by Amy Seidman | Clean Tech, Cleantech Open, Innovation, Noble Profit, Video, Women
Heidi Lubin, CEO of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies (HEVT) has a vision to create “high-performance, highly efficient, affordable and reliable electric motors”. Her baby is a real winner, taking the prize at several major competitions including the...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
In the course of interviewing dozens of Café Impact social entrepreneurs from multiple continents working on a multiplicity of issues using a myriad of social change methodologies, one bit of advice emerged over and over again: Listen. Learn to be a good listener. I...
by Amy Seidman | Data, SB, Sustainability, Thought Leadership, Video
Information is power and the goal of using metrics is to analyze solutions and measurements to make important changes in business also helps to create transparency. Bonnie Nixon talks about the goal of developing and leveraging the data to enable companies and people...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
If you have parents, your social activism career just might, with any luck at all, turn out OK. For some social sector activists, parents are hurdles to be pushed out of the way. The poem Journey for Justice repeats an time-worn generational story, “i struggle...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
To describe itself to itself and to attract new converts, it is common these days for the nonprofit sector to talk in terms of investment – obscuring the legal and legitimate lines between grants and donations versus opportunities to make money by doing good...
by John Marshall Roberts | Highlights, Thought Leadership
Why do some entrepreneurs manage to defy social gravity and thrive, while most go down in flames? How is it possible to attract a truly passionate following through social media in today’s information overwhelmed age? What’s the best way to find security in a flat,...