Berlin Kelly remembers reaching her breaking point. The founder of Proud Pour was hurrying from New York to Boston with 638 oyster shells in two bags slung over her shoulders. While running down the steps in Penn Station with only minutes to catch her train, the bags ripped open and shells flew everywhere. On the […]

About 13 years ago, three students at Mexico City’s Universidad Marista took courses that opened their eyes to social injustice in Mexico and Central America. That was when they decided to build something greater than themselves. After college, Miguel Ángel Rosales and his friends Gustavo Aguiñaga and Edgar Hernández founded Opus Comunicación, a multimedia company […]

 Growing up in London, Roya Elghanian was itching to get a passport so she could travel around the world. When she finally got one, she embarked on a six-month backpacking trip through South America and Southeast Asia. As she learned about new cultures, she wanted to help those in need. But she struggled to find […]

When they’re stuck in jail without being able to post bail, crime suspects are nine times more likely to plead guilty and leave with a record. That statistic is one of the things that motivates activist Rachel Foran. “I knew I wanted to do social justice work around the criminal justice reform,” says Rachel Foran. […]

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 […]