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In July 2019, CSIS partnered with AFS International to offer an Impact House for 18 partner directors from around the globe.

This August 2019, twenty five arts and culture leaders convened at Galusha Hill Farm Lodge in Vermont for a week of learning, community building, and personal and professional development.

My colleague, recently returned from her Global Social Impact House (GSIH) fellowship in Nicaragua, beamed with a renewed sense of her work and purpose.

Brown recently published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: "Cultivating, Not Just Calculating, Social Impact."  The article considers the “impact multiple of money” (IMM) as the new tool to evaluate and realize potential social impact through investments.

Congratulations to two CSIS alumni honored on Forbes’ 2019 30 Under 30 list in the Social Entrepreneurship category! Forbes chose Jeanny Yao and co-founder Miranda Wang for their pioneering work on sustainable methods of recycling plastic, and Shadrack Frimpong for founding a girls school in Tarkwa Breman, Ghana.

This January 2019, nineteen social innovators representing 9 countries convened at Cotton Tree Lodge in Belize for a week of learning, community building, and personal + professional development. Fellows were eligible to apply by completing the Center’s free Coursera in Social Impact Strategy.

Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang’s company has broken down 10,000 plastic bags. Scientists, social entrepreneurs, friends since high school, and recent Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Yao and Wang founded BioCellection about three and a half years ago.

Mirae Kim, a 2013 participant in Dr. Frumkin’s summer Doctoral Fellows Program, was recently named a recipient of the award for Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Volunteer Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) for her paper “The Relationship of Nonprofits’ Financial Health to Program Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Nonprofit Arts Organizations.”

In the summer of 2015, Shadrack Frimpong, then a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a dream of making education and healthcare more accessible in his hometown, participated in CSIS’s Social Impact House; that same year, Gray Garmon, a designer with a background in socially conscious design projects, was an instructor there. Frimpong was getting ready to open an organization in the farming community of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana, and Garmon stepped in to provide design guidance. They shared what their experience–and collaboration–has been like.

We interviewed two of our alumni, Gray Garmon and Shadrack Frimpong, about what they learned from the Social Impact House and what they’re working on now. This is part of a three-part series on Garmon, Frimpong, and their collaboration. This article focuses on Shadrack Frimpong.