NBA Social Entrepreneurship Program
2025 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. Cohort members have attended an NBA SENT Seminar and demonstrated an interest and willingness to work with NBA’s Social Entrepreneurship team on a deeper level.
Collette Gaffney
Sunflower Spiritual Care and Education provides accessible, non-violent, trauma-informed spiritual care and education to the Gulf South. Disciples Region: Great River Region
DeJuana Golden
The Healing Garden is a nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives and communities by bringing accessible, healing green spaces to neighborhoods most impacted by food insecurity and limited wellness resources. Disciples Region: Pacific Southwest Region
Rev. Kristin Galle
Description: A Music academy to provide excellent and innovative music education, nurturing talent and fostering a love of music, while serving Denton and the community, in faith-based love of all people. Disciples Region: Southwest Region
Rev. Lavonne Carson
Hope Center of Northwest Indiana seeks to address educational, social and emotional needs of Northwest Indiana’s youth and their families, by providing programming and services in a safe and supportive environment. Disciples Region: Indiana Region
Rev. Nan Riddle
Keiki Camp Ulu Pono’s mission is to provide a camp experience for youth that will nurture them to “prosper on the right path” through a lifestyle of aloha (an ethic of care/respect for all people with all elements of the land wrapped within it) lokahi (unity), and malama ‘aina (care for the land). Disciples Region: Pacific Southwest Region
Dr. Ralph Steele
The Kindred Advantage’s mission is to provide disadvantaged folks in the Houston and Dallas communities with financial, health, and healing education for resilience and wholeness. Disciples Region: Southwest Region
Seungil Eo
The mission of YOUR Place to Shine is to love carefully, learn mutually, and live together with our neurodivergent children, seeing them as gifts from heaven, while offering a supportive community for family members. Disciples Region: Northern Lights Region
Zaemelys Ramos-Rodriguez
Bees & Lavender is a stationary shop with the mission of creating fun and playful stationary products while advocating for vulnerable children and victims of child sex trafficking. Disciples Region: Pacific Southwest Region
Dr. Sherri Session
Cultivating Caring Communities empowers congregations, corporations, and community organizations to cultivate compassion and care, thus addressing community’s social and emotional needs. Disciples Region: Indiana Region
Dr. Lynn Martin
Cultivating Caring Communities empowers congregations, corporations, and community organizations to cultivate compassion and care, thus addressing community’s social and emotional needs. Disciples Region: Indiana Region
