THREE PROMINENT CHANGEMAKERS & THEIR PLATFORMS
The platforms that professional changemakers build have resulted in dramatic and lasting improvements in the lives of their recipients. Here are three of them that have gone to scale.
Take Jill Vialet, the founder of Playworks, who was the source of my charter school's renewal by helping me to make a map of its underperforming situations, transforming the school's playground from a setting of conflict to a place of joy.
Take Andrea and Barry Coleman, the founders of Riders for Health, and how they focused on the physical gaps in Somalia's transportation system, its unforgiving dirt roadways as the source of its health care crisis.
Take Muhammad Yunus the Bangladeshi economics professor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who created Grameen Bank and small groups of poor basketweaver women in the village of Jobra, as a simple platform for holding each other accountable.
The social entrepreneurs highlighted here represent a lifetime of full-time commitment. To bring about significant change less expensively, however, we link you to platforms for starting small and the following stories:
They represent three approaches that require far fewer resources and can be put into practice with a modest amount of funding and a lot of passion and teamwork.
Take Jill Vialet, the founder of Playworks, who was the source of my charter school's renewal by helping me to make a map of its underperforming situations, transforming the school's playground from a setting of conflict to a place of joy.
Take Andrea and Barry Coleman, the founders of Riders for Health, and how they focused on the physical gaps in Somalia's transportation system, its unforgiving dirt roadways as the source of its health care crisis.
Take Muhammad Yunus the Bangladeshi economics professor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who created Grameen Bank and small groups of poor basketweaver women in the village of Jobra, as a simple platform for holding each other accountable.
The social entrepreneurs highlighted here represent a lifetime of full-time commitment. To bring about significant change less expensively, however, we link you to platforms for starting small and the following stories:
- Uri Treisman and Study Groups;
- JB Schramm and College Summit;
- and Carol Dweck and a Subtle Attitude Adjustment.
They represent three approaches that require far fewer resources and can be put into practice with a modest amount of funding and a lot of passion and teamwork.