4 Lessons From Our First 4 Years As (Social) Entrepreneurs

4 Lessons From Our First 4 Years As (Social) Entrepreneurs

Twenty years ago when we were seven years old, we sat at our grandmother’s kitchen table, pushing our veggies around our plates at Thanksgiving dinner. We’re cousins and best pals (and, at seven, we were budding shit disturbers). Just like every other family dinner,...
Meet the People Saving Seafood – and the Ocean Ecosystems

Meet the People Saving Seafood – and the Ocean Ecosystems

There are two sides to every story, and as manager of the annual Seafood Champion Awards for the nonprofit SeaWeb, I am in the enviable position of having a grandstand view of the bright side of the seafood supply chain. It is part of my job to read hundreds of...
5 Steps to Greater Accountability

5 Steps to Greater Accountability

My heart sank as I heard the news.  I sensed that not much had happened since the board retreat I facilitated for a nonprofit some months ago, and my follow-up call with the board chair confirmed what deep down inside I already knew.  Despite the fact that the board...

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