B Magazine: Creating Social Impact, One Business at a Time

by Victoria Blanco
Photography by David Bowman

How FINNovation Lab + Impact Hub MSP are changing the landscape of social entrepreneurship

Jacquie Berglund (BF’14) keeps several hardhats around her small office on the edge of downtown Minneapolis. Co-founder of Finnegans, the first beer company in the world to donate 100 percent of its profits ($1 million to date) to charity, Berglund grabs one several times a day and heads three blocks to the construction site where her next big idea is taking shape. When it fully opens in late spring of 2018, Finnegans House will feature a brewery and taproom as well as a social business incubator and accelerator. The expanded space and mission are the result of a collaboration with Impact Hub MSP and promise to change the landscape of social entrepreneurship in the Twin Cities.