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Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.

We host changemakers who are using regulated investment crowdfunding for social impact--impact crowdfunding--as impact investors or social entrepreneurs, catalyzing change with leadership skills we call superpowers. www.superpowers4good.com

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20:43

Entrepreneurs And Investors Build And Discover...

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2019/10/21

Alissa Sears, co-founder of the adVenturesAcademy, has seen it over again: entrepreneurs and investors bond in the outdoors, in challenging circumstances, in ways they never could in the boardroom. Just as importantly, sometimes they discover that they don’t want to be in business with someone when the chips are down.Trips with Alissa’s adVenturesAcademy don’t just build character, they reveal character as well. For entrepreneurs looking for investors, learning who can handle challenges without

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21:33

Impact Assets Works To Close $2.4 Trillion Annual...

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2019/10/18

The United Nations recently suggested that reversing climate change before global warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius would require annual investment of $2.4 trillion. Impact Assets is one of the players working to close the funding gap.The need likely exceeds $2.4 trillion as that estimate includes only climate-related investment requirements. Other pressing social issues, including extreme poverty and related problems identified in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs will require

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27:59

Author: Reports Of Malfeasance, Mismanagement At...

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2019/10/16

Author Doug White says in his new book, Wounded Charity, that the CBS and New York Times reports of malfeasance and wrongdoing at the Wounded Warrior Project were not accurate. Much of their reporting, Doug says, came from a Facebook group.With a national scale of operation, there were disgruntled former employees who had created a Facebook group where they shared their experiences and perceptions of mismanagement. The story was rushed to press when the two highly-reputable organizations got wind

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27:47

Former Milken Team Member Is Leveraging Her Skills...

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2019/10/14

Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, the executive director for Social Venture Circle, got her first job out of film school working on the team of notorious investment banker, Michael Milken who created the modern high-yield bond market and later spent 22 months in prison for securities fraud.Val later applied her skills running her own investment banking firm, completing $3 billion in transactions, mostly serving the native American community.Never forgetting her filmmaking studies, she has directed and

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14:31

Answering The Question, ‘How Do You Help People Too...

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2019/10/11

Upaya Social Ventures is a nonprofit impact investing firm that answers the question, “How do you help people too poor for microloans?” The answer is both easy and challenging: jobs.The presumption of microlending programs often seems to be that everyone can or should be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is a powerful economic driver, but most people lack the skills to thrive as entrepreneurs even in wealthy countries. It certainly can’t be fair to expect people in developing countries to be better

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25:32

Future Of Renewable Energy Is Free - #1168

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2019/10/09

Larry Sherwood, president and CEO of Interstate Renewable Energy Council reminds us that once solar panels are paid for, all the electricity that results is free. Wind energy, similarly, is virtually free after you buy the turbine. Neither requires fuel.For decades, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council has been working to help states and municipalities implement rules and regulations that support renewable energy.Larry, what is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?Distributed energy

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23:21

P3 Utah Works With Companies To Balance People,...

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2019/10/07

Steve Klass founded the nonprofit P3 Utah to help Utah businesses adopt triple-bottom-line practices to better respect people and the planet along with profits. The influence of P3 Utah continues to grow.Interview with Steve Klass, the Executive Director of P3 Utah.The following is the pre-interview with Steve Klass. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.For-profit/Nonprofit: 501(c)3 NonprofitRevenue model: Executive director's family followed by event registration and membership fees,

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24:57

This Nonprofit Is Improving Health For Mothers And...

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2019/10/02

Patricia Mertz was forced to cut short her two-and-a-half year term of service with the Peace Corps in Cote d’Ivoire. She talked about her desire to return and help so much over the next seven years that her niece finally promised to give her $10,000 from the prize money of a singing contest she entered.She didn’t win the contest but the promise had catalyzed Patricia to take action, form a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and get work saving the lives of mothers and children in the West African country.The

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19:01

Impact Investor Focuses On Improving Lives In Haiti ...

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2019/09/30

Marc Blumenthal joins me to talk about Social Ventures Foundation’s work in launching V’ice in Haiti. V’ice is basically a snow cone with added nutrition. These sorts of products are popular in Haiti and V’ice is both superior and price competitive. It is intended to be sold by microfranchisees so the profits mostly stay in the community.Interview with Marc Blumenthal, the Executive Director of Social Ventures Foundation.The following is the pre-interview with Marc Blumenthal. Be sure to watch the

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29:53

#Is It Possible For Haiti To Thrive? Former PM...

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2019/09/27

Laurent Lamothe, 47, former Prime Minister of Haiti, says Haiti—and other low-income countries—can thrive by implementing new taxes on telecom and banking transactions.Lamothe, who resigned as the PM in December of 2014 after serving two and a half years—longer than any PM since the Haiti earthquake in 2010—says micro levies on small transactions provide an opportunity for countries like Haiti to begin collecting revenues and investing them in infrastructure and projects that will help their people

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24:46

Meet Beta Boom, A Seed-Stage VC Fund For Underserved...

