Mobile devices have changed the way everyone lives. Here is a list of some amazing social good apps that can be used for a variety of purposes. Some of theses apps can be used on a day-to-day basis, others can be used for research, and some can be used to educate. No matter the reason, these mobile apps give you the ability to stay consumer conscious and socially involved in every facet of your life.

Check out these amazing social good apps below.

GoodHuman

The GoodHuman app is a one-stop shop for sustainable products and ethical brands that addresses two major issues: knowing which brands to trust and price. Most people want to purchase more wisely, but it’s overwhelming to know where to start, and many believe it’s not affordable. That’s where GoodHuman comes in with over 650 vetted brands and 180,000 curated products (more than Amazon) and hundreds of promo codes (think Honey, for good).

Earth Hero

Earth Hero makes it easier to act on climate change. It helps you take positive practical action in response to the climate emergency while discovering more satisfying ways to live. Earth Hero connects you to a global movement rising to the interconnected crises of climate change and rapid species loss.

• Mobilize with a community of changemakers actively working to address global warming and rapid extinction.
• Choose from personalized actions in areas such as travel, food, energy, and advocacy.
• Discover healthy, smart, satisfying ways to live.
• Calculate and use the carbon tracker to understand your carbon footprint and changes over time.
• Compare your emissions reduction with science-based recommendations for a livable planet.
• Set personal green goals.
• Share your actions with others.

Daffy

Daffy makes giving a habit. Contribute cash, stock, or crypto, watch it grow tax-free, and donate to more than 1.5 million U.S. charities. Get started in seconds, and join a community committed to putting money aside for those less fortunate than themselves.

How it works:

• Take the Daffy Pledge by choosing how much money you want to put aside for charity every week, month, or year, or make a one-time contribution to get started.
• Contribute in cash, stock, or crypto, and pick any amount that’s right for you.
• Invest your Daffy fund in one of nine investment portfolios.
• Watch your fund grow tax-free — and send more money to charities over time.
• Whenever you want to give, donate to any of over 1.5 million charities in the U.S., right from your phone.

Newday

Newday lets you invest in companies that are making the world better. Access impact portfolios that address some of the biggest environmental and social challenges including climate change, the health of our oceans, gender, and race equality, animal welfare, access to clean and fresh water, and more.

Good On You

Good On You is a trusted source of sustainability ratings for fashion. Join more than a million people worldwide using Good On You to shop better and create a sustainable future.

The Good On You app gives you the power to easily check the impact of favorite fashion brands on the issues you care about. Use the app to discover better alternatives, learn more about ethical fashion shopping, and get exclusive offers from the best brands.

Just window shopping? Good On You also provides ethical fashion knowledge: Use the app to find sustainability tips, guides, and style edits, and stay up to date with the latest in eco-conscious fashion.

Klima

Klima makes a carbon-neutral life simpler. Calculate your carbon footprint and neutralize 100% of your CO2e emissions in just three minutes. How? By funding science-based climate projects that capture or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Next, learn how to shrink your own footprint sustainably and watch your positive impact grow.

Humanly

The Humanly° app is a window to the world that fits in the palm of your hand. First, make your impact through the innovative organizations that use Humanly° and then track your impact in the app to see how your dollars are making a difference around the world.

• Track your impact with the coordinates or code provided by the organization.
• Step into the world you’re changing by watching immersive 360° videos.
• Learn about the strengths and obstacles of those you’re impacting.
• Receive live notifications about how you’re making a difference.
• See a map of exactly where your money landed.
• Write the people you’ve impacted directly from your phone.

gthx

Get gthx, the gratitude app for a new era, that “makes good visible” by using innovative mindfulness tools to shift toward healthier and happier lifestyles.

Gratitude rewires the brain through the simple habit of noticing the good around you, which leads to scientifically proven benefits: lower stress, better sleep, less loneliness, stronger relationships, more joy. gthx is designed to make this shift a reality through gratitude tools, daily mood boosters, on-the-go guides from wellness experts, and a supportive global community that taps into the collective power of gratitude as a social emotion.

Aerial

Aerial is an easy, accurate way to manage your carbon footprint and sustainable lifestyle. The app tracks personal carbon emissions, gives you an effortless way to offset them, and offers exclusive insights into how you can live sustainably.

Deedly

Deedly uses education to empower youths to be the change we want to see in this world. Through the Deedly program, students are educated about world issues and the charities that strive to fix them, helping them make conscious, philanthropic, and eventually world-changing decisions.

Through this knowledge, students will be able to unlock money given by donors. Donations are unlocked and released to various nonprofits after a student gains the knowledge through watching videos, taking quizzes, and doing activities.

Samaritan

The Samaritan app reveals the story of homeless individuals whom people in Seattle pass by daily. They can give toward critical needs and create lifelines of hope.

When people cross paths with a Samaritan Beacon Holder, a notification will appear on their phone. Tapping on the notification provides an opportunity to read about the person’s story or contribute $1 or more toward a needed good or service (such as food, fuel, or clothing). The app currently supports Beacon Holders in Seattle only.

Charidy

The Сharidy app allows you to donate to any org in less than 10 seconds! It’s the place to track donations and organizations, store receipts, and set up recurring donations to favorite causes. It’s a donor haven…in your pocket.

ShareTheMeal

ShareTheMeal is an initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. Each year, WFP reaches 80 million people with food assistance in around 80 countries. WFP is 100% voluntarily funded, so every donation counts. Its administrative costs are among the lowest in the nonprofit sector — with 90% of donations going directly to WFP operations that are working toward a world with zero hunger.

Charity Miles

Charity Miles is a free app that allows you to earn money and raise awareness for charities by walking, running or biking —all courtesy of corporate partners. Just choose a charity and hit the streets. As you walk, run, or bike, the app will measure your distance and you will earn money for your charity: 10¢ per mile for bikers; 25¢ per mile for walkers and runners, all up to an initial $1 million corporate sponsorship pool.

Raise money and awareness for good causes when you walk, run, workout, bike, do yoga, lose weight, drink water or any other activity based challenges you choose. Every check-in allows you to easily raise awareness, earn sponsored donations, and enters you to win big prizes for your social good.

Capture

No matter how much of a sustainable lifestyle we strive to lead, most of us still emit CO2 via our mobility choices. Capture helps you balance that via offsetting ​ that matches monthly emissions through a choice of verified projects around the world.

Check in with the app to keep an eye on progress as emissions update automatically. ​ Enjoy articles, tips, and real-time feedback on your progress towards a planet-friendly lifestyle (with no judgement!).

