FFF Midsummer Night's Mixer Musings

NYC Changemakers: Join us @FFF's NYC Social Impact Cocktail Crawl, co-sponsored by FAIR, the 1st fair trade spirits company:...
Under the full moon in the middle of summer, can't help but notice how much we want to get outside, get together, and get going with social innovator friends in NYC. Seems like "mixers" are sprouting up all over the place. Go figure. What a great way to spend a summer evening! Mixers let us connect with our tribe, deepen relationships, advance projects, flex our social change muscles, get inspired to invest in each other and commit to our vision for progressive social change.

If you're in NYC 7/19, come to a DON"T MISS gathering of NYC's spectacular social changemakers! Connect with peers, mentors, investors, and co-conspirators to enhance your impact and have a joyous evening. Half price cocktails, full value spirits.
7:00 pm Green Square Tavern
8:00 pm Rye Bar

If you're in Boston, check out our friends from Criterion Ventures & City Light Capital as they co-host New Mix Drinks at Rattlesnake Bar & Grill!

If you're in Brooklyn, check out Shoe Town to Brew Town event at Brooklyn Brewery

Mix it up to fast forward social impact this summer!

Ultimate Mentors for FFF

Check out Nathaniel Whittemore's Social Entrepreneurship blog today at change.org showcasing Stanford's E-Challenge & Fast Forward Fund. His Daily Entrepreneur Post also features snazzy photo of Yoda as "Ultimate Mentor"!

So who's your ultimate mentor? what makes for great mentorship? The mentors who've most impacted me range from lifelong angels with whom it feels like I've been engaged in an always timely, yet timeless, conversation with no beginning and no end, to visionary visitors who mysteriously pass through my life at just the right moment in just the right way to guide me along...

Here's a top-ten, dream-team, wish list of mentors I'd love to call on to help shape FFF:

1. Oprah Winfrey
2. Melinda Gates
3. The Dalai Lama
4. Jon Stewart
5. Michelle Obama
6. former President Bill Clinton
7. George Soros
8. J.K. Rowling
9. my three children
10. You

OK, uber-mentors. You know who you are. Fast Forward Fund needs you!