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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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18:46

Feeding Middlesex County Leverages CaringCrowd To...

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2019/07/17

“Hunger is a year-round struggle,” Jane Leal, Vice-Chair for Feeding Middlesex County, says. She’s grateful for the fundraising help offered by Johnson & Johnson’s CaringCrowd crowdfunding site that helped raise much-needed flexible funding to help close gaps in the community’s effort to feed those who are food-insecure.Jane helped raise almost $7,000 using CaringCrowd, nearly half of which was donated by J&J as a match. CaringCrowd is a crowdfunding platform for nonprofits that serve public health

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22:29

New Social Venture Aims To Teach Kids Good Money...

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2019/07/15

Brian Meece, co-creator of WingaDoos, likes to say that WingaDoos is “Sesame Street for healthy money habit."Research shows that our relationship to money is established long before we have to start making financial decisions for ourselves. By the time we’re about eight years old, our concept of money is pretty fixed. This means that teaching high schoolers good money habits can be difficult.WingaDoos is built around the model that teaching good money habits must start when children are in

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19:51

How A Harrowing Experience Inspired This Woman To...

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2019/07/12

As a girl, while living in Jamaica, Davinia James once faced an extraordinary experience on her way home from school with her brother. Held at gunpoint, her brother faced the young gunman and yelled for his sister to run.Frozen by fear, she didn’t move even as the gunman held his gun to her brother’s chest. “Run,” he screamed. And she did.Frantic, she screamed as she entered her home, “He’s dead! He’s dead!” Her mother “went into superwoman mode.”Following her mother, they ran back to find her

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23:24

Formerly Incarcerated Recovering Addict Says We Can...

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2019/07/10

Damon West started using drugs by age 12 and before his 30th birthday was sentenced to 65 years in prison. After serving seven years, he emerged from prison completely changed. The key lesson he learned in prison was that you can change your environment. Now, as a motivational speaker, he teaches others how to do the same.Interview with Damon West, the of Damon West, LLC.The following is the pre-interview with Damon West. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.How are you personally affected

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25:36

App Utilizes AI To Help Everyone Assess and Improve...

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2019/07/09

Increasingly, we recognize that mental health is like physical health. It must be regularly assessed and treated. Still, we in the west often asssume that it is a problem only in the most developed countries.In fact, not surprisingly, mental health issues plague every country from rich to poor without regard to income. Sachin Chaudhry, an Ashoka Fellow, has developed an app using AI to help regularly assess mental health. The app can even be used to help people maintain a healthier mental

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20:11

California Quakes Highlight Potential Impact Of Novel...

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2019/07/06

In the past 48 hours, there have been two major earthquakes in Southern California with an epicenter near the town of Ridgecrest. The quakes hit on July 4 and 5th, with the largest and most recent reaching a 7.1 on the Richter scale. In part due to the remote location, no deaths have been attributed to the quakes, but property damage across the region will ultimately be substantial.Kate Stillwell, CEO of Jumpstart Insurance, a novel insurance company that provides coverage that pays out quickly

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25:01

Using Biomimicry This Activist Is Turning Impact...

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2019/07/05

“Biomimicry is the practice of solving problems by learn asking the question, ‘What would nature do?” says Boston Impact Initiative Fund founder and President Deborah Frieze. Her answer to that question has her flipping conventional investing wisdom on its head to close the racial wealth divide in Boston.While she hopes the fund will serve as a model for other communities, she notes that the wealth divide in Boston is on par with Atlanta for the worst in the country. “The median net worth for a

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18:19

This Tragic Death From Depression Inspires A Mother’s...

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2019/07/03

Donnetta Johnson lost her son Jonah to depression in 2009. Her experience was as life-changing as it was heartbreaking. She founded the My Son, Your Daughter, The Jonah Johnson Youth Scholarship Fund to raise money to help parents prevent the needless deaths that depression causes.Johnson says she thought she knew about depression and thought she and her family could “work through” the issues with her son. Now she knows different and is working to help other parents better understand the risks of

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17:20

Intel Foundation Works To Make STEM Education...

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2019/07/02

Pia Wilson-Body, president of Intel Foundation says the Intel Foundation is working to make STEM education more accessible to disadvantaged students, especially young women. “A zip code doesn’t determine brilliance but it does determine access,” she says.The Intel Foundation, under her leadership, is working to break down barriers and create a bridge to equity. She hopes to create not just consumers but creators. One example is a program called “She Will Connect,” specifically focusing on

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25:44

Rebranding At M·A·C Viva Glam Fund Explicitly Focuses...

