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THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF PEOPLE WITH GOOD IDEAS
communityfood gardens
social venture funding
mobile technology services for the developing world
worker owned cooperatives
ethical supply chains
service learningeducation programs
school-based health clinics
ACCESS, INFRASTRUCTURE, SCALE, & IMPACTBut there is a crisis of
So what would happen if there were places where you could go to access the necessary
KNOWLEDGE, CONNECTIONS, RESOURCES, and CAPITAL to transform your ideas for change into REALITY…
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changemakers5000
Berkeley, San Francisco, London
Cairo, Sao Paulo, Mumbai ...
collaborativework spaces
[hosted habitats]
business tools and services[member-based incubator]
solutions for people and planet
event series[creative collisions]
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The Hub is a coworking space, event series and business support tool for a global and local community of changemakers. Members come to Hubs across 5 continents to collaborate, access market opportunities and capital, and scale ideas for social and environmental change.
It is a place-based and online community of entrepreneurs, freelance professionals, artists, funders, students, mentors, community leaders...amazing people doing incredible things. We borrowed from the best of a member’s club, idea lab, and the comforts of home to create a different kind of space - a habitat for changemakers.
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We invite you to be a member of The Hub; where you will find your next project, partner, funder, or muse.
global network of Hubs
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Amsterdam . Atlanta . Berlin . Berkeley . Bristol . Brussels . Cairo . Halifax . Johannesburg . London (Islington & Kings Cross) . Madrid . Milan Mumbai . Oaxaca . Porto . Riga . Rotterdam . San Francisco . Sao Paolo
Stockholm . Tampere . Tel Aviv . Toronto . Vienna4
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We need new models that blend social and environmental value with economic viability. The system is broken. Together we can build a better alternative. When faced with a task of this magnitude, why not assemble great talent into a common space? Together, we generate new ideas for change. Then we combine tools and resources to transform our ideas into action. We work collaboratively, sharing best practices to inspire and grow. We build and scale together, forming a values-driven, high-performing system that works toward a better world. But where does this take place?
It happens at The Hub.
RADICAL COLLABORATION AT THE HUB
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Inspiration
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RADICAL COLLABORATION
TIRED THINKING
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The Hub is the nexus point of entrepreneurship, funding, and mission. It is a place where non profit and for profit social change ideas build and scale into viable enterprises that address the complex problems we face, from poverty to climate change, for people and planet. Change agents find the support they need at the Hub to reach their goals faster, surrounded by a community that makes everyone smarter and more effective. From seed funding to professional services, from mentors to peers who understand what they are doing, the Hub is the platform that helps you make it happen. It’s where change goes to work.
Come join us. From San Francisco and Berkeley to London and Mumbai, innovative thinkers, value-driven entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, activists, investors, freelancers and mentors go to work together, sharing ideas and resources. They find the people, ideas and tools they need to build and scale their solutions for change. Come be part of it.
NEW MODELS
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Hub Spaces
Hub spaces range from stimulating, collision-rich café and hot-desking environments that support innovation, to quiet areas that foster focused concentration, to places where members work the phones for hours pushing their ideas forward. Hubs also feature event spaces for large and small film screenings, art openings, and presentations.
Our spaces are built with sustainable materials that reflects the values of our members. Hub SoMa (at SF Chronicle Building) is built to LEED standards while Hub Berkeley is located at the Platinum LEED certified David Brower Center.
Hubs are also designed for access. Both Bay Area Hubs sit one block from BART and connect to each other via a 25 minute direct train. Both Hubs are similarly situated within clusters of innovative enterprises. As a Hub member, you will have access to diverse, green, and convenient work/meet/event space, along with inspiring community on both sides of The Bay.
DesignHub spaces are professionally hosted environments that connect members to increase idea flow and collaboration. Hosts get to know what members are working on, who they are working with and introduce them to the people they should know.
Hosts also work to bring members together for group events and to transform member ideas into new opportunities for the community. Examples include peer-to-peer mentoring, professional consults, and brown bag dialogues. Hosts also form member working groups around a specific change sector, such as local food, environmental solutions, international development, and more.
Perhaps most importantly, Hosts respond to members’ ‘just-in-time’ needs for resources, capacity, and expertise.
HostingThe Hub network connects more than 5000 changemakers working across 5 continents. Members can work in any of our 20+ global locations, while also connecting virtually through a member-based online social networking platform (Hub+).
