ELEVATE Your Network: The Power of Cooperative Business

352 University Avenue Southwest,Atlanta GA 30310

08 April, 2022

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Network with your PY neighbors and learn about how co-ops can elevate your community! Join your Pittsburgh Yards family for our monthly Community Mixer, a networking series that highlights a small business in Pittsburgh Yards and gives an opportunity for members and tenants to network and collaborate. Find out what is going on in the community and get a chance to highlight any news or events from your business. Our co-hosts, Gangstas to Growers and Sweet Sol, will be joining us to educate on the benefits of cooperative business and how you can get involved with or start your own co-op. This is a BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch) Event. Bring yourself and a friend and let's network! Event DetailsFriday, April 8, 2022 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pittsburgh Yards 352 University Ave SW Atlanta, GA 30310 Ampitheatre RSVP now to save your spot! Our FacilitatorsGangstas to Growers (G2G) was founded in 2016 as the inaugural program of the Come-Up Project, an umbrella initiative, launching social enterprise cooperatives and training programs for community-based solutions. G2G, an agribusiness training program, provides economic opportunity and mobility to black, formerly incarcerated young adults in underserved and targeted Atlanta communities. They earn $15 hour in a 40 hour work week for 6 months. They have the opportunity to join our co-op Sweet Sol after graduation. Sweet Sol is a cooperative manufacturing enterprise distributing locally sourced plant-based hot sauce to sustain its members and eventually G2G community programming.