THE MAGAZINE FOR COMMUNITY MAKERS

Sheepless.org is a media platform created by and for artists, entrepreneurs, foodies, and environmentalists. We champion the Community Makers — small businesses who make our communities more sustainable, more accessible, more creative, and more fun. Through our interviews and photographs, a series of video profiles, and providing resources and making connections, Sheepless engages with a growing interest in cultivating local economies, understanding where goods come from, and nourishing our natural resources. Launched in 2009, Sheepless.org is becoming known as a fresh new voice in our community.

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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 changing the world.

Our Team

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 the marketing director for a green tech business have all contributed to Sheepless.org. Read more about our Editorial and Design Teams by clicking on their names to the right.

 

News + Press

August 5, 2010
Sheepless Co., the design and editorial team behind Sheepless.org, is looking to expand our outreach and offerings by bringing on some new team members. We're seeking an Outreach & Development Agent, Micro Marketing Intern, and Contributing Writers from all over the country.
June 11, 2010
Our story on Cafe Moto ran on Huffington Post's Small Business News and Green News sections front pages today. We're thrilled to give further exposure to Torrey Lee and his team.
April 29, 2010
Sheepless.org invites all of our readers and friends to a reception honoring the local businesses we've profiled over the last year. Meet the editorial and creative team behind Sheepless.org, celebrate our innovative local businesses and entrepreneurs, catch the premier of our latest short video profiles, and enjoy a drink with like-minded folks in your community! Hosted by our new partners, Green Spaces in Tribeca.
April 22, 2010
We are thrilled to announce a partnership with Green Spaces, a national leader in growing and supporting green businesses and 'ecopreneurs'. We will be profiling their innovative members from Denver and NYC each month.
April 12, 2010
Arizona State University and the Entrepreneurs@ASU student organization joined forces on April 16th in celebration of World Entrepreneurship Day. Sheepless.org founder Scott Ballum was invited to judge the Innovator Challenge student grant competition, host a workshop "Competition vs. Collaboration for Small Business", and participate in the evening's panel to discuss the role of entrepreneurship for the millennial generation.
January 21, 2010
Sheepless.org made a pitch for a grant from Ashoka Changemakers and We Media. We were blown away by the supportive and encouraging comments left by friends and total strangers.
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.