Goodness500 idea lab + blog

Shay Grabowski, ALEGRIA

Hi Shay, who are ya? Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, I’m an artist and a freelance motion designer in New York City. I do most of my commercial creative work for Nickelodeon and MTV. I’m the founder of ALEGRIA: Hope through Art, a nonprofit collective of artists who teach creative workshops of their respective disciplines [...]

Kyle Westaway, Biographe

Hi Kyle, who are ya? I am a New York-based social entrepreneur, attorney and blogger. I believe in the power of the market to affect social change. I serve as the Director of Operations and Business Development for Biographe – a sustainable style brand that employs, empowers and restores survivors of the commercial sex [...]

Tammy Tibbetts, She’s the First

Tammy Tibbetts created the She’s the First campaign for girls’ education worldwide in 2009. She’s the First sponsors girls around the globe by encouraging young women to unlock the power of their social networks and creatively fundraise, giving underprivileged girls the means to break barriers and become the “first” to achieve their special goals. Visit [...]

Saul Garlick, Student Movement for Real Change

Saul is the founder and executive director of Student Movement for Real Change, an international non-profit that supports youth-led global development in Kenya and South Africa. He also founded The Hopkins Donkey, a college newspaper, and served as the managing editor of the SAIS Review of International Affairs of Johns Hopkins University Press and as [...]

Britt Bravo

Hi Britt, who are ya? I’m a blogger, podcaster, career coach, and nonprofit social web consultant who teaches individuals and organizations how to realize their big vision and be a powerful force for good. I write for two blogs: Have Fun Do Good and [...]

Paula Kahumbu, WildLifeDirect

Paula is…Inspired by Wilderness
Hi Paula, who are ya? African wildlife conservation is my passion. I have studied monkeys, forests, elephants and hippos and got my PhD from Princeton in 2002, I worked for the Kenya Wildlife Service which was my dream job and worked on wildlife trade policy. I then moved to Mombasa to run [...]

Peter Deitz, Social Actions

Peter Deitz is a… bridge-builder, online activist, micro-philanthropist

Hi Peter, who are ya? I am a blogger, social media consultant, and the founder of Social Actions. Since July 2006, I’ve been working to advance the field of micro-philanthropy by building what I call Web 3.0, the open philanthropic web. My work is based on the [...]

Priti Radhakrishnan, I-MAK

Hi Priti, who are ya? Grew up in Boston and the Bay Area, and since then have lived in New York, LA, Sydney, Geneva, Delhi, Bangalore, Boston and am now back in New York. Have travelled to many other countries in that time mainly for work that my husband and I do with I-MAK (www.i-mak.org). [...]

Matt Stempeck, Americans for Campaign Reform

Matt Stempeck is a… Recovering cynic. Humanist.
Hi Matt, who are ya? Originally from just north of Boston, MA and still a diehard Sox fan. Went to University of Maryland and wrote a thesis on Political Blogs. Became Production Assistant @ E&E.tv, covering environment and energy issues on the Hill. Then went on to building online [...]

Heather Fleming, Catapult Design

Heather Helps Nonprofits Leverage Technology for Global Development.
Hi Heather, who are ya? Founder and Director of Catapult Design, a non-profit product design consultancy focused on disadvantaged communities. I’m a product of the Stanford Product Design program. And I spent nearly six years working in the Bay Area product development consulting world working before I [...]