#plugintodevin - Your Mark on the World with Devin Thorpe

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Jaclyn Lindsey knows more about kindness than any living human.

Her organization, Kindness.org, seeks to be the singular authority on kindness, including scientific research on the benefits and results of kindness.

Her goal is to catalyze more kindness everywhere. Her theory of change concludes that all social problems--even environmental problems--can be positively impacted by greater kindness.

Be sure to watch the full interview with Jaclyn in the player at the top of this article.

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Stephen McKeon joined us to talk about security tokens. As the chief strategy advisor for Security Token Academy, he is an expert in the issuance of security tokens.

Stephen explains that security tokens are digital securities, built on blockchain technology.

The advantages of security tokens include the ability to trade them more efficiently than traditional securities because they incorporate security, including a universally accepted record of ownership such that even after lots of trading, everyone agrees on who owns the securties.

The market around security tokens really only began to develop about two years ago but it is accelerating quickly now as the use case for blockchain technology for trading securities really works.

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Dr. Heidi Stieglitz Ham, an expert in cognitive psychology with a focus on autism, is working to put adults on the autism spectrum in greater control of their lives. The nonprofit she founded, Spectrum Fusion, works to help provide meaningful, strategic connections to people who often feel isolated and alone.

She calls the experience a Reactor Room. By working with an adult on the spectrum to identify a dream, goal, business idea or creative desire, the organization builds a team of reactors to hear and react to the idea.

The reactors, as the audience members are called, then work to help the individual develop or refine a plan to bring the vision into reality. The exercise serves to transform lives both by helping the individual to realize their full potential and by connecting them with a community of support so they are no longer isolated.

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Novica is delivering handmade items from artisans around the world to customers here in the United States. This has enabled them to send almost $90 million to those producers in the developed world, creating a sustainable model and impact on diverse communites around the globe.

The business started with a focus on serving the artisans. The company operates offices scattered around the globe to provide a presence that allows locals to have direct access to an affluent market.

Founder Roberto Milk partnered with National Geographic to launch Novica. The partnership continues today.

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Impact Shares is an innovative nonprofit financial firm that has created several exchange traded funds or ETFs that ordinary investors to easily purchase in their existing stock portfolios.

I am so excited about this opportunity I intend to add these to my personal investment portfolio. While my purchases will be small, I’ll wait a few days before I make my investments to avoid any suggestion of front-running--a serious Wall Street “no-no.”

The funds are designed to align with specific development goals. The mission of each fund is developed in partnership with a nonprofit working on that issue area.

Impact Shares has issued exchanged traded funds in collaboration with The NAACP Minority Empowerment ETF (Ticker: NACP), the YWCA Women’s Empowerment (Ticker: WOMN) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Ticker: SDGA).

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Arlene Cogen, author, certified financial planner and philanthropy consultant, joined me to discuss her three tips for better philanthropy. She suggests working with your advisor to find a simple way to endow a gift--and to lead by example. Be sure to tune in the hear all her great advice.

The following is the pre-interview with Arlene Cogen, CFP. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above. She provides three tips for being a better philanthropist.

Tip 1: Work with your advisor - comprehensive plan

Tip 2: Endow a gift - make a gift you never imagined.

Tip 3: Lead by example

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Paula Froehle, co-founder and CEO of Chicago Media Project, joined me to discuss the organization’s work. The group starts as an angel investor group for documentary film but it doesn’t stop there. The group also helps to drive innovation in the field and hosts both public and member-only events.

The following is the pre-interview with Paula Froehle. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.

For-profit/Nonprofit: Both- our ecosystem includes CMP the nonprofit & CMP Invest/Impact, our for-profit equity fund.

Revenue model: We are funded by member donations. We have revenue-generating events like Doc10 that supplement.

Scale: We have 55+ members. 4 staff. We have provided $4.5 million in funding support for documentary films.

What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?

We support media to power social change.

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Isabelle Hau, a former investment banker at Morgan Stanley (where I originally met her more than a decade ago), now serves as the investment partner for US Education at Omidyar Network. She joined me to discuss a recent report showing the importance of educational intervention at a remarkably early age.

Beginning at 18 months, researchers can identify vocabulary differences in children raised by parents with a college education compared with those who are not. By age five, when children start kindergarten, the difference can be almost too great to overcome.

Children who are not reading and speaking on grade level by the third grade are shown to face greater challenges throughout their lives.

Hau sees an opportunity to invest in children before they start school to level the playing field and give every child an equal opportunity at success in life.

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Mark Durstewitz, the vice president and creative director for MadElf Arts and Education, discovered the power of music to spread a message when he wrote a rock musical about divorce that resonated with audiences.

Or the past two decades, he’s been applying his skills to create and share a musical that encourages discussion about the environment. The story is about a farm sitting atop the last clean, freshwater aquifer and the intrigue around the fight over it.

By sharing the musical in schools, he’s helping the next generation to develop skills in understanding and discussion difficult environmental issues.

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John Kluge, 35, founder and managing director for the Refugee Investment Network or the RIN, created this matchmaking service between impact investors and impact actors in the refugee space with a key group of people in mind: the 70 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world.

With refugees spending an average of 26 years in camps, he says, this is a global crisis that is growing. Millions of refugees were born in camps and have never lived anywhere else. Without a change in current trends, the number of refugees globally could approach the current population of the United States by 2030.

“If you're displaced for decades and you are not allowed to work and not allowed to move freely (as is the case for millions of refugees and displaced people around the world), you are not living. You are surviving,” Kluge says, noting that he sees this as a social justice issue.

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