How are you going to improve the world?
As I left a Boston Celtics game in 2009, I watched as food stand attendants dumped excess food
leftover from the game in trash bags destined for the dumpster. Inspired to create a solution, I am
establishing a non-profit that reduces hunger by using the surplus food from large events and
distributing it to the local homeless population. The non-profit’s name is “Serving Those In
Need” (STIN), and is the initial endeavor of a larger organization I aim to form which increases
government efficiency through private sector participation. I plan to expand this institution into
an international services firm with the network and business acumen I acquire at Harvard
Business School.
STIN is a non-profit organization whose program transforms food that would otherwise
be wasted into sustenance for struggling individuals and families. STIN reduces the tax dollars
being spent in food shelters and the tax burden of large event holders. It reallocates tax dollars
that would have been spent on homeless shelters, food pantries, and soup kitchens to education,
NASA, and other critical sectors of government. Businesses which increase government
efficiency and create jobs should be supported by government.
STIN is my first endeavor as I build the credibility to form GAP, a professional services
firm that boosts growth and reduces inefficiency in economies. GAP is a twist on a traditional
venture capital firm which intends to incubate, fund, and finance businesses whose impacts
increase government efficiency, boost economic growth and create employment through the
private sector. If anything heals the wounds of our global economic problem it is going to come
from new ideas, products and services that create new industries which foster economic growth
and job creation. This is what GAP intends to find, create and finance. GAP and STIN are the
convergence of my professional aspirations: to build a global business that improves the world.
I am the type of individual who sees opportunity where others see inefficiency. In a
recent letter I sent to President Obama, I urged him to use my non-profit as an example of how to
inspire people to make the change he campaigned on in 2008. President Obama certainly created
change, but his biggest accomplishment may be future change. Firms such as GAP will
cultivate the future change we need to not only improve our economy, but to advance the global
economy.
