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Mar 14, 2006
"Make not your thoughts your prisons.
" --William Shakespeare
Pros Work With Cons
When she chanced upon a tour of the Texas prison, venture capitalist Catherine Rohr soon discovered a surprising pool of entrepreneurial talent right there in the prison. Chucking her VC job, she started the Prison Entrepreneurship Program that uses Fortune 500-type business executives as volunteer mentors, harnesses the entrepreneurial skills inmates had demonstrated while running the successful, albeit illegal, enterprises that landed them in prison and teaches them how to put those abilities to use running legitimate businesses.
BE THE CHANGE
Share a skill at work, school, or home with someone who you would not have thought of readily.
