The Dollar And Difference Show

  Can social media be used as an effective way to help those in need and make the world a better place?  This week we --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Josh recaps the conversation with Amy McLaren and highlights several key takeaways:  

Amy McLaren is a full time teacher as well as being the co-founder of the canadian charity

Kyle Fitzgerald is the Founder of Life Equals, a social venture the sells premium vitamins and supplements to help nourish consumers as well as those in need around the world.  Lack of nutrients causes 1 in every 3 child deaths and affects over 2 billion people worldwide.  Life Equals allows some of the over 140 million Americans who use vitamins every day to play a part to help solve this problem.  Life Equals is the only vitamin company that has a one-for-one giving model.  That means that for every one vitamin sold, they give donate one children’s multivitamin to u --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

This week we focus on an area of social entrepreneurship that Social Change Nation is very passionate about: Urban Innovation.   Our first i --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

A MUST LISTEN interview with social entrepreneur and change agent Jared Angaza.   Jared is a philosopher, humanitarian, writer, and strategist --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Listen to our interview with native Kansas Citian and fellow Jayhawk, Andrew Stanley.  Andrew is the founder of VolunteerMark,  a social enterprise designed to enhance t --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

“Everything that we know is broken, and we have to start from scratch.”  That is the challenging conviction of Jason Green, the Chief Inspiration Officer and Founder of EdenWorks.  Jason founded EdenWorks as a way to bring innovation to the food industry through disruptive change.  EdenWorks is a for profit organization that is leading the urban agriculture movement --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Listen in to our FIRST EVER IN STUDIO INTERVIEW as we talk IN PERSON with the founder of Bella Minds, Jenn Shaw.  Bella Minds is a for-profit social enterprise --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Looking to add a new revenue stream help fund your Nonprofit or Social Enterprise? Try becoming a blimpies franchisee.  

Still feeling sluggish after all of that turkey over Thanksgiving? Then listen to our Podcast full of inspiration from Charlie Rose, Senior VP and Dean of City Year.  City Year is a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting young adults engaged in national service.  Charlie and City Year participants work improve education in urban areas and to bridge the gap between what schools and teacher --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

This Podcast is all about the best ways to FUND YOUR SOCIAL VENTURE.  Listen in to  gain  expert insight and learn the best practices to raise capital from legitimate investors from our guest Tristina Sinopoli.  Tristina works with the SVX (Social Venture Connection) which is a division of the MaRS Center for Impact Investing in Toronto, Canada.   There are 23 ventures on the SVX platform that are actively raising --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

In 2012, Rose Broome walked buy a homeless woman sleeping on a San Francisco street on a winter night and wanted to do something to help.  She thought, “in a world where I can take out my phone and order food or get a taxi with the push of a button, why can’t I use my phone to help this person?”  Rose decided to create a solution to that problem with her tech company HandUP.  The company leverages technology and the power of human relationships to fight urban poverty by connec --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Voices of Social Change crosses the pond to connect with Richard Morris of The Giving Machine in the UK.  

Listen this week to hear how Johnny Price flips the lending industry on its head as the Senior Director at Kiva Zip.  Kiva Zip is a microfinancing nonprofit or --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Build yourself while building your business.  This is the message of Megan McDonough of OCEAN Accelerator; the nation's first and only independent faith based high tech business ac --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Ari Raz feeds off his passion for food and nutrition as he runs his social venture that feeds those in need.  Pure Joy Foods was founding in February and is dedicated to delivering high quality nutritious food to as many young children as possible, whether or not their families can afford it.  As of now, they primarily focus on premium organic baby food, but hope to grow into providing different food products as their customers mature.  Azi sheds light on the nutritional issues facing children in the United States.  22 million ch --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Oliver Kamandan gives us some good news about social entrepreneurship as he shares about his social venture Ideal Impact!   This chat with Oliver is the second in our series featuring entrep --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Be sure to take notes as you listen to Diana Sierra share how she used her background in product design to start the social enterprise Be Girl Pads.  As the first in a series of intervie --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Listen in as we hear from the founder of MADI Apparel and native Kansas Citian, Hayley Beshee.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support