Two more nights of Projecting Change to GO! Which movies have you seen so far?

Apart of our Projecting Change Interview Series, we had the chance to speak with restauranteur and the unofficial Mayor of Gastown, Mark Brand.

Mark was so gracious to be one of our sponsors for PCFF’s closing night gala, which will be held at Portside Pub, following the screening of Girl Rising.

Katie Schaeffers Schaeffers speaks to Mark about what it means to be a social entreprenuer and finds out what makes him curious.

Independent filmmaker Chris Farina, of World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements and I had the great good fortune of being a kick-off speaker for the Project Change Film Festival in Vancouver in 2012.

What took us both by surprise was the breadth and depth of the community, business, arts and social networks and resources flowing seamlessly together. Throughout the festival unusual, seemingly contrarian, and muscularly innovative partnerships and synergies kept emerging, swinging into action, or branching off into yet another avenue of creative reinvention of old forms and ideas, all for a new way forward. What made me so curious was how so many apparent Bodhisattvas and saints, all working for the common good, could be gathered all in one place! How could so many disparate individuals and organizations simply decide to stage, cause, and ultimately do so much good?? I’ll say this, we both can’t wait to get back to Vancouver to see what long-term effects, what real and substantial good Projecting Change brings about….for us all.

~John Hunter, Musician, teacher, filmmaker, game designer, and inventor of World Peace Games

Check out his TEDtalk, Teaching with the World Peace Game

Our Executive Director, Katie Schaeffers, speaks to Madeleine about how she started LunaPads and how her brand aims to empower women from all over the world. One of their initiative started in 2000 called Pads4Girls, committed to supporting the education (and therefore liberation) of girls. LunaPads does amazing things and definitely a change-maker in the community.

We are happy to partner with LunaPads for the screening of Girl Rising which is the centrepiece of 10×10, a global campaign to educate and empower girls.

Click below and listen to this inspiring conversation with Madeleine Shaw:

Interested in organizations that empower change? Look no further than imagine1day, a dynamic non-profit organization of change makers supporting quality education in Ethiopia. imagine1day has a goal to provide all Ethiopians with access to quality education funded free of foreign aid by 2030. How do they plan on achieving this goal? They’ve designed an innovative fundraising movement called Creatribution (hard to say, easy to do). It encourages the global community to participate in social entrepreneurism by turning their passions and talents into a contribution. Through Creatribution, people are elevating their local communities while raising awareness and funds for education projects in Ethiopia.

Projecting Change is excited to have imagine1day as a co-promotional partner for this year’s festival. We speak with change maker Michelle Lazar to discuss more about the organization and her thoughts on social entrepreneurism and fundraising.

Our amazingly talented Executive Director and Curator, Katie Schaeffers, is featured in today’s The Huffington Post Canada. She talks on how she got the best job in the world, PLUS read her advice to people who long to live the Life Out Loud!

READ HERE: http://ow.ly/jzNrs

This episode of Projecting Change Interview Series, we speak with Annalea Krebs, a social entrepreneur and Founder of ethicalDeal.

At a time where daily deal sites like Groupon are being criticized for their ‘fad-like’ business model, Kreb is staying strong and consistently GREEN!  The mission of her business is to make greener choices more accessible to the mainstream.

Kreb has come a long way from when she started EthicalDeal in 2010, with $75,000 from various grants. That’s why we are chatting with this smart change-maker: