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"In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact. \nBy harnessing the power of digital technology, these five companies have altered commonplace models such as crowdfunding and toy development to change the world for the better. While the companies are diverse, they share a common thread: A passionate leader who's devoted to improving lives. \nHere's a roundup of featured projects from the last week, including exclusive video interviews with the founders of these innovative startups. To read more and watch the videos, click through to the full story, and follow the series to learn about more breakthrough companies.\n1. Skillshare\nBig Idea: Skillshare provides an online hub for people to sign up to teach or attend offline classes. \nWhy It's Working: Skillshare allows anyone to teach a class \u2014 and make money while doing so. Users choose to learn topics in five main categories at very little cost: creative arts, culinary arts, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and technology.  Read the full story here.\n2. Indiegogo\nBig Idea: Indiegogo is a  crowdfunding platform that also helps users amplify their project through a special \"gogofactor.\" The more traction a campaign gains, the more eyes will see it.\nWhy It's Working: Indiegogo relies on \"user democracy\" \u2014 anybody can raise money for anything, and the power of the funders helps dictate what catches fire and ends up on the website's homepage. The result is that those looking for funding can reach new audiences to help get their work realized.\nRead the full story and see the video here.\n3. Love With Food\nBig Idea: Love With Food is asubscription-based online food gourmet delivery service that sends tasty morsels directly to your door. For every box of treats it delivers, Love With Food donates an equivalent amount of money to a local food bank.\nWhy It's Working: Smaller food producers often have trouble affording marketing and distribution services, and one in every five American children are going hungry. Love With Food is helping to solve both of those problems in one fell swoop.\nRead the full story here.\n4. Zaarly\nBig Idea: Zaarly is a marketplace for anything \u2014 whether you want to send your wife flowers, have someone bring you dinner or need someone to mow your lawn. Sellers are hiring locally and keeping money within the community, while providers are putting money in their pockets.\nWhy It's Working: Zaarly enables anyone to become an entrepreneur \u2014 whether you want to pick up some extra cash or be a full-time Zaarly user, the platform empowers people in Zaarly markets to get things done. And if you're a small business that needs a little bit of help doing errands or filing paperwork, there's an eager person waiting for you on Zaarly.\nRead the full story and see the video here.\n5. Jerry the Bear\nBig Idea: Jerry the Bear is a robotic teddy bear that \"has\" diabetes. Children are able to take care of Jerry by checking his blood glucose levels, giving him \"insulin shots\" and \"feeding\" him a variety of foods.\nWhy It's Working: Targeted specifically to children living with type 1 diabetes, Jerry helps sick kids not only learn about the procedures that are performed on them daily but also empowers them to understand the importance of symptom-checking and self-care.\nRead the full story here.\n\nWhat do you think of the efforts of these startups and foundations? Let us know in the comments below."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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