StartingBlock has selected 11 social impact entrepreneur teams for its Social Impact Initiative, the organization announced recently.

“The Social Impact cohort allows entrepreneurs to be a part of the StartingBlock entrepreneurial ecosystem, to access our community and partners and to use those tools, relationships and expertise to accomplish their goals and affect meaningful change in Wisconsin and beyond,” StartingBlock Executive Director Nora Roughen-Schmidt said in a statement.

According to a release, each team has business models that address significant social and environmental challenges and demonstrate how social entrepreneurship can have a long-term pact in Wisconsin and beyond.

The teams are:

• Activism Always
• America & Moore
• Black Girls United
• Dane County Multi-Agency Center
• Elevation Consulting
• Empathy 4 Equity
• Erevna
• Peter Gray Executive Search
• The Rage Fund
• Voltage Volunteering
• Wisconsin EcoLatinos

As previously reported, teams will receive free space at StartingBlock for six months as well as customized programming and support by StartingBlock and partners.