Until last week, I hadn’t recognized mentor-based internships as a concept of “social entrepreneurship”. When asked about the subject during a live interview with @MaggieMistal on Sirius/XM’s Martha Stewart channel, I said: “I’m not sure that ‘paying it forward’ should be the primary impetus for bringing on an intern.”
Since that interview I had the pleasure of sitting down with friends and business partners. Many felt that statement about paying it forward was wrong. Apparently, dead wrong.
In looking back, even before the interview, not a conversation went by without the mention of social entrepreneurship; “pay it forward” and “giving something back” were clearly more than just catch phrases. And from perhaps the least experienced (an amazing @SyreetaGates) to seasoned professionals and true experts (@AllisonCheston is brilliant) the thought of mentor-based internships serving as a form of social entrepreneurship was downright prevalent.
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