Join FEE and GCEE for a Dinner & Discourse conversation
hosted at Café Momentum Atlanta, a nonprofit restaurant with a
powerful model for transforming lives through work, training, and
hospitality. This evening explores a core economic
question: can the drive to earn profits generate social
good—and if so, why do nonprofits still matter?
We’ll compare how different organizations make decisions,
including small and large firms, nonprofit organizations, and
other institutions, and how their goals, rules, and constraints
shape the incentives, benefits, and costs faced by workers,
customers, and communities. Participants will examine
entrepreneurship as the process of combining resources in new
ways, the role of profit as a reward for risk-taking, and how
ethical or social aims can influence decisions even inside
profit-seeking firms. Expect a thoughtful, respectful dialogue
that challenges assumptions about “profit vs. purpose” and
highlights what Café Momentum uniquely reveals about markets,
mission, and human flourishing.
Audience: Teachers, Grades 6-12
Dinner and materials provided.
