In hatchlaab pdx we provided support to 186 social entrepreneurs with programs and 1:1 consulting and advising. In 2015 we hosted three world affairs council groups to share our hatch lab model. We held 12 monthly "hatch community gatherings" for our membership community with local experts, and have built a strong network around the world with other incubators and labs to share best practices. We conducted 120 tours of hatch for visitors. In addition, we have created a hatchlab in baker city, oregon, an extremely rural community of less than 10,000 people. This place is growing to develop into a full incubator, space for programming, and co-working to serve rural entreprenuers.”

“Two of the entrepreneurs we helped were from rural oregon.) we also toured the state, speaking in 22 citits to teach commuities about the benefits of community capital and the new law. We also secured a law firm to translate the law into spanish pro bono, which we hope to use in 2016 with spanish- speaking entrepreneurs. By the end of 2015, hatch innovation staff spoke 67 times inside and outside oregon, sharing the strategy and benefits of community capital. Founder amy pearl was on the cover of the portland business journal and won the prestigious "orchid award" as a "woman of influence" as a result. Hatchoregon.com helped facilitate the investment of 333,000 in 2015 into social enterprises.”

“Hatchinnovation: we continued to work closely with economic development in rural ne oregon helping create infrastructure for local investing, training leaders, technical service providers, entrepreneurs, and new investors on how to participate in their local economy. With the new law we shifted from private capital tools to public capital investing, elevating impact, small business, and local investing. We trained six economic deveolpment leaders in how to use the new law and help local entrepreneurs use it wisely. Our work across the state is to enable communities to invest in themselves. To continue building a support system for community capital, we held a city-based event called comcappdx, and then a statewide convening called comcapor conference (community capital) in february and march 2015 which brought together leaders from all parts of the ecosystem to elevate the challenges and values small and social enterprise bring to communities. Over 300 people attended.”