"How do I reconcile
my dreams for the
world with my
dreams for my
own future?”

It’s a vexing question, asked
by students, nonprofit professionals
who’ve been working for years, and
people in the corporate world lacking a
sense of meaning. And no one gives us
help in answering it. Until now. We’ll
help you demystify things..

If your cubicle leaves
your social conscience
feeling boxed in.

Is a nonprofit career your only answer?
What’s social enterprise all about? You have
big passion, but no big ideas. You have a big
idea, but don’t know how to launch it. And
nowhere to go for answers. What if all this
confusion could turn to clarity?
A sense of possibility?

Nonprofit is
a tax status,
not a
lifestyle.

Do you work in the nonprofit
sector and wonder what life is
like on the other side of it? Did
you go into the sector to make a
difference, only to find you’re not
making the kind of difference you
always wanted to?
What if you could understand
why, and create a path for doing
something about it?

Change Course will give you career clarity,
an inspiring new perspective on what it means to make a
difference, and guidance on how to do it. You’ll get more
options than you thought you had. An opening in imagination.
Inspiration. You’ll come away with a sense of
power about your ability to make the kind of difference
you really want to make, and create the career you want,
rather than one written for you by others. You’ll feel less
resigned to a binary choice between the nonprofit and 
corporate worlds. You’ll get valuable, non-traditional
information on how the nonprofit sector works, and
doesn’t, and how you can help change the way change
gets made. And you’ll meet incredible people on the same
search as you, maybe new friends for life.

Change Course
challenges
time-honored
conventions.

That’s why we’re able to give you the kind
of perspective on making a difference that you haven’t
had access to before. We’ve all been raised on a
strict religion about social change, charity, and
sacrifice that we’ve never really questioned. But it
limits the options available to us, and we
unconsciously use it to limit ourselves.

Change Course
also travels into
distinctions between
doing and being.

Because it’s often the case that who we are being
makes a greater difference than what we are doing.
Any discussion about making a difference that’s
unwilling to explore the dimension of being will
ultimately be unfulfilling. By exploring being, we’ll
give you new perspective on career fulfillment.

The course is led
by Dan Pallotta and
his team.

Dan created the social enterprise that invented
the AIDSRides and the Breast Cancer 3-Days, which
raised $582 million in nine years and were the
subject of a Harvard Business School case study.
He’s the author of “Uncharitable,” which the Stanford
Social Innovation Review said, “deserves to become
the nonprofit sector’s new manifesto,” and he’s a
featured contributor to Harvard Business Review
online, where he writes about changing the rules
for changing the world.

Change Course is for
people of all ages and
backgrounds.

The mystery and confusion that surround how to maximize the difference
you make is universal. So you might find other college or grad students
sitting next to you, or a nonprofit executive, a wealthy philanthropist, a
corporate executive, or a social worker. Passion and curiosity are also
common threads among the people who’ll be in Change Course. And there’s
a spirit of friendliness, cooperation, and community in the room.