by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
In the public square of social change, rejection is intensely personal. If you believe in your mission, and if you are giving it your all, then it’s always personal. Let’s admit that every dedicated social entrepreneur takes rejection personally! Every...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Every social entrepreneur knows there if is a huge difference between burnout and bummed out. Some days, indeed most days, we in the social sector are grieving over deplorable income inequality, the pathology of poverty, grinding gender discrimination and the talent...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Good communications skills change hearts and minds, win over naysayers, convince financial backers and motivate colleagues. In the social sector’s unoriginal veneration of business plans and policy prescriptions, it is all too easy to forget that the five Cs of...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Change doesn’t happen because of good will. It happens when people of good will do tough things. When it comes to social action, it’s all too comfortable to think in grandiose terms and bold pronouncements. Words are nice, even necessary, but they are...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
My favorite sentence in Peter Dreier’s 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century is “No struggle for justice succeeds without organization.” Seasoned social entrepreneurs and practiced change agents are constantly organizing. Most visibly, societal...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Social entrepreneurs are regularly (albeit erroneously) revered and romanticized as pioneering visionaries – tenaciously overcoming groupthink, rallying followers to the cause and single-handedly building their social enterprises. The word superhero comes to...
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