Next Generation Foundation (CEO Bang Dae-wook) and Cheongdo Innovation Center (Director Woo Jang-han) conducted the '2025 Gyeongbuk-Cheongdo Non-profit Startup Promotion Education and Consulting Project' in Cheongdo-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do from April 22 to 30.
This project, which started in 2023 and is now in its third year, has continuously discovered non-profit startups that are working to solve problems in the Gyeongbuk-Cheongdo region. Based on the difficulties and awareness of problems experienced directly in the region, such as care, jobs, environment, and culture and arts, we have continued to provide education and consulting that reflects the characteristics of the region to non-profit entrepreneurs who want to try various solutions.
This year, we selected five teams preparing to start a non-profit business in the Gyeongbuk-Cheongdo region and conducted ▲education on understanding the concept of non-profit startups ▲workshops on defining social issues and designing personas ▲1:1 consulting on business and organization. In May, we will also prepare and release ▲1:1 consulting on in-depth organizational courses ▲production of a guide to establishing non-profit startups.
‘Playing Moms’, which forms a joint childcare community in the Gyeongbuk-Cheongdo region and provides various play education to children in the region, ‘Again, Green’, which carries out activities for a zero-waste lifestyle, and ‘Korea International Health and Safety Education Institute Cheongdo Branch’, which conducts disaster safety capacity building programs for the elderly, participated in the project as non-profit startup preliminary startup teams.
Next Generation Foundation CEO Bang Dae-wook said, “It was meaningful to be able to create a local non-profit startup model that can contribute to solving local community issues such as local extinction together with the Cheongdo Innovation Center over the past three years,” and “We will continue to work to establish a foundation to foster and support non-profit startups in regions outside of Seoul.”
Cheongdo Innovation Center Director Son Jeong-ah said, “Rural areas have many opportunities for public projects to respond to the local extinction crisis, so non-profit organizations are advantageous,” adding, “We will actively support non-profit startups that solve local settlement issues.”
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