FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE, ACCESSIBLE, CREATIVE,
& COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ECONOMY

Sheepless.org is a community-supported magazine site, provoking, celebrating, and providing critical exposure for a new breed of entrepreneurs forging vocations that serve the common good, whether environmental, social, educational, cultural, or community-driven.

Our Entrepreneurs

Focusing on the drive and personality of the mission-driven entrepreneur, Sheepless.org brings to light the similarities between one’s efforts to connect farmers with consumers, and another’s goal to provide educational resources to the underserved, or to support themselves through artistic and creative pursuits.

These pioneering activists and entrepreneurs are proving we can replace profit-driven corporate models with startups founded on convictions, without ignoring a very real bottom line. Self-sustaining businesses that create secure employment while having a positive social impact, and a small environmental one, are being encouraged and offered to young people or those seeking new opportunities as viable and celebrated career possibilities.

Who We Are

Sheepless.org’s contributors are entrepreneurs and sustainable business advocates. We work for small community-oriented companies, have founded ETSY stores, and are working artists. Some of us are adept social media networkers, while others are seasoned freelance journalists. Professional photographers and award-winning illustrators, a certified public accountant, and a marketing outreach coordinator for a green tech business have all contributed to Sheepless.org.

 

News + Press

January 21, 2010
Sheepless.org is running for a substantial grant from Ashoka Changemakers and We Media. While we are looking into ways for Sheepless to be fully self-sustaining, seed funding to keep us in motion until that stage is crucial. Positive comments on the pitch's page could help in the review process. If you've gained anything from this project thus far, or are looking forward to seeing it grow, please visit, share, comment, and help us perfect our pitch!
December 16, 2009
Scott Ballum's article 'Don't Start a Social Enterprise -- Unless You Have To' is published on Huffington Post's Small Business lead page.
October 13, 2009
Sheepless' design for socially engaged businesses is included in “The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture,” an exhibition organized in recognition of SVA Advertising and Graphic Design Department Chair Richard Wilde’s 40th anniversary at the College, featuring iconic and culturally significant works by select alumni from all four decades of Wilde’s tenure.
August 7, 2009

Sheepless Co. is honored by All Day Buffet in their list NEWYork100: highlighting 100 of the most innovative, rule- breaking, model-changing ideas to come out of the Big Apple.

June 8, 2009
Scott is the featured interview in the Art Directors Club Newsletter.
April 15, 2009
Sheepless Co. opens for business amongst green entrepreneurs at Green Spaces in downtown Brooklyn.
February 12, 2009
"SVA:Scott" is a new commercial promoting Graphic Design at SVA by film maker Hillman Curtis.
February 11, 2009
My 'manifesto', a recent essay titled 'Self, and Importance', has been published by invitation on ChangeThis.
January 13, 2009
An interview with Scott Ballum, and his friends, about how The Consume®econnection Project is effecting their lives, is featured on NPR's All Things Considered.
December 16, 2008
The Art Directors Annual 87 is released at the ADC Holiday Party in New York. Designed by Scott Ballum and C&G Partners.
October 31, 2008
Interesting:New York invited Scott to speak about the Consume®econnection Project in September. Videos of the day's speakers are available on Vimeo.
September 16, 2008
Allison Mooney interviewed Scott Ballum for PSFK, a popular blog on trends and inspiration, following his Interesting:New York presentation.
August 22, 2008
GOOD Magazine featured a piece on Scott's Consume®econneciton Project.
August 20, 2008
Creative for a Cause has included Sheepless and Consume®evolution in it's Role-Models and Publications sections.