Millie

Discover high-impact nonprofits. Swipe right to give. Change the world. With Millie, charitable giving is now that simple. Every week, you’ll get matched with three nonprofits, giving you the chance to easily back the causes you care about.

Joro

Track, reduce, and offset the carbon footprint of everything you buy. Tackle climate change as you spend money. Shift your demand away from fossil fuels and decarbonize the economy.

To estimate the footprint of what you buy, Joro’s Carbonizer combines datasets on the carbon intensity of production, transportation, and end-of-life use of over 300 unique spending categories with localized information about you and your lifestyle.

Flourish

Want to make a difference for the causes you care about but can’t afford to put a dent in your wallet? Are you looking to give to nonprofits in new ways? Do you want to see the direct impact of your donations? With Flourish, you can give to the organizations and causes you care about by rounding up, donating the spare change from credit/debit card purchases, setting daily donations, and more. Flourish makes giving in small ways easy and impactful, while allowing you to watch the change you make.

AtlasGO

Called the fitness app that gives back, AtlasGO connects runners, corporations, and charities to power change globally. The mobile fitness app allows users to raise funds and awareness for a good cause for every mile they track their runs, hikes, and bike rides. The miles are sponsored by corporate partners for whom Atlas unique means of community engagement and positive brand awareness.

B The Change gathers and shares the voices from within the movement of people using business as a force for good and the community of Certified B Corporations. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the nonprofit B Lab.

19 Social Good Apps That Make It Simple to Impact the World Every Day was originally published in B The Change on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In episode 107 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, we speak with Prince Constantijn Van Oranje, Special Envoy for TechLeap, on connecting startups, investors and community builders to create a thriving Dutch startup ecosystem. Listen here

Disruptors for GOOD | Social Entrepreneurs

Prince Constantijn is Special Envoy for TechLeap and co-founder of Startup Fest Europe, as well as Director of Digital Technology and Macro Strategy at MAP in London. He was also a member of the ‘ High Level Group of Innovators ‘, a group of 15 independent members that advises the European Commission on innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Prince started his working life at the Cabinet of the Commissioner of the European Commission, H. van den Broek. After this, the Prince completed an MBA course at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and did an internship at the International Finance Corporation in Washington DC. He then worked as a strategic business advisor at Booz Allen & Hamilton in London and as a policy researcher for RAND Europe in Leiden and Brussels, where he later became head of the Information Policy and Economics Team.

From 2003 to 2008, the Prince also worked as a European communications advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2010, the Prince made the transition to the European Commission, first as an advisor and later as Deputy Chief of Cabinet, and Chief of Staff to Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Digital Agenda.

In 2017 Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien founded the ANBI Number 5 Foundation with the mission to connect people who are committed to innovation that contributes to an inclusive, just and sustainable society.

About TechLeap

Techleap.nl helps quantify and accelerate the tech ecosystem of the Netherlands. Creating the optimal climate for tech companies to scale with programs and initiatives for improving access to capital, market and talent.

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Originally published at https://causeartist.com on July 5, 2021.

In episode 12 of the Investing in Impact podcast, I speak with Elizabeth Yin, Co-founder of The Hustle Fund on changing the landscape of traditional venture capital and opening up access to aspiring founders.

Listen to Episode here

Investing in Impact

Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has helped numerous portfolio founders raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Her work and writing on startup fundraising has been featured in numerous publications including TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, BetaKit, and more.

The Hustle Fund invests in pre-seed rounds. Not seed. Not post-seed / mango seed. Pre-seed. As their mantra states — “We invest in hilariously early startups”. The Hustle Fund’s first check is usually $25k unless the team has worked with the founder before. Most of the time, founders can expect to receive a response from the team between 24 and 48 hours after having a call.

Originally published at https://www.causeartist.com on October 13, 2020.

In episode 37 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, we speak with Ian Rosenberger, Founder of WORK, First Mile, and Day Owl on upcycling plastic bottles to create sustainable jobs and sustainable products.

Listen here.

Disruptors for GOOD

WORK places the poor into jobs in landfill communities. First Mile has redirected over 96 Million plastic bottles from landfills and the ocean and transformed them into consumer goods for global brands trying to find value in authenticity, transparency, and responsibility.

Day Owl is a direct-to-consumer brand that has created a backpack out of First Mile materials that the team feels will prepare everyone to take on the world. Ian works most in landfill community assessment, sourcing strategy, understanding how to translate impact into economic value, and leveraging impact in storytelling.

He has spoken about his work at SXSW, Harvard Business School, and the United Nations. He is a 2016 Barclay’s Unreasonable Impact Fellow and currently sits on the Ocean Conservancy’s Technical Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Plastic Waste. To date, he has directed nearly $10 Million to need-based communities with too much plastic and not enough jobs. He is a brand new dad and believes that ending poverty and the plastic crisis is all but certain by the time he and his wife Raashi have grandchildren.

In the podcast episode, Ian speaks about his journey to Haiti, starting a non-profit there, and eventually his original business THREAD International there that has become the foundation for his new ventures. After much innovation and partnerships with some of the largest brands in the world, including Ralph Lauren, Converse, and Timberland, Ian and his team have decided to go all in on making sustainability products for a new generation of consumers.

Originally published at https://www.causeartist.com on January, 2020.

This will mark the 7th edition of our Social Entrepreneurs to watch for list. If you want to check out the previous years of social entrepreneurs you can see them here. 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019

Over the past six years I have had the great pleasure of speaking with over 500 social entrepreneurs around the world while running Causeartist. It has been an absolute pleasure to watch many of these startups grow into companies and scale without losing their focus on impact.

Of course these are not all the amazing people around the world doing spectacular things in their respective fields. These particular social entrepreneurs are just the ones that have stood out to me over the past year.

Evin Floyd Robinson & Jessica Santana // America On Tech

Evin Floyd Robinson is one of the co-founders and President of America On Tech (AOT), an organization preparing the next generation of technology leaders. AOT’s work has been featured in media outlets such as CNN, Forbes, TechCrunch, BET, PBS, Black Enterprise, Univision and other leading publications.

Robinson started his career as a technology consultant at Accenture advising global investment banks and financial institutions on technology transformations. He has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, Black Enterprise Modern Man List, City & State NYC Tech List, and is a Points of Light Civic Accelerator Entrepreneur, Wells Fargo Millennial Activist, 4.0 Schools Launch Entrepreneur, Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellow, a TEDx presenter, SXSW EDU featured speaker and an Inaugural Black Enterprise Tech Prep Presenter.

