Non-profit
Heart Of A Servant, Mind Of An Entrepreneur
Some business ideas are not so much a plan to engineer a service that will be financially successful as a natural extension of the founder. Andrew Glantz is a great example of a person who built a business focused on service, something he has been involved in for most of his life. Andrew Glantz is…
Read MoreFelix Finkbeiner – Plant-for-the-Planet
Sparked by an elementary school project when he was nine years old, Felix Finkbeiner grew passionate about the issue of climate change and deforestation. From there, he founded his organization Plant-for-the-Planet, inviting fellow children to plant a million trees with him. They managed to hit that milestone a little more than three years later. Today,…
Read MorePlanet Pointe
Planet Pointe is a non-profit organization that up-cycles ballet dancers’ “dead” pointe shoes. Dancers donate their old shoes and Planet Pointe creates pouches and bags out of the satin materials. Planet Pointe has 15 drop-off locations at dance studios and stores around the United States. Dancers can donate their used pointe shoes at these locations,…
Read MoreIseult Ward – Solving a Food Crisis
In 2012 Iseult Ward, a student at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland, launched a platform dedicated to helping connect food suppliers with non-profit organizations to help cut down on unnecessary food waste. Growing up, Ward lived in a socioeconomically deprived area, which brought the issue of hunger much closer to home for her and was…
Read MoreChelsea’s Charity
In 2019, at the age of ten, Chelsea Phaire founded Chelsea’s Charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to distributing art supplies to kids who might not otherwise have access to them. It all started when she decided to forgo having an average birthday party and instead, asked all her guests to donate art supplies so she…
Read MoreEmma Yang – Timeless
Emma Yang is a Gen-Z entrepreneur and founded an app named Timeless. Timeless is an app that was created for individuals who suffer from Alzheimer’s to keep connected with loved ones in a variety of ways. Timeless uses AI to recognize faces to remind the patient of the names of individuals as well as their…
Read MoreClosing The Digital Divide
In 2019 Dylan Zajac, age 15, founded a groundbreaking non-profit called Computers For People. The theory behind Zajac’s non-profit originated from a side hustle he started early in high school where he would go to thrift stores with friends and buy used electronics for a significantly reduced, and often heavily bartered down, price and flip…
Read MoreRyan Hickman – Ryan’s Recycling Company
Ryan Hickman knew at three years of age that he was passionate about recycling and making the planet a better place. He found his calling when his father took him to a local recycling center with a few plastic bags full of plastic bottles, and recalls his excitement and fascination with the recycling center. Since…
Read MoreArchika Dogra – Innoverge
Archika Dogra is the founder of the global non-profit network Innoverge. Dogra created the first iteration of the organization as a high schooler in 2017 for her local community after recognizing an issue with the unimaginitiveness of her STEM curriculum and with how youths of differing backgrounds were unable to access equal education. Innoverge’s mission…
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