*<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">Swarthmore Investment Club: will be exposed to best practices in Impact Investing. They will support and assist pro bono investors of the Impact Investing project. This educational experience will ensure the sustainability of the pro bono investor pipeline.</span>
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-281eedc4-2bb3-ab7f-b4da-738d1f30c184"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #4 (Michelle): Make Entrepreneurship Collaborative rather than Competitive</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-281eedc4-2bb3-ab7f-b4da-738d1f30c184"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As college students, we are often told that we have to do a million things, from balancing classes to athletics to clubs. On top of our immense workload, we are often fed the notion that we have to "find our calling" in the next 4 years. In the midst of all of these insane expectations leveraged against us, we often forget is that what we truly need is a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mentor</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- someone who is there to support us and cheer us on, no matter what we do.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Impact of “TriConnect”: By creating a platform that directly fosters peer-to-peer mentorship, TriConnect hopes to not only empower individuals, but also shift school culture from one that is hyper-competitive and often cutthroat to one that is more collaborative and supportive. We hope that this will lead to benefits in student mental health and physical well-being, all the while cultivating student entrepreneurship and innovation.</span></span>
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= Related Links =
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College_Student_Priorities Swarthmore College Student Priorities]
2017 Swarthmore University Innovation Fellows
[[Michelle Ma]]
[[Omri Gal|Omri_Gal]]
[[Natasha Markov-Riss|Natasha_Markov-Riss]]
[[Mariam Bahmane|Mariam_Bahmane]]