Theresa Cantafio was filling her mug with piping hot La Colombe coffee at WeWork Fulton Market when she bumped into Thomas Shipley. Neither knew that a sweet friendship was just beginning. Cantafio is in marketing and business development at Brisan, a food and beverage ingredients expert. Shipley is the senior copywriter at Quill, the giant online […]

From saving the earth to adopting animals, Allison Hauser has been involved in helping different causes since the third grade. So it’s no surprise that in 2007, she volunteered as a coach for Girls on the Run, an organization dedicated to empowering young girls. “Every session in coaching, there were moments where a face lit […]

The statistics are startling: one in five New York City public school students missed more than a month of classes last year. That’s where the Urban Arts Partnership comes in. The nonprofit targets underserved public school students with innovative in-school and after-school programs. “I was always an avid believer in the power of the arts […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 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, […]