Every year, more than 200,000 men and women leave military service—and many of them step into a civilian world that doesn’t quite know what to do with the skills they carry.

How do you convert years of discipline, adaptability, and technical expertise into a résumé that makes sense outside the military?

James Gillen with HIre Heroes USA explains how his organization helps over 14,000 veterans and military spouses each year to find meaningful jobs in the workforce - with over 110,000 confirmed hires and $970 million dollars of economic impact on communities.

They are looking for:

• Corporate partners who are looking for a capable talent pipeline to consider a veteran. Checkout  www.hireheroesusa.org to connect with their partnership team.

• Professionals who are willing to hold mock interviews in their areas of expertise.

• Those looking for incredible talent

15% increase in earning potential and 20% increase in college attendance - that’s what Big Brothers Big Sisters of America can do for kids through their youth mentorship programs - and are celebrating 120 years of service!

Their recent campaign, partnering with Macy’s, has raised $13 million to propel their mission of providing free life-changing mentoring services to the youth who need it most in this country.

And was awarded the Engage for Good Halo Award for best Cause Marketing Initiative of the year.

Of course, every nonprofit wishes for great corporate partners like this. How do you develop those kinds of relationships? How do you make the most of them? Adam Marquez, Senior Director, Cause Marketing at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, shares his expert insights.

Allies he needs right now:

• Youth mentors are always needed

• Partners in policy change to expand mentoring resources

• Influencers and media partners to share their story

• Corporate partners to reach more children

  
  

  Visit BeBigNow.org to learn how you can get involved.

Want your story to be shared far and wide and influence more people? Don’t make it about you. Ditch the sales pitch. Content that authentically inspires, entertains, and educates wins.

In this episode, I talk with my co-conspirators for good, Zach and Bryce from ISSIMO - our first Team-cast, where we riff on the topic of content that is about giving value vs. taking.

We give the recipe for creating content that people actually want to share and rally around.

There’s a 4 trillion funding gap to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.

 It’s simply unattainable through philanthropy or overseas development aid. Institutional investors, who sit on the largest pile of capital in the economy, are mostly sitting on the sidelines.

Chris Kuchanny with Impactable Group has come up with a solution making it possible for institutional investors to deploy capital at scale in emerging markets with impact.

They are co-investing and piggybacking existing due diligence (adding their own) and aggregating smaller opportunities into institutional sized investments in private debt.

Emerging market private debt - most people expect a loss of 20% or 60%. It’s actually 1% - and that’s based on 20 years and 70,000 data points from all of the MDB’s and DFI’s across the GEMS Database - that's lower loss given defaults than senior secured debt investment. The highest grade corporate debt investment in the US and Europe equivalent and slightly lower.

Built from the beginning for institutional investment:Market rate returns

• Low risk

• Scalable

• Impact

Allies he needs right now:

• Partners to help with their YEM private debt story

•  Professional investors in emerging market, private debt, to join their network

• LP’s who are willing to take the time to understand their innovative approach

• Philanthropic capital where they have a sliver that can at least 10x impact in scaling emerging market impact investment.

70 million Americans deal with mobility challenges.

Of individuals surveyed, the biggest pain point was actually the kitchen.

As a college student and entrepreneur, Joseph Garcia with MOBI, is working to provide a safe, affordable way for those in a wheelchair to have full independence in their home to cook for themselves without having to remodel their home.

Winner of the Do Good. Better. Conference at the BYU Ballard Center for Social Impact.

“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”

― Amadou Hampâté Bâ

How do you preserve the stories of your parents and grandparents? Stories are what ground us and connect us to our collective self, and help us define who we are. And a greater percentage of our society is aging than at any other time in the history of the world.

Abe Lamaraux is the founder of Reflect (now Noodle Journal) - a software startup that makes journaling and preserving memories as easy as talking on the phone.

He pitched his entrepreneurial venture at the recent Do Good. Better. Conference at the Ballard Center for Social Impact, and was one of the 3 award winners.

1 in 8 Children is sexually abused before reaching the age of 18. If you don’t think it impacts your community or business or congregation, you’re wrong.

Chirs Yadon and Saprea have a mission to empower survivors of child sex abuse, protect future generations, and educate communities worldwide on this critical issue.

Many of the societal issues that we deal with are rooted in childhood trauma, with sexual abuse being one of the big three.

66% of incarcerated women were sexually abused as children.

85% of female survivors of child sexual abuse will experience a diagnosable mental health disorder by age 30.

A little over a third of child sexual abuse survivors will have attempted a suicide by age 30.

But there is hope and healing available. Visit Saprea.com for tools and resources.

Allies he needs right now:

• Partners who have a community / audience to share the message and healing tools: companies for their employees and families, organizations that serve vulnerable populations, platforms that can help scale their reach

• And of course as a nonprofit, they always need donors

Helping you tell he right story - Issimo Story Agency

“ We don't have to wait four years to vote for change. We can vote for change with our shopping dollars this afternoon when we go to the store.”

60% of global GDP is consumer spending. We collectively have the power. If we buy more ethically and sustainably, businesses will shift overnight to meet the demand, regardless of who is in government.

Paul Rice, founder of Fair Trade USA makes the case in his book “Every Purchase Matters” which was just released and has already become a national bestseller.

Ethical sourcing, sustainable supply chains, conscious capitalism - no longer a tradeoff with profitability, but rather a real competitive advantage.

Allies he needs:

• People to read and share his book
• Companies to adopt sustainable practices
• Consumers to vote with their dollars for a better world