Our network is growing rapidly across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, providing members with productive spaces and amazing community around the world. With the addition of San Francisco to our local Hub Bay Area collective, we are helping members work, connect, and build their networks across the Bay.
We also plan to open more Hubs throughout the Bay Area over the next few years to interconnect a local and global community of changemakers.
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Collaborate“Collaborate” is the main work area that features around 70 permanent and hot desking spaces for members. Certain areas are designated quieter for more focused workflows while others will be amenable to member engagement. Space includes internet, copy/fax/scanner services, mailboxes, and small locker/file storage.
CafeDesigned to encourage impromptu meetings between members, the café features a large community table, refrigerator, dishwasher, sink and espresso.
NestA semi-quiet, cozy “tree house” that sits above the main work area and serves as a meet-up spot, nap room, and pulpit for speakers during large events.
MemberlandMemberland allows for small meet-ups and an entry landing for guests and events. The walls will feature member profiles and community board information, along with artwork by local Hub members.
Private Meeting SpacesHubble (8 person space) and Hub2 (two adjacent 12 person meeting spaces) all feature writeable walls, polycom, and large monitors. Hub2 is separated by a garage door that can open to create a 30 person conference space. 7 privacy booths can each fit 1-4 people and feature internet, white boards, and dedicated phones.
Event SpaceHub SoMa transforms into an event space for small and large collaborative sessions, art openings, mixers, presentations, board retreats, film screenings, etc.
Hub Office Spaces designated for teams who need locked offices but also want to be connected with the larger Hub community. Rubicon National, Mercy Corps, Hull Family Enterprises, Exponent Partners, and Adaptive Edge are a few of our current office teams.
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Hub SoMa will open a 7200sq/ft work and event space + 1350 sq. ft. art gallery in May at The SF Chronicle Building – one block south of the Powell Street BART. The Hub is part of the Hearst Corporation’s plan to create a four acre ‘Innovation Campus’ between Mission and
Howard St. In the next five years, Hearst, in conjunction with the city, plan to make the area a headquarters for Bay Area innovation. The Hub’s first floor neighbors include Intersection for the Arts and Twitter Founder - Jack Dorsey’s new company – Square.
Design Features
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Art GalleryIntersection for The Arts partners with Hub on a 1,350 square foot showcase space that is used for Intersection and Hub member events.
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Away RoomA work in progress that will not be fully defined until Hub members find a collaborative solution. Is it a library, Asian tea room, meeting space, quiet work area, or ping-pong palace…? Give us your ideas!
Privacy BoothsOffer soundproof rooms for private chats, phone conversations and loud skype calls. The booths hold 2-3 people and have a teleconference line, a small tabletop, and writeable glass surfaces.
LoungeA space for informal conversations. Walls serve as writeable surfaces for creative sessions, while the shelves showcase products and materials created by Hub members. Comfy furniture is easily moved around to fit any arrangement.
Kitchen/CaféFeatures an espresso machine, coffee/tea air pots, filtered water, sink, oven, cabinets, refrigerators, and sponsored beverages and foods. Mobile tables in the café supply additional counter space. The kitchen transforms into a bar/catering space for events.
Additional Design Features
• The Hub quickly transforms into an event space for small and medium-size collaborative sessions, catered mixers, lectures, parties, large board meetings, and film screenings. A large, drop down screen is available to watch films and deliver presentations for audiences of up to 120 people.
• Carpet by Interface – the world’s most sustainable carpet manufacturer. Kitchen and Hubble flooring made of reused rubber tires.
• During the day, The Hub only uses natural light.
• Ergonomic chairs, couches and stools are provided by Steelcase.
HubbleA state-of-the-art, glass enclosed meeting space for up to nine people seated around the base of an olive tree. The frosted glass walls can be used as a large writeable surface. The room also features a flat screen for presentations.
Communications StationPrinting, scanning, copying, faxing, and office supply area. members also get individual cubbies for their mail and access to private storage.
Window WorkbarOffers eight bar style workspaces perched beside the window.
Collaborative WorkspaceCustom-made “petal” tables allow for organic site lines and easy access for talking with members. The tables are also designed to be mobile for events.
Design Features
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David Brower Center
Hub Berkeley is located at the David Brower Center – two blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART station and across the street from UC Berkeley. The building is one of the Bay Area’s most advanced green buildings – exceeding LEED Platinum certification standards.
It houses social and environmental change orgs, such as the Earth Island Institute, Center for Ecoliteracy, and International Rivers, along with Gather Restaurant. Together, The Hub and its peer organizations are forming an inspiring destination for changemakers.
