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/2UvrOxP . Investing in regenerative agriculture has the potential to address not only the food supply but also climate change, peace and conflict resolution and the water supply to boot. This impact investing strategy could be the biggest lever for creat...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2SGOidw . Nonprofit Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest health care system in the United States, traces its roots back to the Sisters of Providence and the Sisters of t. Joseph of Orange. Their missions were to serve all members of their comm...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . As the plant-based economy booms, Måns Ullerstam’s vision of a cleaner, more sustainable environment that is no longer threatened by climate change is beginning to gain credibility and legitimacy. Måns is raising funds on FundedByMe to allow his Kale United to invest directly in and provide other support to startups focused o...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Christian Harrison was still a child when his older sister Kasee went missing. It would be decades before it was determined that she was one of Gary Ridgway’s 71 victims. Regarded as the most prolific serial killer in American history, he received a sentence of life in prision in exchange for information about unsolved murder...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Sometimes it seems that big banks have treat customers more like victims. Banks make it difficult to understand when money is available for withdrawal and the “float” on checks makes it difficult to know what the checking account balance really is. This makes it difficult to avoid overdraft fees. Increasingly, moderate income...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Lilly Platt moved to Holland where her grandfather began teaching her to speak Dutch. To help her learn numbers, they collected pieces of plastic trash and counted them. She no longer needs the practice but she’s still picking up plastic. She calls her effort “Lilly’s Plastic Pickup” She hopes her efforts not only help to red...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . John Nanni, as most people who contract polio do, got it as a baby, just one year before the vaccine became widely available. Although he recovered from the paralysis as a child and even played sports, John has been plagued in adulthood by Post Polio Syndrome. John is an active polio fighter who nobly uses his own situation a...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2QLhDCZ . The nonprofit fundraising platform Classy recently announced it had reached $1 billion in funding raised for its clients and their causes. Scot Chisholm, co-founder and CEO, visited with me to share some of his insights about reaching this “BHA...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Leta Greene has built a happy, productive life as a mother and a professional speaker and makeup artist. She is proud of this. She is particularly proud that no one in her professional circle--many of whom she counts as friends--knew that she is a survivor of sexual abuse as a child. As the #metoo movement gained steam over t...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Andrea Demichelis has created a new search engine at ElliotForWater.com where revenue is used in part to provide clean water to people who need it. The search engine uses Bing search results. As with all search engines, the first few search results are paid advertisements. When a user clicks on these links, a portion of the r...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . In 1988, Rotary formally kicked off its PolioPlus program, in concert with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. UNICEF and the World Health Organization became the implementation partners in what became the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a unique collaboration in the world of global health. About ten years ago, the Bil...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Dr. Ujala Nayyar, the surveillance officer for polio at the World Health Organization in Pakistan, says the country is doing its “level best” to eradicate polio, even as she issues a challenge to her colleagues to do even more to eradicate the disease. She is proud of having implemented an effective process for detecting poli...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2QlPty4 . In a wide-ranging conversation with author and filmmaker Josh Tickell, 43, he shared two key observations. First, he said that cows get a bad rap for their contribution to global warming. Second, he says millennials are key to solving climate c...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Ann Lee Hussey is a polio survivor and a veterinary technician who travels the world leading other volunteers on trips to vaccinate children against polio. She’s been on 30 such trips, having led 26 to remote and exotic places. She and the other volunteers from the U.S. participate in National Immunization Days supported by d...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Akhil Iyer now leads UNICEF”s global polio eradication effort; he’s spent most of his three-decade career fight polio. He acknowledges that ending polio has proven more difficult than hoped and expected, but he remains optimistic about eradication. Akhil also shared his thoughts on vaccine safety, noting that millions of peop...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . A generation ago, most people in the U.S. knew a polio survivor. Today, there are so few left, there are very few so many people can’t name an acquaintance, let alone family member, who has been afflicted. Ina Pinkney was infected in 1944, during World War II, more than a decade before the Salk Vaccine became available, stemm...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Carol Pandak, the director of PolioPlus for Rotary International, acknowledged that the fight against polio is difficult. Rooting out polio from conflict regions in Afghanistan especially is challenging. Still, she says, she is not discouraged. Rotary has increased its annual fundraising commitment from $35 million to $50 mil...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2D9ZPhx . Jed Emerson, 59, widely recognized in the impact investing community, recently published a new book, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being, that calls into question some of the fundamental precepts of the...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . The Johnson & Johnson “credo” was written 75 years ago. Putting the needs of doctors, nurses and patients first has guided the company ever since. CaringCrowd, sponsored by J&J, is an example of credo-thinking. John Brennick and Derek Fetzer, the co-founders of CaringCrowd--both J&J employees at the time--conceived of a platf...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2z3IaUq , Everest, a blockchain startup that began generating revenue in 2017 and now has 12 employees, is working to provide people in the developing world with a blockchain identity that will connect everyone to the 21st-century economy. Founder Bob Re...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Thomas Doochin has created a completely different sort of crowdfunding platform for nonprofits. He’s set up a store where donors can purchase items for specific children sponsored by agencies that support them. The site, called Daymaker, bridges two gaps that traditional nonprofit crowdfunding sites have, by first allowing do...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Samuel Dameus, a social entrepreneur from Haiti, says the world’s perception of Haiti is malformed, by what we read about Haiti in the media. The Caribbean country rivals its peers for sheer beauty as a destination. While not without its problems, Haiti’s reputation has become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Samuel is wor...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Nathan Ogden broke his neck twice--the second time when he was dropped off an x-ray table a year after being paralyzed. He turned tragedy into triumph, building a successful career as a speaker. In recent years, he’s turned his attention and his focus to others less fortunate than himself. He’s created a nonprofit organizatio...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2pZSuZs . Four students at University College London who launched aptly named Rice Inc. have been awarded the $1 million Hult Prize to meet the official challenge to “build a scalable, sustainable social enterprise that harnesses the power of energy to t...

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin . Amy Stanton, the CEO of Stanton & Company, an agency that focuses on sports and lifestyle businesses, mostly run by women, co-authored The Feminine Revolution with Catherine Connors. Their thesis: women’s feminine traits don’t make women weak, they make them powerful. Be a hero! Join the elite group of supporters who ensure t...