The document discusses how the StartingBloc Fellowship and network can help the author achieve their future goals through learning, sharing, collaboration, and challenging themselves. Specifically, it will help the author turn anger into action, grow, learn from others, have greater impact, engage with different views, find new solutions, and redefine their own assumptions. The ultimate goals are to expand their nonprofit network, find ways to collaborate, receive criticism, apply lessons, and learn how to foster change in other areas.

1. What do I hope to gain from the StartingBloc Fellowship, and how do I see the Institute and the StartingBloc network helping me to achieve my future goals? 1

2. Solidarity Activism Resistance Perseverance Starting Bloc Action Empathy Needs Fear Greed Inequality Ignorance Apathy Confusion Plunder Corruption Exploitation

3. Starting Bloc Will Help Me… Turn my anger at the state of the world into fuel To Grow To Learn To Share To Connect To Revise To Reconsider To Change 3

5. And Enable Me To…. Have the confidence to try as hard as I can, knowing that when I fall, I have a network of people to Support Me Share My Mistakes With Learn From Look Up To Inspire “If You Stand For A Reason, Be Prepared To Stand Alone Like A Tree. If You Fall On The Ground, Fall As A Seed That Grows Back To Fight Again.” 5

6. So that I can… Have a greater impact as an agent of change by learning how to minimize the negative impacts my actions will have on other social goals that might conflict with my own 6

7. It will teach me that there is not…. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 7 solutions to the problems we face today, but millions of points of collaboration.

8. It Will Challenge Me By…. Engaging with those who share different beliefs Exposing me to new methods Seeing new solutions And most of all… realizing that we don’t all agree on the same root problems 8

9. In doing so, I hope to… Redefine my assumptions Revaluate my goals Broaden my horizons Make innovation a constant 9

10. Specific Goals Expand network of the nonprofit I recently started (New Incentives) Find new ways to collaborate with organizations that share similar goals Receive criticism on New Incentives’ model Apply lessons learned from case studies to my current work Learn how to foster change in non-work environments 10