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SHARE Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Melinda Rolfs’ innovation journey began in 2014—the year her attention was first drawn to charitable giving. While working at Mastercard Advisors, the company’s consulting arm, she observed that “there seemed to be one major natural disaster after another. And in our offices there was one of those big screen TVs with CNN on it, and I was just constantly seeing these images of people who had so little to begin with and had lost absolutely everything.” This caused her to wonder what Mastercard could do to help the organizations providing relie...

Being an expert navigator is the key to innovation success Innovators must prepare for their journey like adventurers: studying the conditions and being prepared to respond to dynamic elements along their path. Photograph by Klaus Vedfelt Whenever Swiss explorer Sarah Marquis tells people about her newest expedition, she gets the same reaction: “You’re crazy!” If she listened to these people, she’d cease to explore at all. Marquis is an adventurer who’s spent much of her adult life trekking solo through some of the world’s most forbidding regions, from deserts to jungles to mount...

Voters in Milton Township this week rejected a proposed referendum that sought to create a new government entity that opponents say could have meant a tax increase of 350%. With Illinois residents already paying the highest property taxes in the country as a percentage of home value, Advocacy group Breakthrough Ideas was among the organizations encouraging taxpayers to make a stand for themselves. “This is a big victory for local taxpayers,” Jeanne Ives, CEO and co-founder of the organization launched earlier this year said in a press release. “We believe another tax would be a financia...

Breakthrough Ideas, a public advocacy and education network, is opposing the tax hike that it says could derail many businesses and impoverish families and individuals in Milton Township. Jeanne Ives is the co-founder and CEO of Breakthrough Ideas and she is launching a campaign to oppose the tax hike.