Robinson is a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc and an alumni of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO). Robinson’s commitment to entrepreneurship and philanthropy is evidenced by his world travels and work in countries such as Turkey and China. He graduated with degrees in Economics, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, and Information Management from Syracuse University.

Jessica Santana is one of the co-founders and CEO of America On Tech, a nonprofit organization on a mission to prepare the next generation of technology leaders. AOT provides students with access to the development, mentoring, networking and professional experiences that prepare them for degrees and careers in technology. Their work has been featured in major media outlets such as Forbes, CNN, Wells Fargo, Sirius XM Radio, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, BET, Black Enterprise, AlleyWatch and The Network Journal.

Prior to AOT, Santana worked as a technology consultant for global brands such as JPMorgan Chase, Accenture and Deloitte. She has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and NYN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars list. She is an Ashoka Emerging Innovator, Pahara Institute Next-Gen Leader, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, former Entrepreneur in Residence at General Assembly, Wells Fargo Millennial Activist, Camelback Ventures Social Innovation Fellow, Points of Light Civic Accelerator Entrepreneur, 4.0 Schools Launch Entrepreneur, JPMorganChase Global Enterprise Technology Leader, Morgan Stanley Emerging Leader, Deloitte Future Leaders Apprentice​ and one of 50 Visionary Women L​eaders to Watch by Innov8t​iv Magazine. Santana was also one of the inaugural technology anchors on Univision. ​

Santana has presented and spoken to over 50 different audiences that include SXSW Edu, TechCrunch, Google for Entrepreneurs, White House, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg. Her commitment to philanthropy and community engagement is evidenced by her world travels and work in parts of Europe, China and South America to work with nonprofits, private companies and social enterprises that better local communities and economies. She graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Accounting and Information Technology from Syracuse University.

Alex Stephany // Beam

Alex Stephany was inspired to build Beam after getting to know a homeless man at his local Tube station in London. The man had spent decades out of work. Alex would buy him cups of coffee and pairs of socks, but could see his condition going from very bad to even worse.When the man had a heart attack, Alex asked himself: “What could we do to make a real difference to that man’s life?” The answer lay in giving him the skills to support himself. Alex knew that’d cost much more than a coffee. But what if everyone chipped in?

Beam is a crowdfunding platform that enables new career opportunities for homeless men and women. Beam uses technology and global citizens to help fund skills training and education to homeless individuals. With the Beam platform, you can help someone start a new career and leave homelessness for good.

Before Beam, Alex ran the parking app, JustPark, which he grew from 2 to over 40 people and still support as a Board Advisor. At JustPark, he had his first experience with crowdfunding when he led a record-breaking equity crowdfunding round — what was the largest crowdfunding round for a startup in history.

He is also the author of a book on the sharing economy called The Business of Sharing, and also advised the city of Seoul as part of the Mayor’s Sharing Economy Advisory Panel.

Trinity Heavenz // era92

Trinity is a social entrepreneur from Kampala, Uganda with a passion for upskilling the next generation of digital talent in preparation for jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities in Uganda.

He is the founder of era92, a youth creative agency training and employing Uganda’s young adults in DESIGN, ARTS & TECHNOLOGY. For every product or service we sell era92 provides skills and employment to youth at risk in Uganda. To date, era92 has impacted the lives of 120 young adults in the slums of Kosovo.

He is also the co-founder of the 92hands movement that mobilizes young adults across Africa to carry out intensive community services, becoming agents of change in the communities they come from, through educating and empowering the vulnerable people of Uganda.

Rachel Klausner // Millie

Rachel is the Founder and CEO of Millie, a charitable giving platform that makes giving back easy and impactful. Rachel’s passion for fundraising started when she spent a year after high school living and volunteering on a youth village where she took on a fundraising role during the day and ran programming for kids in the evenings. Rachel is a product designer by trade and spent 8 years designing software at startups. Her expertise is in personalization technology + product design and is excited to leverage those to transform the way people give.

Chad Dime, Chad Jernigan, and Zach Gordan // Diff Charitable Eyewear

Chad Dime, Chad Jernigan, and Zach Gordan — DIFF Charitable Eyewear, Co-Founders: When DIFF Charitable Eyewear was founded, the vision was to have a positive impact on the world through quality, affordable eyewear. And in four years, the company has provided over 1.2 MILLION people with the reading glasses they need to live happy, healthy, and productive lives. Over the past few years, they’ve learned that doing even more is possible. Diff is completely committed, more than ever, to creating a world in which everyone has access to the vision care they need — whether that’s an eye exam, surgery, glasses, or medicine.

Now through the expansion of their global mission, every pair of DIFFs sold helps provide the Gift of Sight, through their global partner SightSavers, because the brand truly believe VISION IS POWER. This partnership will allow DIFF to help provide the gift of sight for every pair of DIFFs sold, through medicine, surgeries, glasses, eye exams, and more.

Mica Le John // 2Swim

Mica Le John is CEO and Co-Founder of 2Swim, a social messaging platform with an emphasis on close connections and private communities. A graduate of the New School, she holds a B.S. in Liberal Arts and completed the Riggio Honors Program for Writing and Democracy. As a writer, educator, technologist and STEAM advocate, her work uses an intersectional lens to explore the relationships between technology, art, and social justice.

2Swim is currently invite-only for communities that are POC, LGBTQ+ and/or womxn-centric, and some of their partners include Ethel’s Club, Feminist Camp, and Shop Latinx. If your community needs a better place to meet online, reach out.

Francisco Alcala & Alejandra Alcala // HOME Storytellers

Francisco discovered his love for documentary photography and after 30 years of service with the Kellogg Company, he decided to retire from his role as Vice-President of Latin America Supply Chain to complete an MFA in photography to explore and put to good use this new passion of his.

Alejandra, his daughter, decided to study graphic design abroad and has been living in Barcelona for the past 8 years. After some time, working in a communication and events agency for big fish tech companies, she began having existential doubts whether she was giving meaning to her visual communication skills.

It was a little over a year ago when Francisco and Alejandra embarked on a new journey driven by the excitement of contributing to create a better future for refugees through their joint passion for visual storytelling. They founded a non-profit called HOME Storytellers on the premise that cinematic short documentary films have the power to generate empathy and ignite action. HOME Storytellers identifies long-lasting refugee solutions anywhere in the world and partners with the grassroots organization and a media agency to create an impact campaign that dramatically increases funding to the solution. The campaign centers around a film produced by HOME Storytellers about the compelling story of a refugee(s) whose life was changed by the solution.

