Going from a sweet six to a strong seven, Sacramento’s Metro EDGE organization has shown the region how young professionals can help improve the future by focusing on the present. In 2016, EDGE has: hosted a young professional summit that drew 600+ people from Reno to the Bay, raised almost $10,000 to help efforts in transitioning homeless families to long-term housing, and connected hundreds of the region’s young professionals to local business leaders.
As the organization celebrates its seventh anniversary, the growth of the philanthropy and professional development arms of EDGE are being seen and felt in the community. From January through June, EDGE members worked to partner with Sacramento’s Next Move Family Shelter. This partnership provided the family shelter with PR services, volunteer hours and in June, a new playground for the children to play on while they stayed at the shelter. The effort was part of a long-term plan to connect the area’s young professionals and their personal and professional talents with nonprofits throughout the region that need help. For EDGE leaders, 2016 was about shining a spotlight on homelessness issues throughout the area to address its effects, while educating young leaders on ways to alleviate the problem in years to come.
EDGE can boast the honor of having the largest single-day summit in Northern California for the third year running. Its annual Emerge Summit brought more than 600 young professionals to Sacramento to hear from artists, celebrities, entrepreneurs, local businesses and political leaders about what is pushing this latest Sacramento revival and making this a place for future changemakers.
And now, as six turns to seven, EDGE already has its eyes on what it will be when seven turns to eight. With a 2017 theme of “#dareto,” EDGErs will be invited to dare to do something toput new footprints in our region’s history book. So as we wish Metro EDGE a happy birthday, we can’t wait to watch them grow (older in age and larger in number) and make their mark on our community.
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