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What does Earth Day look like beyond awareness? At Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship, it looks like applying sustainability in real, measurable ways—transforming food waste into energy, growing food locally, and integrating these systems into student learning. 📍 April 22 | 6:30–8:30 PM | Pittsburgh, PA For those interested in sustainability, education, and community impact, this is a strong example of all three coming together. 🎟️ Register: https://luma.com/5nmiddqu

So grateful for Rachel Weng and the entire Develop for Good team's work on involveMINT! 🙌 Rachel's wallet and guided chat integration is going to make it so much easier for our member businesses to go from browsing to transacting — exactly the kind of seamless experience that gets more exchanges flowing through the network. Congrats on the new role at The TJX Companies, Inc., Rachel — they're lucky to have you! 🎉 Our volunteer dev team is hard at work bringing these designs to life, and we can't wait to reveal the results later in 2026 🚀 Want to help build technology that creates new exchanges between local businesses — ones that wouldn't have existed otherwise? 💡 Reach out: [email protected]

Huge thanks to Sarah Roman and the whole Develop for Good team for their incredible work! 🙌 Sarah Roman worked tirelessly on everything from time coordination to fulfillment method, interpreting logic diagrams to understand different states users could be in. The Chat Coordination feature they designed — taking buyer-seller conversations from inquiry all the way through to transaction with order forms and system matching — is a game-changer for how our member businesses connect and exchange. Our volunteer dev team is hard at work bringing these designs to life, and we can't wait to reveal the results later in 2026 🚀 Want to help build technology that creates new exchanges between local businesses — ones that wouldn't have existed otherwise? 💡 Reach out: [email protected]

We're so grateful to Angela D. Williams and the entire Develop for Good team for their work on this! 🙌 The Marketplace and Inquiry experience they designed is exactly the kind of exchange coordination our member businesses need — making it easy to discover each other's offers, explore profiles, and initiate trades within the network. Our volunteer dev team is hard at work bringing these designs to life, and we can't wait to reveal the results later in 2026 🚀 Want to help build technology that creates new exchanges between local businesses — ones that wouldn't have existed otherwise? 💡 Reach out: [email protected]

Last Wednesday, 35+ business leaders and changemakers gathered at Hazel Grove Brewing for involveMINT's Annual Gathering. The highlight? Discovering the breadth of offerings our network members are ready to exchange outside traditional cash transactions - food scrap diversion, catering, consulting, produce, compost, tree planting, and more. By the numbers: • 35+ attendees • 21 businesses and organizations • 130+ community credits exchanged When businesses can meet their needs through mutual credit rather than cash alone, we unlock economic opportunity that might otherwise remain untapped. As economic uncertainty grows, alternative exchange systems provide resilience for businesses and communities. Get involved: involvemint.io/getinvolved Special thanks to Hazel Grove Brewing for hosting. #CommunityEconomy #SocialEnterprise #Pittsburgh #LocalBusiness #CircularEconomy #CommunityWealth

Last January, 20+ Pittsburgh businesses came together to see how involveMINT works during our Annual Gathering. This year, we’re doubling it. 📅 Wednesday, February 11, 6:30-8:30pm 📍 Hazel Grove Brewing (4609 Irvine Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15207) Join us for an involveMINT open house - meet local businesses in the network and see how community credits keep your business moving when dollars are tight. Trade goods and services for credits. Use those credits anywhere in the network. Built for local businesses & orgs supporting each other #SmallBusinessNetwork #PGHBusiness #MutualAid 👉 RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e6UhZDrp Photography by BreakIT Entrepreneurial Incubator

You're invited: involveMINT Annual Gathering 📅 Wednesday, February 11th, 6:30pm 📍 Hazel Grove Brewing Meet the businesses trading goods and services without cash. Learn how mutual credit works. Discover what our network can do for your business. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e6UhZDrp This gathering is for Pittsburgh businesses and changemakers ready to move from isolation to interdependence.

Your #GivingTuesday gift helps launch another Food Learning ECOconomy at Woodland Hills School District. Cafeteria scraps → Soil Sauce; student actions → local credits so the school and student ventures get what they need without cash. This is the 'us' economy—value stays local. Partners: Ecotone Renewables Terroir Designs involveMINT Donate today: https://lnkd.in/e9-cpNSE Other ways to give: involvemint.io/donate

In AmeriCorps NCCC (2013), Daniel Little, involveMINT's founder prepared taxes at North Texas Area United Way—lines out the door, “low-income” neighbors hoping a refund could cover a bill. I saw how our system leaves too many behind. I started involveMINT to build the us economy: a community exchange where everyday actions become local credits, keeping value local so communities & and small, impactful businesses get what they need without cash. If this mission speaks to you, please give today: https://lnkd.in/esVzcECq #GivingTuesday #GiveBigPittsburgh #Pittsburgh

Building the 'us' economy needs more of you! Another way to give this #GivingTuesday Dec 2: join an a working group or the involveMINT board. Help us ensure we keep value local so schools, businesses, and communities get what they need—without cash. Donate: https://lnkd.in/e9-cpNSE Other ways to give: involvemint.io/donate Questions or want to join? [email protected] #GiveBigPittsburgh #givebigpittsburgh2025