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Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2EseHag. “In 30 years, nine billion people around the world will need clean water and food on a planet that will only be able to adequately supply an amount sufficient for a third of us,” Dr. Ku McMahan, 37, says. Lacking a silver bullet solution, he leads a four-country collaboration called Securing Water for Food. SWFF, pronounced swiff, is a $35 million partnership among the US Government agency called USAID, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Government of South Africa and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. SWFF makes grants to social entrepreneurs around the world working to help farmers grow more food using less water, to enhance water storage or to improve the use of saline water to produce food. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2EseHag. Click the following

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Using blockchain technology and data science, Victor Santos, the CEO and co-founder of Airfox, is working to improve financial inclusion for the 1.8 billion people living on the planet without access to traditional banking services--a prerequisite to truly emerging from poverty. Interview with Victor Santos, the CEO and co-founder of Airfox. The following is the pre-interview with Victor Santos. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above. We’ll be discussing Financial inequality: Low-income individuals constitute the majority of the “unbanked” who do not have accounts at deposit institutions and lack access to mainstream financial services. Globally, 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked. These people often have no choice but to rely on high-fee payday lenders, check-cashing stores, and other expensive alternatives to manage their money. with Victor Santos. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2VHYxEh. “I firmly believe that wealth means very little in a planet that is dying, ” says Ibrahim AlHusseini, 45, founder and CEO of FullCycle, an investment firm that seeks to reverse climate change profitably. AlHusseini, an immigrant to the United States who grew up in Saudi Arabia, points out that immigrants have contributed to the U.S. economy, noting that Steve Jobs’ father was an immigrant as is Google founder Sergey Brin. AlHusseini says his perspective as an immigrant helps him to appreciate American capitalism’s meritocracy. Similarly, he gained his appreciation for nature scuba diving near his hometown of Jeddah. FullCycle, which launched in 2018 and has made a single investment in Synova Power, a company that is scaling proven waste to energy technology. The company’s process converts solid municipal waste to syngas, which can be used as fuel. Read

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Nancy Davis was diagnosed with MS nearly three decades ago. Initially debilitated, she has not only found a way to survive with her relapsing-remitting form of the disease, she founded an organization, Race to Erase MS, with the singular goal of finding a cure. Along the way, the organization has funded research resulting in 17 new MS treatments, helping many with MS to thrive like her. Interview with Nancy Davis, the COO of Race to Erase MS. The following is the pre-interview with Nancy Davis. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above. What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it? We want to find a cure for MS and increase the quality of life for everyone afflicted with this disease. We accomplish this by funding cutting-edge research through our Center Without Wall program which is a unique collaboration of eight of the best MS research centers in the country which participate with them of always communication and neve

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2HgjGN2. Bubba O’Keefe stands on the stage of the Paramount Theater, backed by the banker who financed his acquisition, Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, appraising the damage, as if conjuring a poorly formed vision of what could be. Shortly after acquiring the old vaudeville theater which had been sitting empty in the center of Clarksdale, Mississippi, the roof collapsed, filling the theater with debris and opening it to the sky. O’Keefe is a big deal in this small town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Once home to millionaire cotton farmers, Clarksdale is, like the rest of the Delta, about 80% African American. Its population of about 16,000 to 18,000 people, has been declining for decades. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2HgjGN2. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Applying for a government grant, especially from the U.S. Federal Government, can be daunting, so much so that many worth applicants are disuaded even from applying. Sedale Turbovsky, a social entrepreneur based in Sacramento, is using artificial intelligence to reinvent the paradigm, hoping to make it easier to find and ultimately to apply for such funding. The new venture, called Egeria Corporation, is in the development stage. Sedale is actively seeking input from nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs who may want to use the new database--which will be free for those seeking funds. Those wishing to contribute ideas should visit egeria.io. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. A trio of remarkable teenagers, with support from remarkable parents, have been crowdfunding on Johnson & Johnson’s CaringCrowd to improve the health and education of children in India. The young people, Abhay Basireddy, Harun Vemulapalli and Harsha Vatsavayi, are youth ambassadors for Ekam USA, which was founded by Abhay’s mother, Neelima Reddy, a gastroenterologist, as a sister organization to Ekam Foundation, which was founded by Sai Lakshmi Balijepally. CaringCrowd is a simple-to-use crowdfunding platform that enables the Youth Ambassadors to quickly set up campaigns to raise money for specific Ekam projects. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Kate Stillwell, founder and CEO of Jumpstart, is by background a civil engineer who has spent much of her career figuring out how to reduce damage and injury resulting from earthquakes. Along the way, she observed that communities that lack a genuine sense of community are more vulnerable to a slow or missing recovery than those that do. She has created a new insurance program, available only in California, that triggers a $10,000 payout whenever an earthquake of a minimum impact is recorded. This puts money in the hands of the insured more quickly and enables them to start the recovery process more quickly. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Taynaah Reis, CEO of Moeda, has deployed a successful blockchain company with operations around the world focusing on helping startups targeting one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Born in the class notorious crypto class of 2017, Moeda’s success is even more remarkable. Be sure to tune in to the full recorded interview at the top of this article. Preliminary Interview with Taynaah Reis, the Taynaah Reis, CEO of Moeda. Moeda created a technology platform based on blockchain and its own cryptocurrency to facilitate access to financing and technical support to businesses through the Moeda Seed Program while adhering to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Moeda seed projects help support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals program, ensuring viable economic opportunities for women in rural areas. The following is a brief pre-interview that provides context for the recorded interview you may watch or listen to at

