I realize that I may sound like a stereotypical American in this post but I just need to take a moment to vent. When we first moved into our current accommodation, we asked if there were laundry facilities on site or if there was someone on staff we could pay to do our laundry. The [...]
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It feels like I’ll I’ve been doing is working but fortunately next week work and travel are coming together at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (CESP) where I’ll be giving a talk about social enterprise models, social medial, email marketing, and funding opportunities with Changemakers. If you’re in Singapore [...]
Well, even though we have a card confirming our status as transients, we are feeling nice and settled. Hard to believe we’ve been here over a month but fortunately we have another two and a half to go. In thinking about our time in Malaysia, we’re essentially doing a semester abroad so I suppose it [...]
This blog post will be longer than most (and with fewer pictures) but I promise there will be plenty of juicy details. So, like many people in their early to mid-twenties, my now-husband and I decided that we were ready for an adventure and actually had a few skills/experiences that might be of value to [...]
As some of you already know, Dan and I have ended our working relationship with the organization we were volunteering with in Malaysia. Let’s just say that it wasn’t a good match and there were enough red flags after three weeks that we couldn’t envision ourselves staying a moment longer. All and all, it’s been [...]
Things have been incredibly busy since returning to KL. In addition to my speech, there’s been a flurry of work-related excitement and opportunities. Also, we continue to map out various trips. Next up: Melaka for a week starting on Friday, Singapore in mid-October, and hopefully Thailand at the end of October. And now for some [...]
Just wanted to share a post on entrepreneurs.my about my speaking gig this weekend. Interestingly, I had already included a slide about them in my presentation since they seemed like a great hub for entrepreneurs in Malaysia and I liked their site. Small world! Tagged: Ashoka, Changemakers, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Malaysia, Social Enterprise, Social Media
Well, we finally have Internet again after some connectivity issues last week so I thought I’d give this blog thing another go. We’ve been in Penang since Monday and we head back to KL tomorrow so I can give a speech on Saturday. All in all, we’ve been very productive while taking some time every [...]
Since Dan is working hard on a complicated budget for a grant application due later today (seems like less fun than yesterday’s video editing), I thought I’d write a quick update. I’m preparing a speech on social enterprise and spent the day researching the field in Malaysia. I came across a few orgs that stood [...]
Just wanted to thank Rachel for posting the recipe for the amazing Romesco Sauce we made in Santa Cruz and ziggystarlet for sharing some words from Ginsberg/Neruda that particularly resonated with me today. ~ In other news, we celebrated Hari Raya yesterday in traditional Malay fashion (literally in my case) at the friend of one [...]
Since my last post, we drove to Santa Cruz and back and flew to Kuala Lumpur via Korea. We’re still jet-lagging and settling in but I thought I’d post a few pics in lieu of actually writing anything. Tagged: California, Food, Hotel, Korea, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, Malaysia, Pictures, Santa Cruz, Travel
We’ve got a few days of relative down-time in Southern California before a quick trip to Santa Cruz and a long trip to Malaysia. I’m in a bit of a blog lull at the moment but I’m going to toss a few pictures into this post to keep the momentum kinda-sorta going. Tagged: Arkansas, California, [...]
While I’m backing up files in anticipation of our road trip (36 hours until bye, bye Boston), I thought I’d share one of my finer moments at BAM: an April Fool’s joke on the “Flatbush Avenue Marquee” (as Sponsorship called it) or “Signy” (as I called it). Signy and I had a complicated relationship since [...]
I should be packing but I just wanted to share two URLs I found amusing. First off, Amazon.com actually includes “up sell” in their URL: Next up, Endeavor has some nice features for demonstrating the scope of their work but “in action” and “inaction” mean very different things: Okay, back to editing little videos and [...]
Not only does it float, it glides beautifully on the water. Can’t wait to get back out there! Tagged: Boat, Pictures
Only a few more hours before Walrus 3 is put to a crucial test – will it actually float? Tagged: Boat, Pictures
Well, it happened sooner than expected but I suppose it was inevitable – a precipitous decline in blogging as the realities of the summer come smashing against computer time. I’ve still been working plus I spent four days in Florida, four days in Vermont, and 24 hours in New York since my last post. When [...]