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Hub Events What are alternative methods of fundraising?
What for-profit and non-profit revenue
models are currently thriving?
Who is at the forefront of ethical supply chains?
Member Curated Events
Hub events investigate how ideas for change are built into viable enterprises that create a better world and new models for how change gets done. Events are curated by both Hub and SOCAP staff, along with members who use the Hub platform to convey ideas, opportunities, and operational lessons learned.
SOCAP. Convened by Hub Co-founder Kevin Jones, SOCAP brought together more than 1,000 people from 32 countries in a global gathering at the intersection of money and meaning - the funds, foundations and agencies who are the Social Capital Market. SOCAP featured over 160 speakers from the federal Office of Social Innovation to Acumen Fund. More popular than the experts was the self-organizing community-driven open space on the final day. SOCAP is the once a year global gathering; The Hub is where change goes to work every day.
Money, Mobs, Media. Matt Flannery (Kiva), Steve Newcomb (Virgance), and Ben Rattray (Change.org) engaged in a provocative dialogue on methods to mobilize large-scale social change through microfinance, idea incubation, and media driven activism. More than 250 people came to Hub Berkeley for the idea exchange.
Hub and SOCAP Curated Events
Cutting Edge Capital. Katovich Law Group led an in-depth dialogue about overcoming the legal barriers to raising capital for small social enterprise. Featured speakers included Don Shaffer (RSF Social Finance), John Katovich, and Thomas Greco. The event resulted in the launch of a new enterprise (Cutting Edge Capital) spearheaded by Jenny Kassan.
Design for the Developing World: Energy. Created by the International Development Working Group at The Hub, the event delved deep into sustainable energy methods for the developing world and its potential to provide significant economic, health and environmental benefits. Presenters included Heather Fleming (Catapult Design) and Andree Sosler (Darfur Stoves Project).
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Hub Tools and Services
Capital Access. Hub partnered with Village Capital to offer 24 seed stage for- profit social enterprises the peer support and start up funding needed to build their venture. The Hub will also be launching its own Member investment fund – HubCap – in 2010. Stay tuned!
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Hub members need just-in-time tools and services to build and scale their ideas. These resources are often inaccessible to rising enterprises and organizations that do not have the capacity to develop comprehensive partnerships and networks. Hub staff and members collaborate to offer easily accessible and highly valuable professional tools and services.
Member-Driven Consults. Members regularly offer each other free consults and presentations on topics such as social media, accounting, community building, branding, effective communication, and much more.
Legal Consults with Hanson Bridgett. Hub members receive regular access to free legal consults with HB’s legal team. Hanson Bridgett also presents to the Hub community on legal aspects of social enterprise development, such as negotiating term sheets and deciding between for-profit and non-profit structures.
Change Sector Working Groups. Hub is developing working groups with our members who wish to gather and exchange value around a specific change sector and/or mode of action. Each group is led by a seasoned mentor. Example groups include international development, local food, communications, environmental solutions, and social justice.
Marketing Platform. The Hub acts as a marketing arm for members. We feature Member enterprises on our website/blog, distribute Member news through our online media channels, connect members to our media partners, and promote Member events to our local network of over 5,000 people.
Online Collaboration. Members gain access to an online network of Bay Area and international Hub members. Locally, members can message each other individually or collectively about their latest news, jobs, events, and other useful info. Soon, we will be launching a comprehensive online social network (Hub+) that enables members across the globe to create or join Hub groups, share status, message members, engage in online discussions, create or join mailing lists, view and publish news/events/calendars, and more.
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Changemakers Hub Bay Area has more than 300 local members that are building some of the Bay Area’s most innovating social enterprises. Below are some of our members and their enterprises:
Aaron Schwartz, Refill Revolution Adam Arthur Bier, Bier Legal Alan Wells, Haku Wale Alana Lea, Rainforest Eco Alex Sasayama, NeighborWorks America Alexa Gregory, Collective Invention Inc. Alexandra Bernadotte, CollegeSUCCESS Amanda
MacLean, Imagine The Power Amanda West, Amanda’s Restaurant Amira Diamond, Women’s Earth Alliance Amy Barr, A2B Strategy Amy Wilson, Ashoka’s Youth Venture SF Bay Area Andree Sosler, Darfur Stoves Project Annie Burke,
Snapshots Consulting Anthony Radspieler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory April Newman, West Coast Village Capital Ben Rattray, Change.org Betsy Burroughs, FocusCatalyst Betsy Crouch, Luminosity Bill Washburn, Berkeley Mobile
International Collaborative Bonny Meyer, Meyer Family Enterprises Brad Michaels, SociaLab Brad Presner, Acumen Fund Brett Beach, Mad_casse Britt Bravo, Big Vision Consulting Caelan Urquhart, UoP Global Center for Social Entrepreneurs
Casey Wilson, Wokai Chelsa Bocci, Kiva China Brotsky, Tides Chris Roberts, Trade Expressions Christine Lee, Skorman Productions Christine Sculati, Christine Sculati Consulting Chuck Soper, Vela Design Group Clark Kellogg, Collective Invention Inc.
