Fixing Schools Starts With Nutrition: Revolution Foods Made It A Thriving Business
Kirsten Saenz Tobey’s lifelong passion for educating kids led to a business school project that exploded into a company that is changing the way we feed our children in school. By Chris Benguhe AND RaeAnne Marsh
05/06/21 AT 9:21 AM Experiences teaching in Latin America raised Kirsten Saenz Tobey s awareness of food as an important part of kids being able to access the education they were being given. Photo: Revolution Foods
This week, we shine our Social Capital spotlight on one of our February honorees. She is a visionary business leader who recognizes that many people are often shut out of opportunity by a slim minority of individuals who seem to control “access” to so many crucial rights or resources – and are leading efforts to prove the opposite is good business.
Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten was a teacher, researcher and garden educator with Earthjustice, the School for Field Studies, and Phillips Academy at Andover. Her career spanned from leading experiential education programs in the U.S. and Ecuador to evaluating school feeding programs in Ghana. She is an Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Institute Environmental Fellow, member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Sustainable Business Leadership Council and past mentor for the Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program
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Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmond founded Revolution Foods in 2006, and they have been giving millions of children across America access to nutritional meals ever since.
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Leading In A Pandemic: CEOs Discuss How They Helped; What They Learned By Chris Benguhe AND RaeAnne Marsh
04/30/21 AT 9:18 AM As our nation begins to slowly but surely emerge from the pandemic, it is a good time to shine a special light on what some of our Social Capital leaders did to help, and what they learned that can help all businesses deal with any similar challenges in the future. Photo: iStock photo
About a year ago, we began to research and plan our Social Capital section and its initial honorees smack dab in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The idea wasn’t born of or was a reaction to the pandemic, but that did become a big part of who we picked and how we picked them. Since the whole idea was to recognize leaders who realized the importance and value of people and how to help them through the power of Capitalism, we paid special attention to which leaders were especially helpful to their customers and their employees through the pandemic. When we fi
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