Rhonda Swails Rhonda Swails is a senior manager – financial planning and analysis in Finance & Grants Administration for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she provides collaborative internal consultancy services to the program staff regarding grantmaking and budget processes. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, Swails was a senior director in the Technical Project Management Office […]
Derek Ozkal Derek Ozkal is a senior officer, strategic initiatives in Research, Learning, and Evaluation for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he operationalizes evaluation and learning-related initiatives and knowledge generation by emphasizing efforts to capture, explain, and disseminate the Foundation’s legacy of impact, with particular attention to known, large initiatives. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, […]
Eight readers share their stories of taking risks January 16, 2020 Eight readers share their risk-filled journeys, including business startups, a spontaneous COO resignation, and a single-mom pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
The endangered legacy of the American risk-taker January 16, 2020 The legacy of the American risk-taker is born out of exploration, oppression, democracy, and the promise of the American Dream. We can conjure the images of American risk-takers from the rebels of the American Revolution, to Harriet Tubman and Harvey Milk, Sally Ride to Sergey Brin. As a startup nation founded on the risk of […]
A letter from the editors: Believe in risk January 16, 2020 The Risk Optimistic explores the value of risk, the opportunity of risk, and the belief that taking a chance is worth it.