How Clarity and Selective Recruiting Propel Non-Profit Growth - Louise Davis

In Chapter 15 of 20 of her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, Peer Health Exchange (PHE) co-founder Louise Davis shares lessons learned expanding the non-profit nationwide. Davis shares how clearly communicating both the existing need and solution provides team direction and helps maximize impact. She also has learned to maximize impact by prioritizing selective staff, volunteer, and board member recruiting.

How Fast-Growing Non-Profit Uses Patience in Recruiting - Louise Davis

In Chapter 16 of 20 of her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, Peer Health Exchange co-founder Louise Davis shares how the organization emphasizes a patient hiring approach while the organization continues its fast-paced nationwide growth. Davis highlights how the team puts in extra time to allieviate short-term staffing constraints as interviewee candidates are closely vetted for open positions.

How Volunteer Non-Profit Finances Growth in Down Economy - Louise Davis

In Chapter 17 of 20, Peer Health Exchange (PHE) co-founder Louise Davis shares how the non-profit's 2008 Los Angeles expansion highlights how organizations can finance growth and build stakeholder loyalty amidst a down economy. Today, PHE serves 700 students in the greater Los Angeles area.

How a Non-Profit Executive Balances Priorities - Louise Davis

In Chapter 18 of 20 of her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, Peer Health Exchange (PHE) co-founder Louise Davis shares how leaving the PHE classroom teaching environment for an executive leadership position changed her expectations on what she can contribute to the organization. Davis highlights the important need to balance management with annual classroom visits to see students and volunteers firsthand.

How Incentive Structure Motivates Non-Profit Teams - Louise Davis

In Chapter 19 of 20, Louise Davis, Peer Health Exchange (PHE) Executive Director and co-founder, highlights how the non-profit structures incentives to motivate team behavior and commitment.

How Non-Profit Can Improve High School Health Education - Louise Davis

In Chapter 20 of 20, Peer Health Exchange Executive Director Louise Davis discusses what her organization can do to help create a national, standardized high school health education system for teenagers.

Creative DIY Ways to Feed the Homeless - Jason Anello

In Chapter 10 of 13 of his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, Jason Anello shares how he developed a cooking based homeless outreach program from his Manhattan apartment. While sharing a pizza with a homeless man in San Francisco, Jason Anello witnesses how so many treat the homeless without dignity or respect. The experience motivates Anello to create "Gotham Soup Kitchen" in New York, a public access television show where he cooks for local homeless individuals in need of a good meal.

Leaving Goldman Sachs Banking for Philanthropy and Arts Job - Phil McKenzie

In Chapter 2 of 13, Phil McKenzie departs his Goldman Sachs trading role to join a Brooklyn non-profit.  There, he builds start-up publishing company Free Magazine, catered to modern professionals - Renaissance men - in arts, philanthropy, music, film, and current affairs.  McKenzie graduated from Howard University and earned an MBA from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.  Before starting FREE DMC and the Influencer Conference, McKenzie worked for eight years in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs.

How Teach for America Experience Shapes Leaders - Andrew Epstein

In Chapter 5 of 15, Teach for America educator describes the most important takeaway from the program.  The Teach for America experience improves his communication, connection, and motivation skills. This, not the lesson plans or topical competence development, form his greatest lessons learned from the experience. 

How Teach for America Educator Connects with Kids - Andrew Epstein

In Chapter 4 of 15, attentiveness to individuals by staying inquisitive and concerned brings Bronx-based Teach for America educator Andrew Epstein closer to his students. Over time, Epstein earns acceptance, respect, and trust from his students and is able to better assert his learning agenda.

How Working in The Bronx Shapes Teach for America Job - Andrew Epstein

In Chapter 3 of 15, Teach for America educator Andrew Epstein spends three years in the Bronx teaching children from nearby public housing projects after graduating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

How Teach for America Interviews and Trains Teachers - Andrew Epstein

In Chapter 2 of 15, Andrew Epstein accepts a position at Teach for America (www.teachforamerica.org) upon graduating the University of Michigan.  He details the application, interview and training processes involved. 

How Special Needs Summer Camp Leads to Teach for America - Andrew Epstein

In chapter 1 of 15 of his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Andrew Epstein recounts what informed his decision to join Teach for America.  As a University of Michigan student, Epstein spends a summer as a camp counselor assisting special needs children.  The experience shapes post-college choice to teach. Epstein's mid-college Camp Ramapo (www.ramapoforchilldren.org) counseling position leads to him applying for and accepting his first post-college job at Teach for America (www.teachforamerica.org).