What is your primary goal for SOCAP11?

learn new approaches to problem solving, network with like-minded individuals, seeking funding, seeking partnership

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StartingBloc, Community, volunteering

In which regions do you either invest in, work in or have interest working in?

North America

Which asset class are you most interested in?

Philanthropic rate/Concessionary Return

Milena is the Founder and Executive Director of Pando Projects, a nonprofit tech start-up in NYC that helps emerging leaders launch meaningful grassroots initiatives. Prior to Pando, she served as a Kiva Fellow at microfinance institutions in Bosnia, Kenya, and the Philippines. While abroad, she successfully started a business and entrepreneurship program to empower teenage girls from the Kenyan slums, which is still operating today. Prior to Kiva, Milena worked as an investment banker at JPMorgan Chas.  She conceptualized the idea for Pando based on her experience as a grassroots organizer in college.

Milena holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.

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Matched on: seeking partnership, seeking funding, Philanthropic rate/Concessionary Return, and North America
Matched on: seeking partnership, seeking funding, Philanthropic rate/Concessionary Return, and North America
Matched on: seeking partnership, seeking funding, Philanthropic rate/Concessionary Return, and North America
Matched on: seeking partnership, seeking funding, and North America
Matched on: seeking partnership, seeking funding, and North America

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"    My name is Milena and I'm the founder of a tech start-up called Pando Projects. We provide Americans with the tools they need to run their own creative, local, social projects.  We're new!  (But the MacArthur Foundation has already called us, "the new face of activism.")  I would love to connect with people that are passionate about bottom-up, ..."

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