Brenda Boyle ’11
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!
The transition has been making me think a lot about the roots of my wanderlust and passion for social service, a large part of which is due to the Max A. Shacknai COVE! Whenever I tell my story about why I do what I do, my first alternative break trip to the Dominican Republic is always the “spark” that I share which set me on this path. Between both alternative break trips, being a volunteer leader and intern, and absolutely everything COVE-related (even before day 1 of classes with Outreach, in fact), the Max A. Shacknai COVE has given me so much and was such an instrumental influence [on me] becoming who I am today. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for all that you and the COVE do! – Brenda Boyle ’11