Hyperion Council

LEAP

LEAP is an organization that provides a prison reentry program for women that focuses on employability, life skills, and entrepreneurship. They are the only nonprofit agency in all of Florida that focuses on women in prison. LEAP also has a store called Dragonfly Thrift Boutique which provides post-release job opportunities. The council will provide 2 deliverables for the store to address marketing needs such as advising on their entry into the e-commerce market and enterprise expansion strategies. Similarly, in the Spring, we participated in the Virtual Entrepreneurship Program that helps inspire previously incarcerated women to create their own business and receive business plan advice.

 Venture Miami

Our partnership with Venture Miami began as a pilot program last Spring where we worked initially with three businesses; Vouke, Pega Grill, and Digital E consulting. After a successful program, we scaled the engagement for this fall semester and are working with five businesses from the program. This partnership with the City Council office of Venture Miami has allowed the council to support local entrepreneurs through one-on-one consulting ranging from deliverables on operations to creating social media calendars and campaign ideas.

Overall, we have worked with 7 businesses through venture Miami and look forward to further scaling this engagement to working with 10 businesses in the Spring of 2024.

• Vouke
  • Last Spring, we had the privilege of working with Derrick Newball who owns VOUKE. His product is collagen-infused drinks that come in different flavors and contain all-natural ingredients. After bi-weekly meetings with Derek, we assessed that areas of improvement were direct-to-consumer marketing, search engine optimization, and performing research on how to enter the "Bev-Tech" industry. The deliverable for the Spring 2023 semester is in the form of a business plan, as requested by Derek. He was incredibly satisfied with the recommendations as part of the business plan and has expressed interest in continuing to work with us.
• Pega Grill
  • Last semester, we worked with Claudia and produced a business specific due diligence questionnaire and brainstormed the most effective ways for her business to grow starting from her operational capabilities. We did an analysis of potential areas of growth within Claudia's operations.
• Digital E Consulting
  • Currently, Titans are helping Alex and his businesses by conducting three deliverables focused on net working capital optimization strategy, an inbound marketing strategy, and product validation support.

Refugee Assistance Alliance

Refugee Assistance Alliance assists refugees in South Florida across ten cities in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. The council provides handouts and informational materials translated into multiple languages including Arabic and Farsi. These materials address issues such as financial literacy, benefit renewal, job search basics, resume creation, personal budgeting, and more. Many families from countries around the world have been able to receive critical knowledge in their own language right here in South Florida.

Lotus House

The Lotus House is a unique resource center and residential facility serving homeless women and infants in the heart of the historic African American district of Overtown, Miami, an area suffering from extreme poverty. Sheltering 1,550+ women, youth and children annually, Lotus House is the largest shelter for women and children in the country. The council hosts workshops for the women in the shelter around financial literacy, credit card basics, and conducting a job search.

Belize - May 2022

A group of seven Titans had the opportunity to partner with Peacework International and the Ministry of Education of Belize to travel to Belize City to teach three classes of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Over the course of five days, Titans taught the students about setting goals, needs and wants, saving, budgeting, investing, borrowing, financial pitfalls, entrepreneurship, and self-esteem and confidence. The Titans also presented to a group of entrepreneurs and the Holy Redeemer Credit Union about how to utilize social media marketing and metrics to advertise and scale their businesses.

Barbados - May 2023

The Hyperion Council conducted small business consulting, leadership, entrepreneurial workshops and training sessions specifically targeting micro and small business entrepreneurs. Tradewind Tankers (TWT) and the Hyperion Council extended this opportunity to the Barbadian community with the support and help of The Barbados National Oil Company Limited.

A group of titans conducted full-scale operations to deliver small business development training and workshops to a target group of entrepreneurs. These workshop material and delivery in various areas such as Social Media and Marketing, Business Plan development, and Leadership and Emotional Intelligence in Business. In addition to this, similar to the project in Belize outlined above, we engaged with students to teach financial literacy and entrepreneurship.