Projects by Social Entrepreneurs and Social Business Owners

Client Projects

My clients are working on many exciting projects that I would love to share with you. Here are some of the social entrepreneurs, social business owners, nonprofit leaders, and activists whose projects I have been honored to assist. I hope these examples inspire you to launch your own social entrepreneurship project. Please let me know if I can help.

Amy Wilson	Grameen Shakti Amy is director of the U.S. Liaison Office for Grameen Shakti, a social business in Bangladesh that combats global warming and deforestation by installing home solar systems, improved cookstoves, and biogas plants in impoverished, rural areas, using microlending to make these technologies affordable, and training local women to install and maintain them. "As one of the lowest-lying countries in the world," Amy notes, "Bangladesh is already suffering from complications related to climate change -- an increasing intensity and frequency of floods, cyclones, and other natural disasters. Grameen Shakti is actively working to reduce Bangladesh's impact on our changing climate." Amy's mission is to to catalyze awareness and action around the issue of climate change, in Bangladesh and around the world.
Steven Van Yoder	Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship Steve is the founder of the Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship (GIVE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to addressing global poverty. He's also the author of Get Slightly Famous, and a PR and marketing consultant. Steve asserts, "I've traveled enough to know that even in a time of growing prosperity for the developed world, much of the world is being left behind. The gap between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' is widening. I believe that teaching entrepreneurship and small business marketing skills to people in the developing world can alleviate many of the world's problems." GIVE helps people help themselves by sponsoring social entrepreneurship ventures and micro-enterprise projects around the world.
Joan Friedlander	Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease Joan is an advocate for women who are continuing their careers in the face of ongoing health challenges. She is the author of Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend and writes a blog on the same topic. Joan and her co-author Rosalind Joffe know this territory first-hand. Joan lives and works with Crohn's disease and Rosalind has multiple sclerosis. Joan explains, "One of the challenges women with chronic illness face are the not-so-subtle messages from others that they should stop working so they can conserve their energy to care for their families. But we feel that working is a good thing. It provides us with an outlet for creative expression, a sense of contribution, less attention on pain, and financial independence."
Breeze Carlile, CPCC	It's a Breeze Moving and Organizing Breeze is a professional organizer who manages residential relocations for people with large homes. Her commitment to helping people in need and protecting the environment led her to include making donations in the service she offers her clients. "In the average American's home, there are enough unwanted and unused items to equip a small village," Breeze observes. "To the owner, these items are clutter that gets in the way of living their lives. But as donations to people who need them, those same items can become a suit to wear to a job interview, or kitchenware for a home of their own." Breeze helps her clients identify everything in their homes they no longer use, then donates these items to charities that desperately need them.
Nina Ham, CPCC, LCSW	Berkeley Community Peace Labyrinth Nina is leading a group of volunteers to construct a peace labyrinth in the Berkeley Marina. Nina explains: "Labyrinths are ancient patterns found in many cultures around the world. They are not designed for you to lose your way, but rather to help you find it. Walking the labyrinth is an increasingly popular activity in which people often experience centering and calming. Many find that walking the labyrinth, individually and in community, offers a powerful way to ground our peace and justice work in the world." Gaining approval for this project has been labyrinthine in itself, but Nina has kept at it. Construction of the labyrinth has been approved by the Berkeley City Council and Nina's team is now raising funds.