Until now HOME Storytellers has produced one film and 2 more are on the way. Their first documentary Hot Dogs on a Tricycle was completed in May and until now Asylum Access, their grassroots parter organization for that film, credits the documentary for helping them raise $118,000 and increasing by 8 the number of companies that have joined their Hospitality Route Program in Mexico! Hot Dogs on a Tricycle continues to be used to help them on their mission of making human rights a reality for refugees.

Patrick Schmitt & Jenny Xia Spradling // freewill

Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling met as graduate students at Stanford University, both determined to make an outsized impact on the world. They serve as Co-CEOs of FreeWill, supporting a team of nearly forty talented staff. To date, FreeWill has raised nearly $1B for charity.

Jenny is a veteran of McKinsey and Bain Capital, where she helped to launch the firm’s first impact investment fund. She is the cofounder of Paribus (acquired by Capital One). She graduated from Harvard University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and finished at the top of her class.

Patrick is a leading innovator in nonprofit fundraising and technology for social impact. He is the founder of two nonprofit organizations and served as the Head of Innovation at Change.org.

Jonathan Johnson // Rooted School

Jonathan Johnson is the founder and CEO of Rooted School in New Orleans, LA. Rooted School opens high schools that are the local leader in sending high school students directly into the tens of thousands of jobs opening in their communities over the next 10 years and beyond.

Rooted School is a high school that is completely re-imagining the relationship between local schools, local industries, and the communities they call home. They’re starting with a focus on the digital media sector in Greater New Orleans area, where over 7,000 jobs will be created in the next decade. By creating multiple pathways to prosperity we’re building a new class of high school that will prepare students for college, while cultivating practical job skills for the 21st century.

A graduate of Chapman University, he was recognized by the Fishman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and listed as among the top one percent of emerging social innovators by Echoing Green-among the one percent of entrepreneurs in the world to receive this honor. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s The Giving Pledge campaign recently recognized Jonathan as one of the most innovative school builders in the country. By many accounts, his work is considered one of the most ambitious projects in charter school history.

Justin Frank Polgar // YES Cacao

Justin Polgar is the Co-Founder of YES Cacao, a botanical chocolate company that helps individuals live a more healthy lifestyle. He is an alchemical chocolate technologist, focusing his chocolate innovation toward education in the holistic health and wellness category.

His journey includes graduating with a degree in Marketing Psychology: Introspective Humanistic Behavior from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Several jobs attracted his curiosity, from sales in health & wellness, to incentive marketing, to harvesting apples, healing arts, investment analysis, network marketing, artist promotion, t-shirts, etc… a long list of business cards without the deep satisfaction of meaningful purpose.

With a pure confidence and trust, he stepped into the mystery of mantra, starting each morning with the words: “I ONLY DO WHAT I LOVE”. Layers of disharmonious life-pursuits dissolved, leaving a simple and refined passion for using chocolate as a vehicle for medicine. Over 10 years of studying longevity formulas, consciousness, and confidence all merged into a single platform for sharing energy, presence, health, wellness, vitality, connection, and of course the powerful word: YES.

Claire Pettibone // Madison Grace Boutique

Claire Pettibone is the founder of Madison Grace Boutique, a social impact women’s accessories boutique. No stranger to conscious consumerism, Claire has consulted with social good brand startups from marketing campaigns to ghostwriting their initiatives. She soon discovered that a lot of women did resonate with the values of ethical fashion and conscious shopping after all. They did want to shop fair trade practiced and ethically made things but it didn’t meet their style. “I felt the same way,” Claire looks back, “a lot of ethical fashion brands and ethical marketplaces were starting to look the same.” She adds, “I ended up solving my own problem and it turns out a lot of women felt the same. Yes, we wanted ethical things that empowered the marginalized but we also wanted to be proud and confident in our stylish pieces while let’s face it — remaining chic.”

With her California laidback roots, she is bringing Madison Grace to “women who give a care” — a term used to describe the community of conscious women she is helping to enable. Madison Grace is named after its customers. Madison Grace is the “it girl” who gives a care. She’s that one friend who always seems to be effortlessly chic and “in the know”. But she wants it all- she believes that eco and ethical can also be stylish and elevated.

Madison Grace Boutique’s accessories are highly curated but will remain in its values of giving. Not only do they give ethical work, give an opportunity to the marginalized, give green by being conscious of their carbon footprint and intentional with their materials, but they also give back a portion of their proceeds to a nonprofit quarterly giving partner — and of course all because and for the women who give a care.

Sophie Stevens & Pete Oswald // Little Difference

Sophie and Pete, based in New Zealand, love to create and wanted to start a business with a Little Difference. The couple started Little Difference, a 1 Card. 1 Tree initiative where they pay for the planting, raising and protection of one tree towards reforestation for every single product sold. They also only use 100% recycled paper products and 100% compostable packaging. Sophie Stevens is a geology graduate and artist from the Isle of Wight, UK. Pete Oswald is a professional skier and media producer from New Zealand. Sophie does all the artwork and Pete handles the accounts and sales.

Catherine Berman // CNote

Catherine Berman is the CEO and Co-founder of CNote, an impact investment platform delivering competitive returns by investing in women, minorities and low-income communities across America. She’s a three-time entrepreneur with experience building scalable businesses. Her last startup grew into a multi-million dollar firm in less than four years. Prior to CNote, she worked as a Managing Director at Charles Schwab focused on new market segments and predictive analytics. At the vanguard of impact investing, Catherine has spoken at events hosted by Stanford, Oxford, Google, The Economist, SoCap, Coinbase, and others to challenge conventional thinking about money and meaning.

Aanchal Bansal // Redo

Aanchal incorporated Redo as a women’s workwear company during her summer internship of Masters in Fashion Management at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. Redo makes boardroom worthy workwear which is sustainable, modern, and functional. Their capsule collections of 7 convertible garments can be mixed and matched to create over 30 outfits. Prior to this, Aanchal has worked with two leading ethical fashion startups in the country as a growth hacker. Her motto is to “create change through clothing.”

Melissa Herman // Left Tackle Capital

Melissa is a challenger of the status quo and forever curious. She has always been fascinated by the relationship between financial + social capital and seeks meaningful connections that empower others to succeed.

