This story is part of our 1,000 stories campaign. What’s your story? Name: Danielle Wilson Naqvi Business: The ZB Foundation, which brings newborn screening to Pakistan Industry: Health, Wellness &…
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Summer Reading: Ladies Who Launch in Hong Kong by Maseena Ziegler
…The city is structured in a way that gives the ultimate platform to anyone who wants to start a business – whether something small or a potential multi-million dollar enterprise….
‘The Future of Tech Founders Looks More Like Me’
…which span across Resilia’s nonprofit and enterprise platform, include Oxfam America and The W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Next year, she plans to launch another platform on Resilia for commercial use, which…
‘I Haven’t Had a New Pair of Underwear Literally in 4 Years’
…single and haven’t had a new pair of underwear literally in four years.” [Related: This family-run business brings quilters together] Her Business is Gonna Fly Now Naturally, Davis’s new enterprise…
This Former Military Officer Is Teaching Young Girls to Be Confident
Editor’s Note: This is part of our Good on the Ground series, profiling entrepreneurial women who are addressing social issues in innovative and inspiring ways. Dianna Flett spent 21 years…
Nyssa P. Chopra of iHeartMD: Creating Awareness About What We Eat
This story is part of our 1,000 stories campaign. What’s your story? Name: Nyssa P. Chopra Business: iHeartMD, a seller of heart healthy food products in a monthly subscription box…
This Woman Created the Uber of Legal Aid
…them fill a yawning social need: free legal assistance for low-income people. Legal aid resources are so meager, Peel says, that only about half of Chicagoans who qualify for assistance…
Candace Klein: SoMoLend
Your Name: Candace Klein Business Name: SoMoLend, a crowdfunding platform for small business loans Type of Business: Crowdfunding Business Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Reason for starting After I was…
JFK and Random Kids
There is a movement brewing among young people who are waking up to the problems around them and taking action in meaningful, effective ways. You can see it everywhere from…
Bras Free Women From Sex Trafficking
Kimba Langas, a stay-at-home-mom from surbaban Denver, Colorado, collects second hand bras for the charity she started called “Free the Girls,” donating them to young women coming out of sex…
This Fintech Entrepreneur Is Banking on Disaster. Literally.
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on entrepreneurship and student debt. Part 1 looks at the burden of student debt on would-be entrepreneurs. As a…
Lakshmi Sreenivasan: Connecting Patients to Mental Health Professionals
…objective is to provide a platform to listen to all those unheard voices, their emotional pain, traumatic stories, grief, anger, depression and fear. There is a fear of social stigma…
A Recipe for Success
…the ground in ways that business owners in other industries did not. “People would write their business plans, but then their ventures wouldn’t get launched,” Landa recalled. Related: ‘American Enterprise’…