Sarah Ford | June 19, 2014

Learning from Millennials: #MCON14

By Jen Bokoff

If you’ve been followingÌýÌý´Ç°ùÌýÌýon Twitter, you’ll have some idea of how driven, intelligent, and selfless the millennial speakers have been. They come from every field you can imagine, fromÌýÌý³Ù´ÇÌý,ÌýÌý³Ù´ÇÌý,ÌýÌý³Ù´ÇÌý. While we only heard from two grantmakers, the broad collection of speakers collectively showcase the philanthropic tenacity of a generation. Their enterprises and ventures all carry a social welfare conscious; they build diversity and inclusion practices into whatever they do. They value and build on the work of other generations, and want to support systems, organizations, and people who will make the world better for future generations. They look to collaboration over competition, and people over profits. They embrace social networks – on and offline – and how to leverage them to spread messaging and engage people in a cause.Ìý

What has struck me most is that nearly every speaker in some way shared a similar message:

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