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...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Social change requires tenacity, strength of commitment and old-fashioned hard work. Bluntly, you may not be tough enough. If social and economic justice is your chosen career path, you can’t avoid hard work. Social change work demands rigor: rigorous thinking...
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...
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