Redeeming Love is an organization that was born out of the rising number of female sex-trafficking victims in the United States. Their mission is to bring restoration to survivors of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Their vision statement states, “We are a Christ following, faith-based community. We believe it is our responsibility to fight […]
Category: entrepreneurship
Everclean Car Wash
Everclean is a for profit car washing company that has a redemptive impact. Usually, ‘carwash’ and ‘redemptive’ are not two ideas that we see in the same sentence, but Thomas Kim has successfully tried to change that association. Starting by purchasing a carwash that went out of business and creating a better business model, he […]
Company Culture
How does one change a culture? Recently, I discovered a cool person named Larry Hubatka. He has some awesome content he puts out pretty much daily, and it’s usually about leadership and culture. He was just on a podcast called “Coffee Break” where he unpacked a lot of insight into how culture works and gave […]
Humphreys Street Coffee
“Drink Good Coffee for a change.” You have my attention! Humphreys Street Coffee is a business that seeks to provide jobs, mentorship opportunities, and leadership skills for teens who find themselves in an under-resourced neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee. Teens who work at Humphreys Street are provided with not only a positive financial opportunity, but also […]
Impact Foundation
What if there was a company that was set up to help redemptive minded companies get themselves off the ground and help to grow their companies. Companies like Praxis and other organizations are committed to these goals. One of these companies is the Impact Foundation. The Impact Foundation is an organization that blends the traditional […]
Do Not Boast…
“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.” ~ Proverbs 27:1 A friend of mine posted this verse on his Instagram story a few days ago. When I saw it, I didn’t fully understand what it meant or where he was coming from when he had put the […]
The Rabbit Room
The Rabbit Room is a faith-based, non-profit organization that seeks to share the beauty of God’s creation and truth through music, art, story, and poetry. Inspired by a visit to C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home, musician and author Andrew Peterson founded the Rabbit Room (named after the back room of the pub where the Oxford Inklings […]
JoyCorps
JoyCorps is a business centered around redemptive entrepreneurship and empowering businesses to drive innovation in desperate areas around the world. Since 1999, JoyCorps has been involved with businesses dedicated to economic development in the developing world. They noticed that entrepreneurs with redemptive centered ideas face tremendous challenges when it comes to running profitable businesses in […]
Pat Williams – The Man, The Myth, The Leader
You may or may not recognize the name of the NBA hall of fame member, former GM of both professional basketball and baseball teams, and author of more than 100 books (yes, I did say that correctly… 100+ books). He was also a founding member of the Orlando Magic NBA team. In many of Pat’s […]
What a D.light!
I’m sure as you sit here reading this on either your cell-phone or your computer, the thought of not having electricity at the tip of your fingers is unfathomable. Cofounders Sam Goldman and Ned Tozun of D.light discovered through research that one in three people in the world do not have the opportunity to appreciate […]