Seeded from slate.com by Lucas DiGia on 10/22/07
“The Mother Theresa of U.S. Preppie Do-Gooders,” a blogger recently styled Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America. It’s Teresa, actually, and Kopp went to public school in Dallas, not to Groton, but the 40-year-old is definitely an icon of the Gen Y quest for meaning. In the nonprofit world, and increasingly outside it, the story of Kopp and TFA twinkles like a fable. It’s about “one naive college kid with a big idea,” as Kopp said in her 2001 book, One Day, All Children…
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