Help support Sydney's best emerging social entrepreneurs at Pitch for Good, a live crowdfunding event presented by StartSomeGood, UTS and the City of Sydney.

Pitch For Good is a live crowdfunding event in which you, the audience, will get to choose which of five amazing social entrepreneurs to fund! The enterprises will be graduating from Sydney's Pitch for Good food-themed Incubator. All are using business to make a positive social and environmental impact.

They just need your help to start!

Special guest and visiting entrepreneur Mark Brand, Founder of A Better Life Foundation and Professor of Innovation at USC, will share a few words of inspiration to kick start the event.

Tickets to this event are $30 + booking fee and GST, and include drinks and delicious refreshments from a local social enterprise, Parliament on King.

Best of all - 100% of your ticket price (excluding booking fee and GST) will go towards the social enterprise of your choice on the night.

Help make a difference for your community and have fun at the same time!

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WHO WILL BE PITCHING:

* Bugisu | Brody Smith and Monica Wang

Bugisu Project is the closed-loop coffee supplier brewing a better culture in Sydney workplaces. All profits fund development in Uganda, where our coffee is grown, and all spent coffee grounds are collected for repurposing.

* Nuance Training | Theresa Nguyen

About: Empowering refugees to gain employment in the food industry, Nuance Training, a new venture by Nuance Food will develop and run food safety training programs suitable for new migrants and refugees to meet local regulatory requirements for food safety.

* TrueOrigin | Scott Bustos

About: Empowering sustainable producers from Australia and beyond to compete in the global marketplace.

* IndigiGrow | Cameron Davison and Peter Cooley

About: IndigiGrow, a new venture from the team behind Blak Markets, sustains people, land and culture through the propagation of native plants, including bush food and the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub.

* B&B Highway | Judy Friedlander

About: The FoodFaith organization is building Sydney's B & B Highway to safeguard our pollinators declining at an alarming rate in our urban environment. The highway will link together special pollinating gardens and insect hotels and beehives to help bring back the birds, bees and butterflies.

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AGENDA FOR THE EVENING

5:30 pm Social Enterprise Start-Up Fair, drinks, nibbles and networking.

6:40 pm Take your seats in the theatre

6:50 pm Welcome + Acknowledgement of Country

7:00 pm Mark Brand Keynote

7:15 pm - Pitches Commence

8:00 pm - Voting + networking while results tallied.

8:30 pm - Results announced

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This event is part of the Visiting Entrepreneur Program, produced by the City of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and StartSomeGood. This program is also supported by funding from the Australian Government's program for entrepreneurs and its national innovation and science agenda.

Mark Brand is the CEO of Mark Brand Inc, founder of A Better Life Foundation, executive chef at The American Refugee Committee and professor of innovation at the University of Southern California. He is one of North America's foremost social entrepreneurs. With 11 businesses under his belt, he is an example of a new form of leadership that encompasses good in every step. Through his cooking, philanthropic efforts, systems design, and love for the community he’s found a unique balance in business and purpose.