Sundance Wants Women to Swap Casting Couch For Director’s Chair
Women must get off the casting couch and into the director’s chair if Hollywood is to move on from the #MeToo sexual harassment scandal, filmmakers said at the British opening of the Sundance Film Festival. Most films showcased at the British offshoot of the U.S. festival are directed by women, in a selection that champions female […]
Meet The Guy Creating Clean Diesel Fuel From Beans
Positive environmental actions are celebrated on World Environment Day on June 5. But for South Africa’s Thabang Mabapa, who’s working on turning castor oil into a biodiesel, it’s a daily matter. An agriculture and energy entrepreneur, Mabapa founded Selokong Sa Dimelana, an organization that focuses on the farming, processing and distribution of castor oil for biodiesel […]
12-Year-Old Boy And Refugee Swim From Robben Island
A Congolese refugee and a 12-year-old boy, inspired by Mandela’s legacy, teamed up to complete a five-mile swim from Robben Island in Cape Town to raise funds for charity. The Freedom Day Swim took place on 21 April and saw people from around the world swim from Robben Island to the mainland. The island is […]
Kate Hudson’s Fabletics Empowers Women to Lead
Fabletics, an active-lifestyle brand co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, has launched a global capsule collection to benefit the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative. For over a year and a half, Fabletics and Girl Up have joined forces to support a common mission – to make girls leaders of tomorrow through the empowerment of girls worldwide. Since […]
10 Things I Learned From Sheryl Sandberg’s New Class About Resiliency
Sheryl Sandberg’s life changed forever the moment she found her husband, successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, dead in a hotel gym during their 2015 family vacation in Punta Mita, Mexico. Goldberg, 43 at the time of his death, had suffered heart complications and is survived by Sandberg and their two children. Coping with Goldberg’s death was, and still isn’t, […]
Jawed Karim, Co-founder of Youtube
Jawed Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Muslim Bangladeshi who works as a researcher at 3M and his mother, Christine, is a German scientist of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. He crossed the old East-West German border with his family in 1981 and grew up in Neuss, […]
Lady Gaga Partners with Staples To Ease Burden on Teachers
Students today face not only academic challenges, but also the emotional challenges of stress brought on by negative classroom environments, according to data from a recent survey by the Sesame Workshop. In the survey, 86% of teachers and 70% of parents reported worrying that “the world is an unkind place for children.” In addition, teachers […]
1,500 UK Firms Face Action Over Gender Pay Silence
About 1,500 large British companies that failed to meet a government deadline to report the pay gap between male and female employees could face legal action, Britain’s equality watchdog has said. A law introduced last year requires companies and charities with more than 250 workers – covering almost half of Britain’s workforce – to report […]
Ebay Billionaire Donates Millions to Keep #MeToo Moving
A website that makes reporting sexual assault easier is one of six organisations gifted $7.5 million by an Ebay billionaire in order to ramp up their effectiveness. The Skoll Foundation – started by Jeff Skoll, former president of Ebay – rewarded five female and one male social entrepreneurs tackling subjects as diverse as access to […]
Why Women are Key to the Next Wave of Impact Investing
Why aren’t more women and minorities represented in angel and venture capital investing? It’s a vexing question Alicia Robb is addressing. The founder and managing partner of the Next Wave US Impact Fund, an early-stage investing fund focused on bringing more women into angel investing—with a focus on social innovation and impact investing—describes her personal […]