Well, the Revelation to Action competition is officially over and today marks my last CoffeeTalk post for the Changemakers blog (a recap of Wednesday’s celebration event). I had a lot of fun live-tweeting the event for Changemakers while meeting the finalists and hanging out with coworkers but I’m still exhausted and probably won’t get back [...]
Yesterday, I went on a mini-run which was the perfect amount of time to listen to a BBC documentary about a pilot program in Namibia that’s making no-strings-attached monthly cash grants to residents of Otjivero, a squatters camp. According to the documentary, “School enrollment has shot up, small businesses are springing up, and the nurse [...]
Ever wondered how to enter a competition at Changemakers.com? All you have to do is watch this video I made for their site. Pretty fun morning. Hearkens back to my days recording voice-overs for BAM Rose Cinemas and writing copy and producing videos for BAM. Looking forward to actually editing videos for Kiva next year [...]
A strange spell has come over me: for the past two weeks, not only have I prepared food in the kitchen but I’ve actually liked it. And I’m not just talking about the basics of feeding myself, which revolves around cereal and yogurt, cereal and milk, fruit, nuts, tossed salads, scrambled eggs, and various dips [...]
While it’s been a very busy week and next week is looking even more crazed, I thought I’d take two minutes and share my latest post for the Changemakers blog. On a different work-related note, I played around with Jing this morning and it was super fun and easy. Jing is a free application that [...]
It’s hard to believe that the Revelation to Action competition is on the verge of completion. Six months of research, outreach, troubleshooting, brainstorming, and community-building are coming to a close but I truly hope the participants received more attention, support, and resources than they would have received in a typical grant application process. I also [...]
I just finished Michela Wrong’s It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower and it’s a must-read for anyone interested in international aid, corruption, and recent Kenyan history. Plus, it reads like a political thriller so chances are you’ll have trouble putting it down. The book addressed a number of topics that [...]
The Changemakers blogging fun continues with a post this week about “Resources for Changemakers” and a post last week about “Connecting with Changemakers“. After today, I just have two posts left before the end of the competition and the end of my contract. While I feel a little obnoxious talking about a seven-week long summer [...]
I take absolutely no credit for this beautiful garden where my in-laws toil away every weekend. Right now the idea of gardening falls into the “chore” category in my head but I do see the hypothetical allure. Maybe one day I’ll be bitten by the gardening bug…. In the meantime, here’s a drawing of the [...]
I just baked a pie. It’s one of the only things I do well in the kitchen (although I’ve gotten pretty good at throwing greens, nuts, cheese, garlic, and olive oil into the food processor to make pesto). Anyway, this pie is ridiculously easy to make (and eat). If I can make it, you can [...]
I’m excited to announce that the community site I’ve been working on for Net Impact Boston has finally beta-launched. We just opened it up to the public this week and it should be interesting to see how members respond. There are still a few things we need to finalize – such as figuring out the [...]
Well, we’ve got another action-packed summer ahead of us and I just realized that there are only a few more weeks before the fun starts in earnest. Last week, I even checked a few things off my woefully incomplete and uncompleted check-list, including booking our tickets to Malaysia and getting some exciting immunizations (flu, typhoid, [...]
I’m a little embarrassed that until this past weekend, I hadn’t read Muhammad Yunus’ Banker to the Poor. It was one of those glaring gaps into my personal and professional development that, looking back, is completely inexplicable. I probably shouldn’t even be admitting this in public but I suppose it’s never too late to get [...]
Well, I think my first trip to Maine was a resounding success. The work part was fun (albeit tiring) and the leisure part offered a much-needed break from technology (among other things). After spending the night with a friend outside of Portland, we trekked up to Bangor to visit the Hammond Street Senior Center and [...]
Looking forward to a little get-together that Ashoka’s Changemakers is hosting tonight in Boston. I’m hoping that it will be a convergence of my local social enterprise worlds: Changemakers and the Revelation to Action competition, Boston for Acumen, and Net Impact Boston. Here are the details: Ashoka’s Changemakers is hosting a TweetUp today at Kingston [...]
