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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. Real progress however, is more messy and less linear.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. She’s 37.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Looking at a recent release of data from The Great Social Enterprise Census , only a fifth are larger than $2 million in budget, just 8% employ more than a 100 people, and 60% were founded in the past 8 years, when the movement really began to gain momentum. Social enterprise in the U.S. is a fast-growing, but fragmented, movement.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

federal budget goes to foreign aid. It is actually only 1% of the federal budget, or $35 billion for all nonmilitary assistance. Further, how can we engender the rock star aura of American entrepreneurship in places where NGO and government jobs are safer career bets for would-be, could-be, should-be startup founders?