Chris Motley: Mentorship as Leverage for New Opportunities

Dec 08, 2020 Posted by: Jill Jha Christ Motley,  SDG10,  USA

Chris: Our vision at Mentor Spaces is to make workplaces more diverse, equitable and inclusive while advancing the careers of underrepresented minorities. We provide our mentorship technology to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and national nonprofit organizations that focus on underrepresented talent. We then connect these early career professionals to mentors in career-interest based groups, where they can get their questions answered by experts and access internships and job opportunities.

James Li: Encouraging Mighty Health for 50+

Dec 08, 2020 Posted by: Jill Jha James Li,  SDG3,  USA

James: Mighty Health is the first ever comprehensive wellness app for people over the age of 50. Each member receives three key benefits when they join: 1) a dedicated personal coach, 2) joint-friendly workouts, personalized nutrition plans, and lessons on healthy aging, and finally, 3) celebrations with family and a member community (to combat the loneliness a lot of us are facing this year)! We’ve already helped thousands of members across all 50 states and five countries lose an average of 7% of their weight and triple their exercise activity in the first three months of joining!

Arti Dhar: Paying Farmers to Reforest Land

Dec 08, 2020 Posted by: Jill Jha

Arti: So, our mission at Farmers for Forests (F4F) is to protect and increase India’s forest cover. We do that by supporting farmers, tribals and other rural landowners to either protect existing forests on their land from deforestation or convert their unused or degraded land into dense and biodiverse forests. We are one of few organizations, if any, using the “payment for ecosystem services” (PES) model in India’s forestry sector. Under a PES program, managers or owners of natural resources are financially compensated for conserving the natural resources (like forests) and providing ecosystem services, such as groundwater recharge or carbon sequestration. It is essentially a conditional cash transfer.