Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.

#plugintodevin Show Guest: Jenny Kassan Office Held: Fremont City Council Office Sought: None currently Issue: Getting sufficient friendly capital for small businesses that are doing good in the world. I have run several undercapitalized businesses and I hate living in a world where the most needed changemakers are struggling just to make ends meet. We need to make it easier for everyone to move t...

#plugintodevin Show Guest: Gay Lynn Bennion Office Sought: Utah House of Representatives, District 46 Issue: Education, historically underfunded, now challenged by COVID-19 and social distancing policies. All of our family members have attended public schools. I currently serve as Director of Education Committee with Women's State Legislative Council and have been following bills, attending hearin...

#plugintodevin Show Guest: Jennifer Miller-Smith Disable Rights Caucus Chair Issue: Accessibility Some places are not accessible. We need more accessibility. Bio: Utah Democratic Party Disability Caucus Chair, Salt Lake County Party Disability Caucus Chair. Disability activist/organizer. Twitter: @jlms_qkw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.millersmith Photo credit: Karen Sewell Get full...

#plugintodevin Show Guest: Elizabeth Hill Chair of the Democratic Women of Utah County Issue: solving the homeless crisis in Utah County, access to Mental Health Services and Suicide Prevention, gerrymandering, Affordable Insurance or Universal Health Care, overcrowded classrooms, helping folks transition from gov assistance with a better living wage, equal pay for women and rational student loan...

Guest: Joel McKay Smith Issue: Creating and cultivating economic opportunities for marginalized communities (rural and neurodiversity) I grew up on a farm in Utah county in what is now referred to as Silicon Slopes, I have a passion for education and empowerment. Once this current crisis passes the ability for urban cores and rural communities will be even more important. The neurodiverse are uniq...

Guest: Aaron Dekeyzer Office Sought: SL County Council 6 Issue: Dark Skies Light pollution is growing at twice the rate of human population. As cities transition to LEDs in the name of energy efficiency (which they should), they often overlook the unintended consequences that those have on human and environmental health. And now, the first generation has been born that will never experience the Mi...

Guest: Dayton Thorpe Bio: I am a Data Scientist in San Francisco. I completed a PhD in physics at UC Berkeley and a bachelor's in math and physics from the University of Southern California. I serve on the Board of Directors for Eden I&R/211 Alameda County and Conard House, two California non-profits. Website: howto115.com Facebook: facebook.com/dayton.thorpe.7 Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/dayton-tho...

Guest: Daisy Thomas Office Sought: Utah State House District 46 Issue: Health care We all need healthcare. Every human being deserves to live a life of dignity and in the US that means life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't believe people should suffer and die in poverty because they lack the financial capacity to pay for required medical services. Healthcare is an investment into a...

Guest: Kurt Bestor Office Held: National Delegate for Obama 2008 Issue: Health Care As a free-lance musician, I have no employer and health insurance is very expensive. There was a time in my life when I COULDN'T get health insurance (because I had two children with Spina Bifida). I made too much money to get Medicaid or other help while not making enough to pay for expensive medical specialists o...

Guest: Angela Krull, Campaign Manager Issue: Opportunity and economic mobility for all I grew up in a relatively small town in Idaho. I was taught that if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams. What I didn’t understand then and only really started to understand with more life experience was that not everyone starts in the same place and that all too often, the obstacles to achieving one’s dre...

Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas Kristof and Cheryl WuDunn have written a new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, to be released next month. The book will follow the model of the couple’s previous collaborations, Half the Sky and A Path Appears, painful analyses of big social problems that also celebrate the hope found in existing solutions. Without the benefit of a review copy, I recorde...

We at the Your Mark on the World Center have been sharing podcasts and YouTube episodes of the Your Mark on the World Show - The Social Impact Podcast about crowdfunding for good and other topics for the past eight years. In that time, we’ve had many sponsors but none so generous as Johnson & Johnson’s CaringCrowd. CaringCrowd is J&J’s crowdfunding platform for global public health nonprofits. J&J...

