I am captivated by this great video on Dan Pink’s research on what drives people. It’s absolutely worth a watch! Want to learn more? Check out his TED Talk on motivation.

All over the country, a couple million young people are graduating from college, including my little sister, Joelle! This weekend, she graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. I’m so proud of her, I can hardly stand it. It’s been an amazing celebration weekend with all of our family in town from Ohio, Georgia and Virginia.

A term I’m hearing more and more these days is “social entrepreneur.” In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate “social value”, rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to create and manage a venture to make social change.

I recently read Half the Sky, by Nick Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn. To be quite honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of the book. But I think that the organizations he highlighted were impressive and innovative, and were able to tackle big challenges through their own innovative approaches.

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, but my recent engagement has brought it to the fore again. Yes, I’m engaged…it’s awesome and scary all at once. That subject may deserve its own post at sometime in the future.

I know I haven’t done Feature Friday in a really long time, but I’m planning to start again; there are so many amazing organizations and people I keep running across that I’d really like to highlight. This week, I’m going to be talking about Youth Represent.

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” Desiderius Erasmus

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As you may (or may not) know, I now work for a really great non-profit, and when I first found out about this devastating disease I had never heard of, I was many things... sad, angry, confused, passionate...

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Have you ever been frustrated about the impact of your efforts? I have–even when we’ve been successful, if not especially then.

New Insight on My Life, My Passions, My Goals, and My Purpose has led me to reevaluate my Career Plan…

Man, I hate natural disasters.

It’s not just because they give me that feeling of powerless and impotence against the forces of nature. It’s not because of a sense of fatalism about the downfall of human society as mother Earth strikes back at us for our transgressions. And it has nothing to do with how I feel about the loss of human life.

No, the real reason that I hate natural disasters is because of all of the charities.

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Via my brother in law (and Katya's Non-profit Marketing Blog) comes the following chart from Mint.com, which answers the age old question, what equals 3 Frenchman, 7 Germans, or 14 Italians?:

1. Build up two non-profits from scratch (one for each of my hardworking parents who never get around to it.)

The nonprofit goal wasn't that bad... I did set up one nonprofit for my father; right now is called "The Intelligency Group"we have many ideas in the hanger waiting to take off with the right amount of money.

2. Add Grant Writing and Fundraising to the series of my reprotoire.

So for number two I had Grant writing and fundraising...I took three grants and tried to really push the envelope by finishing all of these in the fall for spring approval. I really didn't know how much Work Grant writing is Because I have never done it before (obviously, I'm just 21 years old).