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 . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2WyoyTa . Dr. Paul Polak, 85, is working with the zeal and enthusiasm of a freshly-minted college graduate, but he combines his passion with decades of experience to create outcomes at scale. Polak’s first success was in delivering treadle pumps to farme...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Daryl Hatton, the founder and CEO of Fundrazr, joined me to talk about the ways in which nonprofits can most effectively use crowdfunding. He shares insights about the idea of micro-campaigns, targeting specific projects and outcomes with tiny fundraising goals of just a few hundred dollars. For instance, a pet adoption nonpr...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Chiara Savage Schwatz, a teenage changemaker, is working to raise money to help families in South Africa obtain Wonderbag slow cookers. These ingenious products require no energy! Families use them by bringing a pot of food up to a high temperature over a fire or stove and then by inserting the pot into the superinsulated bag...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . With help from Producer Alicia Gettys, Zach Atherton, the star of the new web-based show Solution Time, hopes to bring comedy to solutions journalism. In other words, you might say he hopes to be a clean and solutions-oriented version of Jon Oliver. Interview with Alicia Gettys, the Producer of Solution Time. For-profit/Nonpr...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2BcVnMH . Unreasonable Impact, a collaboration between Unreasonable Group and Barclays, has its sites set on advancing social entrepreneurship at massive—even unreasonable—scale. Unreasonable Group founder and CEO, Daniel Epstein, 32, says the world need...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Simo Elalj, based in Paris, wanted to help educate girls in his home country of Morocco. He found a way to have fun and impact at once, selling plastic toy goats to raise money for the nonprofit Education for All Morocco. Khadija Id Ahmed Ouali, one of the girls educated, in part, by the proceeds from Simo’s program, joined u...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . No one has more fun doing good than Gwen Allen. She is constantly in motion, running her coffee shop and her growing entertainment and media business. In her heart, she’s all about doing good. Be a hero! Join the elite group of supporters who ensure that stories like this can continue to be shared! Visit heroes4good.org to be...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Eric Piscini, CEO of Citizens Reserve, joined me to discuss the startup's efforts to revolutionize global logistics. He envisions the ability to scan a code on a toothpick flag on your perfectly prepared steak, to see where exactly it came from, all the way back to the birth of the cow. In addition, he says, the device can ev...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/devin1053 . Much of the attention the blockchain and cryptocurrency markets received in 2017 and 2018 as waned as Bitcoin’s price has fallen about 75% from its peak. One area within the space that is growing in favor despite the broader negativity is sec...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Sara Jones is perhaps the most American-sounding name one can imagine. She is as American as her name sounds. Raised in the United States by her adoptive white family, she admits that because of her Korean heritage she has been accused of being a banana--yellow on the outside but white on the inside. Last year began, however,...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Samyr Qureshi, the co-founder and CEO of Knack, is scaling up the tutoring platform to serve more students. Knack helps schools to match students who have recently completed a course successfully with students who are taking the course to get the help they need to learn the material. Both students benefit from the experience...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . As a young professional--a trader at Citigroup--Rhoden Monrose felt a tug to do more good in the world at real scale. He also recognized that others in the Millennial generation had a similar passion for good but weren’t always getting the same opportunities older professionals did. He created CariClub to match young professi...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Most teenages find themselves facing important life decisions about where to go to college or trade school. Kids who find themselves on the wrong side of the law or in the foster care system often face starker questions, like where to sleep tonight or how to find food to eat. Such youth face additional challenges in the form...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2FkG0of . Michelle Thimesch, 55, CEO of Crowdfund Mainstreet and her business partner Jenny Kassan, both attorneys, have a track record of social entrepreneurship themselves. They are passionate about reducing the funding disparities between male and fem...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Dr. Kevin Shurtleff, a tenured professor at Utah Valley University, has developed a prototype of a system that will remove algae from water during an algal bloom and then convert it to energy. While the energy produced cannot financially support the operation, there are reasons governments would pay to remove the algae. Publi...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2Rs9QgY . Uniti CEO Lewis Horne, 34, thinks selling his nimble little electric cars will be like offering sneakers to a world full of people walking around in big, clunky clown shoes. With the UN’s October IPCC report suggesting we may have less than 12...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Regenerative agriculture is suddenly sexy. Practitioners have been advocating its use for more than a decade but only recently has it begun to catch media attention and with it the public imagination. Why now? Some might say that it is because we are just waking up to the gloomy reality that the planet and every person on it...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . When Jake Teitelbaum was fighting cancer, he hated wearing the hospital-issued socks and instead brought bright socks from home. It gave him a way to manifest his fighting spirit. Having recovered, he’s launched a social enterprise called Resilience Gives, which helps people like Jake himself to design a flashy pair of socks...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . On November 27, 2018, I hosted the second annual #GivingTuesday #GTstreamathon. We had five segments with CaringCrowd or people raising money on the platform. I am proud to be associated with CaringCrowd because its global health mission aligns so well with mine. John Brennick, the co-founder of CaringCrowd joined me to talk...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Mark Courtney, CEO and founder of 121Giving, which helps nonprofits raise money and in-kind donations. The platform gives nonprofits an opportunity to buy goods they need at a discount as well. The company is presently raising investment funds using its own platform. Preliminary Interview with Mark Courtney, the Founder and C...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Noah Gainsburg has been volunteering at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center for years, mentoring and tutoring youth there. In recent years, he’s become a star fundraiser as well. Christi Green, the executive director at the Center, says Noah is an extraordinary young person who is making a big difference. She particularly adm...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2Sa1mYW . Water.org , the nonprofit resulting from the 2009 merger of Matt Damon’s H2O Africa and Gary White’s WaterPartners, has completed an $11 million impact investing pilot project and has already closed on $33 million in a new fund that they hope w...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2EpM26y . Dr. Michelle Harrison, the founder of Shisur Sevay, says, “There was a moment where I said to myself, ‘So, you’ve always been a critic, see if you can do any better.’” After visiting Kolkata, she repeatedly heard that there was a category of un...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Nicholas Metropulos, 19, leads Fishing for Families in Need, a nonprofit organization founded by his brother more than a decade ago. The organization teaches children about the environment and responsible angling. As the name suggests, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit also provides fish to hungry families. Be a hero! Join the elite gr...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Cynthia English founded Global Scribes to create an international peace movement for youth that empowers them to make a difference starting wherever they are. With members in 44 countries, the organization is off to a good start. Be a hero! Join the elite group of supporters who ensure that stories like this can continue to b...