Christine Sylvain of Path to College: Five Things You Need To Know To Successfully Lead A Nonprofit

It’s very hard. I don’t think it’s for the weak willed. If you’re thinking about starting a non-profit and you’ve kind of started and it’s five years later and nothing has come of it, maybe you should find a non-profit that’s doing the work that you want to do and join them and help them because not everybody has to start their own non-profit. There has to be a need that is not being met before you start a non-profit.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Christine Sylvain.

Christine Sylvain is the Founder and Executive Director of the Path to College Fellowship, whose mission is to secure the acceptance of as many high-achieving, low-income students into top-tier universities as possible. Christine’s vision is to answer and address one of society’s most urgent educational inequities: access to higher education. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University and a…