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CreatorCon 2026 early-bird · $45 (reg. $70) through July 3, 2026

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Convenings · Connections · Storytelling

We add value to the work already being done.

A nonprofit that hosts convenings, makes connections, and tells the stories of the people building real businesses — and the people building the systems that support them.

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CreatorCon is back.

September 23–24, 2026 · UVA Wise · Early-bird $45 (reg. $70) through July 3, 2026

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What we do

Three things, done carefully.

01 · Convenings

Convenings

We host gatherings where entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem builders show up in the same room — and leave with relationships that didn't exist before.

02 · Connections

Connections

We listen for what founders are actually stuck on, and make the introduction that unsticks them.

03 · Storytelling

Storytelling

We document the work — the founders building real businesses, the support organizations doing the unglamorous work, the wins and losses that get lost without a record.

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Entrepreneurs and economic developers served through our convenings.

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In prize money awarded through our CreatorCon Pitch Battle.

In the room

Where the work happens.

Ryan Jones, founder of Do Good Foundation.
About

A small nonprofit, adding value to the work already being done.

Do Good Foundation is run by Ryan Jones, who's spent the last decade in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Appalachia and the broader South — first as Director of Innovation at SOAR, then as the founder of CreatorCon (now in its fourth year), and now as the nonprofit's only full-time human.

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