He left what he describes as a great job with a Fortune 100 company to join SRM.
“Meeting Janine and Sarah in Nashville and coming to the training were catalytic events for me.”Īnderson said SRM is currently transitioning its culinary arts training to be in partnership with Catalyst Kitchens, a network of more than two dozen organizations similar to SRM, which will allow men to move into private sector jobs faster.Īnderson, who joined SRM about 18 months ago, says he was brought on largely to give SRM’s social enterprise efforts a shot in the arm. That is the same pitch I took to the bank, which agreed to fund us for $1.2 million in start-up capital,” he said. “JVA helped me develop my business model, helped me understand the competitive landscape and develop my pitch. He then came to JVA’s then known as Social Enterprise Basecamp to flesh out his ideas for Mission Farms-a commercial agriculture program that will employ men served by SRM. In conjunction with Mission Catering, it now provides six- and 24-month culinary arts training programs that prepare people for jobs in the private sector.Īnderson first became familiar with JVA Consulting while attending the Social Enterprise Alliance national conference last April in Nashville, where he heard Janine Vanderburg and Sarah Hidey present. Springs Rescue Mission, which began life in the mid 1990s providing sandwiches to homeless people, has grown into a robust provider of food (more than 1.4 million meals served to date), emergency relief and rehabilitation services. Vice president of enterprise & administration at Springs Rescue Mission (SRM) in Colorado Springs, Anderson has been on a mission lately. Somewhat less common are people who turn those ideas into something not only real, but real good.
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The world is full of people with great ideas. By Scot Kersgaard, Senior Associate, Joining Vision and Action