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Sasseini said he had intended to break into the non-profit world since he left his position at BankBoston in 2000. He had been working as a risk management consultant for the past several years, and when Harvard Hillel offered him a position, he jumped at “the opportunity to work for a mission-driven organization which is doing some good in the world...
...they might have been for some. Dibner's husband Andrew also left a technology career (he founded Lifeline, the personal response service advertised with the unforgettable tag line "I've fallen and I can't get up") to work on his sculpture as well. Still, the change from having profit-and-loss responsibility for $300 million in revenue and 350 employees to waking up each morning and staring at clay in the basement took some getting used to. "You work so hard to get yourself where you are, and a part of your identity is the title," Dibner says candidly...
...made by someone else's children." Like her rock-star husband, Bono, Hewson is a doer, so she set up Edun, a clothing line manufactured with ethical production methods and meant to create sustainable employment in developing countries. "We wanted to show that you can make a for-profit business where everybody in the chain is treated well," she says. With factories set to roll in Peru and Tunisia, and a third planned for Lesotho, the Edun range, a partnership with U.S. label Rogan, will include everything from jeans to chiffon dresses. But Hewson isn't relying on altruism...
Tucked away in a corner of cantor Fitzgerald's London offices, beyond the sea of bond traders, four people are trying to help save the planet - and turn a nice profit along the way. They are the European staff of CO2e, a top player in the emerging global market in greenhouse-gas emissions. Owned by Cantor, the global financial- services firm, and its Japanese junior partner Mitsui & Co., CO2e's goal is to help mitigate the effects of global warming by buying and selling carbon dioxide emissions allowances. Each allowance unit gives its holder the right to emit one metric...
...that has been contributed to non-profit organizations, nearly a third went to the Boston Chapter of the Red Cross...