Social ASB

Have been on a Alternative Spring Break, visiting NGOs and social entrepreneurship startups in the bay area. Have a bit of internet now so am posting an update here.

Many of the organizations here are innovative and really awaken you to the number of causes out there one can support. Over the past few days I have met people from Google.org, Upwardly Global, Wokai, Interplast, the Ella Baker Center, Delancey Street, 826 Valencia, and the Draper Richards Foundation.

Visiting them and being able to ask questions about what they do and all has enabled me to see many good ideas about these startups; at the same time I have also been able to see their flaws and their struggles. There are so many ideas here that I can adapt and take back to Southeast Asia, and I will write about this and other realisations at another time (when there is a better internet connection!)