The Unreasonable Institute is gearing up for its second year and the wind is at its back. More than half the entrepreneurs selected last year received funding to implement their ideas or start their businesses, which included micro-home solutions for the urban poor ...
We asked this year's Unreasonable Institute Fellows, who are in the early stages of developing innovative social ventures, to reflect on some key takeaways from the eight-week Summer Institute they attended. Here, Emily Kerr, founder and CEO of Liga Masiva, tells Dowser about ...
We asked this year's Unreasonable Institute Fellows, who are in the early stages of developing innovative social ventures, to reflect on some key takeaways from the eight-week Summer Institute they attended. Here, Pierre Bataille, co-founder of Playable (formerly APAID), shares his experience. By ...
We asked this year's Unreasonable Institute Fellows, who are in the early stages of developing innovative social ventures, to reflect on some key takeaways from the eight-week Summer Institute they attended. Here, Khalida Brohi of Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) shares her experience. By ...
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 ...
Nancy Henkin believes there isn’t enough contact across generations. For the past 30 years she’s been striving to remedy that imbalance. As the founder and executive director of the Intergenerational Center, Nancy works to enhance and engage these communities by pairing old and ...
Justin Zoradi never expected to write a business plan, much less start his own organization. ("I got a C-minus in microeconomics in college!") But after a service trip to South Africa in 2006, that's exactly what he did. Living and working for a ...
After graduating from Stanford Law School, Suzanne McKechnie Klahr created a counseling program and consultancy for adult entrepreneurs in East Palo Alto, one of California’s poorest cities. One day in 1999, four high school sophomores dropped by her office. “We’re sick of school," ...
Last week Changemakers interviewed our director, Emily Spivack, about her experiences as the founder of Shop Well with You, a body-image resource for women with cancer. Emily started Shop Well with You as an undergraduate at Brown University and, nine years later, the ...
Imagine snowboarding for the first time if you had never seen snow: the awe you'd feel on the the lift. The fear looking down from the summit. The sense of accomplishment upon reaching the bottom. Steve Larosiliere, Executive Director of Stoked Mentoring, believes ...