Mary Ogwang used to live in in a one room house made of metal in Uganda. Her husband, a police officer, only brought home $2 a day. Then Mary heard about BeadforLife. That was where she found the opportunity to make enough money to start her own business making clothing. From there she’s been able […]
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The Globe and Mail: It sounds like the setup to a bad joke: Two men drive a truck crammed full of skivvies across the country. But Got Ginch, Brent King’s cheeky charity campaign, isn’t just for laughs – it’s fulfilling a desperate need at homeless shelters coast to coast. A successful biomedical entrepreneur who invented
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Peter Samuelson believes everyone deserves a roof. He felt so strongly about his argument that he made it the name of his nonprofit: Everyone Deserves A Roof. The organization provides a unique mobile shelter for the homeless, reports Entrepreneur. Housing L.A.’s homeless population, which numbered nearly 60,000 at the height of 2008’s economic downturn, would
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BusinessNewsDaily: The skier, also a football player at the University of Colorado, finished sixth in moguls at the 2006 Olympics and ninth in 2002. He also picked up 11 World Cup wins and two World Cup titles. Following his career on the slopes, Bloom had a brief career in the NFL. While playing for the
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According to The New York Times, big corporations step in to recruit some of the top businesses students when they graduate. How can we expect small business to keep up? A serial entrepreneur, Andrew Yang, thinks he has the answer. Venture for America, a nonprofit he founded this summer, recruits college seniors to spend two
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Many of life’s events are cause for inspiration. For Jay Feinberg, it was his battle with cancer, reports Reuters. It has been 20 years since he battled leukemia and won, but that hasn’t stopped him from pushing forward to help other with the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Feinberg abandoned plans to become a
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Scott Harrison was one lucky 28 year old. He found himself sitting on a beach with the perfect girlfriend, a Rolex watch, and a beautiful car nearby. He was living the life he had always dreamed of, but it was not enough. He suddenly realized something about himself that he did not like, and he
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Shawna Spencer was the proud owner of a high-end shoe boutique. While the shoes inside cost between $250 to $1200, she saw an unfortunate trend outside those doors. She had a disturbing encounter with some high school girls one day, and she was inspired to make a difference. So Shawna created I Am You. It
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Lisa Ballantine might be just another mom, but she’s also a woman that has found a way to help provide safe drinking water to people in third world countries, reports Daily Herald. She has developed a clay water filter that can be made by locals in those countries. There’s a patent pending on her FilterPure
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Jennifer Varner recently launched a nonprofit that helps connect sick kids with a computer of their own reports WRAL.com. Kilian, her youngest child, is her inspiration. Last August, Varner was three months pregnant with Kilian when she was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. She and her husband had just returned from a trip to Chicago
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