Vision: To raise awareness around the environment and sexual slavery. Action: An active member of the World Future Council, Hannah speaks on policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations. This includes awareness around climate change, renewable energy and nuclear abolition. She’s been arrested numerous times for protesting. www.dhlovelife.com
Vision: Making higher education affordable for everyone. Action: Manages social-investment funds that invest in the education of students. In exchange, each student commits to pay a fixed percentage of income for 120 months after graduation. Students and investors are brought together in a win-win partnership. www.Lumni.net
Vision: To create the most affordable and cleanest energy house in the world. Action: Created a zero energy house that guarantees no energy bills for 10 years. Goswick has engaged NASA scientists to create new technologies that change the performance of homes – changing them from energy eaters to energy generators. www.TheZeroEnergyHome.com
Vision: To galvanize everyone to use their talents and insights to improve the world as part of their daily lives. Action: Coauthored the book A Path Appears, showing that ordinary people can influence change, spread opportunity and improve society. WuDunn believes the markets are the most effective way to offer opportunity. Compassion is another. www.APathAppears.org
Vision: A truly equal world where women run half our countries and companies, and men run half our homes. Action: Demonstrated the ability of women to run global enterprises. Wrote Lean In to help professional women achieve their career goals and for men who want to contribute more to an equitable society. More female voices in power will create more equitable opportunities for everyone. www.leanin.com
Vision: To spread compassion and empathy around the world. Action: Winfrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre, which broke 20th-century taboos, and allowed previously disenfranchised people to enter the mainstream. She reinvented how best-selling books, self-improvement and spirituality were portrayed. www.Oprah.com
Vision: Consumers can guide the success of corporations by what they choose to purchase. By creating this demand, the consumer controls the marketplace. Action: Working with Toyota, Levin helped position the hybrid Prius as the coolest car in Hollywood – by getting celebrities to endorse sustainable options. www.EMA-Online.org
Vision: To be a catalyst for bringing about positive change to people, society and the planet. Action: The Arison Group operates two channels, business and philanthropy, as complementary platforms for doing good. Arison’s wide circle of businesses and organizations have created a large footprint to inspire change. www.ShariArison.com
Vision: A fairer world where we would work towards both growing the cake and sharing it more equitably. Action: Dedicates his business to values that have been in place for 50 years: Doing good is good business; consumer sovereignty; business efficiency. The company gives seven percent net profit annually to various projects, charities and their foundations. www.PicknPay.co.za
Vision: A world where everyone, even the most vulnerable, can live with dignity through access to health care and education. Action: Inspired by serving those in greatest need and training them to build self-reliance. She has witnessed the dramatic impact IMC has when they harness the power of people’s potential to help themselves. www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org
