Get ready to make history! At our 2022 State of the Chamber dinner, we announced the launch of a groundbreaking capital campaign to fund Seen, now rebranded Ensemble LGBT Entrepreneurial Hub.
Ensemble, a project of Harmony, will be a Best-in-Class concept in the United States. While we’re a vibrant entrepreneurial hub designed exclusively for the LGBT+ community’s entrepreneurial incubator, we’re so much more than that. Ensemble is a catalyst for growth, innovation, and empowerment, funding new business launches and providing the tools and resources needed to build sustainable companies.
Our multi-step plan ensures Ensemble‘s longevity. Seed funding helps to cover initial costs like expert education, and consulting. The businesses we support and incubate will become part of our investment portfolio, giving 4-7% of profits and equity ownership back to our 501(c)(6).
Initially, Ensemble will operate within the Raleigh Founded ecosystem that will allow for a gathering place for our members to network.
Join us in making history by supporting Ensemble. Together, we can create a space where LGBT+ individuals and businesses can thrive, connect, and make a lasting impact.
Ensemble tackles head-on the negative impact experienced all too often by working LGBT+ professionals by providing a private, secure, and affirming coworking space that embraces each person’s identity and enables them to thrive without fear of discrimination, hostility, name-calling, bullying, or even physical or sexual assault.
It’s a place where LGBT+ individuals can network, collaborate, and expand their skills alongside others who support them.
For entrepreneurs, Ensemble not only provides a safe working and development environment, it helps reduce obstacles faced by small business owners who can’t afford or qualify for traditional commercial leases, and gives a physical address required for vendor and supplier paperwork.
Ensemble provides a safe, affirming space to do business and meet with clients, plus it gives LGBT+ retailers and nontraditional professionals spaces in which to establish, operate, and grow their business while also gaining experience and exposure vital to their long-term success.
Ensemble will offer the usual amenities found in coworking spaces such as Raleigh Founded and WeWork, but takes it several steps further to help professionals and business owners get ahead and—ultimately— Ensemble. This unique coworking space will:
While the space targets the LGBT+ population, non-LGBT allies are also welcome to take advantage of the many amenities we will offer in this embracive, supportive space!
Ensemble will have a tremendous, ongoing impact on the community by:
The Ensemble community will provide shared and private office spaces, along with short-term lease retail spaces, with a range of lease options.
Among the amenities available:
