Driven By with Sam Coates

My guest this week is John Carroll. Lately, I’ve wondered how do you confidently promote a city with significant issues. John is behind the highly successful grassroots nonprofit Choose 901 and City Leadership out of Memphis, TN. What started as a bootstrapped nonprofit over a decade ago has now evolved into one of the top promotional brands in Memphis, TN. National Center on Charitable Statistics, 30% of nonprofits fail to exist after ten years. Given that this nonprofit was bootstrapped and now operates on a 2 million dollar annual budget, this would be a meaningful conversation. This is a great episode that covers the following: The power of social media and attracting talent to a city you love and need to fill jobs in Redefining progress- do we understand the problems clearly, and Are we making progress on those problems? Building a grassroots organization and becoming an expert to others around the United States The fragility of a first-generation college student Plus a lot more Please enjoy this week’s episode with John Carroll! Links:John Carroll- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncarroll77/ The fragility of a first generation college student- https://eab.com/insights/daily-briefing/student-affairs/33-of-first-gen-students-drop-out-within-3-years/ Choose901- https://choose901.com/ City Leadership: https://www.cityleadership.org/ Top promotional brands: https://www.instagram.com/choose901/ According to this source: https://nanoe.org/nonprofits-fail/#:~:text=The%20real%20data%20from%20National,of%20a%20strategic%20plan%2C%20among

Show Notes

My guest this week is John Carroll. Lately, I’ve wondered how do you confidently promote a city with significant issues. John is behind the highly successful grassroots nonprofit Choose 901 and City Leadership out of Memphis, TN. What started as a bootstrapped nonprofit over a decade ago has now evolved into one of the top promotional brands in Memphis, TN. National Center on Charitable Statistics, 30% of nonprofits fail to exist after ten years. Given that this nonprofit was bootstrapped and now operates on a 2 million dollar annual budget, this would be a meaningful conversation. This is a great episode that covers the following:

  • The power of social media and attracting talent to a city you love and need to fill jobs in
  • Redefining progress- do we understand the problems clearly, and Are we making progress on those problems?
  • Building a grassroots organization and becoming an expert to others around the United States
  • The fragility of a first-generation college student
  • Plus a lot more

Please enjoy this week’s episode with John Carroll! Links:John Carroll- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncarroll77/ The fragility of a first generation college student- https://eab.com/insights/daily-briefing/student-affairs/33-of-first-gen-students-drop-out-within-3-years/ Choose901- https://choose901.com/ City Leadership: https://www.cityleadership.org/ Top promotional brands: https://www.instagram.com/choose901/ According to this source: https://nanoe.org/nonprofits-fail/#:~:text=The%20real%20data%20from%20National,of%20a%20strategic%20plan%2C%20among

What is Driven By with Sam Coates?

Sharing experiences, insights, and the drivers behind why my guests have built what they have built and how this applies to what drives you.