Sweet Auburn CoLab

A collaborative engine for accelerating belonging and flourishing in the historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood.

Whether launching a project, starting or scaling a business, or exploring potential solutions to a neighborhood challenge, the CoLab exists to support individuals and organizations in articulating their vision, understanding the community’s needs and opportunities, defining an action plan, and taking real steps towards making a meaningful impact.

Reimagine Community Solutions

Our team works alongside local stakeholders to help discover and define central challenges to belonging and flourishing in the community.  We then facilitate conversations and processes to help design collaborative solutions to these community based challenges. 

To support reimagined solutions, the Sweet Auburn CoLab offers a variety of services including:  

  • Community engagement
  • Systems mapping
  • Defining the challenge
  • Designing community-centered solutions
  • Strategic Advisory
  • Implementation support

Entrepreneur & Changemaker Support

We support individuals and organizations in articulating their vision, understanding the community’s needs and opportunities, defining an action plan, and taking real steps towards empowering themselves and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.

  • Nonprofit, business and entrepreneurship coaching (individual and small group) 
  • Incubator Bootcamp for new initiatives 

  • Accelerator Bootcamp for those seeking to scale an existing solution or business  

  • Social capital, strategic networking, referrals to additional resources in Atlanta  

Neighborhood Partner Network