Tag: impact

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: AN INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE REGNER, CEO OF NEAR ME

Michelle is the CEO and Co-Founder of Near Me, a ‘platform as a service’ powering global brands and small businesses with a customizable peer-to-peer marketplace. Its flagship product, DesksNear.Me, is a website connecting mobile workers to available desk spaces all over the world. Michelle is passionate and heavily involved in the sharing economy – listing her car…  Read more

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: AN INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH SIMON ULVUND, GLOBAL MANAGING DIRECTOR OF IMPACT HUB

Impact Hubs make up a global network of people, places, and programs that inspire, connect and catalyze sustainable impact. Belgian Curator Marco Torregrossa had a chat with Simon to understand how collaborative consumption can bring about social innovation and achieve real impact. Tell me something about yourself and help me to figure out the link between a…  Read more

Rude Baguette: Airbnb adds €185M to Paris economy

Peer-to-peer marketplace Airbnb has released an economic study of its Airbnb hosts and guests in Paris, looking at key figures pertaining to guests & hosts. The study, which comes a few months after a similar study on Airbnb’s effect on the San Francisco economy, showed some pretty interesting stats, such as the €185 Million contributed…  Read more

WSJ: City CarShare Releases Carsharing Impact Report

  “In honor of Earth Day 2013, City CarShare, the largest nonprofit carsharing organization in North America, released an environmental report detailing the organization’s positive impact for the San Francisco Bay Area for 2012 and to-date. Results show that on Earth Day alone, 68,000 fewer miles will be driven on Bay Area roads due to…  Read more

REPORT: City CarShare’s 2013 Impact Report Fact Sheet

The Bay Area nonprofit carsharing organization City CarShare released a report outlining the impact of carsharing in San Francisco over the last year, compared with historical information. Read the report fact sheet here.