I’ve been around non-profits for much of my career.  First, WHAT I LOVE: I love the people involved - their passion and energy are so often unparalleled in other arenas, and they’re usually very knowledgeable in terms of why society has a lot of the problems it does.  People in this world are also usually

So, as I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve got a little project going here where I’ve been interviewing Social Entrepreneurs in my hometown of Kansas City - folks who go above and beyond to innovate and bring radical change into their communities. The dude I interviewed yesterday floored me with his story (We’ll call him Dave):

“We’ve got trouble?” It was the fifth time in about as many days that I had heard this question from Arion… and, despite the fact that it generally came on the tail of some kind of classroom disturbance, it always made me smile inwardly. Arion was a troublemaker – it’s true. But he was also

Let’s be honest here—all of us in the social venture space have moments when we seriously question the difference we’re really making. Being on the front lines of social justice means that we are constantly bombarded with injustice, challenge and scarcity at a level that few others know. Now, of course our passion and our love

There’s an old story we always used to tell back in my days at City Year.  It goes like this: A young girl is walking down the beach & notices that the tide has gone out, leaving thousands of starfish on the beach to bake and die in the sun.  In her simple childhood innocence,