Sheldon Grizzle
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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500+ connections
About
I love the creative process of starting and scaling companies.
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Covenant College is currently hiring for 5 faculty positions in the Art Department. This is an incredible campus with fantastic students and faculty…
Covenant College is currently hiring for 5 faculty positions in the Art Department. This is an incredible campus with fantastic students and faculty…
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For my creative community people... Great opportunity to work with good people in a good place!
For my creative community people... Great opportunity to work with good people in a good place!
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Experience
Volunteer Experience
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Founder/Board of Directors/Executive Committee
The Company Lab
- Present 9 years
Economic Empowerment
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Board of Directors
The Enterprise Center Chattanooga
- 6 years 10 months
Economic Empowerment
The Enterprise Center is establishing Chattanooga as a hub of innovation, improving people’s lives by leveraging the city’s digital technology to create, demonstrate, test, and apply solutions for the 21st century. They do this through leading the efforts behind Chattanooga's Innovation District, applications and research and digital equity.
- Innovation District- The Chattanooga Innovation District, designated in January 2015, is part of Chattanooga’s dense and walkable urban core that…The Enterprise Center is establishing Chattanooga as a hub of innovation, improving people’s lives by leveraging the city’s digital technology to create, demonstrate, test, and apply solutions for the 21st century. They do this through leading the efforts behind Chattanooga's Innovation District, applications and research and digital equity.
- Innovation District- The Chattanooga Innovation District, designated in January 2015, is part of Chattanooga’s dense and walkable urban core that contains a catalytic mix of start-up businesses, incubators, accelerators and other innovation economy generators and amenities.
- Applications and Research- The Applications and Research agenda aims to increase Chattanooga’s opportunities as a national test-bed, or living laboratory for the creation, development, education, and business generation potential of the city’s digital assets, in particular the gigabit network and smart grid.
- Digital Equity- Tech Goes Home is a digital inclusion program that works with community partners to help residents across Hamilton County gain access to the skills, hardware, and Internet connectivity required for 21st century success. -
Board Of Directors
Chattanooga Football Club Foundation
- Present 7 years 8 months
Health
To enrich the lives of children and families in Chattanooga found in economically or culturally challenged neighborhoods. Chattanooga Sports Ministries seeks to partner with local churches and Operation Get Active partners with schools and recreation centers. Both are investing in children’s development in a uniquely effective way to instigate social change and build up a strong community.
If you are passionate about soccer or helping children in Chattanooga, we are always looking for…To enrich the lives of children and families in Chattanooga found in economically or culturally challenged neighborhoods. Chattanooga Sports Ministries seeks to partner with local churches and Operation Get Active partners with schools and recreation centers. Both are investing in children’s development in a uniquely effective way to instigate social change and build up a strong community.
If you are passionate about soccer or helping children in Chattanooga, we are always looking for individual and corporate sponsors!
Check out the work we do here- https://www.chattanoogafc.com/foundation/
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Founding President/Board of Directors
Highland Park Commons
- 3 years 3 months
Health
This was a passion project for me because it was the intersection of many passions: soccer/recreation space, ministry, neighborhood improvement and cross-cultural interactions...all in one block of Highland Park. We raised money from local foundations and US Soccer to build top of line futsal fields, playground, community gardens and a market area in the middle of the most diverse neighborhood in Chattanooga. It's the only place you can visit in the city and see people from all cultures…
This was a passion project for me because it was the intersection of many passions: soccer/recreation space, ministry, neighborhood improvement and cross-cultural interactions...all in one block of Highland Park. We raised money from local foundations and US Soccer to build top of line futsal fields, playground, community gardens and a market area in the middle of the most diverse neighborhood in Chattanooga. It's the only place you can visit in the city and see people from all cultures interacting and playing together. It's beautiful!
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Community Voices Contributor, Entrepreneurship
Benwood Foundation
- 1 year 1 month
Economic Empowerment
I was honored to be a contributor to the "Community Voices" blog on Benwood Foundation's website, helping stimulate community conversations around the topic of entrepreneurship.
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Healthy Parks Healthy Person Advisory Board
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
- Present 3 years 10 months
Health
Healthy Parks Healthy Person is a collaboration between Tennessee State Parks and the Tennessee Department of Health that encourages physical activity in any of the state’s parks. The program has an app that allows Tennesseans to log their activities at parks in exchange for points that can be redeemed for rewards.
Publications
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It Takes a Community to Raise a Startup (Community)
Benwood Foundation Community Voices Blog
Try building a startup without a community.
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Go Forth and Validate
Wall Street Journal
Guest blogged for WSJ about topics important to startups and small businesses.
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We Start Things
Wall Street Journal
I was asked by WSJ to write about what is happening in Tennessee as part of their nationwide coverage of the growing energy around entrepreneurial activity.
Courses
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Harvard Business School's Young American Leaders Program
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Projects
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Park(ing) Day Chattanooga
Along with bunch of other crazy people at CreateHere, we launched the first Park(ing) Day in Chattanooga with just five spaces around downtown. It's been a lot of fun to see it grow over the years and become something really cool with over 60 spaces in 2015.
The mission of PARK(ing) Day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat.
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Chattanooga Startup Awards
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The first annual Chattanooga Startup Awards was designed to recognize and celebrate the next generation of emerging companies as well as everyone who helped them become successful along the way.
Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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Top 20 Under 40
Chatter Magazine
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Young Alumnus of the Year
Covenant College
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Top 20 in their 20's
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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All-American
NAIA Men's Soccer
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All-American
NAIA Men's Soccer
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