More than just an educational citrus planting, the first Project Lemon Tree at Jefferson Elementary School taught the keiki a valuable lesson on "how to make lemonade out of lemons." In 2016, vandals had cold-heartedly burned down Jefferson Elementary School's playground along with the joy it once provided the keiki. Looking past the charred devastation, Principal Garret Zakahi's fire proof optimism beautified the hideous act into our inaugural Project Lemon Tree trellis planting. On July 21, … [Read more...]
New App-preneur Accelerator Launched
An Accelerator for Both Coders & Non-Coders Bizgenics Foundation recently launched HaccUp, an app-entrepreneur accelerator program that empowers app-preneurs, both coders and non-coders, to create positive impacts for People, Planet and Philanthropies. 0% Equity Business Model HaccUp requires 0% equity for participation and offers rock-bottom development costs by using Bizgenics' microservices development platform and offshore development team. Participants are free to leave the platform … [Read more...]
Mahalo to Elemental Excelerator
One of the best things that happened to Bizgenics Foundation this year was the start of a new partnership with Elemental Excelerator. Elemental is the largest accelerator in the State of Hawaii having funded over $23 million dollars to over 60 companies in the past three years. And adding their list of credits, title sponsor of little ol' Lemonade Alley, 2018. From all of us at Bizgenics to the entire team at Elemental, MAHALO for supporting our keiki program... and thx for all the cool EE … [Read more...]
It’s a Wrap! 2016 BGF Summary
Aloha Lemonites & BizzyBs! 2016 has been a year of astonishing growth and good times for the BizGym Foundation. Our message of “Profit to SHARE” is trending in a market that’s celebrating a renewed interest in innovative skills and entrepreneurial spirit. Top BGF initiatives this year: 1. Lemonade Alley was Zestier than Ever! Lemonade Alley completed it’s 7th year of operations this year at Pearlridge Center. As always, American Savings Bank provided the big $1,000 cash prizes won by three … [Read more...]
Congrats to Outstanding Women in Hawaii!
BizGym Foundation congratulates three very special ladies who were honored as women of distinction by the Hawaii Girl Scouts. Louise Ing: WOW! One of our very own Board Members at BGF! Louis is one of the top dog at Alston, Hunt, Floyd & Ing. We know her as an all-around star and we're thankful for her counsel in driving BGF programs like Lemonade Alley. In fact, this past year, Louis wrote the licensing package for Lemonade Alley to go to the mainland and beyond! Catherine Ngo: CEO of … [Read more...]
3 New Kid-preneur Books by BGF
Introducing our new Kid-Biz Book Series for at-home, after-school and/or in-classroom use. And all of them are available for purchase at Amazon.com! "Kid-preneur's Startup Kit" This kidpreneur's workbook is for K-12 kids to learn the arts of entrepreneurship and financial literacy while making a business of their own. Great for any budding kid-biz ideas including crafts, agriculture, food & beverage, services and any other business a kid can dream up! If you're a kidpreneur, this book … [Read more...]
What is a Social Venture?
I must confess: I was recently asked to be on a panel about Social Ventures and didn't know what that meant. So I googled it and found a bunch of stuff summarized as follows: Hey! That sounds like our BizGym Foundation mantra of "Profit to SHARE!" So they're preaching to the choir as we believe that nonprofits and for-profits should have more in common than not in common. The fact is, type of entity shouldn't matter. What does matter is that an entity is self-sustaining and does good for … [Read more...]
HawaiiWebLog on Lemonade Alley
Huge mahalos to Ryan Ozawa at HawaiiWebLog for doing such a nice writeup on Lemonade Alley's coming 5th year! Seriously. 5 years! Some say it takes that long to know if a non-profit program is going to stick... we'll we've ben up to sticky and sweet stuff for enough time now to seriously hope this mess sticks! And it looks like it will with great supporters like Ryan. So mahalo to you all for continuing to support BizGym Foundation's Profit to Share! programs. Read the Post: Click … [Read more...]
Brand-Aid Hawai‘i Kicks Off
Another BizGym Foundation project kicked off this week with the inaugural Brand-Aid Triage Pop-up. Special Thanks to Dr. Evans and the gang at Argosy University for being the presenting sponsor and hosting the event at Tamarind Park at Bishop Square in downtown Honolulu. The goal of Brand-Aid is simple: do free brand checkups on companies to help fix their businesses brand boo-boos. Yep, we patched up a few skinned entrepreneurial knees and put a bunch of companies on strength training … [Read more...]
BGF on Midweek Cover
In Hawai‘i, getting profiled on the cover of Midweek is a dream for many. I didn't really get that until we arrived there this week. so I'm especially thankful to Midweek business & entrepreneurial writer Christina O'Connor and photographer extraordinaire Nathalie Walker for making us look and sound so zesty. I also want to thank Editor Don Chapman for allowing the kids to be in the main shot. I know it's not Midweek's custom to have a gaggle of people on the cover, but Lemonade Alley is … [Read more...]
