Hands4Others (H4O), high school and college students, are fighting extreme poverty by bringing clean water to villages globally. Jeanne David, Executive Director for H4O, and Spencer Dusebout, founding student, share the goals and achievements made in only 2 years by…
Social Impact, Fair Trade, Business in Africa Grows with Liberty and Justice
The only fair trade factory in Africa is saving lives while bringing business to Africa, the new continent for outsourced savings. Chid Liberty, the co-founder with Adam Butlein, of the first fair trade factory in Africa, shares the success of…
Permaculture: Sustainable Agriculture Providing Safe and Multiple ROI.
Warren Brush shares how permaculture is providing an impact investment vehicle that simultaneously produces multiple revenue streams and a forecast ROI of 6%. By mimicking natural systems in sustainable agriculture, a project named Regenerative Earth is producing ecological, economic, social…
Sustainable Preschool Education in India Combats Extreme Poverty.
At the end of British rule, India’s literacy rate was less than 12%. It has grown to 74% but is still below the world average of 84%. It is difficult work to grow education in India due to the level…
Education, Jobs in Afghanistan Fight Terrorism.
Push Play to hear how one woman, Hassina Sherjan, is helping prevent terrorism in Afghanistan through education and creating jobs. Both men and women, girls and boys are being educated in Afghanistan by Hassina Sherjan and the 19 schools she…
A New Maasai Rite of Passage Stops Female Circumcision.
Teri Gabrielsen of (ASK) reports the changes in the Maasai community as 52 girls enjoy an alternative rite of passage rather than the pain of female genital mutilation (FGM). This ancient tradition of female genital cutting is slowly changing although…
Latino Community Benefits by Valoramas Discount Shopping and More.
Push play to hear Alejandra Garza share the evolution of Valoramas.com, an online shopping community that gives back to strategic community organizations serving the Latino Community. Valoramas is a Hispanic culture community where members can shop and enjoy discounts and…
Social Entrepreneurship Brings Sanitation to Urban Slums in Extreme Poverty
David Auerbach from Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya that has been identified and supported by Eleos Foundation, has grown into an opportunity for impact investors. Saner.gy builds sustainable sanitation in the urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. So you…
What is Renewable Green Energy: The Facts, Fiction Behind Its Success.
Craig Shields discusses green, renewable energy, the facts and fiction behind its success. There are five basic technologies in renewable, clean energy: solar, wind, bio mass, geothermal and hydro-kinetics or hydrology. Craig Shields, co-founder of 2GreenEnergy.com, combines his 30 years…
Fight Extreme Poverty: Outsource Data and IT Enabled Services
Outsourcing data and IT Enabled Services can fight extreme poverty by educating and employing youth from impoverished areas of developing countries. Jeremy Hockenstein of Digital Data Divide (DDD) shares how they have successfully educated and lifted over 1500 youth in…
Solar Renewable Energy Saves Nonprofits, Provides Investment Tax Credit
Megan Birney of Community Environmental Council (CEC) shares the secrets of how to provide nonprofits with the benefits of solar energy and save money while providing investors with Investment Tax Credits (ITC) and tax equity. The Community Environmental Council (CEC)…
International Youth at Risk Program Connects, Educates and Develops Entrepreneurs.
Nathalie Gensac, a 2008 Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the year nominee, shares her path to establishing an international program designed to connect youth at risk, educate, develop entrepreneurs, share cultures and grow a new generation of leaders. YouthInteractive.us…
Ampelos Cellars Boutique Wines: Certified Biodynamic, Organic, Sustainability in Practice
Peter Work of Ampelos Cellars boutique wines shares their conscious attention to detail in growing wine, wine making and being good stewards of the land. Ampelos Cellars is one of the first vineyards in all of the US to be…
MIT Enterprise Forum: Education, Connections to Business Mentors, Incubator, Accelerator
Peter Hartman, director of the MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast, shares the events and resources available to entrepreneurs and businesses on the Central Coast California. The MIT Enterprise Forum has 28 chapters worldwide. Over $2 trillion and 26,000 companies have…
How to Get Small Business Funding, Startup Money, Angel Investors
Learn the steps to getting startup money and for growing your small business through angels investors. The founder of California Coast Venture Forum (CCVF) and the Clean Business Summit (CBIS), Jerry Knotts, shares his extensive knowledge about the steps required…
UN Code REDD: Combat Global Warming, Conserve Wildlife, Build Jobs.
