MY OWN JOURNEY INTO ENCORE LAND
My own journey into changemaking began after I had experienced the exhilaration of building something good from scratch: what is now a very successful independent high school in Southern California. It was this experience that led me to the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford. My assignment: figure out how Baby Boomers could “give back” in our old age.
This gave me the opportunity to interact with "professional changemakers," what the world calls "social entrepreneurs." The better I got to know them I began seeing patterns. Intuitively it seemed they went about planning for change by "making a map, minding the gaps and building an app."
Now's the time to put this knowledge and this method to good use -- and the most promising approach is in bringing the generations together.
This gave me the opportunity to interact with "professional changemakers," what the world calls "social entrepreneurs." The better I got to know them I began seeing patterns. Intuitively it seemed they went about planning for change by "making a map, minding the gaps and building an app."
Now's the time to put this knowledge and this method to good use -- and the most promising approach is in bringing the generations together.