Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 138, Julius Ibrahim, Second Shot Coffee | Heart, Head, and Hustle to end Homelessness Julius Ibrahim is tackling homelessness one espresso at a time. In her book, Work on Purpose, Echoing Green alumni Lara Galinsky offers this formula: Heart + Head = Hustle By heart,…
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138, Julius Ibrahim, Second Shot Coffee | Heart, Head, and Hustle to end Homelessness
120, Paul Bradley, ROC USA | Housing Security for Mobile Home Owners
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 120, Paul Bradley, ROC USA | Housing Security for Mobile Home Owners ROC USA is a non-profit organization with a mission of making quality resident ownership possible nationwide. When Paul Bradley was studying economics in university, he became interested in cooperative business models. “It immediately…
109, Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund and Tumml | Creating an Ecosystem
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 109, Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund and Tumml | Creating an Ecosystem Clara Brenner is creating a startup ecosystem for urban innovation. More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Globally, 512 cities have at least 1 million inhabitants. With urbanization…
089, Alexandria Lafci, New Story | Disrupting Community Development through Story-Driven Crowdfunding
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 089, Alexandria Lafci, New Story | Disrupting Community Development through Story-Driven Crowdfunding New Story is disrupting community development. They accomplish that through a story-driven crowdfunding process for building homes. But, they’re not just building houses, they’re creating communities. And, in the process, they are changing the…
076, Drew Meyers, Horizon | Building Empathy through Travel with a Trusted Network
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 076, Drew Meyers, Horizon | Building Empathy through Travel with a Trusted Network Building empathy is the first step in becoming a changemaker. And what better way to build empathy than to travel? But not all travel is created equally. As it has been said,…
047, Sammie Rayner, HandUp | Social Good in Your Neighborhood
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 047, Sammie Rayner, HandUp | Social Good in Your Neighborhood When it comes to social good, we often think we have to do something world-changing. In his book All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O’Rourke said Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody…
045, Francesco Piazzesi, Echale a tu casa | Housing As Community Development
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume 045, Francesco Piazzesi, Echale a tu casa | Housing As Community Development Francesco Piazzesi uses housing as a means of community development. He grew up in the construction equipment industry. He noticed that the brick mason who spent his days building houses went home to…
