Most of the media often paints all businesses with a single stroke, but in our experience businesses are each unique and so many of them are focused on making the world a better place. We’ve highlighted a few such gems below.

Jennifer Bailey | Hair stylist

I believe Hair Rituals helps the community by providing good quality hair services at a fair price, allowing my clients to build their confidence and help them express themselves. I also have a focus on creating a safe space for the LGBTQIA+ community so that everyone who sits in my chair feels welcome. Read more>>

Zemorah Yisrael | Visual Artist & Owner of Aleph Beith Artistry

Spirituality is a major aspect of the human experience, but I don’t believe that we (as a whole) put enough attention into this area within our daily lives. Everything has a dual nature and spirituality has a lot more to do with the mind than we think. This is one of the big reasons why the first item that we began selling within my business was affirmation boards . What we tell ourselves everyday is important: the big things and the small things. Read more>>

Rich Ganley | PIE – positive impact executive

We deliver effective tools to improve the emotional, mental, physical and family health of our Public Safety personnel. This will substantially reduce costs for our cities and help with recruitment, retention, morale and other important factors for these types of critical positions. Read more>>

Stacie Shepard | CEO, The Good Shepards Foundation

We started as a dog walking and training business- as we began to grow and become more well known in our community, we started getting requests to bring our best trained dogs to places like teen group homes, senior living facilities, scouting events, etc. We decided to make it official be starting a 501c(3) nonprofit foundation so we could expand on the concept and meet the needs of more groups. Read more>>