NBA Social Entrepreneurship Program
2021 SENT Cohort
The SENT Cohort was created to enhance relationships, support, and provide education for social entrepreneurs as they launch and grow their new social service organizations. The cohort members attended the SENT Seminar in September 2020 and demonstrated an interest and willingness to work with NBA’s social enterprise team on a deeper level over the following year.
Amber Mattingly
Sacred Flow exists to heal trauma that affects the mind, body and spirit offering tools to develop self-compassion, a sense of solidarity, and active engagement.
Disciples Region: Southwest
Amie Vanderford
Project LEAST (Love Everyone As Self Training) is focused on teaching prosocial skills to youth so they can develop healthier emotional and relational ways to better operate in the community.
Sponsoring Congregation: The LabOratory Church
Disciples Region: Indiana
Andre Brown
“A Soul Cleansing” is a documentary highlighting the stories of LGBTQAI folk who have endured the Black Church’s use of Christian theology to dismiss their faith, life, and love.
Disciples Region: Pacific Southwest
Constance Folsom
Dreamkeepers Coalition is a community organization committed to promoting unity and empowering communities by providing youth and family workshops and programs.
Disciples Region: Georgia
Delesslyn Kennebrew
The Clergy Renewal program of the Morning Glory Bed & Breakfast is an attempt to solve the problem of clergy burnout in pastors who serve in congregations of less than 100 people and have no budget for vacation.
Disciples Region: Greater Kansas City
Loren Richmond
Resonate Media seeks to help marginalized persons amplify their voices via podcasting and other media enterprises.
Disciples Region: Central Rocky Mountain
Managerrie Winston
The Keep It Together Foundation provides “The KIT” a set of social-emotional learning tools to serve the mind, bodies, and souls of underprivileged youth breaking boundaries, barriers and rewriting the cycle of generational trauma.
Disciples Region: Southwest
Yolanda Norton
The Global Arts and Theology Experience will use womanist theology, visual and performing arts as mechanisms to encourage spiritual and emotional healing for Black women and girls.
Disciples Region: Southwest
Yolanda Roseby
Our mission is to identify, create opportunities, and equip people of color in low-income areas start microbusinesses that will create additional income and strengthen communities.
Reegie Bunch
Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.