Inspired to take intelligent risks, Melissa took a professional leap towards the social impact sector. She joined a B corporation to lead curation for the NationSwell Council, a uniquely service-minded community of 1,000+ leaders tackling America’s most critical challenges. The connections and impact shared amongst a diverse group of doers is what continues to fuel her work today!

Melissa is now Founding Partner of Left Tackle Capital, a startup on a mission to select, connect and future-proof a visionary league of diverse fund-managers and investors who will re-shape asset management.

She also serves on the executive board of The Sumaira Foundation for NMO, a nonprofit that raises global awareness for an extremely rare autoimmune disease. A true wanderlust, she is a founding member of Escape the City NYC whose mission is to liberate one million people to do work they love. She is also a founding Inner Circle Ranger for Campowerment where she co-facilitated monthly meetings for women to connect, empower, and support each other through community.

Jesse Gould // Heroic Hearts Project

Jesse Gould, Founder of Heroic Hearts Project, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up in New Smyrna Beach, FL. In 2009 he graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Economics. After working in investment banking for a short time he enlisted in the Army and became an Airborne Ranger for four years and three combat deployments.

After struggling with severe anxiety for many years, he finally decided to go to an ayahuasca retreat which had a profoundly positive effect on his anxiety and daily life. During the week-long retreat, he instantly saw the healing potential of the drink and knew that it could be a powerful tool in healing the mental struggles of his fellow veterans. This experience inspired him to found Heroic Hearts Project, an organization that connects veterans in need of healing with ayahuasca therapy. Since its founding, Heroic Hearts Project has quickly become one of the most prominent veteran voices pushing for psychedelic based therapies.

Farrukh Lalani // DARIA DAY

Farrukh Lalani has worn many hats over her career from Management Consulting to Humanitarian Assistance and now as a social entrepreneur. Her journey to social entrepreneurship began almost ten years ago when she left her corporate job to pursue something more fulfilling and joined an international development agency. Her work took her from Syria to Afghanistan to Tajikistan and finally to Pakistan, her birthland. It was a country she had often heard about from her family but hadn’t visited since childhood.

In Northern Pakistan, nestled at the foothills of some of the world’s tallest mountains, Farrukh worked with some of the most isolated and impoverished communities. To break the cycle of poverty and provide the community with additional sources of income, various NGO’s had implemented gemstone processing and jewelry making programs for women in Gilgit. Working for a NGO she realized that NGOs were very good at implementing training programs but often failed to take the next crucial step — create market access. The artisans, having received this extensive training, were still unable to stake out a livelihood as they had no access to profitable markets or ideas of what to produce. Witnessing the vulnerability of these communities Farrukh founded Daria Day to provide artisans with a sustainable livelihood and a path towards prosperity.

Branden Harvey // GOOD GOOD GOOD

Branden Harvey is a storyteller focused on the good in the world. He’s the host of the podcast Sounds Good, the creator of the Goodnewspaper, a printed newspaper full of good news, and built an online community over more than 250,000 world changers. In his journey Branden has helped brands like Disney, Square, Southwest Airlines, and (RED) tell meaningful stories with heart all over the world. He’s been featured in The Washington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Forbes, and Mashable.

Raphael Amiens // 2worlds

Raphael is an environmental educator, ecopreneur and advocate who works in many different spheres to inspire ecological, cultural and social change. He received a Master’s Degree from BCU in Environmental Sciences and a Degree in Entrepreneurship.

As a young black Millenial in sustainability, Raphael is trying to bring fairness and democratize the world of sustainability. Through his work; the aim is to make sustainability available to minorities in a more relatable way and prove to a larger audience and companies the importance of diversity within sustainability because “I believe that sustainability is more than just buying a stainless straw and driving a prius.”

As an Ecopreneur ( sustainable entrepreneur) and co- founder of 2worlds, his Patreon is going to be platform that changes mainstream narrative on what sustainability look like and will enable him to promote sustainability to a larger audience. This initiative promotes access, awareness and action to create sustainable solutions that are inclusive of those whose communities are disproportionately affected by climate change, racism, economic injustice and inequity.

Jacqueline Villeneuve // Olive & Annie

At 18 years old Jacqueline Villeneuve moved to Nairobi, Kenya after graduating high school with the goal of opening a children’s home. In 2013 with the help of her local partner, Jerusha Wanjiru (mama to the kiddos at ZLT), ZLT Children’s Home opened it’s doors and continues to provide a loving family to 27 orphaned and abandoned children. This began Jacqueline’s journey passionately advocating for the rights of orphaned children, and collectively working alongside other organizations and fair-trade brands to end the orphan cycle.

Jacqueline became a single mother at 21 years old. Through the years working and volunteering in Kenya with orphaned children, Jacqueline and her team identified an alarming trend. A large majority of children living within children’s homes were coming from single mother households. Jacqueline became a student via correspondence at Pennsylvania State University shortly after her daughters birth. She conducted her first research study in 2015 identifying the factors leading to single mothers first unplanned pregnancy.

Her researched shared that most vulnerable single mothers under the age of 25 had little to no support for their child’s father, experienced abusive relationships, had limited support from their families, and in nearly all cases no access to sexual health education and family planning. This sparked the idea for Olive & Annie. A fair trade brand creating artisan crafted apparel and accessories that gives back with every purchase and provides employment to single mothers and men who serve as positive male role models.

Katy Lynch // Codeverse

Katy Lynch is a British-born entrepreneur, marketer, and investor.

She is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Codeverse — the world’s first interactive coding studio for kids ages 6–13. Codeverse is founded on the mission to “teach a billion kids to code.” The company opened its flagship location in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood in 2017. Codeverse opened two more locations to bring their interactive classroom experience and kid-friendly coding language, KidScript, to children across the city and suburbs.

Katy is the recipient of the Smart Cookies Award by Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, and has appeared on Forbes, NBC, Inc, WGN, Huffington Post, FOX and Today.com, amongst others.

James Traf & Luca Marra // Vera

Vera is a new platform created by Luca and James that allows members to easily offset their plastic footprint for $3/month. Every year, an estimated 14 billion pounds of plastic and waste ends up in our oceans, by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. We as consumers, entrepreneurs, and creatives, have the ability to combat this problem and use are consumer power and skills to make significant impact.

The founders recently announced a partnership with Plastic Bank, which will help the platform move closer to their vision for Vera. Vera now prevents plastic from ever entering our oceans in the first place. Powered by IBM’s blockchain technology, every month, your Vera membership will prevent exactly 250 plastic bottles from entering our oceans.

