Social Enterprise
Fellowship Projects

In 2020, the Barton Institute’s CiviCO Social Enterprise Fellows are graduate students representing a wide range of disciplines at the University of Denver. In June, they completed an impressive set of projects in the community. Please view the videos below to learn more.

Center for Community Wealth Building

Deema Almoayyed, Korbel School of International Studies
Katie Heideman, Sturm College of Law

The Fellows worked with an anchor institution that sought to shift to procuring valet parking services through a worker-owned cooperative.

Kitchen Network

Talia Halfon, Graduate School of Social Work
Shubham Sapkota, Iliff School of Theology/DU, Joint Ph.D. Program in Theology and Religious Studies

The Fellows worked with the Kitchen Network to analyze date about the entrepreneurs they serve, helping them to better focus their services on those most in need as they build successful businesses.

The Village Institute

Micaela Iveson, Korbel School of International Studies
Rachel Kamnkhwani, Morgridge College of Education

The Fellows worked with refugee women living at the Village Institute to identify the key measures of success and create an evaluation tool for the Institute.

Colorado Nonprofit Loan Fund

Rebecca Macey, Daniels College of Business
Omotola Williams, Graduate School of Social Work

The Fellows examines how the field of nonprofits is evolving, and the scope and scale of their needs for capital. The goal was to determine how the Loan Fund could best serve a changing nonprofit sector.

UnCharted

Fatima Rezaie, Korbel School of International Studies
Wil Watkins, Korbel School of International Studies

The Fellows originally began to work with Uncharted, a Denver-based social impact accelerator, to develop a new product line. With the onset of the COVID-19, they shifted their work to address UnCharted’s strategic response to the changing social sector landscape in light of the pandemic.