Finding Community
Last week was a celebration of Social Enterprise in Columbus, Ohio – and it highlighted the key ingredient for any social change: community. GiveBackHack returned with their signature in-person event, and it was exciting to
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The Sustainable Innovation Lab: On Promotion
Creating the Sustainable Innovation Lab was both a scary experience and really fun. But I struggled to promote the program. Here’s What I’ve Learned On Event Promotion I posted posters around town and shared on
… and We’re Back!
Hi everyone! How has your year been? It has been quite awhile since I sent you a newsletter, and well, to be honest, I really missed sharing snippets of how we’re doing with People Helping
It’s been a year!
It’s been a year since I sent you a newsletter. A lot has happened. I think everybody universally agrees that the pandemic made for a strange year. Between People Helping People and Wild Tiger Tees,
Social Good Blueprint | Can’t Stop Us
[1] Can’t Stop Columbus Can’t Stop Columbus started a week ago as an impromptu online virtual hack-a-thon to offer support for Columbus, and since they’ve launched a series of projects to make a difference to
Social Good Blueprint | Hacking Change
[1] Hacking GiveBackHack I was invited on a planning weekend for GiveBackHack, and was blown away. Here is an organization, dedicated to helping you apply the latest technology practices to launch social enterprises, incorporating elements
Social Good Blueprint | Alleviating Poverty
[1] Wild Tiger Tees This week, Suzy Bureau of GiveBackHack, took over the People Helping People Podcast, to interview our social enterprise, Wild Tiger Tees. Suzy is such a leader in the community for social
Social Good Blueprint | Good Eats
[1] Spice It Up This week on People Helping People, Tonya Vora shared her story of building Spice Up, an event sharing stories over diversity & highlighting cultures of chefs that have been impacted by
Social Good Blueprint | Healthy Outlook
[1] Supporting Mental Health of Child Patients This week on the People Helping People Podcast, Ryan Scott shared how Bonifier is seeking to help children get better care during their journey in the hospital system.
Social Good Blueprint | A New Approach
[1] Finding True Affordable Housing In this week’s podcast, I spoke to Jerry Valentine, founder of RenterMentor – a startup using technology to connect people with affordable housing. Jerry worked in the Columbus Housing Authority
Social Good Blueprint | Blue Skies
[1] A $10 million tax cut for the planet I’ve read Patagonia’s internal struggle of becoming a billion-dollar company balancing this with their priorities as a B-Corp and socially conscious company. This year they are putting
Social Good Blueprint | Finding Home
[1] Creating Magical Social Impact with Give Back Hack This week’s podcast was with Suzy and Louisa, founders of Give Back Hack – the launchpad for social entrepreneurship. They talk about how they flipped the
Social Good Blueprint | Looking Back at 2019
[1] How [re]start Transformed Getting a Job to be About You Finding a job, securing a job, and developing a skill for a job could seem like energy-draining tasks. Thankfully, Sam Baddoo is changing the
Social Good Blueprint | Thriving Environment
[1] O2 Conference This week’s episode of People Helping People Podcast features David White, founder of the O2 Conference – it’s a platform young people in grades 6 – 12 can use to highlight a
Social Good Blueprint | Inspiring Buys
[1] ConsciousCBUS Shopping Guide Spoke with Heide Rembold on this week’s podcast – a conscious business activist here in Columbus, Ohio. She’s just released her holiday guide to purchasing conscious gifts – and I recommend checking
Social Good Blueprint | Tasty Good
[1] Seize The Good The latest People Helping People podcast is with Stephanie Page, host of a fellow social impact podcast, Seize the Good. If you need a blast of enthusiasm, and some great ideas,
Social Good Blueprint | Second-Hand Sunshine
[1] Rootstrike Labs This week on the People Helping People Podcast, we spoke with Dave Parker who has had a long career in helping non-profits develop social enterprises. Now he’s launching Rootstrike Labs to help
Social Good Blueprint | B Inspired
[1] B Inspired Patrick Pichette, former CFO of Google, argues there is evidence that Milton Friedman’s doctrine is incorrect, that it’s not the case that “There is one and only one social responsibility of business
Social Good Blueprint | Construction, Socks and Soup
[1] Brilliant Bonus I had such a great time speaking with Mariette Fourmeaux about her project Brilliance Inside, that I had to include a short bonus podcast about the courage it takes to walk the
Social Good Blueprint | Brilliance
[1] Brilliance Inside This week on the podcast, I spoke with Mariette Fourmeaux, founder of Brilliance Inside – a mission working with prison populations to heal society’s cycle of violence. She shares this journey in
Social Good Blueprint | Seize the Good
[1] Seize the Good Discovered Stephanie Page’s podcast, Seize the Good, with her enthusiasm and joy, is infectious. She’s reaching out to changemakers making a difference and making the world a better place. (Plus she
Social Good Blueprint | Turning Point
[1] Lamar Peoples: Change Through Politics The People Helping People Podcast is back up with episode 41: Lamar People: Change Through Politics. Listen in for an interesting discussion into Lamar’s experience running for office, and
Social Good Blueprint | Aspire 2019
[1] 2019 Aspire Social Entrepreneurship Awards Aspire returned for their 7th year of Central Ohio Social Entrepreneurship Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements for businesses creating social impact, hosted by Roosevelt Coffeehouse, the Metropreneur and Columbus Underground.
