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Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) is founder and CEO of ProInspire, a nonprofit that develops leaders for the social sector.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently named ProInspire, which gives paid fellowships to highly qualified professionals, one of “7 Nonprofits to Watch in 2015.” And it’s exactly the kind of organization Kapila would have benefitted from when she went with the disaster-relief agency CARE to help India emerge from the Gujarat earthquake in 2001.
“I was trying to develop a business plan for entrepreneurs. I had a business background, but I didn’t have a network and they didn’t know what to do with me,” she recalls.
That frustrating experience planted the idea for ProInspire, though it would be several years later before it came to be. In 2009, the nonprofit launched with five fellows, and last year 25 fellows completed the program.
“These nonprofits would never be able to bring someone at that level of experience on their own,” she says. “But we create a support system to make that possible.”
(Published August 2015)
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