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2UMaC5U. Consider these sobering statistics. About 15 million children or 21% of all kids living in the United States are being raised in homes with incomes below the federal poverty threshold. Around the globe, 385 million children live in poverty. An estimated 8,500 children die every single day as a result of poor nutrition. It is difficult to think of a more serious subject or of one more deserving of attention and immediate action. Comic Relief USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organized as an offshoot of the Comic Relief organization founded in 1985 in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2014 with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Comic Relief USA, echoing the work of its UK partner, hosts Red Nose Day each year on the last Thursday of May (this year, May 23) as a fun kick-off to summer. The show airs on NBC and this year will feature a new short sequ

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Carter Malloy, founder and CEO of AcreTrader, has created a crowdfunding platform to allow investors to purchase interests in farmland. An asset class that has eluded most investors, the platform makes it easy to gain exposure to farmland. Farmland increases in value and generates revenue, in combination providing an attractive return over the long haul. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. For decades, unaccompanied minors have been arriving at the United States border as refugees or seeking asylum. Once processed, they quickly need to find foster homes where they can receive the support they need to thrive in their new country. Catholic Community Services of Utah is the agency that manages foster care placements in Utah--one of only 13 participating states. At the moment, the organization is looking to find 90 more families in Utah to host arriving foster children. Tune in to this discussion to learn more about how you can go beyond the rhetoric to make a difference in the life of a child. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: Andrew Leon Hanna, 27, and David Delaney Mayer, also 27, became fast friends at Duke, based, at least in part, on their shared status as descendants of immigrants they have known. After years of searching, the pair settled on starting a social enterprise called DreamxAmerica to write an empowering narrative of immigrants, creating a film production company that would tell the story of immigrant entrepreneurs and invest in their businesses. Hanna, a Harvard Law student, is a first-generation Egyptian-American. Mayer’s grandfather was a refugee from Germany following World War II; his great grandfather was killed in Auschwitz. The new enterprise is not only personal but timely. “Immigrants are too often portrayed in the media one-dimensionally as victims or villains—not as the strong, creative, inspiring human beings they truly are,” Hanna notes. Media narratives around immigrat

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Since she launched her business five years ago, we’ve been following Lisa Curtis and her social enterprise Kuli Kuli, the superfood business built around moringa. She continues to impress. In April, she closed a $6.2 million financing round. Kuli Kuli has done $10 million in revenue since inception. More importantly, at least to me and the farmers who are growing the moringa, she has remained true to her social mission. The three-fold mission of Kuli Kuli is to 1) reduce poverty by empowering smallholder farmers in the developing world, 2) fight climate change and 3) improve global health through better nutrition. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. The first lesson Conrad Weaver learned about heroin as he worked to produce his new film Heroin’s Grip was that no one is immune. Addiction captures rich and poor alike. Another key insight from his research is that the most dangerous drugs on the street are the most sought after. When someone dies from taking heroin laced with fentanyl, the reaction on the street is often to find the dealer not to avoid their stuff but to get it. The tragic result is as we’ve seen in recent years that sometimes several people--if not several dozen--die in a series as one after another seeks the ultimate high. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2X4mVfG. When anyone seeks to reinvent the grocery business in light of both the wreckage left by WebVan and the presence of Amazon with Whole Foods in the market, it is hard to conceive success for a well-capitalized upstart. When the entrepreneur is a 24-year-old college dropout, the temptation to dismiss him grows. Chai Mishra is launching a consumer-owned cooperative to provide online groceries with confidence bordering on hubris, but backers including Y Combinator and the San Francisco 49ers are betting on his new platform, simply called Move. Mishra sees two primary problems with the current food distribution business. First is unequal access to food. Second is the exploitation of food producers, especially smallholder farmers both in the U.S. and around the world. He argues that the existing supply chain for food makes it unnecessarily expensive to consume

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Two 7th graders, inspired by a student project led by their 6th grade teacher Ms. Nikki Ferringo, created a nonprofit organization to rid the world of disposable plastics one town at a time, starting in their hometown of Highland Park, New Jersey. Andrew Dalton and Mac Jones have already marked success by getting the school district to switch from plastic to biodegradable cutlery in school lunch rooms. They have also been advocating for and getting restaurants to commit to making plastic straws available only upon request. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Radius CEO Joel Carusone saw that clients were beginning to use its data tools for disaster relief outreach and saw an opportunity to help more people do more good. It launched a program it calls “Data for Good” to help clients use their software tools at no charge for creating positive social impact. Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia.

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Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2FSsjLX. Gunnar Lovelace, founder and CEO of Good Money, was raised in a “hippie commune” in California. He doesn’t think much of the banking system in the U.S., so he’s launched Good Money, a consumer banking platform structured as a customer-owned cooperative, to change things--radically. In the video player above, you can watch our full interview. This is how he framed our discussion: Just to clearly frame the problem--the average U.S. consumer today spends $360 a year for a s****y banking product where banks pay practically zero on your money as a customer then leverage your money on a 10x ratio to go fund things like the Dakota Access Pipeline and private prisons and make a bunch of money on that and then pay you nothing. As a consumer you kind of say that out loud that “I'm going to give you money to make money on my money, messing things up while paying me