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Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy

"Salman Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst when he started using online tools to tutor his cousins in math. Nine years later, his nonprofit organization, Khan Academy, draws on the same approach to offer more than 5,000 free, web-based video lessons to millions of students across the globe, disrupting not only schools but also the education industry built around them." (Harvard Business Review)

Britney Robbins, CEO and founder of Grey Matter

"In her role as Founder and CEO of The Gray Matter Experience, she empowers young people to strengthen their ties to self and society through experiential learning and leveraging entrepreneurial values. Since 2016, TGME has connected nearly 1000 Black youth to opportunities that propel their futures forward, serving as the paramount blueprint for entrepreneurship education across the country." (Grey Matter)

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The 5 Principles of Social Impact
Why is it that one person becomes a successful game changer and impacts the world and why does another with the same opportunity, and education does not reaches that level of success and impact? While consulting multiple organizations around the world Marian Spier discovered 5 principles to help professionals find out how to become game changers and create impact. 1. Chance: You have to create an opportunity 2. Clarity: You have to strategize 3. Craze: You need to have a passion for what you do 4. Courage: You need to have an entrepreneurial mindset 5. Considerate and determined: You need to be purposeful, and meaningful in everything you do.
EthicsGame
EthicsGame is a creator of online ethics education simulations and curricula for universities and businesses.
The EthicsGame team works with organizations across the country and around the world to train learners
in critical thinking, compliance, and strategies for building an ethical, values-based culture.
Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Launched in 2017, the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship is a global leader in the field of law and social entrepreneurship.

The mission of the Grunin Center is to enhance the community of lawyers and legal institutions purposefully engaged in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development, and to accelerate their effective participation in these fields.
TIME: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024
TIME Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Includes innovators, CEOs, founders, and co-founders.
De Gruyter Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship
The De Gruyter Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship serves as a one-stop shop for nascent and established scholars and practitioners alike who seek to quickly gain a broad familiarity with the current state of research in social entrepreneurship.
(The library is currently working on obtaining this title.)
Why B Corps Matter
It's a very difficult landscape for new companies to navigate today. Ever since the Revlon court ruling in 1986, in which courts ruled that the financial benefit of stockholders trumps all other company interests, responsibility has shifted away from maintaining the health of the company to maximizing shareholder value often regardless of social or environmental impacts. So, quarter by quarter, we see companies making decisions that compromise the efficacy of their intentions.

Benefit corporations offer a refuge from this system. It allows the founders to essentially incorporate their vision and give their higher-minded goals the armor to weather capital raises and leadership changes. Then, through the B Corp certification process—which is open to all businesses that meet certain standards, and not just benefit corporations—these companies can quantify and communicate their impact to their stakeholders, adding an additional layer of accountability and transparency. Watch this video to learn more.

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Thomas Vozzo, CEO of Homeboy Industries

"After 30 years holding top positions at the highest echelons of corporate America, Tom left his lucrative career, convinced there had to be a better way to define success. He pivoted, after being asked by founder Fr. Greg Boyle to become the first-ever CEO of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. In 2020, Homeboy was awarded the 2020 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest humanitarian prize presented to a nonprofit organization judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering." (Homeboy Industries)

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