Last week, I watched The New Recruits, a short documentary on PBS about three Acumen Fund Fellows trying to apply their business experiences to social enterprises in Pakistan, India, and Kenya. Yasmina Zaidman, Acumen Fund’s Director of Communications, posted a discussion to Acumen’s community site about the film and I took a few minutes to [...]
Hmmm, starting this post is reminding me about all the other things I should be doing before Dan and I leave for Maine tonight. At least I remembered to start the laundry this morning…. While we’re ostensibly going to Maine for work – I’ll be collecting video footage of the local competition finalists – we’re [...]
Yes, well, better late than never. Last Friday on the Changemakers’ blog, I posted about the Revelation to Action competition and how everyone should vote vote vote for their three favorite finalists. Meanwhile, two Fridays ago, I wrote about a New Hampshire-based organization that uses an innovative model for its composting services and a Vermont-based [...]
Last summer, Dan and I quit our jobs, bought a car, and headed out west. (Well, north first and then west eventually.) After about two months on the road, we rested for a week in Southern California and then headed to South Africa for what turned out to be another two months. Back in the [...]
I started reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind a week ago and it was such an engaging book that I could have finished it in a day if I hadn’t kept distracting myself with things like cleaning and yoga and wandering around Boston. I first heard about William Kamkwamba and his windmill when Dan [...]
Just wanted to help get out the vote for the Ashoka’s Changemakers/Green Mountain Coffee competition I’ve been working on. Fifteen finalists were announced today and we want their innovative ideas for improving communities in the Northeast to be read by as many people as possible. So take a minute, check out the finalists, and cast [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, Dan is building a boat. This will be his third. The first washed away in a storm in North Carolina. The second is in the backyard. It’s rather heavy (four strong people are required to lift it but only three can fit in it – awkward) and was [...]
Not “catching up” but “catching all”. I’ve been sitting on a handful of links that I’ve been meaning to post about for a while. In no particular order, here goes: My interview with Benita Miller, founder of Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective, on the Changemakers blog. Article in The New York Times about creating a community [...]
This post has nothing to do with social enterprise (other than I did get to finish reading Ellen Johnson‘s biography and I started re-reading The Bottom Billion while on the plane). Last week, my family converged in Santa Cruz, CA for my brother’s final dinner for his culinary program. Adam summed it up best on [...]
Well, it’s up! Check out the Acumen Fund Blog to read about how three generations of women connected to Jacqueline Novogratz’s The Blue Sweater. Plus, you can see a funny picture of my family on a stagecoach in Utah circa 1991. In honor of that picture, I’m going to post a few pics from a [...]
I’m not sure what this says about my imagination or my life right now but I want to title just about every post “Catching Up”. While my blogging has been a little slow here, my post for Changemakers about computer literacy classes for new Americans went up on Friday and I should have a post [...]
Well, I’ve waited so long to write this post that it’s hard to be sure I even went to New Orleans last week. It was a spontaneous trip – we left less than 24 hours after we booked our tickets – so we had very little time to figure out where we should stay and [...]
Well, it’s been a busy week and there’s a lot I’ve been thinking about. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot I’ve been blogging about. But since the work-related tasks for the morning are done, I thought I’d take a moment to throw a post together. Let’s work backwards. I wrote a post about an organization that [...]
Well, I did a little damage at the bookstore last night. I wonder if I can even remember all the books I bought but here goes: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits [...]
I’m lagging behind in general these days. Some dumb virus has been slowing me down and there’s not much I can do about it. But I wanted to give you a quick update on some of the things I’ve managed to do in spite of my pathetic state. For the Changemakers blog, I interviewed Emily [...]
My friend and former colleague James Wu has generously agreed to be interviewed about his work with Acumen Fund, an organization whose philosophy has helped shape the way I think about aid, enterprise, and the developing world. He’s been incredibly busy lately (always?) – check out the amazing event he’s been working on here – [...]
Just wanted to share my latest adventure in blogging: a post for the The Changemakers Social Media Blog about World Up, one of the Revelation to Action entrants. It’s been a crazy week at work with the official competition deadline on Wednesday (and now an extension until Monday), plus interesting developments with Kiva and Peace [...]
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