Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Executive Director, Craigslist Foundation
Pick big problems to bring into your life
- what would you do if you knew you could not fail?
- majority of difficulties we bring upon ourselves, we choose them
- bay area is canvas for social change, what are you going to paint on it?
- intention is a very powerful source; be careful where you point that thing
- boot camp can be a transformative event
- open yourselves to the potential, opportunities, connections
- difference between dreamers & visionaries:
- dreamers – know A & Z, where they're at and see us going
- visionaries go from B to Y
Collaborate Collaborate Collaborate
- it's the work, the cause, the community that's essential – the work and the need in the community
- put service before ego
- 80% of those who want to start can change without incorporating your own 501c3 – lots of other alternatives, e.g. fiscal sponsorship
- sometimes the best way to grow the pie is to give away a few slices
- one of the best ways to grow your ideas is to invite new people in
- surround yourself with people smarter than you
- empower them to take components and run with them
- dog eat dog world? "Fear not, dogs don’t eat dogs" (Kevin Danaher)
- get outside of your cause, outside of the reason you're here
- find two people that you can help in some way; watch how quickly that comes back to
- split up from your colleagues
- debrief later network now
Less is more
- we're all compassionate people, involved in service and philanthropy
- have natural tendency to fix things, serve, make the world a better place
- there are so many opportunities to fix things, to create change
- the challenge is not to dilute our efforts
- crystallize – have a crystal clear focus about why you need to exist
- a vision of how different the world will look like when you achieve it
- three things you'll do to get it
- mission creep – the risk you run
- get focus, get buy in