[quote]If you have a dream you want to realize, whether is is big or small, personal of business, for yourself or for a better world: don’t keep it to yourself. As soon as you start talking about your dream things will be set in motion. Other people want to help,…
[quote style=”boxed”]I like to think that my “good idea meter” is pretty accurate (everybody does). When I come up with an idea that I think is great I get a huge jolt of motivation and energy. I try to bring those ideas to life as fast as possible (before my…
Meet Jameson Morris – Founder of Organic Soul and Conscious Box
[quote style=”boxed”]It’s simple. Find someone else passionate about the same problem you are trying to solve, start talking about it, then start making it happen. Something as simple as having a few drinks and putting post-it notes on a wall with all of your ideas can often be the best…
Lauri Burns is the founder of The Teen Project, a non-profit organization founded in 2007, whose mission is to give every foster child an equal chance in life. As a young girl, Lauri was a victim of an inadequate foster care system. Following a tumultuous early childhood with abusive and…
[quote style=”boxed”]First, I visualize what the world will look like with this new idea, and how it will create the change I’m looking for. Then, I work my buns off.[/quote] Emily May is an international leader in the anti-street-harassment movement. In 2005, at the age of 24, she co-founded Hollaback!,…
[quote style=”boxed”]The way I see it, If you can imagine it then you can probably create it. However, I also realize that good ideas are rarely attributable to one person but are built on ideas that other people have had and which have become part of our own toolbox.[/quote] A…
Meet Stuart Gold – Managing Director of the Trashy Bags Project
Skip Wiener has a master’s degree from Temple University in Plant Physiology (1967) and a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (1972). He worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the National Park Service, the Montgomery County Planning Commission and John Rahenkamp Consultants as…
Meet Saul “Skip” Wiener – Founder of the Urban Tree Connection
Josh Tetrick – a social entrepreneur, writer, and speaker – has led a United Nations business initiative in Kenya, worked for both former President Clinton and the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and taught street children as a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria and South Africa. Josh provides capital to creative…
Matt Flannery began developing Kiva in late 2004 following a trip to Uganda, where he witnessed microfinance first hand. At the time, he worked as a computer programmer at TiVo, Inc., and Kiva was a side-project. However, in December 2005 Matt left his job to devote himself to Kiva full-time….
