The Business of Giving

"We do a lot of project work. Our students work on solutions, really applying STEM so that they not only are learning concepts but really learning how those concepts have influence in the world." - Eli Kennedy, CEO of SMASH

"Part of the path, part of the call to adulthood is learning how to deal with suffering. And we cannot deal with other’s suffering until we first understand how to deal with our own suffering." - Jerry Colonna, Coach and CEO of Reboot, Author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up https://www.denver-frederick.com//why-radical-self-inquir/

"If there’s a silver lining in the way that the pandemic brought schools to a grinding halt, is that we’ve got a chance to reinvent the education system. We can’t just reach for the familiar set of classroom interventions that have failed to move the needle for the last 25 years. We’ve got a chance to build new muscle memory and to kind of reinvent education with families at the center." - Alejandro Gibes de Gac, Founder & CEO of Springboard Collaborative

"We do believe that it is in the best mental health interests of youth to be at school as soon as they can and as much as they can, given the recommendations around physical health from the CDC." - John MacPhee, Executive Director & CEO of The Jed Foundation

"Making money moral happens when the bold world of financial markets meets the aspirational world of impact." - Judith Rodin, Coauthor of Making Money Moral

"At Bridgespan, we are working towards societies characterized by equity and justice, and it is so clear that to get there, we need to acknowledge the huge role that systems, often public systems play. " - Lija McHugh Farnham of The Bridgespan Group