Claudia Welss, NextNow CSR Wire Cynthia La Grou, Compathos Foundation Dana Harvey, Mandela MarketPlace Daniel Heath, Giant Rabbit David Adams, CauseShare David Hodgson, ideahive.com Dayle Smith, University of San Francisco
Deb Parsons, Investors’ Circle Deborah Cullinan, Intersection for the Arts Deborah Hirsh, B Lab Doug Vanisky, DVisMe Douglass Dixon, Already Working Eddy Hueso, Sarkey Technology Edouard Rollet, Alter Eco Elizabeth Doty, WorkLore Emily
Eisenhart, Handful of Salt Erika Gregory, Collective Invention Inc Gary Malkin, Wisdom of the World, Inc. Geoff Schwarten, Substance Integrated Marketing George Scharffenberger, UC Berkeley Greg Steltenpohl, Adina Guayaki Heng Ou, Turiya
Importers Ian Scanlan, Turiya Importers Icestone Jailan Adly, Rising Sun Energy Janelle Orsi, Law Office Jason Barbose, Better World Group Jason Young, Zindagi, LLC Jay Parkhill, Virtual Law Partners Jeff Perlstein, Grantmakers in Film &
Electronic Media Jeffrey Wescott, Munificent LLC Jen Boyton, Triple Pundit Jennifer Biringer, Sustainability Jennifer Nice, Good Capital Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America Jennine Cohen, Active Travel Consulting Jenny Kassan, Katovich Law
Group Jim Fruchterman, Benetech Jim Ware, Work Design Collaborative Jocelyn Wyatt, IDEO Jody Turner, Culture of Future John Kelly, Interactive Scenarios Jonathan Harrison, Rubicon National Jose Rivera, Level Playing Field Institute Joy
Mackay, MacKay Creative Web Solutions Jules Kragen, Food Forward Julie Holaday, Place Partners Juliet Lamont, Creekcats Environmental Partners Kari Saratovsky, The Case Foundation Karyn Barsa, Coyuchi Katie Drasser, Criterion Ventures
Katy Cryer, Square One Yoga Kaytea Petro, Neighborhood Fruit Keith Agoada, Sky Vegetables Kelli Peterson, Cheskin Consulting Kevin Braithwaite, RootSpace Kevin Casey, New Avenue Kevin Jones, Good Capital Kevin Starr, Mulago
Foundation Kevin Sweeney, Transforming Business Kristin Hull, North Oakland Community Charter School Kristine Maltrud, ArtSpark Laura Peck, Claros Group Lauren Augusta, MESA Program Lili Stiefel, Stiefel Family Foundation Linda Jenkinson,
WOW Linda Sills, Global Issues Network Lloyd Nimetz, Blitz Bazaar Lorna Lambert, Coyuchi Maggie Vashel, Localicious Marc Dangeard, Entrepreneur Commons Marie Beichert, granthelper.com Marisr Lamagna, East Bay Green Tours Mark Batson
Baril, Riverstone Resolutions, LLC Matt Bauer, Better World Telecom Matt Flannery, Kiva Matt Werner, Global Micro-Clinic Project Megan Amaral, Besider Melanie Cheng, Farms Reach Michael Moss, globescan Michael Straus, Straus
Communications Michel Gelobter, Cooler, Inc. Mike Del Ponte, Sparkseed Mike Liquori, TerraNovus Training Nancy Roberts, The Idea Hive Natalia Castaneda, Leadership Learning Community Nathaniel Whittemore, Assetmap Ned Schaub, Mission
Wise Nicole-Anne Boyer, Adaptive Edge Nikki Pava, EcoTuesday Otto Williams, Otto Williams LLC Patrice O’Neill, The Working Group/Not In Our Town Patrick Gleeson, Meyer Family Enterprises Penelope Douglas, Pacific Community Ventures
Pete Davies, Terrapass Pi Wen Looi, Novacrea Research Consulting Plyboo Premal Shah, Kiva Rafael Eugenio, ItsLikeCash Rahmin Sarabi, Unclasses.org Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach Regina Connell, Saltcellar Productions Rick Moss, Sun
Microsystems Rick Randel, Katovich Law Group Rose Penelope Yee, Cathedral Financial Group, Inc. Ryan Mickle, Companiesandme Sabrina Klein, Creative Education Consulting Santiago Halty, Senda Sara Olsen, SVT Group Sarah Alvarez,
Ideamrkt Scott Smith, Hanson Bridgett Sean Foote, Labrador Ventures Sean Kline, Reach Global Sharon Hay Mueller, Spa Dog Botanicals Stacie Shepp, Earthsite Stephen Lee, AIDG Steven Chin, Native Treks Sundeep Ahuja, The