Mike Korchinsky of WildlifeWorks shares how the United Nations’ REDD initiative of carbon credits is helping build jobs, education and conserving wildlife while combating global warming. Wildlife Works‘ mission, Consumer Powered Conservation, is to harness the power of the global…
Vote Today to Address Healthcare and Safe Water for India’s Extreme Poverty.
Jim Villnueava of The Eleos Foundation shares how you can help save the lives of millions in India by voting for Healthpoint’s virtual medical clinics and safe water. Healthpoint is a virtual medical clinic that consists of four economically sustainable…
Green Building: Recycled Compressed Straw Board Ranks High with USGBC.
Tim Evans of Stramit USA introduces the newest green building solution providing a negative carbon footprint along with a myriad of other construction and environmental benefits. Stramit USA, a company utilizing Stramit UK technology, has introduced green building construction board…
Global Women for Peace Empower a Better World by Connecting on the Phone.
Linda Higdon of the Global Room for Women shares the incredible women’s movement that connects and empowers women globally. Cultural differences that may involve female genital mutilation (female circumcision), the severe discipline of children, pre-teen motherhood and domestic violence find…
Save Lives with Clean Water Filters in Areas of Extreme Poverty
Ning Jiang, UCSB PhD student, shares her research and progress on developing a clean water, bio-sand filter for people living in extreme poverty. A new, inexpensive bio-sand water filter is being developed to help Safewater International provide clean water to…
Crowdfunding: A New Twist for Funding Science and Inspiring Change
Crowdfunding is changing the way science communicates and gets funding. Dr. Jai Ranganathan and Dr. Jarrett Byrnes, two conservation scientists and ecologists, share their inspiration for SciFundChallenge, the new crowdfunding website for scientists. Although funding was the initial inspiration, the…
Impact Investing Challenge: Rural Electrification Renewable Energy
The Stanford team of social entrepreneurs who recently won the International Impact Investing Challenge with a project to expand the electrical grid in Indonesia to rural areas, a country with 18,000 islands. Worldwide, 1.3 billion people are without electricity, 84%…
Social Entrepreneurship: The International Impact Investing Challenge.
Hear about the International Impact Investing Challenge, the finalist social entrepreneurs and their projects. The founder and Director of the International Impact Investing Challenge, Jamie N. Jones, shares the background and results of this exceptional competition focused on social entrepreneurship…
Liberian Women for Peace and Social Entrepreneurs Build West African Economy
Chid Liberty, co-founder of the first Fair Trade factory in Africa, shares the impact social entrepreneurship has made on Western Africa’s economy. Liberia has been a country torn by civil war until a group of women for peace ended it…
Solution for Afghanistan War and Terrorism: Education and Jobs.
Hassina Sherjan speaks about education and creating jobs in Afghanistan to resolve war and its scars. A native Afghan, Hassina Sherjan educates not only women in Afghanistan but also boys in order to help end terrorism, rebuild the economy and…
What Is Extreme Poverty and What Microfinance Does to End It.
Microfinance helps end extreme poverty, the greatest violence against mankind. The Bottom Billion Fund provides money for micro loans through microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in countries where a large portion of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day.…
World Bank Reports on Millennium Goal to End Extreme Poverty
Hear how you can participate and how microfinance is reaching the bottom billion to help eradicate extreme poverty. See below for the 7 actions you, personally, can take. In 2000, The United Nations set 8 Millennium Goals, the first of…
Fight Extreme Poverty: Bring Light on Earth Day with Unite-to-Light
Listen to how Unite-to-Light is fighting extreme poverty with LED solar-powered light. Unite-to-Light, an organization founded through the collaboration of Engineers without Borders and Nobel Prize Laureate at UCSB, manufactures and distributes a small ultra-bright LED solar-powered lamp worldwide to…
Spring Cleaning Green Solutions: Prevent Mold, Disinfect, Gloves Free!
