Spreading the Miles: Aeroplan program supports World Oceans Day & other causes
Aeroplan program supports charities working in Canada and abroad
A New Way to Get Crucial Funding to Female Entrepreneurs
The progress of women in senior corporate leadership has been “glacially slow,” as the Harvard Business Review recently reported. In 2004, women held 20 percent of senior executive roles in the U.S. and 22 percent in Canada. By the start of 2017, the numbers had...
Finding Support, Jobs & Motivation at Chicago’s Cara
It’s 8:25 AM on a Thursday and the daily Morning Motivation is underway. A group of 30 or so have formed a circle and are singing and clapping to popular, upbeat songs that quickly work their magic on this grey and rainy Chicago day. As they break into “Movin On...
Harnessing Consumption to Save the Planet: In conversation with Nicole Rycroft of Canopy
Within the $3.3-trillion dollar fashion industry, almost 100 million trees disappear into clothing every year and that’s projected to more than double within the next 15 to 20 years. To be sure, clothing is becoming a major threat to the world’s endangered forests....
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...
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