Join us Thursday evening to say hello to Alice, Co-Founder and President Elizabeth Gore
While COVID 19 has encouraged many across our nation to step up their help to small businesses, some innovators (Hello Alice) were already leading the charge to strengthen our small business communities.
Learn about Alice "Business for All," a movement to lift up thousands of small business owners. Hear how you can obtain one of their $10,000 grants being distributed immediately to small business owners impacted by coronavirus.
Check out their COVID 19 Business Resource Center, updated daily, with real-world funding, resources, and support for small business owners adapting to the impacts of coronavirus. Mark yours calendar now to join us for dinner or drinks to get your Trending Thursdays Tips!
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YOU DON’T KNOW ELIZABETH GORE?
Elizabeth Gore serves as co-founder and president of Alice (helloalice.com), which helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform powered by AI technology, Alice guides business owners by providing access to funding, networks and services. Through a network of more than 100,000 companies in all 50 states and across the globe, Alice is building the largest community of business owners in the country while tracking data and trends to increase owner success rate. Alice believes in business for all by providing access to all owners, especially women, people of color, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Alice exists to serve every American with an entrepreneurial spirit. At Alice, Elizabeth leads the overall growth of the company through enterprise sales and marketing.
Elizabeth previously served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Dell Technologies. There, she drove initiatives to support Dell's goals of helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship.
Elizabeth personally advises the growth of purpose-driven companies, such as rideshare-commuting company Scoop and Inc. a Mansueto company, and she is an investing limited partner with Portfolia fund. In addition, Elizabeth is part owner of Gore Family Vineyards in Sonoma County. She is the emeritus chair of the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council and previously served the UN for nearly a decade as the first ever entrepreneur-in- residence for the foundation, as well as vice president of global partnerships, where she founded strategic grassroots efforts like Nothing But Nets, Girl Up, and Shot@Life.
Elizabeth is a former United States Peace Corps volunteer for which she served in Bolivia. Elizabeth has also led organizations like the Points of Light Foundation, Share Our Strength, and the Texas A&M Foundation. People magazine named her one of its “Top 100 Extraordinary Women,” Fast Company called her one of the “Most Creative People in Business,” and she was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Women to Watch.” She has been covered in media outlets like ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, Fortune, Glamour, and Time.
Outside of the boardroom, Elizabeth is a world champion equestrian, a sprint triathlete and runner, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the global clean water crisis on behalf of the United Nations. Elizabeth is the chairwoman of Rebuild North Bay, a nonprofit leading fire recovery in northern California after the devastating 2017 fires. Elizabeth resides in Sonoma County with her husband, James Gore, a California elected official, and their two hilarious children.