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 interests. She had also realized her long-time ambition of launching “a YouTube for ...
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 with expanding the built environment. He has enlisted tens of thousands of volunteers ...
Social entrepreneurs like to use the word “scrappy” to describe the way they tackle big problems. Think of doing whatever it takes—writing emails until 4 a.m., living in your best friend’s basement, etc.—all for the big-picture change you seek. Then there’s Tim DeChristopher, ...