FutureMakers Coalition Shark Tank

Name: FutureMakers Coalition Shark Tank
Start: 2025-11-14T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Collaboratory

November 14

FutureMakers Shark Tank is designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship within our community by providing a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and receive valuable feedback from industry experts.

Initiative Overview:

The FutureMakers Shark Tank events will be held twice a year, with the goal of encouraging and supporting both social and venture entrepreneurs, as well as students studying business and entrepreneurship. These events will not only provide participants with the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of experts but also offer significant prizes to help them take their ventures to the next level.

Fall Shark Tank: November 14th, 2025 for social and venture entrepreneurs

Spring Shark Tank: Date is TBD for students studying business and entrepreneurship

This initiative will be coordinated by the Resilience and Diversification Action Team and supported by the FutureMakers Coalition and the Daveler Institute of Entrepreneurs at FSW School of Business and Technology.

For more information contact info@futuremakerscoalition.com

Details

Date:: November 14
Event Category:: FutureMakers Coalition

Venue

: Collaboratory
: 2031 Jackson St.
Fort Myers, FL 33901 United States + Google Map
Phone: 239-274-5900

Since no single organization can solve big social problems alone, Collaboratory is using its community leadership role to bring together local organizations and people from different sectors (like businesses, nonprofits, and government) to work on common goals. This collaboration aims to improve Southwest Florida and make it a better place to live, work, learn, and play.

The impact dashboard shows key regional goals that everyone is working toward, with the aim of solving social issues by 2040. It provides a point-in-time snapshot of progress by tracking important indicators that show how the community is changing over time. While these changes take time and there is often a delay between when the data is collected and becomes available, the dashboard helps us understand where we need to focus our efforts to achieve our shared goals.

In 2022, in concert with hundreds of individuals and organizations, we collectively identified the issues of housing and health as the next most-pressing areas of need. Based on that data, we’ve modeled FutureMakers Coalition, our nine-year initiative, to establish two new regional coalitions: Home and Health & Wellness.

If you would like to dive deeper into each of the coalitions, visit each coalition website.