Alissa Sears Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

adVenturesAcademy is a highly-specialized, research-based experiential program (“curriculum in action”) focused on strengthening and building resilience in leaders and innovators dedicated to building businesses that create a better world. We know that the best businesses are the ones that do it differently. Push the limits. Make the impossible possible. That is why we built adVenturesAcademy. To build resilience. To create more meaningful engagement. To build lasting growth, to foster scalability, to unleash innovation, and deepen the ability to withstand the challenges of growth, together.With the goal of deepening the engagement of entrepreneurs, investors, executive teams and the growth ecosystem surrounding courageous, game changing companies, adVenturesAcademy creates adVenture programs that unleash innovation, develop meaningful relationships between stakeholders, and cultivate key skills critical to success in building high growth, resilient enterprises. www.adventures.academy

Boulder, Co, Us

Nutrition Capital Network (NCN) is dedicated to facilitating financing & asset sales for growing companies and to introduce investors to the next generation of successful brands & technology in the nutrition and health & wellness industry. In addition to hosting four annual investor meetings, NCN is active throughout the year, tracking transactions; hosting conference calls; cultivating partnerships between innovators, investors, buyers and sellers; and fostering a flow of new companies into the network.

RSF Social Finance (RSF) is a pioneering non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In partnership with a community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises addressing key issues in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. RSF’s assets have grown 39 percent over the last three years, as more and more investors are putting their money to work for social benefit.

As a new frontier of global social/environmental investment, the KIWA Investment Summit harnesses the spirit of innovation, sustainability, culture and community to connect high growth Latin American entrepreneurs generating both financial as well as social and environmental returns with investors, development agencies, and critical growth resources. KIS carefully selects investors and experts interested in these sectors and provides them with unique insights, guidance, and resources to support greater understanding. KIS also curates high growth Latin American entrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services that are committed to generating financial as well as social and environmental returns, providing mentoring, access to growth resources, and expert guidance.www.kiwasummit.com

San Francisco, California, Us

Advisor to CircleUp community companies.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Based in Santa Barbara, California with teams in Los Angeles, Boulder, and New York City, Christie & Co is an award-winning communications & growth agency that has helped pioneering brands, leaders, and causes take their Dreams to Mainstream for more than 25 years. Creatively disrupting, delighting, and differentiating to create meaningful engagement, the Christie & Co team works with visionaries building a better world through business.The Christie Comm-Unity Foundation and our Global Betterment Sector complete the circle by creating and promoting innovative, results-oriented initiatives for the betterment of our world.

Quail Springs Permaculture is dedicated to demonstrating and teaching holistic ways of designing human environments, and to facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through immersive experiences in nature. We believe that lasting ecological health and social harmony can be fostered through emphasizing the connection between people, food, shelter, energy and water. The Permaculture Design Certification course (PDC) for International Development & Social Entrepreneurship teaches how to employ permaculture as a tool to increase the sustainable nature of international development projects. Permaculture’s holistic design process and systems thinking prove extremely applicable in a wide range of development/social enterprise projects. Too often single solutions are bandaged onto complex solutions. Permaculture has become one of the most effective, integrated design methodologies based on holistic, system-based design principles in order to create sustainable, resilient, and bio-diverse communities.

Play longer, recover faster.Amari is a lifestyle brand supporting active vitality. Amari's product line contains our proprietary blend of clean label, water soluble, powdered blends of adaptogenic herbs, CBD and botanical extracts formulated to support a lifestyle of health, wellness and active vitality. Each product is designed to help you play longer and recover faster from activities like running, skiing, yoga, hiking and cycling.

Boulder, Co, Us

The backyard barbecue is an American pastime. But we’ve lost something in our transition to the convenience of gas grills over the last 30 years. Eager to be rid of the messy and time-consuming experience of dumping a bag of charcoal on an aluminum grate and dousing it with lighter fluid, we embraced gas, on the promise it would do the job just as well. It doesn’t. Now, there’s a way to return to an experience that delivers the authenticity, taste and character of charcoal, combining the artisanship of the pre-gas era with the technology of today. A transformative new technology rooted in impact.

