by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Are you a social sector job-seeker? Feeling frozen out of your future change-the-world job? Reluctant to enter the fray? Fear of failure stopping you from a career as a social entrepreneur? Café Impact’s latest executive leadership video, How-To Snag A Social...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
In the course of interviewing dozens of Café Impact social entrepreneurs from multiple continents working on a multiplicity of issues using a myriad of social change methodologies, one bit of advice emerged over and over again: Listen. Learn to be a good listener. I...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
If you have parents, your social activism career just might, with any luck at all, turn out OK. For some social sector activists, parents are hurdles to be pushed out of the way. The poem Journey for Justice repeats an time-worn generational story, “i struggle...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
To describe itself to itself and to attract new converts, it is common these days for the nonprofit sector to talk in terms of investment – obscuring the legal and legitimate lines between grants and donations versus opportunities to make money by doing good...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Fighting the good fight means big challenges, big ideas, big solutions. In humble contrast, the menial and mind-numbing grunt work required of the social change-maker is tiring and tedious. Accurately and also arrogantly, you know grunt work is below your station,...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
This year, a mentor died. A friend moved on. A social enterprise started sinking. Each loss leaves its unique echo of disappointment and the haunting inner voices of recrimination: I wish I had spent more time with my mentor. I wish I had said this, or not said that,...