“ Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ”
Premal Shah, quoting Howard Thurman, at the closing address of this year’s awe-inspiring Global Engagement Summit. Premal Shah, young enough to look like another Northwestern student, is the founder of Kiva, a wildly successful microfinance organization that in the past four years has enabled 450,000 donors to lend $68 million to 150,000 entrepreneurs in developing countries.