Portland, Oregon, Us

As a company committed to revolutionizing food safety, Aunt Fannie’s makes powerful, non-toxic solutions that are truly safe for use near food. Aunt Fannie’s products empower families to take back their kitchens from toxins, make restaurants safer places to share a meal, and help food manufacturers create wholesome foods without risk of chemical contamination. Aunt Fannie’s’ Safe Near Food Mission drives the company’s innovation and product development to create effective, truly non-toxic solutions like the company’s lead product, FlyPunch!™. With such impressive growth, I am proud to serve as an advisor to help support Aunt Fannie’s team as we continue to expand to meet such critical needs across multiple industries.

Venice, California, Us

Yellow Leaf Hammocks is a mission-driven lifestyle company committed to creating eco-luxe hammocks that promote our “Do Good. Relax.” philosophy. The company’s mission is to bring bliss to our customers and generate high wage jobs and a brighter future for their artisans while promoting cultural preservation and conservation. Yellow Leaf Hammocks is a social enterprise that trains and supports artisan weavers as they create high-margin luxury hammocks. By creating the foundation for a sustainable microeconomy, Yellow Leaf is helping alleviate poverty, social injustice and environmental degradation for rural hill tribes in Phrae Province, Thailand. The enterprise is a wholesale hammock seller that distributes its products through retail boutiques and e-commerce websites.

Channel Islands Outfitters (CIO) is a guide-owned and operated for benefit company dedicated to saving the oceans and natural places by fostering an understanding of them through education, adventures and outdoor experiences. CIO is an authorized kayak, hike, and snorkel guide service for the Channel Islands National Park with a base of operations at Santa Cruz Island, Scorpion Ranch. Additionally the company has launched a wildly successful, innovative Adventure Co-Op model, providing convenient and affordable access to a variety of paddle sports equipment and gear every day of the week, all year long, promoting health, community and conservation.

Innovative, consciously sourced skincare, superfoods and ingredients that promote strength+beauty from source to shelf. Kaibae's products are made with wildcrafted ingredients from the world’s oldest and most abundant ecosystems: the Amazon Basin, the Indian Ocean, and the African Savanna. Harnessing the nutritional potential of highly valuable lost crops, our consumer-driven, premium products and ingredients create vibrant economic opportunity and promote environmental and cultural preservation in the communities in which we harvest. www.gokaibae.com

The California Coast Venture Forum carries on its 20 year legacy as the largest venture forum in the Central Coast focused on sustainable, clean business with the Clean Business Investment Summit™ . CBIS brings together high growth sustainable, socially responsible enterprises from all over the world to present their companies to world-class investors ranging from leading angels to VCs and industry experts looking for viable, ethical Clean Business™ opportunities. CBIS is responsible for introducing more than 575 start-up and growth companies to investors and growth resources, with more than $125,000,000 invested as a result and a success rate of more than 30% of all presenting companies getting funded.

Safe Water International's (SWI) mission is to identify clean drinking water solutions for the poorest rural areas of the world and to promote local marketplace involvement in delivering those solutions.

It’s Moringa manufactures, distributes and sells the finest quality, all natural multi-nutrient rich moringa oleifera based products with the commitment to producing innovative, high quality, all natural ingredients, improving nutrition and combating malnutrition. It’s Moringa recognizes the important role that business plays in society by actively improving nutrition and combating malnutrition in developing and developed parts of the world. The company is operated on a sustainable financial basis of profitable growth, increasing value for our stakeholders and expanding opportunities for development and career growth for our employees. It’s Moringa is dedicated to a sustainable corporate concept of linking purchases of It’s Moringa products to improving nutrition and combating malnutrition across the world. We seek to meet the needs of the malnourished and help put an end to the lack of proper nutrition experienced by so many especially in the developing parts of the world by integrating these concerns into our day-to-day business activities. To this end, we focus on children and families.

300in6 is an initiative to provide 300 million people with safe drinking water in 6 years. 300in6 catalyzes existing or new initiatives for a massive scaling-up of safe water solutions with a focus on Household Water Treatment (HWT) including safe storage.

The Weidemann Foundation creates global change by empowering women, youth and families through microfinance and community initiatives around the world. The Weidemann Foundation envisions a world of economic and social opportunity that continually creates equality, access to resources and peace.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

This new program provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to apply current management theory and practice to create and lead organizations that advance the social good – either business ventures or non-profit organizations. The program responds to a growing interest in entrepreneurship that promotes social well being and social justice.

The Chad Relief Foundation (CRF) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose objective is to provide assistance to refugees from the Central African Republic in south Chad and to the local population surrounding the refugee camps.