The formula is simple; identify an everyday life “problem” that impacts a large number of people. Next step, create a product or service that solves the problem and deliver the solution (your product or service) to the people who have the problem. This is entrepreneurship. This is the formula that I was taught while starting [...]
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If It’s Not Core to Your Business, Don’t Bother with CSR
What is the state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) today? For the most part, we hear stories of companies touting minor, internal achievements that are far removed from the core of their businesses. While any step forward is a win, should switching to recycled paper, turning off lights on weekends or setting up a cosmetic [...]
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Defining “Social Entrepreneurship”
“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit … then the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason for existence.” — Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company (1863 – 1947) One of my co-contributors, Matthew [...]
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Unlocking Intrapreneurship with Language
If it is true, as has been said, that all change begins with language, then it is equally true that the inability to change begins with language as well. The wealth of jargon used to describe intrapreneurship (itself a bit of jargon), innovation and corporate social responsibility is more exhausting than enriching, and as their [...]
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Who (doesn’t) run the world? Girls.
Only 20% of political leaders in the world are women. Women leaders are under-represented in every country, from Nepal, where my organization works, to the United States, where despite recent gains, only 20% of Congress is female. In 2010, I co-founded Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Kathmandu, Nepal, because I [...]
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1 Thing Silicon Valley Can’t Teach Social Entrepreneurs
There has been a really popular article floating around on my twitter feed called “6 Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs”. After reading it, I was like: “Awesome!” I liked it. But then I realized one major component was left out – a big thing, the one thing that Silicon Valley definitely cannot teach Social [...]
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It All Started in a Dorm Room.
When people ask me how on earth I ended up starting my non-profit Women LEAD at the age of 20, I often don’t know what to respond. The process of starting Women LEAD is full of moments of luck meeting opportunity. If you had told me 4 years ago that I would be co-founding a [...]
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SocialChange.is About the Journey
It’s 3:55 in the morning on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 – launch day for SocialChange.is. As I type this post in bed, I know I won’t be getting any more sleep tonight. I woke up about an hour ago and have been thinking about everything that needs to happen today. All the emails I need [...]
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Part-Time Social Entrepreneur, Full-Time Changemaker
I’m going to be entirely honest: I’m only a part-time social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneur has been my working title for the past few years, but just two weeks ago–I’ve decided this term does not fully describe what I do. *** Sitting on the floor in her two-room hut, we shared a pot of coffee. We’d [...]
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Why I Left Washington Politics for Social Enterprise
Three years ago, I never would have imagined that today I would be working with a social enterprise in India. From a young age, I was instilled with a strong sense of social justice, a passion for international affairs, and a desire to serve my community and country. I was highly influenced by my pro-bono [...]
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The Accidental Entrepreneur
I was working in New York City on “Madison Avenue” at a huge, international advertising agency living out my first dream, but I couldn’t let go of this calling to go to Africa. I felt unsettled, undecided, and knew that I had to take action. I decided to take a sabbatical from work and had [...]
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From Football to Sustainable Fashion, My Journey to SustainU
I’ve always felt that my life had a purpose that went beyond a paycheck, accomplishment, or accolade. I have to honestly say that I didn’t always know how I could make a living doing something more altruistic or even find a job that met the criteria I envisioned. But as life has reminded me through [...]
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Diving, Sinking, and Swimming
A month before my 24th birthday, I was fatigued, directionless, and jaded from role playing in a life that wasn’t my own. Up to that point in my life, I made a lot of safe decisions, many that weren’t directed at my happiness. I decided to change this habit and made the rash decision of quitting my stable, [...]
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Design, Capacity and Change
In the early winter of 2007 my partner, Kate Hanisian, and I would recap our work days over a glass of wine in the window of our apartment in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. She was working as the Development Director at a local non-profit that focused on criminal justice reform and I was working [...]
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