INSPIRATIONS
FOR THE COMMUNITY, BY THE COMMUNITY
Building sustainable, equitable, thriving communities requires us to reweave our social fabric in ways that honor our interconnectedness and diverse beauty. Illustra Impact uses this platform to amplify leaders, organizations, businesses, and communities who reflect this vision.
Follow, Engage, Support
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Casa Innovation
Casa Innovation is a leading social impact incubator dedicated to empowering underestimated social entrepreneurs from diasporic, migrant, LGBTQ+, women, and youth communities in Colombia and across the Americas. Illustra Impact’s founder sits on the Board of Directors and taught a bootcamp module.
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Festival of the Diaspora
As a community of leaders, Festival of the Diaspora is resolute in their conviction that we hold the power to create significant and transformative change in underestimated communities throughout the Americas. Each year, FOTD brings their unwavering belief and commitment to a new city, igniting a ripple effect of positive impact.
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Faith in Action
Faith in Action is an international community organizing network that gives people of faith the tools that they need to fight for justice and work towards a more equitable society. They are working on issues of gun violence, public health, immigrant justice, and voting rights among other injustices identified by everyday leaders.
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Traceless
Traceless is a female founded circular bio-economy startup. They address the global challenge of plastic pollution with a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics. Using their innovative, patent pending technology and a circular economy approach, they are able to transform agricultural industry residues into novel materials: traceless film, traceless plastic and traceless coat.
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Mi Barrio Mi Sueño
The Mi Barrio Mi Sueño Foundation empowers change by creating innovative programs for children and women to break free from violence, discrimination, and educational barriers. We provide holistic community-based support, nurturing minds and bodies alike. Central to our foundation's efforts are education, equality and a world without hunger.
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Black Girl Ventures
Black Girl Ventures' mission is to provide Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship. They ignite civic engagement and hyperlocal infrastructure at the intersection of business support services, supplier diversity, social and financial capital.
Shop, Hire, Refer
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Dos Alas Latin Coffee
Dos Alas is craft cafecito & conversation that positively impacts the world by meeting people where they are with familiar coffee beverages from their home communities. Organizations can contract with Dos Alas' Orlando-based mobile unit to come to their events or enhance community engagement while supporting a vision for returning citizens and immigrants to become owner operators themselves.
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Those Coffee People
Those Coffee People is a specialist Colombian coffee bean supplier, with an emphasis on sustainability, that directly serves cafes and roasters throughout the world who want the very best direct trade coffee. Their spirit of adventure and discovery enables them to source the best green coffee Colombia has to offer through working with an incredible network of local farmers, cooperatives and logistics partners.
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Libro.fm
Same audiobooks. Different story. Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks through your local bookstore. This allows you to support small businesses which employ nearly half of US residents and are closest to the needs of our communities.
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Thistle Farms
Through safe housing, healthcare, counseling, and employment, Thistle Farms provides the tools for physical, mental, and economic healing and freedom for women survivors. Their model connects survivor artisans from around the world and provides over 50% of profits back to the artisan group.
Read, Listen, Watch
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Thriving in the Fight
A survival manual for Latinas on the front lines of change. Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Latinas keep their focus, morale, and energy high.
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Dare to Lead
Brené Brown hosts conversations with change-catalysts, culture-shifters and more than a few troublemakers who are innovating, creating, and daring to lead. A few of our favorites are with President Barack Obama, co-founders of Siete Family Foods, and Priya Parker.
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I'm Still Here
Austin Channing Brown writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.
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Creative Confidence Podcast
The IDEO U Creative Confidence Podcast hosts candid conversations with some of today’s most inspiring change makers, design thinkers, and creative minds. Hosts speak with gests about their approach to leadership, creativity, innovation, and growth.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons. In a rich braid of reflections, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
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From Generosity to Justice
In From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation articulates a bold vision for philanthropy in the 21st century joined by an array of thinkers, activists, and leaders from every field, sector, and walk of life.
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Disruptors for GOOD
Disruptors for GOOD is a podcast that explores social entrepreneurship and social enterprises around the world who have dedicated their lives to ethical fashion, impact investing, climate change, sustainable travel, and businesses that impact the world in a positive way.
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Collective Impact Forum
The Collective Impact Forum provides resources, hosts events, and offers coaching for people working to advance equity and achieve systems change using a collective impact approach to collaboration. Their podcast shares stories to support social change makers working in cross-sector collaboration.