August 26, 2019 7 min read This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Kenton Lee was traveling through Nairobi when he had, as he says jokingly, “the only idea I’ve ever had.” He saw an orphan girl’s shoes that were way too small; someone had cut off the front so her toes could stick through. “Right there, I thought, Wouldn’t it be nice if there were shoes that could grow?” Then he went home to Boise, Idaho, developed a shoe that expands five sizes, and founded the nonprofit Because International — which today, 12 years … Continue reading Why Charities Are Launching For-Profit Businesses