Ben Hoyer

Ben Hoyer is the founder and director of Downtown CREDO, a social-enterprise focused on improving quality of lives in our nation’s cities by cultivating networks of meaning, impact and community.

In it's first three years of existence, CREDO has established a donations only coffee shop, received grants for it's work with youth in the Parramore corridor, and cultivated a following for it's free skilled based workshops. The aggregate of all these efforts is a growing movement of folks in Orlando living with meaning, impact and community.

Finding himself in the social-enterprise world almost by accident, Ben does not claim to be an expert at much except the CREDO. It's a statement of conviction that is calling folks to action and improving their Quality of life.