Wendy Kopp
17 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2017 by Wendy Kopp · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Oct 9, 2017
Wendy Kopp: Teach For America's first-year plan budgeted $2.5M for 500 teachers
“So the whole plan was to inspire thousands of people to apply in the first year and select and train in place. No fewer than 500 of them in, you know, five or six communities across the country. And I had a budget saying this was going to cost two and a half m…”
Oct 9, 2017 neutral
Oct 9, 2017
Wendy Kopp: National service programs need 500 members for national significance
“I had looked at the origin of the Peace Corps, and there's this incredible paper, and the paper was this beautiful analysis that concluded that it had to start with 500 Core members. That That was the smallest possible number that would seem nationally importa…”
Oct 9, 2017 positive
Oct 9, 2017
Wendy Kopp would have handed Teach For America over to capable leadership
“I mean, honestly, if someone had appeared who I felt like could get us out of this and get us to a point of stability or something, I would have just turned the whole thing over to them at this point. There's no doubt about that.”
Oct 9, 2017
Oct 9, 2017 positive
Oct 9, 2017
Wendy Kopp secured seven executive meetings by cold-writing to CEOs
“So I wrote letters to everyone quoted in the article. And a few others, by the way, I would pick out like, you know, Delta Airlines and write to the CEO. I mean, this is, you know, the advantage of inexperience. But believe it or not, I got seven meetings off …”
Oct 9, 2017
Jul 8, 2019 positive
Jul 8, 2019
Kopp secured seven corporate meetings by cold-writing to CEOs
“So I wrote letters to everyone quoted in the article and a few others, by the way, I would pick out like, you know, Delta Airlines and write to the CEO. I mean, this is, you know, the advantage of inexperience. But believe it or not, I got seven meetings off t…”
Jul 8, 2019
During early struggles, Kopp would have surrendered Teach For America to anyone
“I mean, honestly, if someone had appeared who I felt like could get us out of this and get us to a point of stability or something, I would have just turned the whole thing over to them at this point. There's no doubt about that.”
Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
Kopp: Social entrepreneurs must invent their own funding sources to survive
“I think it's kind of the definition of social entrepreneurship, like, you know, there aren't natural funding sources, so you almost have to create them, and ultimately, by your existence, help shape them, and until that's happened, it's just excruciating to ma…”
Jul 8, 2019 positive
Jul 8, 2019
Mobil seeded Teach For America with $26K routed through Princeton University
“And I met another executive at Mobile, who was just, I loved the idea, and said, you know, what do you need to try to make it work? And I said I needed 26,000 dollars. I had developed a budget saying that's what I needed to do to, you know, needed to spend thr…”
Jul 8, 2019
Kopp's Princeton thesis for Teach For America budgeted $2.5M for 500 teachers
“So the whole plan was to inspire thousands of people to apply in the first year and select and train in place. No fewer than 500 of them in, you know, five or six communities across the country. And I had a budget saying this was going to cost two and a half m…”