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Process and Product

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by Matt Callahan, Associate Director of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship“Smile occasionally. Your subjects are serious, but the occasional smile expresses empathy and makes us want to care about what you’re saying,” wrote Mary Hammers to the keynote…

Community Care Through a Sense of Belonging

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by Annie Makela, Founding Director of the Scott Center for Social EntrepreneurshipIn our January newsletter, we shared our thinking about what attributes and mindsets are connected to being a changemaker. We heard from many of you with suggestions, ideas,…

2021: The Year of Youth Changemakers?!

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by Founding Director of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Annie MakelaImage © ReutersJanuary in schools has always served as more of an exclamation point than a period. This year in particular, I found myself ending more sentences…

These Are a Few of Ms. Mak’s Favorite Things

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by Annie Makela, Founding Director of the Scott Center for Social EntrepreneurshipIt has never been more critical to be mindful of how our holiday shopping and eating can be a powerful tool for social change. For many small businesses…

Action and Agency

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by Annie Makela, Founding Director of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Hillbrook SchoolFrom pediatric cancer to climate change, from racial justice to homelessness and foster care, from small business support to pandemic recovery response, young people care…

Creativity in the Age of COVID

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by Annie Makela, Founding Director of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Hillbrook SchoolI’ve always been a lover of school supplies, from perfectly packaged felt tip pens to colorful Post-Its to new paper notebooks. I’m also a person…