Community Partner: Impact Hub Baltimore Peer Mentor: Dikshant Malla Site Supervisor: Pres Adams and Michelle Geiss
What is Impact Hub? Impact Hub is part innovation lab, part coworking space, part civic forum. We provide an inclusive, inspiring, and functional space that connects our members to the ideas, resources, and people they need to make tangible social impact. We also serve as a gathering place for the global movement towards stronger cities and a new economy.
As a longtime resident of Baltimore, I am passionate about social impact that produces equity within our city. However, being passionate about social issues is a double edged sword because while you become cognizant of the intersections of injustice in urban spaces like Baltimore, it becomes extremely difficult to narrow the area of injustice you want to devote your time, energy and ultimately your life to. Working at Impact Hub has helped me resolve some of the conflicts I have been having about life after college, or more accurately what I want to do with my life. With its focus on incubating social impact in Baltimore, Impact Hub has provided me with the opportunity to connect with a diverse group of organizations and individuals who are all working to produce meaningful change in Baltimore. Working alongside 10 + organizations and 140 + members has made me realize that narrowing the " area " of social injustice is not always necessary to create meaningful change, and that by focusing on all components that produce inequality is a perfectly viable method of channeling one ' s passion to create a positive change. Working at Impact Hub has also changed my view of the work nonprofits do. Usually when we attempt to describe the work of a non profit, we always point out the flashy, " sexy " work people do with programming or youth mentoring yet we always tend omit the work of individuals developing systems that make sure the visible work can be done effectively. Working with Pres on tracking performance metrics made me gain a new appreciation for data, and see how important data is to support the work of a non‐profit. For a long time, I thought the only way to create meaningful change was either to work within the grassroots or doing the sexy, visible work through non‐profits, but after spending a month with Pres, Michelle, Jermaine, and Lindsey, I can confidently say that working within the intersection is what I want to do with my life. ‐ Dikshant
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• Aggregated data from multiple sour performance report for the Abell Fo
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