Examiner: With many soldiers leaving service with technical and computer skills, New York-based Incline is offering training in order to help them adapt that talent to the workplace. Today, at 27 years-old, Brittany Laughlin acts as CEO for Incline, saying she saw a business need and wanted to make a difference. “(The) idea for ‘free […]
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Forbes: For Alex Mittal, inspiration hit while doing the heavy lifting portion of giving back, building a water system in Honduras on an Engineers without Boarders trip in 2005. Here, Mittal saw an opportunity to make sure the developing world was able to access not only water, but clean water. Returning to school at University
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Forbes: Planning for success mimics the requirements for success in any new venture: a plan, customer focus, and execution. The Plan The greatest fallacy in business planning is that there is a good template or software that will help you create a winning business plan. The very opposite is true. While there are some standard
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Forbes: Volunteering at a local community center didn’t originally seem like a path for economic success for Notre Dame alumni Xavier Helgesen and Christopher “Kreese†Fuchs. However, the duo’s found their idea to sell used and unwanted books online taking on a new life due to their experiences with the Robinson Community Learning Center. Since
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Examiner: With many soldiers leaving service with technical and computer skills, New York-based Incline is offering training in order to help them adapt that talent to the workplace. Today, at 27 years-old, Brittany Laughlin acts as CEO for Incline, saying she saw a business need and wanted to make a difference. “(The) idea for ‘free
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Forbes: Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey both had plenty of experience in business and nonprofits prior to founding Revolution Foods in 2005. The for-profit organization drew not only from the business school classmates’ entrepreneur know-how, but also Richmond’s Vice Presidency at the education non-profit RISE and Tobey’s work evaluating school feeding programs in
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The Christian Century: If every American spent $10 per year on his Humankind Water — less than they spend on Halloween candy — it would be enough to nearly eradicate the world’s water sanitation problems, Foltz says. Foltz, a former Christian youth minister, put out his first bottle of Humankind Water last October. The idea
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Forbes: At this point, TOMS Shoes isn’t just a do-gooder company – they’re a brand with an incredibly strong identity tied to social good. However, back in 2006, Blake Mycoskie was still trying to figure out his own brand identity when he took a trip to Argentina. Having led four entrepreneurial start-ups at age 29,
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The Huffington Post: The bracing happy talk at social investment conferences and cheerleading predictions about social investment capital poised to flood into the developing world begs for a reality check. Meet Liberia-born Chid Liberty, Founder & Chief Executive of Liberty & Justice. For the iOnPoverty cameras, he described the raw truth about impact investing. “People
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Not only are the young making an effort to help change the world, they are starting businesses that project their positive attitudes, reports VentureBeat. There is no clear-cut definition, but most social entrepreneurs would agree that their overarching goal is to use business and business process to drive social or environmental impact. “There is a
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