Jeff Koons Partners With Kiehl’s For Missing & Exploited Children
Earlier this year Jeff Koons’s Seated Ballerina, a large-scale public art installation, rose into the air outside the Rockefeller Center in New York. The inflatable nylon sculpture stood 45 feet high and aimed to raise funds and awareness around missing children. Often referencing historical imagery and found objects, Koons based Seated Ballerina on a small porcelain figurine. The sculpture acts as […]
Girl Scouts To Bring 2.5 Million Girls Into STEM Pipeline By 2025
The organization is working to raise $70 million toward developing the next generation of female leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has announced a groundbreaking national initiative to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields by bringing millions of girls into the STEM pipeline over the next eight […]
10 Reasons Why Nobody Stopped Harvey Weinstein
Bias is a talent killer. It makes people small. It also emboldens powerful people to exploit anyone who is not in their favored group. After doing some deeper research, bias also seemed to answer the question, how might Harvey Weinstein have gotten away with being a sexual predator for decades? It’s all about bias and […]
Be Strong Documentary Tackles Bullying
Be Strong, a national, student-led youth empowerment organization dedicated to ending bullying in schools, is leading the charge to assure that no child lives with the isolation and fear of being bullied. In an effort to spread awareness in schools and the community, the organization will begin broadcasting its bullying prevention documentary online, reaching millions […]
What Does Entrepreneurship Mean in Other Cultures? I Found Out
As a millennial, I’m of the mindset that businesses should use their operations to make a profit and also impact their stakeholders. Whether that be through ethical supply chains, education, BOGO programs or the myriad social models that have sprung up in the past decade to make a difference in the world, triple bottom lines […]
Arianna Huffington, Founder of The Huffington Post
Huffington was born in Athens, Greece and at the age of 16 moved to the United Kingdom to study economics at Girton College in Cambridge. Here, she became the first foreign, and third female President of the Cambridge Union. Huffington began writing books in the 1970s, with editorial help from Benard Levin, the love of her life, mentor and role model. The two traveled to […]
Meet Moringa, The Most Nutrient-dense Plant on The Planet
Meet Kuli Kuli, an Oakland-based startup that is showing how business can create social change by combating malnutrition in developing countries, and America too. Have you ever heard of Moringa before? This miracle tree is the most nutrient-dense food on the planet, beating kale, spinach, and even spirulina for health benefits. Moringa is packed with […]
10 Things You May Not Know About Teen Driver Safety
The biggest threat to teens’ safety is the vehicle sitting in their parents’ driveways. Yet, many parents and teenagers remain under-educated about the risks new drivers face. If you like this, subscribe here for more stories that Inspire The Future. The National Safety Council has compiled a list of statistics and facts many parents and young people do […]
The Man Who Fell From Space: Five Years on
On the fifth anniversary of the record jump from the edge of space, we asked Felix Baumgartner and other key Red Bull Stratos team members for their memories of the incredible day. On October 14, 2012, the world was spellbound as the Red Bull Stratos project launched a helium balloon to near space, where Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped […]
IMF: Forget Taxing The Rich, Close The Gender Gap
At a news conference to open the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde urged world leaders in October to reinforce a strengthening global recovery and seize an opportunity to promote inclusive and sustainable growth. “Our suggestion is that it is not time to be complacent. It’s time to take those policy decisions […]
