Raising the Bar for Impact Begins with Due Diligence

Raising the Bar for Impact Begins with Due Diligence

As a long-time philanthropist, I have years of experience trying to draw direct causal relationships between monetary support of an organization and the change I’d like to see in the world. But as a recent impact investor and graduate student focused on the...
Bringing Bodies Back to Nature

Bringing Bodies Back to Nature

Transcend is an Impact Entrepreneur nominee for the 2025 Earthshot Prize How does someone go from the #7 employee at Uber to a real estate developer to an entrepreneur revolutionizing the death care industry? That’s the story of Matthew Kochmann, founder of Transcend...
Tackling the Resource and Waste Crisis

Tackling the Resource and Waste Crisis

In our economy, most of the things we do are linear. We take from nature, we build things with what we take, and then we dispose of it once we don’t need it anymore (take, make, waste). The first problem that arises from this linear economy is that we live in a world...
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