Push Play to get great Spring cleaning tips using green, planet-friendly cleaning products For this Spring clean up, take the step to use non-toxic, eco-friendly products that are equally or more effective than commonly used toxic chemicals. Planet People is…
Integrating the Green Building Council with Sustainable SITES Initiative.
Hear how your own backyard can become a place of your own desires while staying in balance with the surrounding ecology and costing you less time and energy. The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) promotes sustainable land development and management practices…
LEED Green Building: Energy Solution for the Planet.
Hear about LEED accredited green construction and state of the art energy solutions. Dennis Allen of Allen Associates shares his 30 years of green building experience to share the state-of-the-art technologies used in green construction. The greatest demand on energy…
Social Impact Investing, Blended Values and Economic Recovery.
How can Social impact investing help mend the economy? We are in the midst of economic, environmental and political global change. We exist in a window of time when past models of capitalism have experienced severe market recessions and when…
Social Impact Measurement: Cloud Technology Solutions
The ability to track and measure social impact is critical as social impact investing grows in its ability to compete with traditional investments. App-X, a B-Corporation in Colorado, has developed two cloud-computing solutions, PULSE and AIM, to help track criteria,…
July’s Socially Conscious Investing Episodes
I am embarrassed to admit that July got away from me so fast. On a personal note, I’ve been moving my college aged kids and my own office, and it threw me off my timing. As a result, blog posts…
ASK Provides Education for the Maasai.
Teri Gabrielsen, the founder of is interviewed on Socially Conscious Investing online radio. This is a particularly inspiring episode that addresses the Maasai children’s academic education as well as on healthy living, environmental sustainability, animal & wildlife conservation, and cultural…
California Coast Venture Forum Featured on Socially Conscious Investing
June 29, 2011, California Coast Venture Forum‘s (CCVF) founder, Jerry Knotts is interviewed on Socially Conscious Investing online radio. CCVF hosts the annual Clean Business Investment Forum (CBIS), this year at Corwin Pavilion at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)…
Beauty of Water on Socially Conscious Investing
Socially Conscious Investing features Beauty of Water today, June 22, 2011. Because Socially Conscious Investing online radio’s goal is to address the myriad of ways people can contribute to the betterment of the planet, we decided to include the arts.…
Up From the Dust
An international speaker and crisis communications professional, Mary Schnack, is interviewed on Socially Conscious Investing about Up From The Dust, a socially responsible business that supports women entrepreneurs internationally. “Up From the Dust is my passion business,” explains Mary, “because…
Safewater International on Socially Conscious Investing
Safewater International works to reach some of the most difficult populations of people living in extreme poverty to provide them with clean water. Safe drinking water is critical to people living in such conditions because illness due to the bacteria…
Fabric Of Life Saves Girls and Women from Lives of Despair in Poverty.
Socially Conscious Investing online radio interviews Carol Schillios, the founder of Fabric of Life, this week. The organization’s work facilitates microlending, education and health care in the developing world. Fabric Of Life was born from the Schillios Development Foundation, formed…
The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive
My interview on Wednesday, May 18, with Mr. David Neff and Mr. Randal Moss, authors of The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive in the Digital Age, on my new online radio show Socially Conscious Investing confirmed much of my…
The Eleos Foundation: For-Profit Investments in the Developing World
This week on Socially Conscious Investing, Andy Lower of The Eleos Foundation is interviewed on Wednesday, May 11. The Eleos Foundation is an organization dedicated to catalyzing capital in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty with compassion and effectiveness. Following…
