Business of Feeding Hungry Children

The business model is called “one for one”. Lauren Walters CEO of 2 Degrees Food explains how his business is feeding a hungry child every time someone buys a delicious, gluten free, vegan snack bar.

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The Business Builders Show: 2 Degrees Food 2 Degrees Food is a Buy-One-Give-One Food Company. For every product YOU BUY, THEY GIVE a meal to a hungry child. We discuss this innovative business model with their CEO Lauren Walters. As often happens our guests get us thinking about other topics for the show. So we will be talking about “do overs”, reinventions we can put in place right away and we will tell you about more socially responsible companies you may want to learn more about it.
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Lauren Walters ll Hauser and Lauren Walters – old friends – decided to start a new kind of food company: one that would make healthy, delicious products and help feed hungry children around the world. They had similar backgrounds – both were the sons of 2 doctors and both decided on business careers instead of medicine. Both always believed that business and helping others were completely compatible. Will, while an undergraduate at Harvard, led Harvard Student Agencies, the largest student-run business in the world, before going to Goldman Sachs. Lauren is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, lawyer and advisor to companies and nonprofits. Lauren has appeared on NPR Marketplace, and lectured at Harvard, Babson, Sloan, Stern and Berkeley Business Schools. He has been a speaker at the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival and PAIR at Harvard most recently. Be sure to checkout his segment on the NBC Today Show with Jane Pauley to learn more about how 2 Degrees began. Both knew that working to reduce hunger and malnutrition would have a lasting impact on the lives of children around the world. While nonprofits, generous donors and governments were making a difference, Will and Lauren believed that translating ordinary purchases into donations of meals could have an even greater impact on the lives of children everywhere. 2 Degrees Food