By WPO Board Chair Margery Kraus, Diplomatic Courier As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, nations are scrambling to protect their population and industries from the potentially devastating socioeconomic effects of the virus. Governments are increasingly restricting travel—domestic and international—to reduce contagion. According to Pew Research Center, more than 90 percent of the world’s … Continue reading Global Problems Need Global Solutions
Turn on any news channel right now and the headlines are dominated by the health and economic devastation inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s no denying the urgency of this moment, and the imprint it will leave on our lives and organizations....
Journalist Mehmet Atakan Foça started Teyit (“confirmation” in Turkish) in 2016 to address misinformation propagated by media organizations and social media users. We spoke with him this week to learn
Journalist and social entrepreneur Mehmet Atakan Foça shares how the pandemic has made the problem of misinformation visible to everyone.
B The Change Weekly: April 17, 2020(Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly no...
(Photo by Clint Adair on Unsplash)Suddenly Separate? B Corps Find New Methods for Professional Conversations, Resilience and SafetyThe coronavirus produced a sudden workplace shift for many of us. As stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines...
By Geri Stengel, Forbes Between 2007 to 2012 — the period before and after the Great Recession — the number of women-owned businesses jumped 27% while privately held businesses grew only 3.3%, according to the Survey of Business Owners by the Census. Average revenues for women’s businesses decreased from $154,300 in 2007 to $143,700 in 2012 and … Continue reading How To Prevent The Pandemic From Taking A Greater Toll On Women Entrepreneurs
Here’s a B for Boeing. One for Bank of America, too. And one for all the other mega-corporations that are elbowing at the table for billions in government Bailouts (with a capital B) via the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act.At...
Leading with Love: The We The Change Community Response to the Coronavirus Crisis(Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash)We The Change, a Certified B Corp Women CEOs initiative, has pledged to work internationally with Mujeres B to strive toward a world that ...
How Small and Big Changes Can Make a Cumulative DifferenceBy Steve Walls and Judith WallsTo date, some companies’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been to email their database, telling consumers and other stakeholders to “Stay Home, Stay Safe.” Th...
Whether you now start your workday by logging in from home or by heading out to provide an essential public service, the daily on-the-job realities have changed for each of us. While change and uncertainty dominate now, eventually a new “normal” will e...
Danish social entrepreneur Ole Kassow steers a trishaw in Minnesota in February - he's on the bike ... [+] and Sue and Pernille ride in the front carriage. Sue, left,
How a Danish-led global movement is combating isolation among the elderly, and adapting fast in the era of social distancing.
As author Anne Lamott says, “Of course you don’t know what to do. You’ve never done this before.”Continue reading on B The Change »
It’s easy to miss the narrow alleyway that leads to Troy Town Art Pottery, running along the wall of Hoxton Street community garden in east London. The low building, which