Extraordinaries Susan Hollingshead, B Lab Susan Mernit, Oakland Local Talis Apud, Feel Good World Teresa Kong, janga Terry Mandel, TerryMandel.com Terry Patten, Softlanding Enterprises, LLC Tiffany Picard, T Picard Consulting
Tim Freundlich, Calvert Foundation Transfair Valerie Casey, Designers Accord Vinny Lingham, Yola Vladislav Davidson, Common Circle Education Wes Selke, Good Capital Zachary Berke, Exygy Web Applications
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MEMBERSHIPWith Hub SoMa at the SF Chronicle Building and Hub Berkeley at the David Brower Center, Hub members will enjoy highly accessible spaces and community separated by a 25 minute direct BART train. Membership can also access more than 20 Hubs across the world virtually and physically.
In celebration of our Hub SoMa launch, we are offering members discounted trial rates for Hub 100, Hub Unlimited, and Permanent Desk*** memberships. If you want to be on the ground floor of our emerging community in SF and Berkeley, then join us before the May 1 deadline. Number of trial memberships is limited.
Hub membership in delineated into five levels that allow you to only pay for the tools, services, and time you need. Hub 5 members pay a small monthly fee to access a valuable professional and social network, hold meetings at The Hub, attend Hub events, and produce their own events in Hub spaces.
Hub 25, 50, 100, Unlimited, Permanent Desk, and Office members gain this same access while also using The Hub as a part time or full time workspace. Your membership level can be changed on a monthly basis to accurately reflect your time usage of The Hub workspace.
Notes:
*Early Bird membership opportunity ends May 1. Discounted rates good for 4 months whereupon tariff is subject to increase to regular rate.
**Discounts available for teams.
***Permanent Desk membership (Hub SoMa only) gives you a fixed desk for an unlimited number of hours.
****Hub Office membership offers permanent, lockable office spaces for teams (Hub SoMa only). Offices are 200 - 350 sqft. Contact us if you’re interested.
Member Levels
Hub 5 Hub 25 Hub 50 Hub 100 HubUnlimited
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General
Printer/Copier/Scanner Services
Mailbox
Storage Locker
File Drawer
Hub Consults
Professional Mentoring
Hub Marketing Services
Change Sector Working Groups
Berkeley Hubble
SF Meeting Spaces
Access to attend and host events
MEMBER SERVICES
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Contact Us****$255 $295 $4454 Month Trial Rate*
Regular Rate after May 1
HUB MEETING AND EVENT SPACES
Hub Host support weekdays 9am – 6pm; high speed wireless internet; use of all hub working/event/café/meeting spaces
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N/AStrategic support from Hub staff. Priority access in Hub social media outlets: blog, newsletter, & media
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First priority access to Hub Consults: legal, branding, accounting, IT, and more.
Mentor matching available upon request
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Access to Hub events at free or discounted rates. Ability to throw your own events at Hub spaces. Call us for details on spaces and rates.
$12 per hour
$15 / $20 / $30 per hour
$25 per hour
$30 / $40 / $60 per hour
Access to various Change Sector Working Groups – Food, International Development, Environmental Solutions, and more…
$119 $195$25
Access to Hub Consults: legal, branding, accounting, IT, and more.
Contact Us****
510.649.7700
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Hub SoMa901 Mission Street, Suite 105San Francisco, CA 94103
415.624.5881
hubbayarea.comHub Berkeley
2150 Allston Way, Suite 400Berkeley, CA 94704
510.649.7700