Podcasts, Influencers, and News You Should Follow if Your Are Working to Create Purposeful and Impact-Driven Organizations

Curated resources to help you stay inspired, informed, and connected

📝 Bonus: Don’t forget to bookmark the public Google Sheet—a living resource for continual updates and crowd-sourced inspiration.

🎧 Podcasts Worth Your Time

• Business Fights Poverty - Katie Hyson

• Impact Boom

• Behind the Impact Podcast - Jeremy Brown of Social Impact World

• Better Heroes – EY Ripples

• Purpose 360 – Carol Cone

• Social Impact Leader (NPR)

• Outrage + Optimism – Christiana Figueres, Tom Carnac, Paul Dickinson

• Small & Gutsy – Laura S. Wittcoff

• Scaling Impact Capital – Kusi Hornberger

• Superpowers for Good

• Design the Future

• Disruptors for GOOD – Grant Trahant

• Superpowers for Good – Devin Thorpe

🧠 Follow These Influencers

• Paul Polman

• Tim Mohin – ESG & Climate News

• Jacqueline Novogratz

• James Militzer

• Laurie Lane-Zucker

• Rutger Bregman

• Raj Kumar (Devex)

• Bea Boccalandro

• Andrew Winston

• Seth Godin

• Matthew Sekol (The ESG Advocate)

• Angela Parker and Chris Jarvis of Realized Worth and Realized Worth Institute

• Devin Thorpe – also podcast & book author

• Vu Le – Nonprofit AF

• Dr. François Bonnici – system change and policy thought leader

• Daniel Nowack

• Durreen Shahnaz of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)

• Ajaita Shah of Frontier Markets

• Aunnie Patton Power of Adventure Finance

📰 Newsletters & Media Channels

• Moral Leadership

• Business Fights Poverty news and events

• Becoming Net Positive – Paul Polman

• ImpactAlpha: The Brief – David Bank

• NextBillion – Scott Anderson & James Militzer

• Moral Money – Gillian Tett

• TriplePundit – Mary Mazzoni

• Causeartist – Grant Trahant

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

• World Economic Forum: Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship

🤝 Events, Communities & Media Networks to Plug Into

• Business Fights Poverty events and community

• Reuters Sustainable Business – Simon Jessop

• Work on Climate community

• SOCAP Global

• Skoll World Forum

• Sustainable Brands

• BSR Conference

• Social Impact World – Jeremy Brown

• ACCP – Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals

• Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

• AI for Good – Global AI conference for development

• Engage for Good – Awards + events on corporate volunteering and giving

• Social Enterprise World Forum – Policy and ecosystem-building for SEs

• Pioneers Post – News and awards for social entrepreneurs

💎 Hidden Gems You Might’ve Missed

• Good Work – Dan Toomey

• Fast Company and its World Changing Awards

🔗 Bookmark the Current List

📊 Google Sheet – Living Resource

🙌 Final Thought: We Need Each Other

Solving climate, equity, and systemic challenges requires new narratives, better collaborations, and trusted information. This guide is just one way to help us all stay better connected—across roles, sectors, and borders.

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