Empowering People Through Robotics: In convo with Charles Deguire of Kinova
With our robotic arm people with disabilities become less dependent on caregivers and enjoy an improved quality of life
4 Lessons From Our First 4 Years As (Social) Entrepreneurs
Most importantly, we want Mealshare to play a big part in seeing a world without youth hunger in our lifetimes.
From Jobs to Self-Reliance: We speak with Tamra Ryan of Women’s Bean Project
In this episode of In the Business of Change we speak with Tamra Ryan, CEO of Denver-based Women’s Bean Project. The company was founded in 1989 - way before social enterprise was even trendy - with the belief that jobs are the primary weapons in the war against...
Meet the People Saving Seafood – and the Ocean Ecosystems
There are two sides to every story, and as manager of the annual Seafood Champion Awards for the nonprofit SeaWeb, I am in the enviable position of having a grandstand view of the bright side of the seafood supply chain. It is part of my job to read hundreds of...
5 Steps to Greater Accountability
My heart sank as I heard the news. I sensed that not much had happened since the board retreat I facilitated for a nonprofit some months ago, and my follow-up call with the board chair confirmed what deep down inside I already knew. Despite the fact that the...
From Paper to Clean Water: We speak with the founders of Folia Water
In this episode of In the Business of Change we speak with Teri Dankovich and Jonathan Levine, founders of Folia Water, an innovative silver-infused filter paper that has the potential to save billions of people worldwide from the effects of unsafe drinking water....
Chicago Preschool Launches Program for Underserved Children in Zambia
Early childhood education can be a key in propelling students towards a path for success. In the United States, investment in early childhood education programing has been shown to yield around $12 for every dollar invested.[1] The opportunity to have a profound...
Coffee on a Mission: New Street Café in City of Sunnyvale Combats Homelessness
It’s coffee with a karma catch: order your cappuccino at Downtown Streets Team’s (DST) KARTMA Street Café and know you’re paying it forward, because every cup purchased goes towards ending homelessness. The 100 percent electric coffee cart employs individuals...
In Convo with Tamra Ryan, CEO of Women’s Bean Project
This piece was originally published as part of REDF's The Business of Social Enterprise an ongoing series profiling social entrepreneurs who are applying their business skills learned through many years of experience in the for-profit sector toward transforming...
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