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Who We Serve
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Social entrepreneurs
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NGOs and nonprofits
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Creative Practitioners
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Global partners seeking cultural-
exchange collaboration
East Yard Enterprises
"AMPLIFYing Creative Social Enterprise & CONNECTing Across Borders for Global Impact."
2024 Summit Highlights
AMPLIFY Connect: Creative
Social Enterprise Summit
2025
Stay Tuned for Dates!
East Yard Enterprises is driving the Caribbean’s premier gathering for creative changemakers using business for good to transform communities.
2025 Cohort
AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Fellowship & Accelerator
A 6-month fellowship building the capacity of Caribbean creative social entrepreneurs through real-world business training, mentorship and provision of resources.
2024/2025
Program + Project Highlights
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10 organizations participated in AMPLIFY Connect Fellowship (2024 pilot) with over 36,000 people reached online & 200+ engaged in person.
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AMPLIFY Connect Fellowship Cohort 2 (2025) underway with 12 creative social entrepreneurs.
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In 2025 collaborated with First Citizens National Poetry Slam, Embassy of Mexico in Trinidad and Tobago, Embassy of Peru in Trinidad and Tobago and Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra.
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Creative Consultancy services provided to Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago and Pan American Development Foundation
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East Yard Branded Media & Merchandise
We use storytelling for impact through:
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AMPLIFY Connect: The Podcast
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AMPLIFY Connect: For Good, Newsletter
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Educational Books, Manuals & Games
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Branded merchandise
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and Carnival band sections, all with purpose-driven themes and revenue re-invested into programming
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JAMIE J. PHILBERT + RONDEL BENJAMIN: Talk LEGACY, LANGUAGE, LEARNING and KALINDA FUTURES
KIMBERLY DE SOUZA: Talks COMMUNICATION & COMMUNITY and the FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
DAWSHER CHARLES: Talks RESILIENCE and the YOUNG LEADERS OF THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE (YLAI)
CHERVON CUPIDORE-CRICKIE: Talks YOUTH MENTORING and the COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS PROGRAM (CSP)
AMPLIFY Connect: The Podcast
Blog
Leadership
Kevon Gareth Foderingham
A creative social entrepreneur, author, and artist with 20+ years in marketing + communications and senior management across hospitality, education, creative, and non-profit sectors - using creativity, commerce and cultural-exchange to drive lasting change.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Looking Ahead
✔ Expanding AMPLIFY Connect into a regional flagship program
✔ Launching a formal creative social enterprise alumni network for ongoing collaboration
✔ Offering Certificate in Small Business Entrepreneurship (CVQ Level II)
✔ Establishing a local and regional retail network for SDG-aligned creative social enterprise products and services
✔ Growing our annual AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Summit
✔ Influencing social enterprise policy and education through capacity-building, storytelling and framework development
