Name: Entrepreneur Journeys: Lived Experience in Securing Support for Your Business
Start: 2026-08-27T10:45:00-0500
End: 2026-08-27T11:30:00-0500

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Entrepreneur Journeys: Lived Experience in Securing Support for Your Business

Thursday August 27, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Auditorium

Securing funding, finding support from organizations that provide services to entrepreneurs, connecting with people who “get” what you are all about… these are all challenges in the journey of a social entrepreneur. Alumni of the Initiators Fellowship will share stories from their journeys to finding community champions and capital, from early investment to expansion.

Moderators

Christine Metzo

Co-Director, Initiators Fellowship, Initiative Foundation

Speakers

Funwi Tita

Better Greens LLC

Funwi Tita is the founder and owner of Better Greens LLC and President of the Minnesota African Immigrant Farmers Association (MAIFA). He is a farmer, entrepreneur, and food systems advocate dedicated to increasing access to culturally significant foods while creating economic opportunities... Read More →

Erin Schutte Wadzinski

Kivu Immigration Law PLLC

Erin Schutte Wadzinski was a 2020-2021 Initiators Fellow. Through this fellowship, she founded Kivu Immigration Law PLLC, a social enterprise law firm in her rural hometown of Worthington, Minnesota. Kivu Law provides flat-rate, below market-rate immigration legal services to immigrants... Read More →

Thursday August 27, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Auditorium

Panel/Presentation

2026 Do Business with Purpose Mini Summit

Christine Metzo

Funwi Tita

Erin Schutte Wadzinski

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2026 Do Business with Purpose Mini Summit

Christine Metzo

Funwi Tita

Erin Schutte Wadzinski

Attendees (13)

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