PineMark is to you and me what LEED is to buildings: a certification of sustainability. PineMark founders Joe Magee and Lauren de los Santos are incentivizing and rewarding individuals for their green lifestyles and educating them along the way. I spoke with Joe, who shares a commonality with many entrepreneurs. He left his comfortable seat […]
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How Soap Hope is Giving Away All Profits for a Year and Growing 25% Monthly–With Salah Boukadoum
Even the best cause marketing campaigns and employee volunteer programs don’t give your company the social mission necessary to distinguish it in the eyes of competitors, potential employees and investors. Still, these initiatives are terrific tools that I fully encourage you to use, which is why I invite experts here to teach them. However, if […]
Why More Money is Made on Environmentally Astute Companies–with Carsten Henningsen
Portfolio 21 Investments, a mutual fund that invests in ecologically sustainable companies, was founded by a man who received two shares of Mattel Toys as a boy and explored the world at large as a young man. Pairing his interests in finance and social good, Carsten Henningsen founded Portfolio 21 in 1982. The firm is stringent […]
Building a Bank that Advises Muhammad Yunus and Bill Clinton–With ShoreBank’s Brian Berg
When Muhammad Yunus set about creating Grameen Bank in 1983 he asked ShoreBank for launch advice and help raising capital. By then ShoreBank had already been busy for the last 10 years revitalizing urban communities on Chicago’s South Side by funding development projects and providing small business and home loans to under-served, low to moderate income populations. Founded in 1973, ShoreBank […]
The Accidental Niche: How GiveForward’s Fundraising Platform Attracted an Untapped Audience–With Desiree Vargas
In March 2009 Amy Cowin raised $32,000 through a personal fundraising page to pay for an operation to remove one of her kidneys and donate it to her sister Jessica. This is not Amy and Jessica’s story. It’s the story of GiveForward.org–the idea and technology that enabled this operation and hundreds of others like it. […]
How Doing Good and Belly Fat Ads Relate–with Faisal Sethi
Doing nothing changes everything. It’s a bit hyperbolic admits Faisal Sethi, but it gets people thinking about how they can leverage their regular actions and routines for good. Sethi is the co-founder of DoGood Headquarters, a new startup out of Ottawa. DoGood Headquarters is virtual factory of online solutions that have a social impact in […]
This Online Bake Sale Makes Cookies Even Sweeter by Donating 15% of Every Purchase
Author’s note: Baking for Good was recently featured as a gift that gives back on iGiveTwice, an awareness campaign I started to encourage people to choose gifts that have a social benefit. Ask Emily Dubner what her company, Baking for Good, is and she’ll explain how it’s an online gift giving site, online bakery and […]
Why Pangea Organics Founder Joshua Onysko Thinks ‘Sustainability’ is for Slackers
Right-click to download the audio. Joshua Onysko dropped out of high school at age 16, vagabonded from Hong Kong to the Yukon, made a batch of soap with his mother one afternoon as a curiosity and founded Pangea Organics, a leading manufacturer of organic, hand-crafted and cruelty-free skincare products in 2000 at aged 23. Nine […]
The Paul Newman Way to Buy Office Supplies: The ‘Give Something Back’ Story
Give Something Back, an office supply company with an unusual business model, won two accolades from Inc. Magazine in the same year; it was billed as one of the country’s fastest growing companies and lampooned as the worst corporate name in America. I spoke with Give Something Back’s Mike Hannigan about a new set of […]
I'm Olivia Khalili. I created Cause Capitalism to show you how to grow your business by incorporating a social mission. I've worked extensively with both nonprofits and for-profits. I found that when you combine the two, you grow your profits, impassion all your stakeholders and do good in the world. Read more.
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