Baltimore is well-represented in this national social enterprise accelerator

To judge by the names found in the inaugural class of a new national accelerator, Baltimore is pretty hot in the social entrepreneurship space these days.
The first year of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund’s SE4Jobs accelerator is set to bring together 18 leaders focused on creating jobs. The leaders get guidance from experts that can help in their work, and have a chance to build a network with the other members.
The cohort is set to meet three times over seven months. Baltimore is one of the cities where the meetings will take place, from May 10-13, 2017. Sessions in San Francisco and New Orleans are also planned.
Of the 18 members of the cohort, three are Baltimore-based. They are:

• Deborah Haust, director of City Seeds. The recently-launched program from workforce development org Humanim focuses on creating food industry jobs. The company is also slated to run the commercial kitchen at the Baltimore Food Hub.
• Rae Gallagher, of Flying Fruit Cafe, a stand at Camden Yards and Inner Harbor that provides job training. It’s an initiative of the Choice Program at UMBC.
• Holly Shook, of CUPS Coffeehouse, a cafe in Hollins Market that also runs a workforce development program.

See the rest of the cohort.