Jennifer Silbert // Rewilder

Jennifer Silbert is an architect, designer and master scavenger who has worked in material development and problem solving for innovative architectural projects ranging from concert halls to houses. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Design and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. She teaches Materials Innovation classes at Art Center College of Design, and is passionately committed to upcycling as the best way to solve design challenges.

Jennifer is also the founder of Rewilder, a sustainable fashion brand that finds beauty in discarded industrial materials, upcycling them into classic products that highlight their strength and durability. The brand is women owned, and manufacture ethically in Los Angeles. The mission is to design a product that was completely zero waste, giving the founders the challenge of not using ANY material that wasn’t previously trashed.

Jigar Ganatra // Halisia Travel

Jigar is a 22 year old Indian-Tanzanian budding filmmaker-entrepreneur who’s travel company Halisia aims to transform the way people connect with the world around them. Through their storytelling workshops in India and Tanzania, Halisia empowers aspiring photographers and filmmakers with the soft skills and technical skills needed to respectfully interact with people who’s voices have not been heard in the mainstream and coax authentic and just stories from the grassroots in order to bridge the gaps between peoples hearts and broaden their perspective.

Carly Burson // Tribe Alive

Carly Burson is the Founder & CEO of Tribe Alive, an ethical fashion brand focused on moving the industry toward a more sustainable approach while educating and meaningfully employing artisan men and women. Tribe Alive’s story began when Carly and her husband finalized the adoption of their daughter, Elie. Carly knew that becoming a mother would profoundly impact her life, but she never imagined that it would alter the course of her life’s work.

Although adoption presents an opportunity to support an individual child, Carly was struck by the desire to address the core issue of child relinquishment on a global scale: namely, the economic insecurity facing women in the developing world. Tribe Alive was born from Carly’s decision to utilize her years of experience in the fashion industry as a platform to alleviate poverty. In four years, Tribe Alive has grown from employing 4 female makers in Honduras, to supporting 8 artisan design cooperatives in 5 different countries, where over 150 people are sustainably employed.

Utilizing her drive for social justice and years of experience in the fashion industry, Carly shares her passion for activism, social enterprise, and impact consumerism as a means to empower women. She believes that business should only be used as a platform for positive change and that elevating women and girls is the only way to guarantee a brighter future.

Tina Alexis Allen & Gina Raphaela // Gina Raphaela Jewelry

Tina Alexis Allen is a GLAAD Award-nominated actress, producer, scriptwriter, author, and playwright. Allen is a cast member of the TV series Outsiders (WGN America), and co-starred in the feature films Moving Mountains (2014), Tom’s Dilemma (2016), as well as the webseries Looking for Kathleen. Her childhood memoir, Hiding Out, was recently published by HarperCollins. The Washington Post calls it “a can’t-put-down read.” Allen is also the co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry’s mission-driven No More Violence collection.

Gina Raphaela is a designer, artist and the co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry. Influenced by her bold Sicilian heritage, Gina’s jewelry juxtaposes a masculine sense of danger and provocation with refined finishes while transforming bullets into beauty. After attending a speech by the Dalai Llama, where he declared “the world will be saved by Western women,” Ms. Raphaela and her partner, Tina Alexis Allen, heard that as a call to action. Thus, the No More Violence collection was born.

Alexis Cook & Corbin Hooker // Unlocked

Alexis Cook is a passionate individual with a drive to create a more equitable world through increased opportunity and empowerment. The Co-Founder and Co-President of Unlocked, Alexis was an Ingram Scholar at Vanderbilt University, where she graduated in 2018 with a bachelor’s in Human and Organizational Development and a minor in Economics. Prior to studying at Vanderbilt, Alexis spent a year working at five different non-profit internships in five different countries, learning more about poverty through the eyes of those experiencing it. Alexis is focused on using her leadership to elevate the voices of marginalized people, creating pathways for sustainable change.

Corbin Hooker is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Unlocked. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2018 with a triple major in political science, economics, and history with a minor in corporate strategy. He is committed to the service of others and is focused on leading projects that move us towards a more just society and a more equitable world. In addition to building social enterprises, Corbin plans to expand his capacity to create institutional change through public office.

Unlocked is a social enterprise jewelry brand that employs women who are transitioning out of homelessness. Alexis and Corbin have also created an opportunity to uplift their employees by providing transitional housing, career counseling, financial training, and more.

Melanie Aronson // Panion

Melanie is the founder and CEO of Panion, an app for finding like-minded people nearby with common interests. She has a bachelors in anthropology from Columbia University and a masters in documentary filmmaking from the School of Visuals Arts in NYC. Melanie worked in sales for Apple for almost 3 years and for more than 10 years as a freelance filmmaker, photographer and designer. She moved from NYC to Sweden on a Fulbright grant in 2014 and has lived there ever since.ting.

Originally published at https://www.causeartist.com on January, 2020.

In episode 31 of the Disruptors for Good podcast, I speak with Alex Stephany, the founder of Beam, on solving homelessness using crowdfunding and technology.

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Beam is a crowdfunding platform that enables new career opportunities for homeless men and women. Beam uses technology and global citizens to help fund skills training and education to homeless individuals. With the Beam platform, you can help someone start a new career and leave homelessness for good.

The platform works like this. Each person on the platform is referred to Beam by an established homeless charity or their local council. They receive a dedicated support specialist — a Beam employee who supports them all the way into their new career! The support specialists conduct basic security checks to make sure the referred person is mentally and physically ready to enter full-time employment. After that they help each person develop a tailored career plan, building on their unique strengths and interests.

Once approved to be on the Beam platform, we as global citizens, can choose to help fund one person’s training or fund everyone equally. You can choose support once or monthly. You’ll get an email introducing you to a new person you’re supporting every month and learn more about their individual story.

The founder of Beam, Alex Stephany, was inspired to build Beam after getting to know a homeless man at his local Tube station in London. The man had spent decades out of work. Alex would buy him cups of coffee and pairs of socks, but could see his condition going from very bad to even worse.When the man had a heart attack, Alex asked himself: “What could we do to make a real difference to that man’s life?” The answer lay in giving him the skills to support himself. Alex knew that’d cost much more than a coffee. But what if everyone chipped in?

Before Beam, Alex ran the parking app, JustPark, which he grew from 2 to over 40 people and still support as a Board Advisor. At JustPark, he had his first experience with crowdfunding when he led a record-breaking equity crowdfunding round — what was the largest crowdfunding round for a startup in history.

