How Givebutter Grew From a College Dorm to $9B in Donations
Max Friedman didn't set out to build one of the most widely used fundraising platforms in the nonprofit
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How Givebutter Grew From a College Dorm to $9B in Donations
Max Friedman didn't set out to build one of the most widely used fundraising platforms in the nonprofit
Inside Impossible Metals and the Push for Responsible Deep-Sea Mining
Impossible Metals is building a fleet of autonomous underwater robots to harvest critical minerals from the ocean floor. CEO Oliver Gunasekara breaks down the tech, the business model, and why he thinks commercial deep sea mining is two to three years away.
How AidKit Is Modernizing Aid Distribution With Technical Infrastructure
AidKit builds the infrastructure that helps governments and nonprofits get money into the hands of people who need it, faster and with less fraud. CEO Brittany talks through the business model, the AI fraud challenge, and what the next five years look like.
Case Studies
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Grove Collaborative: Business Case Study
Funding History · 2012–2022 Grove Collaborative From Seed to Public Markets Round-by-round capital raised, cumulative funding, and SPAC IPO on
Tony's Chocolonely: Impact Business Case Study
Tony's Chocolonely transformed from a Dutch journalist's investigative project into a $200+ million chocolate company by
Aspiration: Business Case Study
Aspiration was a California-based neobank founded in 2013 that positioned itself as the sustainable alternative to traditional banking. The company
Investing in Impact
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How Ecosystem Investment Partners Turns Environmental Law into Real Assets
Nick Dilks explains how Ecosystem Investment Partners restores wetlands and streams through regulated mitigation markets, showing how private capital supports development and long term environmental restoration across the United States.
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Rehana Nathoo on the Future of Impact Investing, Catalytic Capital, and ESG
In Episode 92, Rehana Nathoo joins the show to discuss her path from development finance in East Africa to leading impact and ESG strategy at Spectrum Impact.
Inside JFFVentures, Aligning Nonprofit Mission with Venture Capital
In this conversation, JFFVentures shares how it aligns a forty-year-old nonprofit’s mission with a traditional venture capital fund to expand economic mobility for underserved communities.
Disruptors for GOOD
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How AidKit Is Modernizing Aid Distribution With Technical Infrastructure
AidKit builds the infrastructure that helps governments and nonprofits get money into the hands of people who need it, faster and with less fraud. CEO Brittany talks through the business model, the AI fraud challenge, and what the next five years look like.
A Conversation With Kate Williams, CEO of One Percent for the Planet
Kate Williams, CEO of One Percent for the Planet, shares how the organization turns business revenue into verified environmental impact, why progress matters more than perfection, and how companies can make climate action practical and nonpartisan.
From Advocacy to Innovation: Jerry Golden, Chief Policy Officer at Lyft
Lyft Chief Policy Officer Jerry Golden breaks down the policy battles shaping rideshare, what autonomous vehicles really mean for drivers, and how Lyft’s Round Up and Donate program has raised $42M for nonprofits through simple, everyday giving.
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Causeartist Weekly #314: Scaling Circularity: eBay’s $300k and UNICEF’s Blockchain Grants
From the bottom of the ocean to the edge of space, impact is scaling. This week, we dive into Impossible Metals’ robotics, Tomorrow.io’s $175M satellite constellation, and the historic policy wins in California and Ethiopia that are redefining the social enterprise landscape.
Causeartist Weekly #313: AI "Talking" to Wildlife 🦒 + Building a Home in 30 Days
Hey friends, Welcome to this week's edition. We are looking at the "unsolvable" problems, from the
Causeartist Weekly #312: Japan’s Impact Boom + Why Micro-Drones are the New Bees 🐝
Hey friends, This week is all about infrastructure for permanence, how we swap throwaway habits, extractive finance, and fragile systems
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How Givebutter Grew From a College Dorm to $9B in Donations
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Causeartist Weekly #314: Scaling Circularity: eBay’s $300k and UNICEF’s Blockchain Grants
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Inside Impossible Metals and the Push for Responsible Deep-Sea Mining
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Grove Collaborative: Business Case Study
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Causeartist Weekly #313: AI "Talking" to Wildlife 🦒 + Building a Home in 30 Days
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B Corp Certification: What It Is, What It Costs, and Whether It's Worth It
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Causeartist Weekly #312: Japan’s Impact Boom + Why Micro-Drones are the New Bees 🐝
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Causeartist Weekly #311: Ethical Chocolate, Clean Energy AI, and Sustainable Farm Grants
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What Is Waste-to-Energy? Definition, Methods, and Impact
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How AidKit Is Modernizing Aid Distribution With Technical Infrastructure
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Inside Lupus Ventures and the Push to Fund Cures First
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Tony's Chocolonely: Impact Business Case Study
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