A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...
At 32, after a two-decade battle with drug addiction, Gary Field walked out of a rehab center and shortly thereafter discovered a passion for helping others. Field began working as a social worker focusing on mental health care in New York City, but ...
Women make up more than half of the global population, but own less than 1% of the world's financial resources. They represent a third of the world’s journalists, but less than 1% of its editors, department heads and media owners. And women are ...
Oso Martin, founder of the Portland, OR-based recycling collective Free Geek, combines three problems and comes up with a solution. “Some people have too many computers; others don’t have enough,” he told us. “And there is a glut of computers going to landfills. ...
Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now!, faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by ...
Kim Scheinberg has a habit she can't seem to kick: investing in social entrepreneurs who have business ideas to change the world. The problem is she doesn't enjoy haggling over percentage points when she's dealing with start-up entrepreneurs who are desperate for cash ...
Elmira Bayrasli and her colleagues are always on the lookout for the up-and-coming Bill Gateses and Steve Jobses of developing countries. She handles policy and outreach for Endeavor, a New York-based organization that supports high-impact for-profit entrepreneurs in emerging markets—the enterprising men and ...
Who made the shirt you're wearing? Were the cloth cutters or seamstresses treated fairly? Did the factory comply with reasonable environmental standards? If you have no clue, then check out the work of Alice Tepper Marlin. She believes we all have a right ...
More than 90 million Americans will volunteer this year. But many will find the experience dissatisfying, unable to find a group that genuinely needs what they have to offer. Imagine if they could be hooked up with an organization that is looking for ...
Fresh out of business school, Mary Ellen Iskenderian went to work on Wall Street, where she learned the art of banking and made good money. But something was missing. "I thought, 'This is not what I’m here for,'" she says. She made a ...