He is also the author of a book on the sharing economy called The Business of Sharing, and also advised the city of Seoul as part of the Mayor’s Sharing Economy Advisory Panel.

Originally published at https://www.causeartist.com on November 20, 2019.

In Episode 16 of the Disruptors for Good podcast we speak with Adam Kunes, the Founder of Have Fun Do Good on creating for-purpose travel and sharing the power of giving back through one of a kind adventure volunteer opportunities.

Play here.

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Adam Kunes, founder of Have Fun Do Good, found his inspiration in volunteerism through his participation in the Semester at Sea program, a 100-day undergraduate cruise around the world. This experience opened Adam’s eyes to the world and shaped his views on what it means to truly give to others. His participation in many service-oriented trips both during Semester at Sea and at home inspired the concept for HFDG. Adam hopes his efforts will allow others to realize the opportunities to volunteer are endless and that service can be fun.

Have Fun Do Good (HFDG) is a for-purpose travel and event company sharing the power of volunteerism through immersive and one of a kind volunteer opportunities. They offer immersive service experiences through Travel excursions and Corporate events. Whether you’re traveling or staying closer to home, HFDG provides everything volunteers need to get involved: planning, access to worthwhile charities and causes, accommodations and, of course, fun.

Through travel and immersion, you are challenged to to step out of your comfort zone to learn, grow and try new things. Have Fun Do Good participants are exposed to new people, experiences and locations during organized volunteer projects throughout the country. This type of exposure is a crucial factor in developing volunteers, civic leaders and change-makers.

In Episode 1 of the Disruptors for Good podcast I spoke with Heather Mcdougall, co-founder of Bogobrush.

BogoBrush is rethinking the toothbrush with eco-designed toothbrushes made entirely in the USA. The plastics in almost all toothbrushes are non-recyclable, meaning over 450 million toothbrushes a year in the U.S. alone end up in landfills. These products are either bio-degradable or made from nearly 100% recycled plastic. When you’re done, throw them in your compost or recycle bin-and nature will do its thing.

• Why think tanks are important for formulating your idea
• Sustainable materials and sustainable design
• Coffee waste, hemp waste, plastic waste, cotton waste
• China manufacturing/supply chain vs US manufacturing/supply chain
• Raising money for a socially conscious startup
• Equity Crowdfunding vs Venture Capital
• New Bogobrush products coming out

Introducing Redo, India’s first sustainably made, boardroom-worthy workwear clothing for women. The Delhi-based brand is empowering the modern working woman through classy, versatile, and quality capsule items made to last. Using sustainable textiles and ethical production processes, while meeting the aesthetic and utility needs of women worldwide, this upcoming brand is leading the way for new designers in India.

Redo founder, Aanchal Bansal, is no stranger to working with revolutionary leaders in the fashion industry in India. Before launching Redo, Aanchal was working with well established Indian brands including Doodlage, India’s leading zero waste, upcycling fashion brand, and Atulyakala, a Forbes awarded deaf-run lifestyle brand, where she developed various products, communicating with her team in Indian Sign Language as the Business Head.

After gaining work experience, she enrolled at NIFT Bangalore for a Masters of Fashion Management to fulfill her childhood dream of an education in fashion.

Redo was incorporated as a private company in the summer of 2018. After an year of searching the globe for sustainability certified fabrics, conducting hundreds of consumer surveys, and perfecting fits over a period of 6 months, Redo is ready to be the incumbent leader of women’s workwear and sustainable staples in India.

The “self-taught designer” believes that fashion should always incorporate beauty, sustainability, and utility to the consumer — evident from the design of her first release from Redo, the Reversible, a suit-dress made from 46 recycled plastic bottles and certified organic cotton.

See below a Q&A with Aanchal Bansal, Founder of Redo.

Q: Tell us about the versatility of your amazing new jacket, the Reversible!

Our first product is a suit-dress for working women which can be worn four-ways. It is a reversible garment. On one side, it has a stunningly smooth plain black fabric which works perfectly for formal occasions. And on the other side we have a grey handloom fabric which has a houndstooth-inspired weave.

Wear it as a dress for important occasions like a meeting, an interview or a public speaking event. And style it as a jacket when you are on-the-go. The idea is to give the redoer purchasing this garment enough creative freedom. It’s important that we develop a relationship with our clothes.

Styling them in our own way and taking care of our belongings helps us derive maximum utility out of each of our purchase. We made sure that the Reversible is super durable and impeccably neat so you can wear it for years (and even decades) to come.

Q: What inspired your journey in sustainable fashion?

My journey with fashion and the problems associated with the industry started quite early on in my childhood. Reading about the works of pioneering international designers like Coco Chanel, Elie Saab, Burberry etc. in page 3 of national dailies and discovering various sales going on at local malls was a regular affair for me.

But from time to time, I would come across disturbing articles about the plight of sweatshop labour in garment manufacturing sector and deteriorating state of rivers in China because of effluent discharge by dyeing factories in the main newspaper.

During every school summer, me and my family would drive up to my grandmother’s place in Uttarakhand. However, the sight of rising landfills on our way would leave me distressed each of those years. I couldn’t even fathom all this completely but as sensitive young citizen, I could feel its magnitude.

This gap between the glamorous facade of the fashion industry and the grim reality of social as well as environmental inequity bothered me. And it is in that gap that I found my purpose. I don’t remember a particular moment when I chose sustainable fashion; I just stayed true to my values and grew into the movement.

The only fashion system we need right now is the one in which we innovate with the planet’s limited resources. Production and consumption must be scaled according to the planet’s ability to sustain. Hopefully, all these guidelines and good practices will become widely enforced laws soon.

Read full interview here.

A recent report released by the Business & Sustainable Development Commission is a a great snapshot of the global sustainable development trend. The Better Business Better World report covers the recently released UN Sustainable Development Goals and how business leaders and social innovators have an enormous economic opportunity to solve great challenges and create thriving marketplaces around the globe.

If you’re an nerd like me on this type of stuff, you can read the full 122 page Better Business Better World report here. Since I know how ridiculous that sounds to do in you spare time I have done my best to break it down for you.

I love this report because it gives social innovators and social entrepreneurs the blueprint of what opportunities are available in the world to create innovative and scale-able businesses. The report shows what the problems and challenges are and recommends ideas of how innovators can create businesses to solve them. I don’t mean small businesses, I mean billion dollar businesses in trillion dollar marketplaces.

