TEDxGrandRapids - Salah Boukadoum - Innovate: Philanthropy

The Good Returns model shows how one small twist can turn capitalism into a force for solving global problems.


Speaker Bio: Salah Boukadoum, 43, teaches business leaders how to structure their organizations to increase positive impact in our world. Originally an internationally touring concert pianist, Salah is a lifelong entrepreneur who has been building and selling businesses since age 27. His most recent Dallas-based venture, Soap Hope, is a for-profit company that invests every dollar of profit into organizations that lift women from poverty. Salah is the inventor of the Good Returns model, in which a business dedicates all dividends to a year of service to society before they can be payed to shareholders. Salah has a vision and plan to teach 1,000 businesses to implement Good Returns and thereby create one billion dollars for social good.

http://www.soaphope.com

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[nmccuistion]

Thank you again for what you do and who you are. We almost all have the power to change the world- and you actually step up and do it.

Niki

[sonicfrogdotnet]

Mike... He's a great guy! He lived down the street from me when we were kids. He taught me to play chess and speak French... thought the French didn't take.

[rmmartin3]

Good Returns is GREAT!

[mikewilkinson2]

I know him personally and he is truly awesome. He is very intelligent and has a heart of gold.

[valken666]

this guy's a hero, hope many listen to his speeches