30 Years in 30 Minutes

How Wendy Kopp Grew Teach for America Into One of the Largest Non-Profits in the World

Michael Oved Season 1 Episode 8

How did Wendy Kopp start her world-renowned non-profit, Teach for America (which became Teach for All)? What did she do to scale it?

In this episode, Michael Oved sits down with Wendy Kopp, co-founder of Teach for All and Teach For America (non-profits that seek to expand educational opportunity for all, which have generated over $300 million in annual revenue and includes over 50,000 corps members and alumni, who have collectively taught more than 5 million students across the nation). She tells us about her journey to pursue social good as a career, how she founded one of the most successful non-profit organizations in the world, and what she did to spread her message and bring others to believe in it too.

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