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Bitcoin and Blockchain for Social Good

Release Date: 12/08/2017

Faith and Values- Based Investing with ICCR- Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility

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Dawn Carpenter, your host of More Than Money, welcomes you to the final episode of Season 2 to discuss the moral compass that the faith and values based investment community offers the corporate community , in a conversation with Josh Zinner, CEO of Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). This episode builds upon previous conversations in Season 1 about impact investing as an alternative and/or a complementary approach to asset management

Finding Work After Incarceration, with the Urban Institute and Robert Egger of LA Kitchen

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In this episode of More Than Money, Dawn Carpenter draws your attention to a sobering reality: more people are incarcerated per capita in United States than in any other country on Earth. Over 2.3 million are incarcerated and approximately 600,000 of them will transition back into society each year, the biggest challenge being to find a job. We delve into this topic with Nancy La Vigne of the Urban Institute and Robert Egger, the legendary social entrepreneur who founded DC Kitchen a generation ago

Consumer Perspective on CSR with Ralph Nader

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In this episode, Dawn engages in a deep conversation with Ralph Nader, the man that is known for doing more than any single person to advance our cry for the production of safe products and good responsible business practice. Listen to this episode, get inspired, and remember that we all have within us the power to change and make change

Banking on Values with GABV and Sunrise Bank

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In this episode, from their headquarters in Netherlands, Dawn Carpenter talks with David Korslund with The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) about using finance to deliver sustainable, economic, social and environmental development throughout the world. As a member bank in the GABV Alliance, Sunrise Bank CEO, David Reiling, explains how compassion is the bank’s motivation

The Ethical Side of Tech with Sustainable Economies Law Center's Janelle Orsi and Twitter activist Maira Sutton

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Dawn Carpenter welcomes Janelle Orsi co-founder and executive director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and #buytwitter activist, Maira Sutton to a new episode of More Than Money, where technology is approached from an ethical perspective, zooming in our most popular tech platforms that look less like a business, per se, and more like public infrastructure. Are we transitioning into a digital revolution?

Ethical Tourism with Tourism Concern UK and Kasbahdu Toubkal

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In this Episode, Dawn Carpenter will discuss the significance of thinking about tourism and its business from an ethical perspective. Tourism challenges the very core of ethics, our sense of the difference between what is right and what is wrong. This episode guests, Mark Watson of Tourism Concern UK and Michael McHugo owner of the Kasbahdu Toubkal in Morocco , will motivate the audience to reflect about how our consumer and travel choices can have real consequences

The Anti-Sweatshop with John Kline and Alta Gracia

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In this episode Dawn Carpenter talks about the idea of an anti-sweatshop, the experience of an inspiring apparel factory in the Dominican Republic that shows the world that is possible and actually good business practice for an apparel factory in the developing world to pay, not only a living wage, but a dignity wage in a work environment that is honorable

Big Data and Impact Investment with the Case Foundation, Acumen, and Bridges Fund Management

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Dawn Carpenter welcomes Rehana Nathoo, from The Case Foundation, Tom Adams a Director from Acumen, a UK social venture and private equity firm, and Amanda Feldman from Bridges Fund Management UK. They enter a thoughtful discussion about impact investment, exploring how “big data” can help impact investors and social entrepreneurs make better and smarter decisions about resource allocation and the assessment of impact

Pay for Success and Social Impact Bonds with Third Sector Capital and Cuyahoga County Ohio

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In this episode, Dawn Carpenter talks with Caroline Whistler, CEO of Third Sector Capital, David Merriman, Assistant Director of Health and Human Services for Cuyahoga County Ohio (Cleveland and Marcia Egbert from the George Gund Foundation, about cutting-edge innovation in the field of financing social service. Listen to this episode to be inspires by the innovative way financing tools are being used to promote social good

Bitcoin and Blockchain for Social Good

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In this episode, Dawn Carpenter, along with Marti Tirinnanzi and Bill Ulivieri, explore the idea about how cryptocurrency and Blockchain are revolutionizing the world of finance, opening the possibility for anyone, anywhere to have the possibility of transferring money, buying and selling only needing a cell phone and internet service. Listen to this episode and learn about this universal form of money which is expanding around the globe, creating opportunities where there weren’t any, from social enterprises to traditional philanthropy; the future of money transfer is here.

Key takeaways:

[1:33] Marti Tirinnanzi career briefing.

[2:02] What is Bitcoin?

[2:53] How can regular people get access to Bitcoin?

[4:07] What is Blockchain?

[6:01] What are miners?

[6:28] How Bitcoin got started.

[7:29] What are the challenges Bitcoin is facing?

[9:07] How do you see the projection of Bitcoin and Blockchain?

[11:01] Bill Ulivieri career briefing.

[11:30] How Bitcoin and blockchain are disruptors of the financial ecosystem.

[13:03] How do you use Bitcoin?