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2019/06/28

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2RFxWCH.Due to improved treatments, the number of annual HIV infections in the U.S. declined steadily for years until about 2013, but the latest statistics at HIV.gov show no improvement since. About 39,000 people annually are infected.One of the leading players in the fight to eradicate AIDS has been the M·A·C AIDS Fund, which recently rebranded as the

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20:35

'What's Not Wrong With The Government?' Asks Activist...

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2019/06/26

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2YlyK29.When I asked Josh Silver, co-founder and director of RepresentUs, to tell us what is wrong with politics in America, he responded with a question of his own.“Devin, what’s not wrong with the government?”He cites a Princeton paper that concludes, in Silver’s words, “the average American has a statistically insignificant effect on public policy. Laws

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18:17

The Power of Storytelling to Change Lives - #1121

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2019/06/25

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.CaringCrowd, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson is a, sponsor of the Your Mark on the World Center.Robyn Shumer discovered the power of storytelling in her own life when she began to share her experience dealing with an eating disorder. She began with a TEDx talk but couldn’t stop telling her story. She organized What’s Your Story USA, an organization built around helping people to tell their stories. Dillan DiGiovanni is a two-time

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17:23

A Microcosm Of Sweden's Refugee Integration Efforts...

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2019/06/21

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2KrWJcj.What Sweden is doing about the refugee crisis is impressive. This country of about 10 million has received more refugees in recent years than any other rich country. Still, refugees face a difficult time running the bureaucratic immigration policy gantlet and integrating fully.Jean Pierre Candiotti, 33, an immigrant from Peru, leads the Refugees

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19:50

‘Supportive Housing Is The Solution To Homelessness’...

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2019/06/20

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Tori Lyon, the CEO of the Jericho Project, which operates supportive housing units for 2,500 for formerly homeless individuals in New York City, joined me for a discussion about her work. She asserts simply that “Supportive housing is the solution to homelessness.”She explains how operating supportive housing is less expensive than having people live on the streets, where they are frequent flyers in shelters, emergency rooms and

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15:03

This Epidemiologist Serves As A Guide To Up And...

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2019/06/19

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.When Charlotte Hughes Huntley, an epidemiologist, began to write and produce a podcast about her experiences finding her way in a challenging career field, she quickly developed a following. Today, she is as respected as a career guide as she as an epidemiologist.Click the following link to learn my insider secrets to media publicity for social impact: http://bit.ly/75offmedia. Get full access to Superpowers for Good at

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15:17

Successful Crowdfunder Offers Tips For Raising Money...

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2019/06/18

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Charlotte Hommel was touched by the death of a friend’s child and decided to do something about the suicide epidemic in America. She used her employer’s crowdfunding site, CaringCrowd (which is open to the public) to raise money. Over two campaigns, she was successful in raising over $15,000.A longtime employee of J&J, Charlotte applies her passion for solving social problems as a volunteer, often by raising money. She is a big

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22:45

Don’t Fear The Bots--Fear The Humans Who Control Them...

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2019/06/14

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Eleonore Pauwels, a research fellow on emerging cybertechnologies at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, recently published a report highlighting the threats and opportunities for global policy makers.The threats should scare you. It isn’t that the machines will take over; rather, it is that people can use AI maliciously and in ways we cannot detect. For instance, people can use AI to make a CT scan

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24:53

The GIIN Founder Provides Impact Investing Definition...

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2019/06/12

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2F3EBS6,Increasingly, people want to be seen as making impact investments. Some in the socially responsible investing sphere, for instance, have started to describe their practice as a subset of a broader theme of impact investing. If there isn’t an agreed-upon definition, it is hard to measure its growth or much else about it.This makes the definition used

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22:39

Why Bill Gates Partners With Rotary To Eradicate...

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2019/05/31

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.When I asked Bill Gates, 63, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, why polio, he began, “Polio is a terrible disease.” An hour later, speaking to a group of Rotarians in Spokane, Washington, he said, “You know, we're going to get to the end of this and Rotary will be the reason that will happen.”Before continuing, I must note I am a Rotarian who has occasionally been paid to speak at Rotary events. Even for

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18:51

Technology and Transparency Are Watchwords For This...

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2019/05/29

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Reginald Swift, CEO and founder of Rubix LS, is working to accelerate cures for rare diseases by utilizing new technology and increasing transparency between patients and companies.Interview with Reginald Swift, the CEO of Rubix LS.The following is the pre-interview with Reginald Swift. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.For-profit/Nonprofit: For-profitRevenue model: Currently providing consultation services to

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