After 3.5 years in San Francisco fundraising with Room to Read, an international education organization, I’m preparing to pack up and move to Kampala, Uganda for a year fellowship with the Grameen Foundation. Specifically, I’ll be working with TaroWorks, a monitoring & evaluation software platform used in remote areas. It’s a young social enterprise, a slight change from the nonprofit world but still very connected to social impact work. I’ll be doing “lead generation strategy,” which is creating a framework to identify and cultivate the best potential clients. I never thought I’d be doing fundraising/business development, but the liberal arts, apparently, are great at teaching relationship-building skills! Read more