One week, two great events…(Part 2 of 2)

Event 2: NY 100 Party

We’re sick of the doom and gloom–the stories of revival coming out of this crisis need to be told too.–NEWYork 100

Last night I headed over to All Day Buffet’s NEWYork 100 Party at Brooklyn Bowl. All Day Buffet is the Scarlet Pimpernel of the growing social entrepreneurship scene…they are everywhere, doing good, somewhat disguised. When I got to the event last night, the first thing someone asked me was: “How did you hear about All Day Buffet?”  I told them that I had unknowingly come across them on  multiple occasions, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized that All Day Buffet was really behind it all.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

If you haven’t heard of it yet, the Feast Conference is All Day Buffet’s day-long conference in NYC on October 1st. The line-up is pretty impressive and includes: Cindy Gallop, founder of IfWeRanTheWorld; Annie Duke, professional poker player; and, Rod Arnold, COO of charity:water. And that’s just naming a few.

The Feast is self-described as:

A cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place. Our secret sauce lies in a healthy combination of passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship to shift the way things are done – thereby changing individuals, industries, and ultimately the world.

When the All Day Buffet team is not organizing this massive event, they are busy orchestrating By/Association–their innovative network that involves hand-picking members and personally introducing them. Their tag line: “We know someone you should meet.”

And, as if that’s not all…in their free time All Day Buffet put together the comprehensive and super interesting NEWYork100–a list of “100 of the most innovative, rule- breaking, model-changing ideas to come out of the Big Apple.” The NY 100  is broken down into 8 categories: Art & Design, Business, Culture, Environment, Food, Non-Profit, Social Innovation, and Technology. These are definitely individuals, organizations, and businesses that you should meet.And, better yet, aspire to be among!

The fiesta at Brooklyn Bowl (a NY100 member) was free, open to the public, and had NY100 members floating around with self-drawn stars on their name tags. The most impressionable part of the evening was seeing first-hand how All Day Buffet is uniting and mobilizing a NYC movement. It was impossible to meet someone in the room-filled crowd who wasn’t doing great things in their respective fields.

Relatively new (it has only around for about a year and a half) and definitely tiny (it’s run by 2 people), All Day Buffet surely will give Business-As-Usual sleepless nights–if it isn’t already.  The City’s own 21st century superhero is unmasked!…if for a limited time only. Who knows what they are up to next!