How Kind World Collective Is Championing Purpose-driven Recruiting, Meal-Delivery Platform Empowering Immigrants and Refugees and More!

Dear friends,

The data over the last ten years is powerful, clear, and irrefutable: business can and should be leveraged as a powerful force for good. There’s also a growing movement of people seeking more depth and meaning in their professional lives. They want to play a critical role in helping purpose-led companies succeed, in turn, creating a kinder, cleaner, and more connected world for all. And so, this is the moment when Kind World Collective was born to help both mission-driven companies to match with purpose-driven talent and individuals to find an inspirational place to work and pursue their passion and “North star”.

Afdhel caught up with Tauna Dean , the positive, warm and inspiring Founder and Principal Recruiter at Kind World Collective to chat about what led her to start of this purpose-driving recruiting and consulting and how the company helps clients like Nordstrom, Unless and the Portland Trailblazers to create this kinder, cleaner and more connected world. Check out the full interview below.

And as always, here’s your weekly roundup of the most inspiring and innovative stories in social impact from around the world.

Be kind, be good and look after each other,

Afdhel and Bobby

TOP STORIES THIS WEEK

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How Kind World Collective Is Championing Purpose-Driven Recruiting to Build a Better World: Read the full story of Tauna Dean and her mission to create a kinder, better and more connected world.?

Campaigns We Love: Couples have flocked to the Park of Love in Lima, Peru since it opened on Valentine’s Day in 1993. The theme is represented by mosaics with quotes about love and a central elevated sculpture called The Kiss, depicting a man and a woman embracing and kissing. For the park’s 30th anniversary, digital wallet Yape and agency 121 Latam sought to produce a more inclusive depiction of love by building a replica of the sculpture’s platform, allowing visitors to create their own versions of The Kiss .?

How IKEA Is Helping This Nonprofit Transport 5,000 Emergency Shelters to Turkey: Recent devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has left over million people homeless in freezing temperatures. The Swedish homeware giant has paired up with its longstanding non-profit partner Better Shelter, not only to pay for 5000 flatpack shelters, but also mobilized its delivery partners, cutting down the transportation time from many months to only three weeks.

Industry Transforming Architecture: London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has unveiled the Black & White Building , a mass-timber office building designed for The Office Group in Shoreditch with a slatted tulipwood facade. This "tallest mass-timber office building in central London" was built from a combination of beech, pine and spruce timber, making it visible sustainable and is dismantlable and can be disassembled rather than demolished at the end of its life with its materials reused.?

Meal-Delivery Platform Shef Empowers Immigrants and Refugees: Providing cooking opportunities, as well as programs for refugees, this for-profit platform breaks barriers to food entrepreneurship. Unlike other food delivery services, Shef uses local, home cooks that are trained and safety certified, offering a diverse and authentic array of meals, homemade by cooks who grew up with that culture and whose recipes have been passed down for generations. For cooks, Shef provides a platform where they can share their culture, generate income and work from home at their own schedule.

Ideas We Love: Artful toilets by world-class designers are popping up around Tokyo, illustrating what’s possible when public money is used efficiently. Clad in colorful transparent glass, each cube-shaped facility becomes opaque when the doors lock, guaranteeing privacy. The Tokyo Toilet Project aims to bring Japan’s high-hygiene standards, artistic sensibilities, and emphasis on omotenashi (hospitality) to communal bogs.

Climate Change Movie We Can’t Wait to See: Created by writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns, the forthcoming star-studded drama (featuring the likes of?Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Yara Shahidi, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, and Tobey Maguire) introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Extrapolation dissects eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from all over the world and will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population.

“You cannot learn anything when you are talking.”

-??????Linda Zimmerman, Texas, The New York Times reader