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Rayaan Arif is a serial entrepreneur who has joined the crypto community, seeking now to play a role in matchmaking between funders and new ventures in the space. We spoke about crypto in general to get a better picture of latest trends and issues. Be sure to tune in to the recording.

Preliminary Interview with Rayaan Arif, the Founder - CEO of FundingTree.

The following is a brief pre-interview that provides context for the recorded interview you may watch or listen to at the top of this article.

What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?

We are currently self funded and will be able to complete MVP and launch by end of 2nd Qtr. We plan to raise Series A after that time. The money will be used for Phase 2 Technology build. Market outreach and adding more team members.

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Scott Stiles, 29, began learning about modern slavery while attending school at Brigham Young University – Hawaii. He decided to simply put slave traders out of business by competing with them in Hong Kong.

His thesis: both the workers caught in debt bondage and their domestic employers there are unsatisfied by the typical arrangements so why not provide competing services that both parties value? The new Fair Employment Agency was born.

The International Labour Organization estimates that 40 million people globally are subjected to some form of modern slavery, about 25 million of whom are subjected to forced labor. The other 15 million are in forced marriages.

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Eva Yazhari, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Capital, a nonprofit organization that makes profitable, seed-stage investments in India and East Africa, says the nonprofit status “is vitally important for us.”

Operating as a nonprofit has allowed the organization to attract pro bono resources that made the fund operationally possible.

“If you think about a fund of our size, the economics don't work when you're taking a two and twenty,” she says referring to the standard venture fund model of charging investors a 2% management fee plus a carried interest of 20% of the profits.

The Beyond Capital fund is just $1.8 million, meaning that a 2% management fee would pay only $36,000.

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Karen Palmer uses kindness and compassion to guide every decision she makes and every action she takes.

Interview with Karen Palmer, the President and Founder of Globalkindness GoingViral.

The following is the pre-interview with Karen Palmer. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.

What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?

We bring the power of compassion and kindness to all areas of life. Helping people see the benefits of being compassionate, kind, grateful, and peaceful.

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Resenting the prevailing narrative about poverty in Haiti, Marc Alain Boucicault, a Fulbright Scholar, and a former economist for the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, is putting his experience to work as a social entrepreneur, hoping to change the story and the economy.

Boucicault recently launched Haiti’s first coworking space for technology entrepreneurs in Haiti. He kicked off Banj, as he calls the new venture, with a tech conference that included representatives from Facebook and Google. He hopes to see technology infuse the traditional economy, giving more farmers and business owners access to international markets, eventually narrowing the country’s overwhelming trade deficit.

Banj already has 100 members with four of 13 available offices rented—and it’s profitable, according to Boucicault. He’s built the business with sponsorships rather than loans or equity. The members and tenants cover the infrastructure costs and the partners fund program costs.

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Joyce Mattera started helping out in her Brooklyn neighbor when she moved there almost four decades ago. Her organization, Children of the City, now serves 1,000 kids every year. She measures success in the accomplishments of the tens of thousands of kids she’s helped along the way.

Interview with Joyce Mattera, the Executive Director of Children of the City.

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What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?

Breaking cycles of poverty through education and outreach.

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Robert Rubinstein, 66, founder of the TBLI Group, has been advocating for sustainable, responsible or impact investing since the mid-1990s. One of the key lessons he’s learned: start big.

“I always focus on irresponsible investors and criminals. And I always communicated in their tribal language, so I only showed them self-interest, opportunity and money flows,” Rubinstein jokes enthusiastically, referring to the investors who didn’t already employ some form of responsible investing.

Those money flows were key. He says others in the space have made the mistake of focusing on the “moral imperative.” Money managers face targets, he notes. If they don’t meet their benchmarks they get fired. The only way to get through to them is to speak their language and to focus on financial returns.

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Jenny Kassan, a Yale-trained lawyer in California has carved out a niche, working for more than a decade to help women and social entrepreneurs use every legal means to access entrepreneur-friendly, patient capital.

Today, using Regulation CF, along with Regulation D sections 504 and 506(c) along with Regulation A+, she is helping for-profit and nonprofit social entrepreneurs access affordable sources of capital to fund a social mission.

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Scott and Angela Uhland were as sad and afraid as any parents when their three-year-old Lucia was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Two years of treatment left her healthy and starting school with her peers.

Scott always hoped to find a way to give back to the team of people who treated Lucia. He was especially fond of the caring people who structured fun experiences for her in the hospital during treatment. It made the whole experience tolerable. So tolerable, in fact, that her memories of the hospital include many positives, including, he admits, some of her favorite foods.

When Scott learned about Johnson & Johnson’s CaringCrowd global health crowdfunding platform, he realized he’d found the way he could give back. Scott is a PhD scientist at J&J. He decided to raise money for the Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases at the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, specifically targeting their programs supporting fun for cancer patients.

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Kate Hayes joined Echoing Green with a clean mission in mind: help nonprofits build better boards. Too many boards are untrained, lack diversity and aren’t fully engaged. She’s developed programs to help nonprofits and board candidates alike to be more effective.

What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?

Nonprofit boards are ineffective - members do not reflect the communities they serve, they are not active enough in fundraising, and they are not focused on strategy. Only 16% of board members are under the age of 40; 80% of board members have received no training; and 65% of board members don't think their fellow board members are engaged. At the same time, very few training programs exist, so we are stuck in the cycle of bad boards.

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