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Mobile ads that are actually fun? Gamewheel is on it

Let’s face it: We’re all on our phones more often than we’d like to admit. A company that has fully embraced this fact is Gamewheel, a new advertising tool that allows businesses to use mobile games as a way to promote their products. Gamewheel takes advertising to the next level, with the interactive game ad […]
Doing Good: Siobhan Kelley of Last Mile Health

Statistics show that about 1 billion people around the world go their entire lives without access to basic health care because they live too far from medical facilities. Diligently trying to improve those odds is Siobhan Kelley, communications manager at Last Mile Health, a nonprofit committed to providing access to health care in the world’s […]
Making the world ‘one step smaller’ with homemade spaghetti sauce

For Chris Schembra, it all started with a homemade pasta sauce. Back in 2015, after returning to New York from staging a play in Italy, Schembra spontaneously tried out a new recipe. He then invited 15 close friends to gather around his dinner table and test it out. “They liked the sauce, and they liked […]
Doing Good: Nancy Hunt of We Are Family Foundation

When Nile Rodgers wrote “We Are Family” for Sister Sledge in the 1970s, he never imagined that it would inspire a nonprofit organization more than 20 years later. But it did just that: it helped convince Rodgers and significant other Nancy Hunt to found the We Are Family Foundation after the 9/11 attacks. “After 9/11, we got together […]
Side Hustle: Alex Wong lives his ‘Fast and Furious’ dreams

 Alex Wong grew up drag racing “Fast and Furious style” on the streets of his native Philippines, feeling the wind whip across his face and a full-body adrenaline rush. Soon he found an enclave of like-minded racers to compete against. “The thrill was in the unpredictability of the outcome,” Wong says. “People with more money, […]
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Doing Good: Tiffany Zapico of The Literacy Trust

Tiffany Zapico is troubled by the fact that 20 percent of high school graduates cannot read their own diplomas. Even worse, about 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a fifth grade level. “As a teacher myself,” says Zapico, “I really knew the importance of students learning how to read and providing professional […]
Too hot? Too cold? Comfy aims to end the battle over the thermostat

It’s summer, which means the battle over the thermostat is raging in offices across the country. Are you in that corner of the office where the air conditioning never seems to reach? Or sit right under the vent that pours out cold air? If you could control the thermostat, things would be different. Now you […]
Whole Whale’s goal? Using technology to boost nonprofits

When George Weiner left his position as chief technology officer at DoSomething.org, he realized that it was a risky move. But he wasn’t intimidated—the idea of accomplishing something big that could benefit others quelled any sense of fear. “I saw a need in the world that I could meet, and knew I would never get […]
Doing Good: Chymeka Olfonse of BUILD: NYC

Chymeka Olfonse has always been passionate about education. So when she was offered a job at an organization that helps students start their own businesses, she jumped at the chance. “It was key for me to be in a place that allows for the startup experience and space to be creative and build something from […]