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How the Entrepreneurial Mindset is Empowering Lives Through Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

February 14 is National Donor Day in the United States, a day to celebrate and promote the life-giving practice of organ donation. When a living donor donates a portion of their liver to a patient on the transplant waitlist, the liver will regenerate to full size in both the donor and recipient in eight weeks.

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How One Entrepreneur Utilizes Visualization To Promote Living Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Dave is alive and well today thanks to a living liver donation in 2019. In addition to passing legislation that makes living organ donation more accessible, Dave is passionate about getting the word out about living organ donation. April is National Donate Life Awareness Month in the U.S., Entrepreneurs also save lives.

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Entrepreneur Dr. Tim Springer Donates $210 Million to Institute for Protein Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

This recent philanthropic donation, plus the $40 million Dr. Springer previously gifted IPI, establishes an endowment that increases the nonprofit’s capacity to scale. Springer, his wife Chafen Lu, Ph.D., and their children gifted $210 million to the Massachusetts -based nonprofit Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI).

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

TechCrunch

Givz , which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Givz operates under the premise that “donation-driven marketing” consistently outperforms discounts and costs less, “making it an attractive addition” to corporate marketing. “We

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Ethereum developer tools platform Hardhat becomes nonprofit with donations from a16z and others

TechCrunch

Nomic, which first launched in 2018, is rebranding as the Nomic Foundation, and has already secured donations of $15 million out of its $30 million fundraising goal, CEO and co-founder Franco Zeoli told TechCrunch in an interview.

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As brands clamour to back causes, Good-Loop raises $6M for its view-to-donate ad platform

TechCrunch

million) for its platform that entices people to views ads in order to “unlock” a donation to charity. As well as also being a B Corporation , Good-Loop says its “view ads to donate” model delivers more meaningful brand engagement, cost-free philanthropy from users and has an ad recall “4.5X million (£4.5

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Ukraine One Year Later: Insights and Entrepreneurship in Action

Entrepreneurs' Organization

People organized themselves into groups to collect donations. As an example, many entrepreneurs who couldn’t come and help themselves were willing to donate. EO Poland is still accepting donations at: ukraine.eopoland.org As Dick Winter once said, “War brings out the worst and the best in people.”