Purpose Connect

Merry Christmas from our team! 🎄

What a WILD ride 2024 has been! This year has been nothing short of transformational, and it’s all because of YOU! 🌍✨ ✅ Supported 300+ international students and 20+ employers in building global workforce connections. ✅ Achieved an incredible 968% increase in revenue pre-MVP! ✅ Launched our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to revolutionize hiring for international students. ✅ Hit 30.4K impressions, 15.1K reach, 1.3K engagements, and welcomed 267 new followers on social media. 🎉 Highlight of the Year: Receiving the prestigious Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Prize of $50K! To our incredible team at Purpose Connect: Thank you for your hard work, passion, and unwavering dedication to our mission. Your commitment to empowering international students and driving innovation is the heartbeat of everything we do. Together, we’ve accomplished so much, and the future looks even brighter because of you! Your support fuels our mission to bridge the gap between international talent and employment opportunities. Thank you for being part of this journey—we can’t wait to see what 2025 holds! #PurposeConnect #YearInReview #Gratitude #GlobalWorkforce #BlackAmbitionPrize

Starting off the week with deep gratitude for some amazing friends who took time out of their busy schedules earlier this month to celebrate Purpose Connect’s win! Throughout the Black Ambition Prize competition by Pharrell Williams, and since being named a prize winner, I’ve been so moved by how Springfield has showed up for us. It truly means a lot! THANK YOU! 💛

Congratulations to 💎 Racheal ‘Dami’ Odunewu, GMLC Class of 2024, who received a $50,000 award from Pharrell Williams and the Black Ambition Prize Competition. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dqwdg7fc #GreaterMO #WomenInLeadership

Our founder and CEO, 💎 Racheal ‘Dami’ Odunewu was one of six thought leaders who spoke at the 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes event by the Springfield Business Journal. Excerpt from her 10 Ideas: ✨ Idea: Honor people’s inherent value. “The first key to growth and transformation lies in the way that we see other people. Every single person has potential.” To catch the full lineup of speakers and their ideas, visit sbj.net Pictures taken by SBJ #business #leaders #ideas #springfieldmo #springfieldmobusiness

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Sharing some pictures from Demo Day! Purpose Connect was awarded $50,000 by Pharrell Williams’ and Black Ambition Prize 🎉 The funds will help accelerate some major milestones and we are grateful that Pharrell and Black Ambition believe in what we’re building 💎 #blackambition #prizewinner

We’re grateful for the added benefits of being one of 30 Black Ambition Prize Winners this year! In addition to the $50,000 award from Pharrell Williams and Black Ambition, we’ll receive the following support over the next 6 months: ➡️Town hall meetings with Pharrell and senior brand partners ➡️Access to office hours with investors and leaders in marketing, operations, brand management and more ➡️Exclusive invitations to retail partner meetings ➡️Wellness and executive coaching ➡️Access to premier network cultivation and training events Demo Day was attended by over 250 guests and supported by Visa, Comcast, Lennar Foundation, Louis Vuitton, and adidas. Click to view a full list of other terrific companies and prize winners who have now become part of the Purpose Connect family!

🚀 NEWS UPDATE 🚀 We are elated to announce that Purpose Connect advanced to top finalist for Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Prize competition and was awarded $50,000 during Demo Day last week in New York! This competition has been a journey of tremendous growth for us and we are beyond grateful to Black Ambition for believing in our mission of bridging the gap between international students in the U.S. and employment opportunities! Shout out and congratulations to the $1M GRAND prize winner—RedDropCo and $250K 2nd prize winner—GRIND as well as to our fellow prize winners! 🎉 We are in awe of what these companies are building and honored to participate in this experience with every single one of them! #UNINTERRUPTED #BlackAmbitionDemoDay

Purpose Connect got awarded $50,000 by Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Prize competition to support our mission of connecting international students to employment opportunities! I’ve been living a dream this week, friends and our team is beyond ecstatic! Thank you, Black Ambition and Pharrell! Stay tuned for the official pictures at Purpose Connect! 💙💛