Social Entrepreneurship

Fort Worth, TX—Operation BookBag offers youth tools to address mental health and wellness and life skills to become positive, productive adults.

Garner, NC—The Root Cause Collective exists to build community as a means of preventative health care, to create an ecology of wellness for the whole being.

Louisville, KY—Offering life skills and educational development programs for families, single mothers, seniors, and youth.

Austin, TX— Educating girls age 11-17 about Black women's history and literature and womanist theory and theology.

Witchita, KS—Creating places of safety for youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities where each person is celebrated.

Beltsville, MD—Provides fresh, healthy, nutritious food to food-insecure communities.

Jayuya, Puerto Rico—Healthcare and holistic preventive medicine for women, children, and seniors.

San Jose, CA—Healing for those traumatized by homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges.

Kansas City, MO—Free resources about grief, moral injury, shame, guilt, and other spiritual health issues.

This is a helpful resource for those in the beginning stages of envisioning or creating their organization.

Read and download the 20-page PDF of the 2022 NBA Impact Report, featuring stories from NBA programs, partners, and Disciples leaders.

There have been so many exciting resources, initiatives and partnerships at NBA recently, hear all about it!

Fundraising Consultant Kerri-Ann Appleton shares her tips for building a sustainable community of donors.

Participants in the 2020 Seminar experienced online education on the importance of impactful work in our communities, as well as lessons on how to plant and grow new faith-rooted social enterprises.

The Cynefin framework is a useful tool that helps leaders understand how to approach complex community issues.

Derek Penwell speaks with Sandhya about how churches can get involved in social justice.

A brand is a psychosocial association with something. Every business and organization has a brand, whether they realize it or are in control of it or not.

For lots of us, talking about money at all makes us uncomfortable. Much less asking someone for money! And yet, to make our ministry dreams realities, it is one of the most necessary skills to learn.

While there is no single definition of a “best practices” for each and every nonprofit organization, there are well-recognized ethical standards and accountability practices that every staff and board member of a charitable nonprofit should be aware of.

This webinar focuses on why a ministry should spend time developing these core guiding statements and walks through a clear process for an organization to arrive at their unique way of naming their "why and how."

Even while the world around us seems to be racing itself from one sensational, tragic, amazing thing to the next, perhaps a retreat is what we need.

Advocacy is important in creating communities of compassion and care and board members are leaders who can help your organization advocate for the issues in which you and your organization are engaged.

In this webinar, experienced fundraising professionals answer your questions about fundraising, best practices for nonprofit fundraising, and more!

The lack of diversity on boards is no longer just annoying. It is a critical issue.

As the leading organization focused on strengthening and supporting nonproft board leadership, BoardSource has been tracking and analyzing trends in nonproft board leadership since we launched our frst national study in 1994.

If you operate a local business you can try many general marketing strategies, but you have one special consideration.

CEOs were asked to grade their orgs’ board in 10 different areas. Fundraising received the lowest score.

Board members have a surprisingly demanding and varied job to do.

Here we can empower Disciples to begin building the things they believe the world needs and turn their “I wish someone would…” into “I believe I will.”

We have heard, repeatedly, “You must do background checks!” but what's next?

Finances – an unavoidable part of the stewardship and administration.

NBA Holds 2nd Annual Hybrid Mental Health Professionals Conference.

The NBA Social Entrepreneurship team is excited about the launch of our pilot imPACT Fellowship, onboarding two exceptional fellows dedicated to advancing social entrepreneurship within historically marginalized or under-resourced communities in the United States.

As New Communion’s time as an Incubate Partner came to an end, we spoke with David Harrison to learn more about the organization, how it’s changed throughout its partnership with NBA, and what it has meant to have the support of the organization over the last several years.

Recently, Social Entrepreneur Program Coordinator Rev. Ashley Mayham and NBA trustee Wanda Scott visited Camp Sunflower in Wichita, Kansas to observe how the ministry has grown since they first engaged with NBA in 2019.

We are excited to introduce our two new Incubate Partners joining us this year.

Meet our third group of individuals and the ministries they’re building.

Meet our newest Incubate Partners for 2022!

Earlier this year, NBA’s social entrepreneurship team planned its first in-person trip for our 2021 and 2022 Social Entrepreneurship Cohorts.

In 2021, we launched our first Social Entrepreneur Cohort with the goal to intentionally and sustainably support up-and-coming social enterprises. Since then, cohort members have gone on to launch and grow their organizations and receive funding from other CC(DOC) partners, including Invested Faith.

Meet the 10 new social entrepreneurs who will spend 2022 growing their new nonprofits as part of NBA’s Social Entrepreneurship Cohort!

After spending a year working with NBA's Social Entrepreneurship team, the 2021 SENT Cohort reflects on its impact.

We are excited to announce our Fall 2021 Mission & Ministry Grantees! This program granted a total of $185,500 to 35 Disciples projects working with older adults, children, and youth.

Attending the 2020 SENT Seminar was the confirmation Amie Vanderford needed to keep shaping her new social enterprise Project Least.

"Before the SENT Seminar, I was struggling with what type of organization I was creating, who my target market was, and how I was going to build a supportive network around me that would serve as a guide during the formation years. Now, after attending the SENT seminar, I have no doubt in mind that such support actually exists."

Embarking on the journey to launch a health and social service ministry can be daunting. That's why NBA created the SENT Seminar, to help social entrepreneurs find their way through.

Amber Mattingly, SENT 2020 participant and founder of Sacred Flow, an online yoga community, shares how this year's seminar helped her embrace the unknown and be okay with getting lost.

Managerrie Winston shares how this year's seminar helped define the social impact her organization will have.

The National Benevolent Association is welcoming another faith-rooted social enterprise as a new Incubate partner. Good Life Care Resource Center is NBA’s twelfth Incubate partner.

The National Benevolent Association welcomes StoryWagen as a new Incubate partner and affiliate that is committed to innovative approaches to health and social service ministry.

NBA has adapted its traditional SENT model and moved the seminar to online-only this year. We are grateful to our lineup of esteemed presenters who will share their knowledge with our SENT participants. Get to know them!

New Communion is committed to providing nourishing food in the Winston-Salem community.

In September, we hosted an Anti Racism/Pro-Reconciliation training for 45 individuals. QC Family Tree Founder, Rev. Helms Jarrell shares what attending this training meant to her.

When Felecia an expecting mother and survivor of domestic abuse was facing homelessness, Incubate partner HER Faith Ministries stepped in to help create a path forward.

Rev. Stephen Yorba Patten of UrbanMission Community Partners shares how the organization is getting involved with the Pomona community to create a just community of compassion and care.

2019 SENT Seminar participant Foster Frimpong shares how the after school program he's starting has shifted in a great way since attending SENT.

Katie Sexton arrived at the 2019 SENT Seminar feeling hopeless, but she left feeling hopeful. Read about the journey she's had since then:

2019 SENT Seminar Participant Eric Lesure shares what attending this years SENT meant to him.