Entrepreneurship Initiative Monthly News

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October 2010

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Greetings,

Do you dream about starting a business or running one? We invite you to bring your ideas to us.  Come to one of our 3 info sessions to learn more about how you can participate in our 5th Business Plan Competition.

On September 20th, we had 54 people at our fellowship learn how to build a community around a vision of gospel entrepreneurship.  We were privileged to have James Tufenkian (Social Entrepreneur, Tufenkian Group), Rev. David Kim (Gotham Fellowship), and NY Christian Legal Services (2010 Business Plan Winner) share about the importance of discerning God's vision and letting that drive your venture.

Lastly, we have great news from one of our 2010 Ei Forum speakers.  Bill Kurtz, the CEO of the Denver School of Science and Technology recently appeared on Oprah and his school was awarded $1 million from her charity.  (Video Here)


Sincerely,

Calvin Chin
Spotlight






The Longitude is a branding, communications, and venture incubation firm that not only helps build and communicate brands, but also seeks to build ideas and companies.  The team at Longitude is part of a multi-venture holding company comprised of several wonderful and talented initiatives and people (artists, filmmakers, journalists, business strategists, and marketers) all aimed at working towards the common good. 


The first venture that the Longitude launched and incubated is Hello Rewind - a manufacturer of laptop sleeves from old t-shirts, utilizing the labor of sex trafficking survivors in New York City.  Bloomberg Businessweek named the Longitude as among, "America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs" for 2010, and readers later voted them first.  Running socially innovative companies has helped them better understand the needs of their clients in regards to branding and communications while at the same time giving them a sense of fulfillment, knowing that the work they are doing is making people's lives better.





Equip
Preparing individuals to fully apply the gospel to their lives and develop a Christian worldview of their profession or industry.

REVIEW: WHY BUSINESS MATTERS TO GOD
by: Katherine Leary Alsdorf

Jeff Van Duzer's new book by this title (and an even more intriguing subtitle, And What Still Needs to Be Fixed), will be released next month. Van Duzer plunges bravely into the territory of economics, business and theology and lays out how we should think about business in light of the Biblical narrative. With a framework much like Redeemer's, he advocates a humble but hopeful posture of engaging in culture as Christians with the desire for its healing and redemption. This redemption is for institutions and businesses - whole spheres of culture - not just the individuals who work in them...


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Connect
Engaging professionals within a field in ways that inspire and challenge gospel-centered thinking and behavior.

OCT 18 - Ei Fellowship Group
What does an entrepreneur look like? Are they born? Made? What assets, skills, or gospel understanding do you bring to the community? Come hear profiles of entrepreneurs and learn first hand from their stories and insight.  Meeting at Shetler Studios.

Please RSVP by email to ei@redeemer.com.



Mobilize
Encouraging our leaders to become agents of change for the common good inside existing institutions and by creating new ones.

2010-2011 BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
Seeking for-profit, not-for-profit and arts ventures with a high potential for Gospel-centered social impact and growth & sustainability. Come to one of our Information Sessions on October 14th, 17th, or 21st.

GOSPEL & CULTURE LECTURES - OCTOBER 24, 1:00PM.
Come hear Jeff Van Duzer, a former partner with the international law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine and current Dean of the School of Business & Economics @ Seattle Pacific University, speak on Why Business Matters to God.

Free. Hunter College Auditorium. Theology Matters. Work Matters. www.faithandwork.org/gospel&culture


CULTURE CLUB: MOVIE AT THE MET
The Culture Club creates opportunities for our congregation to learn about and experience the range of arts events that New York City has to offer. Join us on October 8 for an interview with Norman Jewison followed by his film Moonstruck.


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