Purpose creates 21st century movements. They mobilize millions of citizens and consumers to help solve major global problems. To do this, they develop and launch their own ventures using their model of movement entrepreneurship and they work with organizations and progressive businesses to help them mobilize large-scale, purposeful action. Their work combines key insights from…
Jesse Israel: New York City
What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? I was born in the Valley of the great-1-8, then moved to the Westside in 4th grade, and then came to NYC freshman year of college to attend NYU in 2003. My current lifestyle: NYC > LA > NYC every 6 weeks. Describe your experience in…
NationBuilder: Los Angeles
NationBuilder is the world’s first Community Organizing System: an accessible, affordable, complete software platform that helps leaders grow and organize communities to achieve great things. NationBuilder’s vision is to unlock the potential of a connected humanity. Their mission is to make everyone a leader. To organize people online, leaders need both a website and a…
Digital Democracy: New York City
Digital Democracy’s mission is to empower marginalized communities to leverage technology to fight for their human rights. This 501 c3 partners with community groups and organizations and through a three-step process helping them to build digital literacy and skills, digital organizing capacity with tech systems that help them harness tools like data, mobile phones, photography,…
Sloane Davidson: New York City
What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? I moved to Los Angeles in 2003 in a very romanticized way after a 6 week roadtrip cross-country from Boston. I had that feeling that dreams grew on trees and mine were ripe for the picking. I remember driving down Sunset Blvd for the first time…
THRDPLACE: Los Angeles
ThrdPlace started simply as a discussion – a beer-with-breakfast gathering of friends. As it so happens we are a mixed-bag of professional urbanists and armchair urbanophiles. But as friends do, we shared our (mis)adventures here in Los Angeles. It was through our discussions that we identified a simple, shared problem: an inability for community members…
Contently: New York City
Contently is a new marketplace that connects experienced journalists with publishers looking for quality freelancers. On top of the marketplace is a layer of online tools for freelancer management, content scheduling and revision tracking. Contently works with agencies like Weber Shandwick and Federated Media, as well as brands like Facebook and Allstate to help them…
Zach Szukala: Los Angeles
What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? LA and NYC have been my homes for the past decade and I’ve coast hopped three times now. First from the east coast – Upstate New York – via an extended cross country drive in a stuffed Ford Taurus. The fashion industry and the general thought…
Neon Roots: Los Angeles
NeonRoots is a full service interactive agency specializing in custom web development and mobile technology. Based in Los Angeles, their creativity is constantly fed by collaborations and partnerships with entertainment and media clients. Besides creating groundbreaking digital products based on cutting edge form and function, they are also one of the few creative agencies working…
Bond Influence: New York City
BOND Strategy and Influence, on the iconic Bond Street in NYC and formerly known as Electric Artists, has a 15-year history working on some amazing projects, clients and campaigns such as Tribeca Film Festival, American Express OPEN, Kenneth Cole and The Economist, as well as film projects including the award-winning documentaries Exit Through The Giftshop,…
Liba Rubenstein: Los Angeles
What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York City connection? I was raised in Fort Greene, Brooklyn as a third generation, first born daughter. When I was 17, I met my boyfriend and we were together for 3.5 years long distance. As he wanted to be a screenwriter in 2006 after college, he moved to…
InVenture: Los Angeles
InVenture unleashes the potential of developing entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty by leveraging mobile technology to create credit scores for unbanked individuals around the world. We started InVenture because we wanted to facilitate financial inclusion for businesses all over the world — businesses that can become engines for economic growth…
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