A New Lens with CommonGood Capital

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A New Lens with CommonGood Capital

'A New Lens' is a podcast that features conversations between Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, and investors, RIAs, fund managers and philanthropists about their experiences within different impact investing themes as well as explore the power of stewardship and capital.

  1. NOV 14

    Steven Moss on Using Your Power to Effect Change

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Steven Moss, co-founder of M. Cubed – a resource economics and public policy analysis consulting firm, about his passion for engaging the levers of society to effect positive change, the challenges of creating a for-profit company to build a solar farm to support the non-profit Agahozo-Shalom Youth […]

    36 min

  2. OCT 14

    Mike West on Combating Misinformation

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Mike West, author and Executive Chair and Chair of the Board at Lirio, a platform that influences a person’s health actions by leveraging behavioral science expertise and adapting to a person’s evolving clinical history and social context. The guys discuss Mike’s early career evolution, adapting to his […]

    34 min

  3. SEP 19

    Shiri Sandler on Healing After Genocide

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, chats with Shiri Sandler, Managing Director of Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV), about what the purpose of a “youth village” is and why Rwanda is ideal for such a model that provides a sense of familial love and opportunity, how her educational path in genocides of the past informs her […]

    57 min

  4. AUG 15

    Kendra VanderMeulen on Biblical Generosity

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Kendra VanderMeulen, CEO of the National Christian Foundation (NCF) who embodies the spirit of pioneering leadership and generosity. Kendra’s remarkable journey began in the telecommunications industry with AT&T in the 70s and 80s, where she was already on the cutting edge of technology, working on what would eventually become the […]

    38 min

  5. JUL 17

    Emmanual Nsanganwa on Growing Up Without Power

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Emmanual Nsanganwa, Investment Analyst at Fortis Green Renewables, on growing up in a small village in Rwanda with little access to power, on starting his own non-profit to provide scientific education to students, the pressure to be a good model of success for others from his village, […]

    33 min

  6. JUN 13

    Dave Clark on Helping Prisoners Connect

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Dave Clark, CEO of Promising People – which utilizes virtual reality training solutions for those struggling to find meaningful employment across the country. The guys chat about Dave’s background in real estate development, his time in prison after a 40-year Federal conviction and subsequent Presidential pardon, how […]

    40 min

  7. MAY 17

    Michael Spraggins on Quality Healthcare for Africa

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, chats with Michael Spraggins about his career as an entrepreneur and business owner, how his personal faith motivates his decisions, the founding of Lifenet International – a transformative healthcare conversion-franchise network he founded after recognizing a need for quality access to healthcare in Africa, his latest venture into renewable […]

    25 min

  8. APR 17

    Ashleigh Chapman on Scaling Solutions to End Human Trafficking

    Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, speaks with Ashleigh Chapman, a human rights lawyer and social entrepreneur, about her years of building solutions to end and prevent human trafficking as a non-profit, her realization that to effectively scale and sustain those solutions it would require an impact-focused for-profit framework, why she trains her teams on […]

    37 min
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'A New Lens' is a podcast that features conversations between Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, and investors, RIAs, fund managers and philanthropists about their experiences within different impact investing themes as well as explore the power of stewardship and capital.

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