B Local Georgia Looks To Scale Its Impact, Launches Capital Campaign

B Local Georgia has announced its first ever capital campaign, seeking to raise $30,000 to support an expansion of their events, certification offerings, and volunteer outings. After six years of bootstrapping and surviving on a small operating budget, the nonprofit organization is ready to scale its impact and footprint across the state of Georgia. “This campaign is incredibly important to us as we enter 2025,” explained their Board Chair, Nathan Stuck. He continued, “We’ve brought on some new board members that have challenged us to dream bigger and do more, and we have some really big plans and objectives for the new year, but those are going to require a bigger budget.”

Big Plans

​Student Fellowship Launch
Among those big plans Stuck mentioned is a new Student Fellowship program that has been in the works for several years now. The program will not only work to expand our academic footprint in the state but will give students at our HBCUs and PBIs the opportunity to host B Corp 101s, attend the annual BLD Southeast conference, intern at a B Corp, and plan quarterly inter-university student gatherings.

Certification Stipends & Support Across Georgia
B Local Georgia is also looking to grow the B Corp community across the state by providing small businesses with the resources they need to certify. Whether it’s helping them pay for consulting help or cover their certification fees, we plan to offer regional certification cohorts around the state, with their eyes set on Columbus, Macon, and Savannah.

Increased Events
In addition to hosting BLD Southeast in 2024, B Local Georgia was able to host three networking events that featured dinner, drinks, and a panel of experts. And while we were able to increase the number of volunteer outings, we want to double the number of networking events hosted in 2025 from three to six.

With your support, we’ll be able to continue to host more events, like this collaborative July cleanup with The Chad Livsey Project in Castleberry Hill.

​Executive Director
B Local Georgia was started in 2018 by Nathan Stuck. Since then, he made the organization an official “project” of Social Good Fund, a 501c3 fiscal sponsor. And Stuck has paid the fees and done a lot of our heavy lifting, annually donating 200-300 hours of volunteer time as a hybrid Board Chair and Unpaid Executive Director. With this capital campaign, we’re hoping to allocate a small salary to support Stuck’s work as E.D. and hold board elections for a new Board Chair.

Our Founder and Chair/Executive Director, Nathan Stuck (far right) at an event in Waynesboro, GA to support Ebony Tree Farms. Nathan travels the state on our behalf to support and grow our community.
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Will you support us?

​Our mission is to uplift and support the journey of mission-driven entrepreneurs, businesses, and students across Georgia. With your support, we can give more to our community of B Corps and purpose driven businesses.

You can give at any amount, but we hope you’ll consider joining us at one of these levels, with monthly payments available to help with budgeting:

• Visionary: $10,000 ($833/month)
• Champion: $5,000 ($417/month)
• Uplifter: $2,500 ($208/month)
• Supporter: $1,000 ($83/month)
• Administrative: $348 (Cover our administrative costs for $29/month)
• You're The Best: Any amount

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