A Social Ignition: Changing Lives (and the World) Through Entrepreneurship
On this edition of Making Oregon our guest is Sonja Skvarla, founder of the Portland non-profit A Social Ignition. ( https://asocialignition.com/ ) Sonja started A Social Ignition in the Spring of 2012, and since 2014 has offered and taught a curriculum of entrepreneurship and professional development at the Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, OR, called the “Ignition Option”. It’s focused on a successful transition for men returning to the community. Recently, A Social Ignition added a “Long Haul” program, which provides graduates of the core entrepreneurship program individual and small group coaching towards their particular business goals. Sonja had gotten great traction with the program with very little outside resources – there have already been 49 graduates of the Ignition Option, there are 22 members of the Long Haul, and 12 graduate businesses are either launched or in development. They will be celebrating the men of A Social Ignition at a gala on November 10th in Portland (get more info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-celebration-tickets-27956631036?aff=es2)