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Kenyan inventor has designed a pair of gloves that translate signed hand movements into speech.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
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IKEA makes alternative delicious foods for the future.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Kasey O'Connell, Fif Ghobadian and Alice Cahan, Credit: Road Twenty-Two
Iran-born Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from prison.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 13:36
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Tatiana Garcia Granados started The Common Market to bring farm food to her Philadelphia neighborhood. Now she's taking on the nation's broken food...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 14:55
Caption: Budget Buddies
Kathy Brough and Anita Saville created Budget Buddies to help homeless women break free of poverty, aided by a sisterhood of volunteer personal-fin...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kryshon Bratton
Hear how Houston pool-builder Kryshon Bratton has used the entrepreneurial "pivot" to stoke growth and create the work-life balance she wants.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:57
Caption: Angelica Garcia-Dunn
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 12:45
Caption: Melissa Austria, Founder of GotStyle
Toronto retailer Melissa Austria has created thriving menswear stores that appeal to guys who hate to shop but want to look good.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:44
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Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lisa Fruchtman, San Francisco, CA 11/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lisa Fruchtman talks simple pleasures, honoring the past, and warming up to cold.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:51
Caption: Havana Road
The American Dream travels a little ways down the Havana Road. When the economy tanked in 2009, Marta Quintana lost her job and her stock portfo...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 07:11
Caption: The Girl From Empanada working it on a Friday night, Credit: Photo by Myleen Hollero
Street food is hot! But why are entrepreneurs turning to this option? For the owner of Chile Lindo, an empanada storefront, the answer is simple: i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Viki Sinipata is one of the microentrepreneurs whose loan was funded by Kiva.org users.  Her business offers support and companionship to the elderly.
A number of Web sites help Internet users fund entrepreneurs from developing countries. Now one of the biggest, Kiva.org, is allowing users to make...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 3
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In Athens, Ohio the ATCO Sheltered Workshop for developmentally disabled adults is making money - and art! Their 'outsider art' made $100,000 last ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1