Many young people are creating businesses, but only a few are created for the purpose of making the world a better place. These two social entrepreneurs, Maria Mayanja and Kenton Lee, have created successful companies that make the world a better place at the same time.
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In this interview we talk with Shark Tank stars, Lee and Griff, the founders of Combat Flip Flops, to learn how they started their business and their model for helping Afghan children get education.
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Most people don’t realize how many opportunities we have each day to practice mindful meditation. You literally get a new chance with each breath. So why take the time? A recent study discovered that even a few weeks of meditation training improved participants’ focus and memory for the verbal reasoning section of the GRE (with a 16 percentile point score increase).
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In this interview we speak with Aaron about his incredible marketing experience working with startups and major companies like IBM.
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As you would probably guess, most 9-year-olds spend their summer days hosting lemonade stands and catching fire flies.
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In this new segment of the Change Creator Podcast, our founder, Adam G. Force, is taking a shot at a fresh idea in response to questions from the audience by sharing his experiences with Change Creator unedited.
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Self Employed is a proud title for any successful entrepreneur, but it also means that your company is your primary source of income. In this situation, every financial decision the company makes, you make as well.
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In this episode we speak with the co-founder of Spark Microgrants, Sasha Fisher, about their successful approach to helping communities design and launch their own social impact projects.
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Exclusive interview with award winning social entrepreneur, Ron Bills.
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Ron Bills is an incredibly smart guy that’s easy to talk with and is full of insights. In this exclusive interview, we talk with Bills about how he built, Envirofit, the incredible impact they are creating and the mission behind it.
Envirofit was founded on the idea that enterprise principles can transform the development of household and commercial energy technologies for people living in extreme energy poverty.
In 2003, Envirofit set out to change the way energy products were developed for people living in remote parts of the world.
With a goal of improving harmful traditional cooking methods, Envirofit innovated a product line of aesthetic, high performance cookstoves tailored to the needs of customers in emerging and underdeveloped markets.
Years of consumer research and product development proved that people who lack access to electricity and clean cooking solutions do desire and will buy high quality products that can improve their lives.
Today, Envirofit has grown from a business with one product toa global company serving over five million people, with over a dozen user-designed products and regional headquarters in East Africa, West Africa, Asia, and Latin America that offer the local production and distribution of clean cookstoves.
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Courage, vulnerability, and compassion, all characteristics of a Change Creator.
This is an inspiring story about three young students at Jacksonville’s Robert E. Lee High School who entered a National Kindness Challenge and it will inspire you just as it has inspired me. In their own way, they are creating the change they want to see in the world.
Jacksonville’s Robert E. Lee High School has long been plagued with violence and segregation, and its students have faced significant challenges inside and outside the classroom.
To put it in perspective, in one 13-person class:
Needless to say, Robert E. Lee is not a place you’d expect to find kindness and empathy – that is, until one visionary teacher, Ms. Amy Donofrio, and three of her ambitious students stepped up.
Earlier this year, Ms. D., Billy, Chris and Nick decided – on a whim – to enter a national Kindness Challenge hosted by Making Caring Common (a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education) and The KIND Foundation (a nonprofit started by healthy snack company KIND).
The task at hand? Create and implement a project that addressed barriers to kindness and inclusivity at school.
In their application, they wrote:
“Our goal is to make our classmates realize that even though someone might seem different from you on the surface, your lives might be similar.”
They set up a bulletin board where they posted about different issues, such as losing a sibling or facing homelessness.
Next to the board they placed a box of post-it notes and their peers were encouraged to post if they too had faced that issue.
Posting, of course, required a fair bit of openness and vulnerability. But slowly, and then quickly, the post-its added up.
According to their teacher, the project – called #YourStoryIsMine – had a tremendous effect.
“Despite the animosity, the kids started being kind. They realized they could relate to each other.” (Ms. D)
Today, June 1 2017, Billy, Chris and Nick are about to find out they’ve beat dozens of other entries to win the grand prize.
These brave students who decided to do something different and take real action for change, will each receive a monetary award, and the school will receive a donation from The KIND Foundation to sustain the project through the next academic year.
Their ideas will also be incorporated into a toolkit that will be distributed to teachers nationwide.
Kindness and change can thrive even in the most unlikely places if you have the courage to act.
