Interview: Adam Bucko on how homeless youth can turn their creativity into careers
Adam Bucko helps homeless youth channel their passion into creative careers. His organization, the Reciprocity Foundation, connects youths living on the streets in New York City with college scholarships and…
Interview: Gina Harman uses small loans to combat big recession
When the U.S. economy took a nose dive, and banks cut back on lending, many small American businesses turned to a credit source typically associated with the developing world: microfinance….
Mother’s Day Interview: Vivian Stromberg on fighting for the rights of MADRES everywhere
In 1983, Vivian Stromberg traveled with a women’s delegation to Nicaragua in the midst of a brutal civil war. There, she witnessed day care centers, schools and clinics that had…
Interview: Phil Borges on how children in 30 countries can teach one another with digital tools
Acclaimed photographer Phil Borges spent decades chronicling social, environmental and cultural threats and problems around the world. Now he has handed cameras over to young people in 30 countries to…
Interview: Jessica Mayberry reimagines media made by and for villagers
When the World Bank asked 20,000 of the world’s poorest people to list their greatest need, the most common response was a way to express their voice. Jessica Mayberry, founder…
Interview: John Sage on how Pura Vida turned an inspiring story into a real business
One time he was two weeks away from payroll and he didn’t know how he was going to pay his staff. Another time, he delivered a customer coffee beans that…
WATCH: Elizabeth Scharpf on that time of the month for millions
We all know that that time of the month is a pain, but who knew that it causes millions of women to lose up to 45 days of work and…
Tax Day Special! Dowser Interview: Donna Morton of the Centre for Integral Economics
Happy Tax Day! Have you ever wondered why don’t we tax Hummers instead of salaries? Or why don’t we list environmental damage as a liability on balance sheets? These are…
Dowser Interview: Phil Buchanan of The Center for Effective Philanthropy
If a company like Levi Strauss wants to know how well it’s doing, it counts the number of pairs of jeans it sold last quarter. What happens when a grant-making…
Dowser Interview: Matt Flannery of Kiva
While traveling through Uganda in 2004, Matt Flannery and his wife, Jessica, got the idea to use the Internet to connect poor people in need of loans with those in…
Dowser Interview: Guy Jacobson of RedLight Children Campaign
After being solicited for sex by a barrage of very young girls while traveling through Cambodia, Guy Jacobson learned two things: First, child sexploitation was not something many people talked…
Dowser Interview: Ami Dar of Idealist
Ami Dar’s career as a social entrepreneur began with an epiphany, $1,000, and a childhood dream to change the world. Years later, he would act on that dream when he…
Dowser Interview: Gillian Caldwell of 1Sky
Gillian Caldwell had a dream job. She was running WITNESS, an organization that safeguards human rights through multimedia technology. Everything about the work aligned perfectly with her values, talents and…
Dowser Interview: Geoff Cape of Evergreen
Geoff Cape, whose background was in carpentry and real estate development, founded Evergreen in 1991 to help city-dwelling Canadians reconnect with nature at a time when urban planning was obsessed…
Dowser Interview: Bill Abrams of Trickle Up
Bill Abram’s jokes that when he was hired as president of Trickle Up the staff “thought the board had lost its mind.” He’d spent 30 years in the media industry,…
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