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2019/09/25

Raising capital is almost never easy for entrepreneurs but data suggests it can be more difficult for some than others. Minorities and women are much less likely to receive VC investments. People living outside California, New York and Boston are also much less likely to receive venture capital.Enter Beta Boom, with Managing Partner Kimmy Paluch, herself a minority, based in Salt Lake City and focused on investing in these underserved communities.Never miss another interview! Join Devin here:

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21:15

FastCTO Creates Diligence Score For Crowdfunding...

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2019/09/23

Igor Belagorudsky, president of FastCTO, joined me to explain his company’s new tool for rating crowdfunding issues to make them more appealing to large investors. Increasingly, investors of all stripes are looking at deals on investment crowdfunding websites like Wefunder, Republic and Crowdfund Mainstreet. The score is intended to help both novice and expert institutional investors better understand the investment opportunity.Issuers, that is the companies selling shares on a crowdfunding site,

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19:29

FluentWorlds Brings Immersive 3D Graphics To Language...

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2019/09/20

Beginning with English language training, Utah-based FluentWorlds is delivering its immersive 3D experience to your phone. Available for both Android phones and iPhones, the technology is winning fans.CEO, David Bradford, 68, leads the company with his wife, Dr. Linda Bradford, who has a PhD in instructional psychology and technology. She serves as the chief product officer. Their son, also David, is the VP of finance and business development.This isn’t your typical family business. The senior

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22:31

Nonprofit TechSoup Raises Money Via Regulation A+...

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2019/09/18

In 2012, Congress passed and President Obama signed the JOBS Act, a law that authorized investment crowdfunding. A wide variety of for-profit businesses, many of them having a social mission, have taken advantage of the law to raise money from small investors under either Title III, implemented as Regulation Crowdfunding or Title VI, implemented as Regulation A+.TechSoup is an international nonprofit that helps deliver technology to other nonprofits around the world. This innovative organization is

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13:19

Kenyan Orphanage Receives Matching Funds From J&J #1158

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2019/09/16

CaringCrowd.org, by Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health, is a sponsor of the Your Mark on the World Center and GoodCrowd.info.Rehema Home is an orphanage in Kenya that cares for children, about half of whom are HIV positive. These wonderful children are often in need of medical care. Rehema Home raised over $10,000 on CaringCrowd, Johnson & Johnson’s global health crowdfunding platform.J&J generously matches individual donations up to $250. Of the $10,647 raised on CaringCrowd, $3,576 came from

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36:46

Father Of Social Entrepreneurship Says ‘Society Is At...

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2019/09/13

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, literally coined the term “social entrepreneur” when he founded the nonprofit back in 1980, almost 40 years ago. He also decided that changemaker was one word and not two, something the Oxford dictionary now recognizes (though Webster’s does not, to the Drayton’s consternation). Drayton says, “We all sense that society is at a profound, indeed historic turning point.”Before we explore the turning point, he’s talking about, let’s briefly review some of the

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17:34

When Climate Change Hit Home Julia Jackson Took...

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2019/09/11

Personally impacted by wildfires in her Northern California community, Julia Jackson saw the impact of climate change and recognized that the time for talk was long past and went to work.Julia created the nonprofit Grounded to accelerate the work of climate change reversing technologies. An admirer of Paul Hawken and his work at Project Drawdown, she has sought to accelerate some of the very technologies Paul and his team identified.Never miss another interview! Join Devin here:

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17:01

Capacity Building In Sub-Saharan Africa Health...

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2019/09/09

LifeNet International is working to save lives in sub-Saharan Africa by building capacity within the existing health care infrastructure. By equipping the facilities and training the people there, the organization hopes to transform them, allowing them to save more lives.Maggie Ehrenfried, managing director of development for LifeNet, joined me to talk about the organization’s impactful work and its success raising over $25,000 via CaringCrowd by Johnson & Johnson. She notes that nearly half of the

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25:39

Using AI As A Guide This Organization Fights Climate...

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2019/09/06

"I am on a mission to provide clean and affordable energy to women and girls in African rural communities through the use of modern technologies like AI,” says Monique Ntumngia, 29, founder of the Green Girls Organisation working in Sub-Saharan Africa.The organization uses a unique scoring algorithm called MNKB92 to optimize energy strategies for villages where they train women and girls to assemble and sell solar lamps and to deploy biodigesters to create methane for cooking and organic fertilizer

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15:56

How To Implement The Latest Technology In Your...

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2019/09/04

Having created a technology for nonprofits that has the potential to accelerate their fundraising and their impact using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Art Komarov has learned a few things about the adoption of new technology. He shares some powerful insights to help nonprofit leaders implement the latest and greatest tech for good.Interview with Artiom (Art) Komarov, the Co-Founder and CEO of Wisely.The following is the pre-interview with Artiom (Art) Komarov. Be sure to watch the

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