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

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Using blockchain technology and data science, Victor Santos, the CEO and co-founder of Airfox, is working to improve financial inclusion for the 1.8 billion people living on the planet without access to traditional banking services--a prerequisite to truly emerging from poverty. Interview with Victor Santos, the CEO and co-fo...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2VHYxEh . “I firmly believe that wealth means very little in a planet that is dying, ” says Ibrahim AlHusseini, 45, founder and CEO of FullCycle, an investment firm that seeks to reverse climate change profitably. AlHusseini, an immigrant to the United S...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Nancy Davis was diagnosed with MS nearly three decades ago. Initially debilitated, she has not only found a way to survive with her relapsing-remitting form of the disease, she founded an organization, Race to Erase MS, with the singular goal of finding a cure. Along the way, the organization has funded research resulting in...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2HgjGN2 . Bubba O’Keefe stands on the stage of the Paramount Theater, backed by the banker who financed his acquisition, Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, appraising the damage, as if conjuring a poorly formed vision of what could be. Shortly aft...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Applying for a government grant, especially from the U.S. Federal Government, can be daunting, so much so that many worth applicants are disuaded even from applying. Sedale Turbovsky, a social entrepreneur based in Sacramento, is using artificial intelligence to reinvent the paradigm, hoping to make it easier to find and ulti...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . A trio of remarkable teenagers, with support from remarkable parents, have been crowdfunding on Johnson & Johnson’s CaringCrowd to improve the health and education of children in India. The young people, Abhay Basireddy, Harun Vemulapalli and Harsha Vatsavayi, are youth ambassadors for Ekam USA, which was founded by Abhay’s m...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Kate Stillwell, founder and CEO of Jumpstart, is by background a civil engineer who has spent much of her career figuring out how to reduce damage and injury resulting from earthquakes. Along the way, she observed that communities that lack a genuine sense of community are more vulnerable to a slow or missing recovery than th...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Taynaah Reis, CEO of Moeda, has deployed a successful blockchain company with operations around the world focusing on helping startups targeting one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Born in the class notorious crypto class of 2017, Moeda’s success is even more remarkable. Be sure to tune in to the full recorded interv...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2UMaC5U . Consider these sobering statistics. About 15 million children or 21% of all kids living in the United States are being raised in homes with incomes below the federal poverty threshold. Around the globe, 385 million children live in poverty. An...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Carter Malloy, founder and CEO of AcreTrader, has created a crowdfunding platform to allow investors to purchase interests in farmland. An asset class that has eluded most investors, the platform makes it easy to gain exposure to farmland. Farmland increases in value and generates revenue, in combination providing an attracti...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . For decades, unaccompanied minors have been arriving at the United States border as refugees or seeking asylum. Once processed, they quickly need to find foster homes where they can receive the support they need to thrive in their new country. Catholic Community Services of Utah is the agency that manages foster care placemen...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: Andrew Leon Hanna, 27, and David Delaney Mayer, also 27, became fast friends at Duke, based, at least in part, on their shared status as descendants of immigrants they have known. After years of searching, the pair settled on starting a social enterprise called Dreamx...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Since she launched her business five years ago, we’ve been following Lisa Curtis and her social enterprise Kuli Kuli, the superfood business built around moringa. She continues to impress. In April, she closed a $6.2 million financing round. Kuli Kuli has done $10 million in revenue since inception. More importantly, at least...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . The first lesson Conrad Weaver learned about heroin as he worked to produce his new film Heroin’s Grip was that no one is immune. Addiction captures rich and poor alike. Another key insight from his research is that the most dangerous drugs on the street are the most sought after. When someone dies from taking heroin laced wi...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2X4mVfG . When anyone seeks to reinvent the grocery business in light of both the wreckage left by WebVan and the presence of Amazon with Whole Foods in the market, it is hard to conceive success for a well-capitalized upstart. When the entrepreneur is a...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Two 7th graders, inspired by a student project led by their 6th grade teacher Ms. Nikki Ferringo, created a nonprofit organization to rid the world of disposable plastics one town at a time, starting in their hometown of Highland Park, New Jersey. Andrew Dalton and Mac Jones have already marked success by getting the school d...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Radius CEO Joel Carusone saw that clients were beginning to use its data tools for disaster relief outreach and saw an opportunity to help more people do more good. It launched a program it calls “Data for Good” to help clients use their software tools at no charge for creating positive social impact. Click the following link...

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Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2FSsjLX . Gunnar Lovelace, founder and CEO of Good Money, was raised in a “hippie commune” in California. He doesn’t think much of the banking system in the U.S., so he’s launched Good Money, a consumer banking platform structured as a customer-owned coo...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Melissa Danielsen and Melanie Fountaine launched a drop-in day-care center for special needs loved ones after they lost their brother, a special needs person. It gave the twin sisters a chance to be a continuing part of a community they loved. Over the years, they realized, however, that their operation served only their Twin...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . The difference between community redevelopment and gentrification isn’t entirely a subjective judgment left to the eye of the beholder, say Fran Seegull and Jen Collins. Fran is the executive director for the U.S. Impact Investment Alliance and Jen is a fellow-in-residence at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University. They ar...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . For decades, Sam Daley-Harris has quietly gone about changing the world. Much of the global success in eradicating extreme poverty can be credited in part to him and his leadership at RESULTS. His secret has been to train and empower ordinary citizens to be effective activists. He helps organizations learn the secrets to empo...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Pact is a large NGO that isn’t content to do things the way they’ve always been done because it’s the way things have always been done. Amidst a global impact investing and social entrepreneurship boom, Pact created Pact Ventures and tapped experienced impact investor Brian Vo to lead the effort. Using funds from its own bala...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2CrposD . “Brilliant” is the word one source used to describe Project Drawdown’s ranked list of 100 climate change solutions, begging the meta question, should the list be on the list. Having a variety of climate change solution options is only useful if...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Village Capital was founded to invest in social entrepreneurs using a novel, peer-selected methodology. A decade later, under new leadership, it remains committed to those principles. Allie Burns recently succeeded Ross Baird (who left to start Blueprint Local) as the CEO of Village Capital. She joined Village Capital nearly...