We asked members of the community how their organizations help the community. We’ve shared some of the responses below.

Chenita Cook

While the primary focus of a teeth whitening business is aesthetic enhancement, it can also play a role in promoting oral health awareness, economic growth, community engagement, and environmental responsibility. Read more>>

Jonathan Mensah

My social impact helps because I give back to the community through the game of basketball. Read more>>

ZERO

Social impact: how does your business help the community or the world? At ZERO, we are deeply committed to making a positive impact on the community and the world. Our business strives to promote sustainability and ethical practices within the fashion industry, addressing the environmental and social challenges it poses. Read more>>

Robin Rise

During these past 3 decades, I’ve also been a single mom. I had to choose between career focus or mother focus in ways men don’t. I wanted to be there for my daughters, in the ways I always needed growing up. It isn’t a REAL option for single moms to do both. We already carry the burden of childcare and home care, and the emotional labor of a family but to add a career or job “work” is impossible, at least to do it happily. Something’s gotta give. I wanted to be sure my girls had a solid foundation upon which to launch into their future. That’s what mattered most to me. More than anything, I want my girls (and all girls in the future) to be treated with the same options, rights and value as men. We still aren’t paid the same, promoted the same, represented or researched the same. It’s still not the case all these years later, and that needs to be addressed. At best, women make 81 cents to the dollar, are in leadership less than 25%, women retire with 30 % less than men, and after the pandemic or “inequality virus” women lost 800B dollars and are experiencing what is known as the She-cession. Truth is, it’s not working for anyone, most importantly, our future. The world so out of balance cannot survive, let alone thrive. It’s why Woman Optimized knows that when women know themselves, connect and unite with others, we can and will change the world. The Dalai Lama himself said “it is the Western Woman will change the world”. Read more>>

Amber Pennington

Advocate, Actor, Producer, Artist, Activist, Entrepreneur.I’m proudly a jack of all trades from actor to entrepreneur. In all of my businesses have always strove to help people, or aide a cause in some way. I’ve done things from create activist short films (Duality; looking at the chaos that erupted in 2020), to create a financial recovery business to help those severely in debt, to organizing a recycling business to create a cleaner world. My most recent movie is making its rounds in various film festivals (Order to Kill), and its theme was meant to open peoples’ eye to different mental illnesses such as addition and depression. I act, I create, I take calculated risks to push the envelope and in one way or another help people. I have two main projects ahead of me. Read more>>

Jonathan Denzel

The Gazelle Club helps the community by making it more convenient to live a healthy lifestyle. Whether it’s fighting through LA traffic, traveling to your home, apartment, hotel gym, local park, beach, or online I am committed to making training accessible and irresistible to promote a healthier lifestyle. The Gazelle Club is a one-stop destination for a wide range of services, eliminating the need to visit multiple establishments. By streamlining the process, I can alleviate any anxiety associated with adopting a healthy lifestyle, allowing the community to truly live it to the fullest. Read more>>

Elizabeth Clark

I truly believe the way someone brings their baby into the world, sets the stage for their entire experience as a parent. In helping bring babies earth side with parents who are educated and empowered, I believe that we are helping make systemic changes for the future. Modern America’s birth system is not set to help the birthing person or families. In fact, we have one the worst maternal mortality rates in the world. I believe by helping mamas-to-be learn their rights, learn their bodies, and feel empowered to make choices around their birth, they are paving the way for a future generation. Read more>>

Stacey Simmons

The two things I am most passionate about seem somewhat divergent, but they both impact mental health. First I am a psychedelic psychotherapist. Psychedelics have the potential to revolutionize mental health care. From Treatment Resistant Depression to PTSD, psychedelics can do more in a month than years of therapy. The other is that in my research I discovered a transformational form of women-driven story that is an analog to the Hero’s Journey, and it’s NOT a heroine’s journey. This changes the center of gravity for women’s narrative- whether we’re talking about personal narratives in psychotherapy or the structure of blockbuster films- it changes how we see women’s stories on an archetypal level. Read more>>

Xin Zinc

I’d say for people who are doing the kind of work I’m doing, which is storytelling, rarely do we think about the financial outcome in the end. Does it make money? You’d never know. Does it make our lives easier? Depends. Will you ever be successful? Who knows. So why do we do it? You might ask. I know at least for me, I tell stories so that other people like me could see a light that is so empowering that maybe, just maybe they’d feel a little bit more hopeful for their lives. I know I’m a storyteller and a theater maker at a very young age. Growing up, as an introverted nonbinary child, fit-in was never possible for me. Read more>>