Social Entrepreneurship

2026 SENT Cohort

The SENT Cohort was created to enhance relationships, support, and provide education for social entrepreneurs as they launch and grow their new social service organizations. Cohort members have attended an NBA SENT Seminar and demonstrated an interest and willingness to work with NBA’s Social Entrepreneurship team on a deeper level.

She Kept Living, Indianapolis, IN

Rev. Dr. Lynel Beaty

She Kept Living is a widow-to widow connection offering group support, companionship and spiritual care to women who have lost their spouse.

Disciples Region: Indiana Region

Brother Breathe, Decatur, GA

Tait Brooks

Brother Breathe is a mental health platform that sponsors healing spaces and programs for Black men of all ages to nurture healing, connection, and suicide prevention.

Disciples Region: Georgia Region 

PurposeMint, Tulsa, OK

Nesha Brown

PurposeMint is a financial technology platform that educates and protects folks against online predatory debt.

Disciples Region: Oklahoma Region 

Quantum Visionary Foundation, Merrillville, IN

Dr. Janell Harvey

Quantum Visionary Foundation serves hard-of-hearing youth by expanding sensory-centered STEM opportunities and products.

Disciples Region: Indiana Region 

Moving Ministries, Eugene, OR

Braden Hirsch

Moving Ministries provides sliding scale and low-cost moving services as well as pastoral care to vulnerable populations navigating the stress of relocation.

Disciples Region: Oregon/Southwest Idaho Region 

Bethesda's Pool, Dresher, PA

Ime Holland

Bethesda's Pool offers a safe space for individuals seeking emotional and spiritual renewal. Offering therapy, spiritual direction, and recovery & grief services, Bethesda’s Pool accompanies folks on their journey to wholeness.

Disciples Region: Pennsylvania Region

Looks Like Hope, Indianapolis, IN

Rev. Dr. Anastasia Holman

Looks Like Hope provides sacred & trauma-informed Sistah Circles for Black Women in leadership within congregations, organizations, and communities to recover and move towards healing from racial & institutional trauma. 

Disciples Region: Indiana Region 

InnerCoded Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Demetrius Irick

InnerCoded Foundation offers mentoring, leadership development and positive identity formation for Black Men and youth.

Disciples Region: Georgia Region 

Heart to Soul Becoming Whole, New Orleans, LA

Deborah Jackson

Heat to Soul Becoming Whole offers spiritually grounded, clinically informed restorative care for clinicians, family caregivers, and spiritual leaders through licensed clinical support, board-certified chaplaincy, & moral injury competence.

Disciples Region: Great River Region 

Freedom to Flourish, Chicago, IL

Jia Johnson

Freedom to Flourish exists to interrupt the cycle of burnout often experienced by activists and change makers through somatic coaching, customized consultation, and respite retreats.

Disciples Region: Illinois/Wisconsin Region 

A Heart's Key Communal Care Alliance, Indianapolis, IN

Joi McCreary

A Heart’s Key exists to provide compassionate, culturally grounded social services that honor the dignity of individuals and families navigating home health, hospice, chronic illness and major life transitions.

Disciples Region: Indiana Region 

QueerQuest, Ft. Worth, TX

Wes Parks

QueerQuest is a tabletop gaming community built for LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse adventurers to find belonging, creativity, and joy through shared storytelling. Every roll of the dice helps us tell stories where everyone belongs at the table.

Disciples Region: Southwest Region 

Moving Ministries, Eugene, OR

Rev. Zane Ridings

Moving Ministries provides sliding scale and low-cost moving services as well as pastoral care to vulnerable populations navigating the stress of relocation.

Disciples Region: Oregon/Southwest Idaho Region 

The Homegirl Huddle, Maryland

Lakendra Laverne Smith, M.Ed.

The HomeGirl Huddle promotes intergenerational healing, leadership development, and economic empowerment to women and girls of African American, Indigenous and diasporic descent. We offer trauma-informed healing, education, and workforce training.

Disciples Region: Capital Area Region 

Haven of Hope, Germantown, TN

Dr. Carolyn Treadwell-Butler

Haven of Hope is a faith-rooted organization that offers cirriculum and training for Grief Companions who accompany those navigating loss and grief.

Disciples Region: Tennessee Region