Hadas Lahav is the founder of Sindyanna of Galilee, an Israeli social enterprise led by a team of Arab and Jewish women working to create change – and olive oil.
Social Enterprise
She Runs A Mission-Driven Jewelry Company Providing Equitable Opportunity
Amy Peterson is the founder of Rebel Nell.
Her Beauty Brand Is Committed to Ending Period Poverty
Nguzo Ogbdoo is the founder of Yara Shea Beauty, an all natural beauty line that supports her non-profit’s work to end period poverty.
She’s Making Functional Apparel From Recycled Plastic – and Giving Back to Communities in Need
Jen Perry is the founder of Jelt, an eco-friendly elastic belt line that hires locally and gives back globally.
An Immigrant Founder Uses Food to Lift Up Her Latino Community
Paty Funegra of La Cocina VA has raised $2 million to turn her community kitchen into an incubator, a café and a place of hope for struggling immigrants.
How a Social Entrepreneur Won Millions of Dollars in Grants
Rana Dajani of We Love Reading has transformed a tiny nonprofit into a sprawling social enterprise. Here’s how she got funders to come to her.
This Minneapolis Beekeeper Is Building a Thriving Business
Kristy Allen is no hobbyist beekeeper. Her Beez Kneez has multiple sources of revenue, and a pedal-powered invention is up next.
Feeling Lost, She Quit Her Corporate Job, Started a Social Enterprise and Reinvented Her Life
Kate Curran took a series of calculated steps to make a midlife career change and rediscover her purpose.
She’s Bringing Joy to Kids in Poverty
Julia Warren started nonprofit Celebrate! RVA to throw birthday parties for underprivileged children in the Richmond, Va., area.
For Those In Need of Shelter, This Arizona Entrepreneur Has a Solution
Angie Lozano started Angie’s House to help the less fortunate find affordable housing and rebuild their lives.
These Phoenix Sisters Launched a $25 Million Eco-Chic Business
Ann and Jenny Siner’s “cute, clean and current” consignment shops keep used items out of the trash.
This Philadelphia Entrepreneur is Helping Fix a Broken Food System
How Tatiana Garcia-Granados’ nonprofit enterprise, The Common Market, is bringing healthful food to low-income communities and lifting local farmers’ livelihoods.
Entrepreneurship Provides New Hope for Former Prisoners
Programs to teach and facilitate business ownership are springing up around the U.S. in a bid to expand economic opportunity for women leaving prison.
How ‘Orange is the New Black’ Inspired This Luxury T-Shirt Company
At Road Twenty-Two, founded by Iranian immigrant Fif Ghobadian in San Francisco, women who served time in prison get a second chance.
Stacy Ratner is in Business to do Good
The founder of Chicago-based Open Books has built a high-impact literacy nonprofit by applying everything she learned as a serial tech entrepreneur.
Pearls With Purpose Says Love is All You Need
When scaling up becomes a challenge, the answer may be to look to the people who love you.
Literacy as a Solution to Educational Inequality
Stacy Ratner is changing the lives of children in Chicago through her social enterprise, Open Books Ltd.
Shining a Light on Latin America’s Artisans
Amanda Judge of Faire Collection finds a rewarding career in the markets of Ecuador.
Ask, Ask, Ask
After starting her own company FairTaste to help underpaid farmers, Puifung Leung quickly realized she knew nothing about running a business. In this Inspiration Minute she shares the one secret that turned FairTaste into a successful social enterprise.
Bras Free Women From Sex Trafficking
What to do with those old bras stuffed in the back of your drawer? Watch how a suburban mom is using them to save women from sex trafficking.
Entrepreneur Helps Indigenous Women Stitch Up Their Daughters’ Future
In 2004 Ruth DeGolia, traveled to Guatemala to conduct research for her Yale thesis on the effects of globalization in a country torn apart by civil war.
The Adventure Project Helps Others Help Themselves
Becky Straw and Jody Landers are unlikely partners on a shared mission to alleviate poverty in developing countries. In 2010 they started The Adventure Project, a non-profit that provides funding to social enterprises. “We almost act as the VCs, where we have the money and we’re investing wisely in these enterprises so they can scale,” Straw told The Story Exchange.
Young Entrepreneurs: Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman
The sOccket looks like a regular soccer ball, but it doubles as an energy-harvesting source that can help light up communities without access to electricity.