In partnership with many awesome Colorado change-makers, we are happy to announce a new monthly meetup.

The Sustainable Business Models Meetup has been hatched in pursuit of building a stronger ecology of social enterprise in Colorado.

From the site:

PURPOSE
The purpose of this meetup is to provide a place to discuss the specifics of funding, creating and running a sustainable social enterprise. This emerging sector, which spans the for-profit and non-profit worlds, is still taking shape, and there is no silver bullet solution for people who want to create socially- and environmentally-impactful organizations that can stand the test of time. So we need to create the framework in which we operate.

PROCESS
In addition to the typical aspects of a meetup — introductions, community announcements and a general give-and-take atmosphere — we expect to split each meetup into two sessions.

* First Session — Metrics
Together, we will review different metrics and frameworks, so we can understand the key measures of sustainable enterprise.

* Second Session — Behind The Scenes
We will invite organizational leaders who are operating within triple-bottom-line and/or sustainable principles to show us how they measure their performance.

WHO SHOULD COME?
We expect a mix of people to join us, including angel investors, fund managers, entrepreneurs, non-profit executives, thought leaders and the media, as well as anyone else who want to learn about running a transformative organization.

People from the Cleantech, Web 2.0, LOHAS, Non-Profit, Bio-Tech, Media and other related and unrelated fields will all share and gain new perspectives on this challenge.

The purpose of the event is to be a collective learning environment, where we can all contribute not just to a better understanding, but a better, stronger business ecology.

The initial gathering — SoCap ReCap, on Sept. 15 — is going to feature a cross-section of Colorado’s social enterprise community who are attending the Social Capital Markets (SoCap) conference, which is the hub of activity, news and networking for the social enterprise world.  We will share our observations, report back on the truth of capital access and set up the ongoing discussion about running a sustainable enterprise.

Please join us.