Over 30 years ago, Beatriz Fernandez would never have thought she’d become one of Colombia’s most influential changemakers when she first started baking waffles from the family’s apartment in Bogota, using her own invented recipes. Today, the popular restaurant chain Crepes & Waffles is a certified

Our two-fold mission is the same it was when we started out 5 years ago: to get expertise to the parts of the world that need it most by mobilizing professionals to give what they’re good at, and in the process, connect them to world-positive,

Whether you are part of a work team, family, or social circle looking to make a positive impact, engaging in a transformational volunteer experience takes more than just showing up. To help share best practices, I teamed up with Pamela Hawley at UniversalGiving to share

Beyond playing a critical role in solving some of the most pressing challenges of our time, volunteering is also lauded for the benefits it also bestows upon the giver. Studies highlight that volunteering makes people feel wealthier, happier, healthier, and even time rich. More recent

Nearly every CEO reports that their companies are not developing skills fast enough or leaders deeply enough. That’s a big problem for companies. According to the MIT Sloan Management Review: “Many managers think they can create better products just by improving the development process or

If you want to help Ecuador, please donate cash. Now is not time to rush to the rescue as a volunteer… yet. Certainly, volunteers have a place in disaster recovery, but done incorrectly, volunteers can do more harm than good as was witnessed after the Haiti

Millennials are known as being more environmentally and socially conscious than the older generations. So it always comes as a surprise to nonprofit, corporate, and governmental leaders when they see that millennials no longer in school do not give or volunteer as much as the

This last week I had the pleasure of attending the University of Washington Tacoma’s Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility Conference in Seattle. It was awesome. Speakers from Iron Mountain (Kevin Hagen), Microsoft (Irene Plenefisch), PwC (Paul Sacca), Tableau (Steve Schwartz), Uber (Brooke Steger), Zillow (Racquel

2015 was another year of exciting growth for MovingWorlds – quadrupling our numbers from last year, and increasing our lifetime impact to over $4.9 Million worth of professional services Experteered across 41 countries in just three years – more exciting statistics in the 2015 annual impact infographic below!

According to the newly released 2016 PwC Global CEO survey, 64% of CEOs say that “corporate social responsibility (CSR) is core to their business rather than being a stand-alone program”. Why do CEOs care about CSR? Because they care about building trust with consumers, partners,