Social Good Blueprint | Sea Change
On Wednesday night, 6 of the 14 SEA Change teams pitched their ideas and collectively won $100,000 to take their ventures forward. It was an inspiring evening and fun to see some fellow social entrepreneurs,
Social Good Blueprint | Save The Planet
Keep your eyes open for a special edition covering the recent pitches from the 2019 Cohort of the SEA Change social entrepreneurship accelerator… this is where change is happening! [1] Business as Usual Will Not
Social Good Blueprint | Sunshine
[1] Solar Trains Riding Sunbeams, in addition to being one of the coolest company names I’ve heard in a while, is a social enterprise working to build and connect the world’s first-ever full-scale community &
Social Good Blueprint | They Noticed
[1] They Noticed Kyle Westway said it best, in his popular Weekend Briefing, that a “powerful group dropped a bombshell of a statement redefining corporate purpose to include all stakeholders and not just shareholders. […]
Social Good Blueprint | Spice Up
[1] Chef Miguel Spices It Up On Saturday night, we attended the Spice Up Inaugural dinner – an innovative dinner concept sharing stories and culture of immigrant chefs, to help build cultural ties in the
Social Good Blueprint | Ocean View
[1] Greta Thunberg Joins Movement to Clip Airline Sector’s Wings Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is sailing to the UN Climate summit… and has garnered support from others, bringing light to the environmental damage
Social Good Blueprint | Good Soup
[1] Columbus Soup Columbus Soup is an awesome live crowdfunding event. It started as a few friends getting together for soup, and pitching some money into a pot, and voting for a local cause for
Social Good Blueprint | Spice It Up
[1] Spice Up This year, at Give Back Hack, I joined a project called Spice Up – their mission to share culture over dinner, hosting dinner events that are for a small group (space is
Social Good Blueprint | Resources of Change
[1] Year Here – Testing & Building Solutions Just came across the organization Year Here which recruits fellow to tackle social issues. Go ahead and Meet The Fellows: Their Tenth Cohort of Year Here. Here
Social Good Blueprint | Magnifying Change
This week I asked myself how you go about magnifying change. What I found were groups building communities, sharing stories and looking at how people from different backgrounds can work together to solve the needs
Social Good Blueprint | It’s Getting Warmer
Are you depressed reading news about climate change and the ineptitude of government to do anything about it? Here is some refreshment with people taking other approaches to save our planet from doom. [1] Climate
Social Good Blueprint | Hacking for Good
There aren’t many movements in the world that I am die-hard passionate about, but Give Back Hack is one of them. It takes the goodness of Startup Weekend and mashes it with making a difference,
Social Good Blueprint | The Perfect Postpartum Present
I went through SEA Change in 2018 with Emily Lawrence. She’s starting a great company helping moms called Lilac Pack and I’m so excited to have her on the podcast because she’s so open about
Social Good Blueprint | Look Out 2019
I started Social Good Blueprint to examine how others are creating awesome social change… I wanted some inspiration and thought you might too. If you don’t want to miss this, you can sign up below
Social Good Blueprint | First Edition
Starting the new year with a newsletter for inspiration and some uplifting ideas to take my mind off politics. Because great stuff is happening and I want to hear about it, and I suspect you