EP 284 Addressing Food Insecurity by Growing Healthy Food, People & Communities

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

Veleké Brown is dedicated to addressing food insecurity through a program focused on ensuring access to fresh produce for those in underrepresented communities and creating systems of sustainable agriculture.
It's called Operation No Food Gap, and it's changing lives through learning how to grow and harvest and eat fresh produce, while ending food insecurity in marginalized neighborhoods.
Veleké dives deep into her decades experience as the non-profit founder of E-Roadmap, a 501c3 nonprofit that works with after-school programs, school systems and various organizations to empower and equip youth with life-altering unique skills to eradicate poverty of mind.
You'll learn about building a non profit board, nurturing donor and sponsorship relationships, how to always be learning and growing, fundraising and networking advice for non profit leaders - and more! You will love meeting this awe*mazing educator, organizer, social innovator and a connector with a focus on youth development.
You can find Veleké in the classroom, at the local City Hall or on the front lines feeding the homeless. She changes lives, everywhere she GLOWS!
To learn more about Operation No Food Gap, please visit: https://nofoodgap.org
To learn more about E-RoadMap, please visit: https://www.e-roadmap.org/about Please connect with Veleke via LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/velek-brown-5a5344a/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!
Ande ♥
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WHAT WE LEARNED:
00:00 - Meet Veleke Brown!
06:00 - How she learned entrepreneurship from her Grandfather and Father
09:00 - Black entrepreneurship
12:00 - Launching a non-profit startup
14:40 - Best non-profit Board advice
18:30 - Founders need to always be learning and growing
21:30 - How to build a donor base and attract Sponsors
23:00 - Best networking advice for non-profit founders
25:30 - Outstanding advice for raising funds for a new non-profit
40:00 - How to turn an abandoned property into a thriving produce-filled garden
43:30 - There's a hunger issue in Palm Beach County
52:00 - Delicious founder journey advice
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