THE IDREAM
INITIATIVE
It’s Time to Live Your Dream
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We believe in dreaming big, pursuing ideas through an opportunistic lens, and putting energy into what is possible.
The I DREAM Initiative catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
IDREAM’s Best Features
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The I Dream Initiative is an organization deeply rooted in the community.
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The I Dream Initiative is dedicated to supporting social entrepreneurs
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The I Dream Initiative improves lives to make the world a better place.
Increasing Access, Unlocking Growth.
At the I DREAM Initiative, we aspire to build a world with greater access, opportunity, and shared prosperity. We believe that addressing the needs of all individuals in this country, not just the top 10%, is more than a moral imperative – it’s a compelling business opportunity that's been severely overlooked. We invest in founders who share our vision.
We’re helping visionaries.
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2024 Learnings in the Education Space
Nonprofit Annual Report
An overview of our organization’s latest updates and impact
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Foreword
the IDREAM Initiative seeks to become a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.
We support entrepreneurs by surrounding them with the right access to resources, mentors, business fundamentals, community partners, capital sources, and anything they need to succeed.
The IDREAM Initiative is an organization deeply rooted in the community dedicated to supporting all social entrepreneurs creating a product, service, or technology that improves lives or makes the world a better place.
Dedicated to making a difference.
Social entrepreneurs are natural born innovators who work to solve challenging issues. As pioneers, they tend to shape their roles as they go—creating new solutions to old problems, new rules, and sometimes entirely new disciplines. The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get unstuck. The Social Entrepreneur finds what is not working and solves the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.
Our "Go Success" efforts
The IDREAM Initiative seeks to become a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises.
We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.
Everything you need to turn an idea into a thriving business is within your reach.
We support entrepreneurs by surrounding them with the right access to resources, mentors, business fundamentals, community partners, capital sources, and anything they need to succeed.
Our journey
through the years
Founding Year
Started to help social entrepreneurs
Year 2
Launched Ad Campaign to engage the community
Year 5
Supported efforts of those seeking to make a difference
Today
Seeking to grow our impact and influence to impact all
What is social enterprise?
Social enterprise, also known as social entrepreneurship, broadly encompasses ventures of nonprofits, civic-minded individuals, and for-profit businesses that can yield both financial and social returns.
Investing for good.
At the IDREAM Initiative, our mission is to bring social change to the world. Through research, education, and experiential learning, we strengthen the capacity of individuals and organizations to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
We envision a networked community of leaders actively working across sectors, frontiers, and disciplines to build a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world.
About our organization
We are on a mission to educate, accelerate, and invest in diverse entrepreneurs who are creating solutions to social problems.
Our mission and vision
The IDREAM Initiative seeks to become a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.
Our Priorities
Borrowed from the venture capital industry, we will find, fund and support exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale. We provide unrestricted capital, and, most importantly, we provide rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact.
Our "Go Success" efforts
Whether you're a full-time founder or a newcomer to the entrepreneurial journey, IDREAM's trainings and network of support offer guidance, encouragement, and resources to move your business forward.
When you join an IDREAM program, you enter a community of entrepreneurs and mentors who share your vision for a better world and care deeply about your success and wellbeing.
IDREAM ENCOURAGES SUCCESS
Whether you're a full-time founder or a newcomer to the entrepreneurial journey, our trainings and network of support offer guidance, encouragement, and resources to move your business forward. We care deeply about your success and wellbeing.
Investing for good.
We strive to work with social innovators closest to the challenges, to advance equity, and drive toward a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. Social innovators tackle interconnected problems and advance solutions from every angle—We focus on problems and places that are ripe for change, with potential for major impact.
Our year in numbers
3
Scholarship grants for our community members
$2.8M
of supplementary funding from the private sector
45%
of funds to support free learning courses and workshops
Fund for Social Ventures
We seek to invest in a wide variety of sectors: our current portfolio includes organizations working both domestically and internationally, helping to provide critical access to healthcare, education, food security, social justice, water and sanitation, transparency and accountability, and shelter.
We are now looking forward to finding, funding, and supporting the next generation of impactful IDREAM portfolio organizations.
You can change the world. We can help.
We are an organization dedicated to empowering diverse, impact-driven entrepreneurs who are using their business ventures to create social change locally and around the world. We bring together a deep network of resources, mentors, and partners to make entrepreneurship accessible to all.
Our growing volunteer network
North East
+10%
East Coast
+12%
Southeast
+10%
Southern
+15%
Northern
+8%
West Coast
+9%
Our "Go Success" efforts
Borrowed from the venture capital industry, we find, fund and support exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale.
We seek to provide unrestricted capital, and, most importantly, we provide rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact.
We invest in early-stage organizations and are often their first institutional investor, as well as their first “outside” board member.
Our organization highlights
Bridging the knowledge gap
Addressing Critical Needs: Nonprofits often focus on addressing critical needs within communities, such as poverty alleviation, hunger relief, homelessness assistance, healthcare access, education, disaster relief, and support for vulnerable populations (e.g., children, elderly, individuals with disabilities, refugees, and immigrants).
As an organization we help build social capital, networks, collaborations, partnerships, and coalitions within communities.
We work to facilitate connections, collaboration, knowledge sharing, resource mobilization, collective action, and community resilience, enabling communities to address challenges, leverage strengths, and achieve shared goals.
Our organization highlights
Bridging the knowledge gap
IDREAM Initiative’s programs are interactive, approachable, and confidence-building. Our unique approach is the result of a decade spent empowering thousands of underrepresented entrepreneurs alongside knowledgeable and respected community leaders.
No matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey (even idea-stage), we can help you build your business, find community, and make the change you want to see.
We seek to contribute to economic development, job creation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development within communities. We support small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, workforce training programs, employment initiatives, and economic revitalization efforts, stimulating local economies, reducing unemployment, and fostering sustainable growth.
Scholarships, Grants
So every student can succeed.
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Our impact
Who We Are
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What we do
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Our Mission
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Our Impact
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Contact
Phone
(704)941-5386
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