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Changemakers: Project Redwood

“We were at our 25th reunion. There were probably 150 people in the room. I was just sitting there bathed in the sense of ‘There is great work that can be done.’” Carol Head is the co-chair of Project Redwood, a nonprofit started by the Stanford GSB MBA Class of 1980. She recalls the moment in 2005 when she told her classmates, “We have extraordinary access to financial resources, to power, to contacts. What if, as a class, we decided that we would band together and create some kind of an entity that would work to make the world a better place?” That was the spark that created Project Redwood. Today, the organization provides funding, expertise, and networking to social entrepreneurs working to alleviate global poverty. To date, Project Redwood has supported about 60 organizations around the world, helping nearly a million people lift themselves out of poverty. And in recent years, the group has expanded its membership beyond the original 300 members of the Class of 1980. “The student body at the GSB is now highly attuned to entrepreneurship in the social space and doing work to help make the world a better place,” Head says. “It’s really just part of the air they breathe now. They’re going to be the leaders of Project Redwood in 30 years and we need them to start now.” https://www.projectredwood.org/