Sustainability unicorns are what’s next in the startup world. The next class of unicorns will likely come from companies solving huge problems in the developing world, not a music or ride share app. Some of the numbers and facts below will show why Sustainability Unicorns will exist. For example, the world’s-poorest people(about 750 million people) spend as much as 60 percent of their household income on food — yet under-nutrition and malnutrition remain widespread. Solve this problem in low-income food markets and your company could see income of US$155–265 billion a year by 2030.

Solving large scale problems can’t and will not be solved by governments. We know this. We need innovators and social entrepreneurs to step up and build companies that not only scale in users. but scale in problem solving. Once you start solving problems at scale, you can create jobs, marketplaces, and revenues at scale. From clean energy, to education, to hunger and water, solving large scale problems lead to large scale marketplaces.

When a person doesn’t have to worry about food or water, they can go to school. When they go to school they now have more energy. When you have more energy and more education you can learn and spark ideas and begin to learn skills. Once you learn skills you can join the workforce or start a venture on your own. Imagine having Silicon Valley hubs in Bangladesh, Nepal, Malawi, Tanzania, Afghanistan, and Uganda. I am not talking about small co-working spaces or accelerators, I am talking angels investing in people in the developing world to build massive companies that can scale quickly, solve problems, and create jobs in the most impoverished areas in the world.

Below are some facts and figures I pulled from the report that I thought were most interesting and relevant to social innovators and social entrepreneurs.

1.

There are 32 “sustainable development unicorns” or companies developing Global Goals-related markets with market caps of more than US$1 billion. Let’s go angel investors allocate some capital to create some sustainable development unicorns 🙂

2.

Between 1988 and 2008, the poorest third of humanity saw their incomes rise by 40–70 percent, with those of the middle third rising by 80 percent. 🙂 Great numbers, but we can improve, because then you look at figure 38 and you see there is still a really long way to go.

3.

The proportion of people in extreme poverty declined by more than half between 1990 and 2015, as did the number of children dying before the age of five. 🙂

4.

Over the past 50 years, while the world population has almost tripled to more than 7 billion, global GDP has expanded six-fold.

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6.

Income inequality in OECD countries is at its highest level for 30 years 🙁

7.

263 million children and young people around the world are out of school 🙁

8.

According to the IMF, the cost of bribery is roughly 2 percent of global GDP(roughly $1.56 Trillion) Geeeeeeeeez!!!!!!! 🙁 Can you imaging what this $1.5 trillion could do if invested properly…..so frustrating

9.

The 60 fastest-growing sustainable market opportunities together could generate business revenues and savings worth more than US$12 trillion by 2030 🙂

10.

These 60 Global Goals opportunities could together create more than 380 million new jobs by 2030 🙂

11.

There are 800 million undernourished people and 2 billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies 🙁

12.

Reducing food waste in the value chain could be worth US$155–405 billion a year by 2030

13.

Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for 17 percent of global emissions, more than transport.

14.

Forest ecosystem services could generate US$140–365 billion a year by 2030

15.

The world’s-poorest people spend as much as 60 percent of their household income on food — yet undernutrition and malnutrition remain widespread. Business can address this challenge by investing in supply chains and food innovation to give those on very low incomes access to food products that are more nutritious

16.

The Low-income food markets could see income of US$155–265 billion a year by 2030. Social Innovators can address this challenge by investing in supply chains and food innovation.

17.

By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities

18.

Up to 440 million urban households could be living in sub-standard housing by 2025 and in cities, 10–15 percent of building material is wasted during construction

19.

The Affordable housing market could be around US$650–1,080 billion a year by 2030

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21.

The building sector accounts for around one-third of the total final energy consumption across the world and more than half of electricity demand

22.

The Energy efficiency — buildings market could be around US$555–770 billion a year by 2030.

23.

Market research predicts annual sales of battery-powered electric vehicles and hybrids will grow from about 2.3 million units in 2014 to 11.5 million by 2022, or 11 percent of the global market.

24.

The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) map scenario forecasts that, including hydropower, renewables’ share of generation worldwide could increase to 45 percent by 2030

25.

Out-of-pocket healthcare payments push around five percent of households in low-income countries below the poverty line each year 🙁

26.

The Remote patient monitoring market could reach US$300–440 billion by 2030. Using sensors that read the vital signs of patients at home can alert nurses and doctors cost effectively to problems before they worsen. Emerging technologies include wearable patches 34 that can diagnose heart conditions, sensors that monitor asthma medication intake and detect poor air quality, and glucose monitors that send diabetics’ data straight to their smartphones.

27.

Telehealth market could reach US$130–320 billion by 2030. Basic mobile internet technologies are already extending access to consultation and diagnosis to remote patients around the world. 🙂

28.

Millennials are over 5x more likely to stay at a company where they feel a strong purpose 🙂

29.

A 2015 survey of 7,800 future business leaders from 29 countries found that 75 percent think businesses are focused on their own agendas rather than improving society, and over 50 percent would take a pay cut to find work that matches their values 🙂

30.

Nearly 20 billion devices are now connected to the internet 🙂 Just really think about this for a second…WOW

31.

Ivory Coast produces 35% of the world’s cocoa. It also has 1.2 million child laborers in its workforce, almost all of them working in cocoa production 🙁

32.

About 55% of children working in the country’s agriculture are subject to forced labour 🙁

33.

The total estimated infrastructure investment needs across the global economy amount to US$90 trillion over the next 15 years, or approximately US$6 trillion per year.

34.

Yes this will always be insane. 100 years from now our generation will be laughed at for this.

35.

Today 20–40 million workers are trapped in forms of modern slavery. 🙁

36.

Between 1988 and 2008, the poorest third of humanity saw their incomes rise by 40–70 percent, with those of the middle third rising by 80 percent. 🙂

37.

Over 750 million people still lived in extreme poverty 🙁

38.

This means that 62 individuals have the same wealth as 3.5 billion citizens in the world. I’m not saying this is wrong or those 62 people are not tremendous people. I am simply pointing out that there is a massive amount of room to invest properly around the world and into new markets to bridge this gap. If we can go and create a community on Mars , can’t we at least create jobs and opportunity for our citizens on Earth as well before the mega rich head to Mars!!!! 🙂

39.

168 million children are involved in child labour, half of whom are in hazardous work. 🙁

40.

Global unemployment today stands at 5.8%, or 200 million people worldwide

Originally published at www.causeartist.com on February 5, 2017.