Social Entrepreneur: Conscious Companies | Benefit Corporations | Impact Investing

Social impact does not necessarily require you to be the founder of a social enterprise. Amanda LaGrange is living proof of that idea. Amanda spent more than seven years at General Mills, including time as a Senior Financial Analyst. Today, Amanda is the CEO of TechDump. TechDump refurbishes and recycles electronics, and in the process they create jobs for adults facing barriers to employment, especially those who have spent time in the justice system. TechDump accepts anything with a cable, cord or battery that is not a home appliance.   Amanda brings her background in corporate finance to bare on the challenges of scaling a social enterprise. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Amanda LaGrange: “It takes a certain skill set for a founder to pass on the baton. “ “It wasn’t necessarily that I birthed the idea, but I’ve definitely been a huge part around growing and scaling it.” “Scaling a social enterprise is one of the most difficult things, because you have to create infrastructure at the same time you’