A Pioneer Social Business, Sharon Rowe, Eco-Bags Products
The company Eco-Bags Products produces ECOBAGS®, the original reusable bag. Eco-Bags Products is a woman-owned business. They pioneered many of the practices we associate today with social enterprises and, in the process, transformed how consumers think about plastic bags. As an actress in New York City in the 1980’s, Sharon Rowe did not find it […]
Changing Media to Empower Girls, with Madeline Di Nonno, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media is a research-driven organization that is changing media to empower girls. While watching television with her daughter, Geena Davis noticed that women were not well represented. She was concerned about the messages that were being sent to her daughter and to her twin boys. Geena launched […]
Removing Barriers to Healthcare in Ethiopia Through MedTech, with Yohans Wodaje Emiru, helloDoctor
Dr. Yohans Wodaje Emiru is the founder of Telemed Medical Services. Their flagship service is helloDoctor. For every doctor in Ethiopia, there are more than 30,000 patients. Compare that to less than 400 patients per doctor in the United States. Millions of Ethiopian patients are cut off from medical services due to geography and infrastructure. […]
Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data, Open Source Tools and Collaboration, with Christa Hasenkopf, OpenAQ
OpenAQ aggregates and shares air quality data from around the world in order to fight air inequality. How big of an issue is air pollution? The World Health Organization estimates that one out of every eight deaths on the planet is related to air pollution. That’s more than HIV/AIDS and Malaria combined. Most of these […]
Creating and Sustaining Livelihoods through Vision, with Jordan Kassalow, VisionSpring
VisionSpring is a social enterprise that provides affordable access to eye care everywhere. As a 23-year-old student of optometry, Jordan Kassalow had an opportunity to travel to Latin America to bring eye care to underserved populations. While on the trip, he came across a 7-year-old boy who was a student from the School for the […]
How to be on a Podcast
Do you listen to podcasts? Podcasting is hot. Seriously hot. One in every 5 Americans have listened to a podcast in the last month. And more are subscribing every day. It make sense, right? We live mobile lives, always on the go. There’s a mobile phone in every hand. Car manufacturers build podcast players into […]
Have two minutes? Influence the kind of content we provide you
Over the next few weeks, I’d like to do something a little bit different. I thought it would be fun to ask you what you want to learn. If you could take 2 minutes to tell me about the single biggest challenge that you’re facing right now, that would mean the world to me. I’ll […]
A Company Powered by Purpose, with Krista Carroll, Latitude
Latitude is a for-profit creative agency, powered by purpose. In November 2009, Krista and her husband were in their 30s and, as she told me, “chasing the American dream really hard.” They were being financially successful but lacked a level of meaning and purpose. It was during a trip to Haiti that they witnessed extreme poverty […]
My Favorite Free Evernote Alternative
It seems that everyone is searching for a free Evernote alternative. Why? If you use the free version of Evernote, you probably received an email this week letting you know that you will either have to pare your use to two devices or upgrade to the paid version. And, honestly, who only has two devices these […]
Social Impact Without Being a Startup Founder, with Amanda LaGrange, TechDump
TechDump provides job training and practical experience for adults facing barriers to employment. Social impact does not necessarily require you to be the founder of a social enterprise. Amanda LaGrange is living proof of that idea. Amanda spent more than seven years at General Mills, including time as a Senior Financial Analyst. Today, Amanda is […]
