Business Owners Supporting Social Impact

Social Good for BOSSI Women By: Marin McCue | dope(a)me   Do I do enough good? Am I creating a positive impact in this world? What regrets do I want to avoid sitting with on my deathbed? These are questions that float through my mind on a daily basis. I run a...

Business Purpose: Your Roadmap to Consistency By: Lisa Genovese | BottomLine   What is organizational purpose? Well, in a nutshell, If you have four people in a canoe rowing in different directions, you’re going nowhere. It’s a simple but effective analogy that...

I am on a mission to fight the tiny but mighty synthetic scents floating around in the air, to end toxic invasions of lungs and to empower others to have healthy and beautifully smelling bodies and homes.

How Much Money Did You Lose Today Wasting Food? Part 1 By: Carol Baghdadi | Revive Land Group Getting food from the farm to our forks eats up a lot of energy and resources and yet we manage to waste almost 40% of it, cause methane emissions in landfills and eventually...

Social Impact Needs You Too By: Briana Loughlin | Plastic Free YYC We live in a very interesting world these days. Everything moves at the speed of light and if it doesn’t, we deem it as broken. We exist within a digital world holding a plethora of information, an...

Small Details, Big Difference By: Mercedes Eustergerling |  Vida Health & Wellness   Business owners make a lot of decisions. One of the reasons why we’re entrepreneurs is so we can have that decision-making authority to do things our way. We’ve seen the impact of...

A Warrior's Way of Defining Success By: Shelley Hayes | Empowerment Inc.   My career and passions have always been focused on empowering women and teens in various forms. I started by teaching sex education, working with those living with HIV and doing LGBTQ advocacy...

Changing Pet Training – For Good. By: Megan Stanley | Dogma Training Today’s part of my story began when a young black dog came into my life. He was the first dog I adopted as an adult and became my guide on the incredible journey of opening dogma. I had no idea how...

How to Start a Social Enterprise By: Miranda Mantey  November 14th, 2013, six youth from inner city Halifax pitched their business to the “dragons” on the hit Canadian show, Dragon’s Den. The youth, all looking to be around junior high age at the time, had stumbled...

Making A Difference Through Fitness By: Lucy Dunne |Dunnebells  Lucy Dunne founded Dunnebells after 5 + years of struggle and 35K spent on weight loss programs, trainers and empty promises that she would be able to lose the 65 lbs that she needed to. An Australian...

How to Create Social Impact Before You Become Profitable By: Shawna Curry | Health Redesigned We all love the idea of running a business that creates a big social impact. But what does that mean and how do we get there? There’s a ton of buzz words around social...