We round up our most popular videos of 2019
Many feature women entrepreneurs who were driven by a cause or a mission to launch a social enterprise.
At The Story Exchange, we often feature women entrepreneurs making an impact in a world that needs fixing — and 2019 was no exception. Over the course of the year, we profiled female founders who started enterprises to do everything from helping unemployed Latino immigrants find jobs to designing action figures for young girls to making affordable prosthetics for the world’s amputees.
Here are the most popular videos on The Story Exchange in 2019.
1. Her Culinary School Provides Opportunities for Immigrants
Meet Paty Funegra, founder of La Cocina VA, a social enterprise that helps unemployed Latino immigrants find jobs in the food industry by teaching them food and language skills. For the past five years, she has run the culinary-training organization from the lower floor of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church in Arlington, Virginia. But now, she’s ready to scale — and recently raised $2 million to open the Zero Barriers Training & Entrepreneurship Center, which will include a state-of-the-art kitchen incubator, a community cafe, and, she hopes, the promise of a successful future for newly arrived immigrants. Watch her startup story in this inspirational video.
2. Making Prosthetic Legs for Amputees Around the World
In this inspirational video, learn how plastics engineer ErinKeaney started Nonspec, a company that makes affordable prosthetic limbs for amputees in developing nations. Her startup’s patented “pylon” is for people who suffer limb loss below the knee. She and business partner Jonathan de Alderete decided to re-imagine the artificial limb after learning that, around the world, a person with an amputated leg couldn’t afford a high-cost prosthetic. They have raised about $1 million to fund Nonspec, mostly through grants and competition