New Impact Offerings, Building Together for Greater Impact, Funding Climate Solutions, Reviving Vintage Vision, and Raising Real MVPs!
This week’s highlights feature new impact offerings, community building, climate-focused investing, creative entrepreneurship, and character-driven children’s entertainment.
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Impakt IQ Featured Among New Impact Offerings - October 6, 2025
Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:
Impact offerings determined by our proprietary analysis.
Offerings with minority founders.
Deals with women founders.
Those with LGBTQ founders.
Sometimes, it takes weeks for our source to determine that a company has a social impact, a woman, minority or LGBTQ founder. When we discover an offering qualifies for our list, even if it is no longer new, we will include it. See the lists below.
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Crew, Not Passengers: How Everyday Investors Can Fund Climate Solutions
The science is settled. The suffering is not. In the past few years, we’ve watched “once in a century” floods, smoke-darkened skies, and heat waves turn from outliers into a season. The world set a new record for warmth in 2024, and the U.S. alone tallied 27 separate weather disasters topping a billion dollars each. None of this is an abstraction; it’s the bill for our choices coming due. The decisive point is this: humans caused the warming, and we have the agency—and obligation—to change the trajectory. (IPCC)
What’s unambiguous now is also empowering. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states plainly that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land. That means human choices can cool them again. While governments and big companies must act, I’m convinced individuals—acting as consumers, neighbors, and investors—are indispensable. We don’t wait on a better future; we build it. (IPCC)
Innovation’s job: make the cleaner choice the easy choice
Technology won’t erase past harm. But innovation can remove the “sacrifice tax” that slows adoption of cleaner options—and that’s when systems change. Take EVs. We all know that road-trip charging anxiety has been a brake on adoption. The good news: charging networks are scaling up fast. Globally, more than 1.3 million public charging points were added in 2024 alone—roughly equal to the entire global stock just five years earlier. In the U.S., the number of fast-charging ports has jumped more than 80% in two years. Batteries are getting better, allowing faster charging, too. Speed, reliability, and density are trending in the right direction, which makes the decision to drive electric feel less like an act of virtue and more like a normal, good choice. (IEA)
Giving Vintage Vision New Life: Maureen Ryza’s AZYR Specs
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The spark came on a film set. Maureen Ryza—then working in costume design—was dressing characters for a story set in 1975 when she saw what the right frames could do. “A single moment in time sparked AZYR Specs, I remember it vividly,” she says. “I was dressing the characters to portray the decade, and I abruptly noticed how they were transformed when they put vintage eyewear on their face. More than an accessory, it was a persona. It IS a persona.” There was just one problem: “Most of these glasses had old prescription lenses in them, deeming them unusable.”
Out of that limitation, Ryza glimpsed a bigger mission. “Coming from the fashion industry, I had always been uneasy about its wastefulness,” she explains. “This felt like my chance to make a change. What came next, is the beginning of AZYR Specs.” The early days were scrappy and tactile—“a plethora of old vintage glasses on eBay, immersion in the decade 1970s [day in, day out], and a trusty optician”—and they led to the company’s guiding line: “A way to give vintage eyewear new life while redefining how we see ourselves.”
That ethos informs both the product and the purpose. “We solve the problem of mass-produced, wasteful eyewear by transforming forgotten frames into wearable collector’s pieces,” Ryza says. “We like to call them heirlooms in the making.” She points to a cultural shift favoring authenticity: “In a world increasingly defined by technology, now more than ever, people are craving objects with human touch, history, and imperfections.” AZYR Specs aims to deliver exactly that “through refined vintage eyewear.”
Raising Real MVPs: How Mel Sauder is Changing Children’s Lives with Character-Driven Entertainment
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MVP Kids helps children build character and resilience through multimedia tools like books and animation.
Mel Sauder’s passion for kids inspired him to create 16 diverse characters kids can relate to.
The company’s animated series is being developed with storytelling legend John Semper.
MVP Kids is raising capital via NetCapital, with a $2.5M match from animation studio Toonz.
Mel’s mission is to empower parents and educators to raise compassionate, high-character children.
Victory Hemp Foods Sweeps Superpowers for Good Live Pitch, Winning Both Judges’ Choice and SuperCrowd Awards
STOCKTON, CA, October 10, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Victory Hemp Foods, led by founder and CEO Chad Rosen, captured both top honors at tonight’s Superpowers for Good Live Pitch—the Judges’ Choice award and the SuperCrowd (audience choice) award. In a tight vote with a standout field, the dual win signals strong conviction from both professional investors and the live audience. All four presenting companies were worthy of investment consideration and delivered compelling, impact-driven cases for growth.
“I’m thrilled to announce that Victory Hemp Foods swept the competition tonight—earning the confidence of our judges and the enthusiasm of our audience,” said Devin D. Thorpe, Executive Producer and Host of Superpowers for Good and CEO of The Super Crowd, Inc. “The voting was close, and every founder brought their A-game. Chad and his team exemplify what impact crowdfunding is about: building a real business that creates value while doing good.”
Discover This Week's Impact Crowdfunding Success Stories 🎉
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Upcoming SuperCrowd Event Calendar
If a location is not noted, the events below are virtual.
SuperCrowdHour, October 15, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern. Devin Thorpe, CEO and Founder of The Super Crowd, Inc., will lead a session on “The Perfect Pitch: Creating an Irresistible Offering.” As a former investment banker and author, Devin will guide entrepreneurs through the process of crafting a regulated investment crowdfunding offering that aligns with investor expectations and captures attention. In this session, he’ll share what makes a pitch compelling, how to structure terms that attract capital, and practical strategies for presenting your company’s story in a way that resonates with investors. Whether you’re launching your first community raise or refining a current campaign, this SuperCrowdHour will equip you with the tools to stand out and secure investor support. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to transform your vision into a pitch investors can’t resist.
Impact Cherub Club Meeting hosted by The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, on October 28, 2025, at 1:30 PM Eastern. Each month, the Club meets to review new offerings for investment consideration and to conduct due diligence on previously screened deals. To join the Impact Cherub Club, become an Impact Member of the SuperCrowd.
SuperGreen Live, January 22–24, 2026, livestreaming globally. Organized by Green2Gold and The Super Crowd, Inc., this three-day event will spotlight the intersection of impact crowdfunding, sustainable innovation, and climate solutions. Featuring expert-led panels, interactive workshops, and live pitch sessions, SuperGreen Live brings together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and activists to explore how capital and climate action can work hand in hand. With global livestreaming, VIP networking opportunities, and exclusive content, this event will empower participants to turn bold ideas into real impact. Don’t miss your chance to join tens of thousands of changemakers at the largest virtual sustainability event of the year.
Community Event Calendar
Successful Funding with Karl Dakin, Tuesdays at 10:00 AM ET - Click on Events.
Regulated Investment Crowdfunding Summit 2025, Crowdfunding Professional Association, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2025.
Impact Accelerator Summit is a live in-person event taking place in Austin, Texas, from October 23–25, 2025. This exclusive gathering brings together 100 heart-centered, conscious entrepreneurs generating $1M+ in revenue with 20–30 family offices and venture funds actively seeking to invest in world-changing businesses. Referred by Michael Dash, participants can expect an inspiring, high-impact experience focused on capital connection, growth, and global impact.
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