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Sixteen years ago, Gigi Mander founded Outsource Resource International, a one-person business that markets other companies' products overseas. For her second act, she intends to eliminate world poverty.
Mander, who grew up in the Philippines, dreams of buying hundreds of acres of farmland, starting in either Asia or Africa. On that land, she would install irrigation systems that recycle water and erect green modular housing, schools, and clinics. She would then relocate poor peasant farmers to these "sustainable villages," provide them with seeds and modern equipment, and sell their crops through the network of brokers and companies she has cultivated over years of marketing products as diverse as lingerie and coal all over the world.