Gail McGovern, 67, became the eighth CEO in five years at the American Red Cross in 2008, as the country entered its most severe economic downturn in seven decades. Today, she remains at the head of what is once again a fiscally healthy nonprofit. Looking back, she reflects on what she learned. The $3 billion annual revenue organization responds to 60,000 disasters every year, ranging from single...

Alex Scott never remembered a time she didn’t have cancer, having been diagnosed before her first birthday. She died at age eight. During her lifetime, Alex led efforts to raise over $1 million to fight childhood cancer. Her mother, Liz Scott, has continued the effort inspired by her daughter. The organization she inspired has now raised $175 million to fight cancer, about $25 million this year. A...

In 2008, Aussie Daniel Flynn came across two facts: children were dying (some still are) due to waterborne illnesses and the world market for bottled water was about $50 billion (now it is about $140 billion). In that juxtaposition, he saw a solution. The idea for Thankyou Water was born. Working with his buddy Jared Burns and his then girlfriend now wife Justine Flynn, as first-year university st...

Rotary General Secretary John Hewko was recently given the additional title of Chief Executive Officer, which didn’t change his job description so much as it gives clarity to his role, especially for those outside the organization. John is passionate about ending polio—and not just because that’s his job. For the past eight years, he has traveled to Tuscon, Arizona to participate in a 106-mile bik...

In a series of discussions at the University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, hosted by Originate and BCG Digital Ventures, experts comment on "Tomorrow's Technologies." For one on social good, I was invited to moderate. The panelists were: Margret Trilli: President & Chief Investment Officer of Impact Assets Rebecca Masisak: CEO of TechSoup Gunnar Lovelace: Founder, Thrive...

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University and is the host and producer of the PBS series Global Weirding. I asked her everything you want to know about climate change but were afraid to ask. Hayhoe has a positive, upbeat manner that leaves listeners feeling as if she’s talking about planning the best birthday party ever rather than wa...

On World Polio Day, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jennifer Jones who now serves on The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and who previously served on the Rotary International Board of Directors and as its Vice President. In that capacity, she reached the highest rank achieved by a female in Rotary. Rotary excluded women until a United States Supreme Court ruling on May 5, 1987 that open...

Alex Budak co-founded a crowdfunding site called StartSomeGood.com , a platform for social entrepreneurs and other changemakers. As he became acquainted with people around the world who were starting to do some good, his passion increased. He continues to advise StartSomeGood and now works as a full-time faculty member at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He’s teaching people how to beco...

Warner Woodworth, now 78, is an emeritus professor at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. Describing him that way is sort of like saying that Bill Gates used to work at Microsoft. While true, it fails completely to capture the essence of the person. Warner has had a hand in launching 40 NGOs, has worked with social innovators around the world, including Nobel Peace Prize w...

Visiting with Rotary International President Mark Maloney is a bit like visiting with an old friend. He is absolutely without pretense despite being the elected leader of 1.2 million Rotarians around the world. Having contributed 34 years to the fight to eradicate polio, he emphasizes his role as one of the million rather than allowing he might be one in a million. While acknowledging that 2019’s...

In 1985, Rotary International made the decision to tackle polio eradication. In 1988, it officially launched the effort, hoping to complete eradication by 2004 when the global service organization celebrated its centennial celebration. Now 15 years late, Michael McGovern, the volunteer chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee says he and Rotary are committed to finishing what they start...

B Dondolo, a nonprofit named for the father of the founder, Lumbie Mlambo. The organization is working to improve health outcomes at the Igusi Clinic. One of the projects completed was to provide a water filtration system. Prior to completion of the system, the clinic lacked clean water--imagine trying to operate a medical facility without a source of clean water. Lumbie, working with development...

You can probably offset your entire carbon footprint for just $20 per month per person in your household. The process is easy, and you can simply set up a monthly plan and forget about it, so it takes no time. Here’s one way to do it; I’m sure there are others. Cool Effect is a nonprofit that operates a crowdfunding site at CoolEffect.org for buying carbon offsets. Every project on the site not on...