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How Nest Is Building the Business Infrastructure the Global Artisan Economy Never Had
Rebecca Van Bergen, founder of Nest, joins Causeartist to discuss 20 years of building business and financial infrastructure for artisan and maker economies across 123...
A Causeartist Announcement
Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast.Today’s episode is a little different.After years of building Causeartist as a media platform spotlighting impact startups, f...
How Givebutter Grew From a College Dorm to $9B in Donations - Max Friedman, CEO of Givebutter
Max Friedman didn't set out to build one of the most widely used fundraising platforms in the nonprofit sector. He and his two co-founders, Ari Krasner and Leon Cohen,...
Inside Impossible Metals and the Push for Responsible Deep-Sea Mining
The technology for harvesting critical minerals from the ocean floor has barely changed since the 1960s. Big tracked vehicles.Vacuum dredges. Sediment plumes. The same...
Grove Collaborative: Impact Business Case Study
Grove Collaborative is one of the most ambitious experiments in mission-driven consumer commerce of the past decade. Founded in 2012, it started as a subscription deli...
B Corp Certification: What It Is, What It Costs, and Whether It's Worth It
B Corp certification is a third-party credential issued by B Lab, a nonprofit, that verifies a company meets defined standards of social and environmental performance,...
Tony's Chocolonely: Business Case Study
Tony's Chocolonely transformed from a Dutch journalist's investigative project into a $200+ million chocolate company by making supply chain transparency its core comp...
How AidKit Is Modernizing Aid Distribution With Technical Infrastructure
In episode 238 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, Brittany Christenson, the CEO of AidKit, shares her journey from studying applied math to leading a tech company foc...
Aspiration - The Rise and Fall: Business Case Study
Aspiration was a California-based neobank founded in 2013 that positioned itself as the sustainable alternative to traditional banking. The company built its value pro...
Thrive Market Case Study - The $1.2 Billion Company Revolutionizing Healthy Food Access
The modern retail landscape is currently defined by a structural tension between consumer demands for convenience, the escalating necessity for sustainable practices, ...
Eileen Fisher: Impact Business Case Study
Eileen Fisher is an American fashion brand founded in 1984 by designer Eileen Fisher, known for its minimalist women’s apparel and pioneering commitment to ethical and...
The Fight for Power: A New Film Investigating the Surge in Our Energy Bills
This Sundance, you’ll have the chance to experience a first look at the film’s sizzle — and to sit with other creators, funders, civic leaders, and artists wrestling w...
Meet KENT, Building Super Natural Basics Without Plastic
In a fashion industry built on shortcuts, KENT has taken the harder road on purpose.Founded by Stacy Grace, KENT is a super natural basics brand focused on one simple ...
Meet GIV Gowns: Why Patient Dignity Starts With What You Wear
Healthcare has not changed its patient attire in over a century. That is not an exaggeration. While medicine, technology, and clinical standards have advanced at a rem...
A Conversation With Kate Williams, CEO of One Percent for the Planet
For nearly 25 years, One Percent for the Planet has quietly reshaped how businesses think about responsibility, strategy, and long term stewardship. What began as a si...
From Advocacy to Innovation: Jerry Golden, Chief Policy Officer at Lyft
Transportation has always shaped how societies function. Who can move, how easily they can get from one place to another, and at what cost often determines access to w...
Causeartist Next: Nominate a Social Entrepreneur
For over a decade, Causeartist has published the annual Social Entrepreneurs to Watch list. If you know a founder building a real solution, put them on our radar.What ...
10 Ocean Conservation Startups Fighting Marine Pollution
The statistics on marine pollution are staggering: an estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans every single year, equivalent to dumping a garbage t...
Meet WYDE, the Impact Exchange Turning Trading Fees Into Nonprofit Funding - Martin Simms & Aaron Rafferty // Founders of WYDE
For decades, nonprofits have relied on the same narrow funding playbook. Donations spike at year end. Grant cycles are slow and unpredictable. Teams spend enormous tim...
8 Startups Turning Agricultural Waste into Clean Energy
The push to decarbonize the world’s energy systems now overlaps with a long standing problem: what to do with the massive amount of agricultural waste produced every y...