#plugintodevin - Your Mark on the World with Devin Thorpe

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Piyush Jain and his wife Khushboo Jain always wanted to be entrepreneurs. Four years ago, they saw the need they could fill, helping to organize crowdfunding campaigns for social needs in their country of India.

Preliminary Interview with Khushboo Jain, the Co-Founder and COO of Impact Guru Technology Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

What is the purpose of your crowdfunding site?

● The ability to impact 100,000 lives, mobilize the business to over 1.3 billion Rupees across 15 countries and train over 1,000 nonprofits to crowdfund is our greatest accomplishment.

● ImpactGuru.com is on a mission to make healthcare accessible to all and save more lives. We aim to raise crowdfunding awareness among hospitals, doctors, medical practitioners and build partnerships with healthcare startups. This community can thereby empower thousands of patients with the funds they need.

● A dedicated crowdfunding helpdesk service next to the billing department at hospitals will help us increase the level of awareness of medical crowdfunding solutions as they refer their patients to us - particularly cancer, transplant, and pediatric cases.

● Say in a decade from now, we hope for crowdfunding to become mainstream and be easily accessed by anyone in India. We hope we can continue to help individuals raise medical treatment costs and aid NGOs with project-based financial support to eradicate poverty, educate our children, empower girls and women and support other causes.

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When Carolynn Cameron was prevented from adopting a child in Uganda by a change in the law, she quickly shifted her focus and found another way to serve the people there.

Cameron, a volunteer leader at Cherysh America Foundation, recently raised $50,000 to deploy an advanced, solar-powered microgrid at an orphanage there. The system is designed to be safe and sustainable for many years.

She raised the money on CaringCrowd, a global health crowdfunding site sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Every project is screened by a panel of experts to confirm that each will have an impact on global health. The site is made available as a public service; J&J derives no revenue from projects funded on the site.

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Daniella Jacques has recognized from her earliest memories that women face challenges in the world that men don’t face, don’t understand and seem not to care about. Women are often not even in the room when men do talk about their issues.

She says it is time that women were part of the discussion. She launched Women’s Dophen News to be a platform for news relevant to women, not only in Haiti but around the world. She is already publishing in four languages, Haitian Creole, French, Spanish and English.

My take: Daniella Jacques will change the world and her name will become very familiar.

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CaringCrowd, proudly sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, is a sponsor of the Your Mark on the World Center and GoodCrowd.info.

Italian architect Arturo Vittori is creating beautiful structures that collect the humidity from the air to provide clean drinking water to communities that lack it. His organization, Warka Water, is working in developing countries around the world to change lives and improve global health.

Warka Water has successfully raised money via crowdfunding on CaringCrowd, a global health-oriented crowdfunding site proudly sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.

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Many people living paycheck to paycheck fall into a financial tailspin for lack of $500 or $1,000. A desperately needed but unanticipated car repair is enough to start a family on a collision course with financial ruin.

PayDay loans are so expensive that customers often end up simply revolving the balance for months, paying weekly or bi-weekly fees to renew the loan and over the course of a year end up paying multiples of the original loan principal--sometimes without ever paying off the loan.

Ennie Lim at HoneyBee developed an alternative. Let people borrow against their accrued paid time off--PTO. This virtually eliminates the risk for the lender and allows the loan to be made for a single 5 percent origination fee.

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“The humanitarian flag that we had been waving was a privilege that we could no longer afford,” Sera Bonds, 44, says as her board and staff at Circle of Health International decided to increase their activism for women’s rights following the 2016 election.

Activism is in her blood. As a teenager in 1992, with her parents, she attended a National Organization for Women march in Washington, DC. “There was one issue in our family that was abortion and both my parents were very pro-choice,” she explains.

But when she launched the nonprofit, one of her early lessons was that she would have to choose between leading a humanitarian organization or human rights organization.

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Rick Ulfik, the founder and board chair of We, The World, says the impact of organizations acting independently is limited. He argues for active collaboration among the world’s leading NGOs so they can have greater impact.

He says organizations working alone have “horizontal impact” but when they work together they have “vertical impact.” He observes too much of the former and not enough of the latter.

Coming up in September, We, the World is leading an event it calls 11 Days of Global Unity, part of an ongoing series, focused on bringing organizations together to tackle the world’s big problems collaboratively and strategically.

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Built around the premise that it should be easy to donate your car, boat or RV to a charity, the iDonate donor engagement platform has become a full service product suite to help nonprofits make donations easier for their donors.

Preliminary Interview with Ray Gary, the CEO of iDonate.

The following is a brief pre-interview that provides context for the recorded interview you may watch or listen to at the top of this article.

Crowdfunding page:

What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?

iDonate was born out of a higher call to unlock giving potential and make nonprofit operations easier and more effective. We were inspired to make it possible and easy to give out of cash and out of wealth, using both vehicles to help move the 2 percent.

We invented the world’s first noncash gateway where we electronically process vehicles, boats, stock, and many unique assets such as grain and collectibles – even llamas!!! To date, we’ve processed millions in noncash donations for many different causes.

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Monica Kang is an expert on creativity and passionate about solving the world’s big problems. She shares how to be more creative in her new book, Rethink Creativity.

Interview with Monica Kang, the Founder & CEO of InnovatorsBox.

The following is the pre-interview with Monica Kang. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.

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

Making creative thinking accessible and relatable for all. 87% of the global workforce believes that they cannot be creative and feel stuck at work. We want to change this narrative and show how you can live your full potential.

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Echoing Green has been investing in social entrepreneurs and innovation for nearly three decades. One lesson stands out, says President Cheryl Dorsey: “The leader is the secret sauce of any great social enterprise.”

Throughout its history, Echoing Green has been granting fellowships to innovators who had little more than an idea to change the world. Its accumulated data suggests it’s working.

The nonprofit organization approaches its grantmaking with the mentality of a venture fund, seeking to invest in leaders who will have a big impact. Since 1987, the organization has backed 798 “fellows” who have done work in 85 countries and 39 US states. Those fellows and their organizations have gone on to raise over $5 billion.

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Check out my free webinar where I share the secrets of successful nonprofit crowdfunding at http://crowdfundingforsocialgood.org.