Banks Benitez

Banks in 15 Years

Recently I’ve been thinking about the kind of person I want to be when I grow up. Not necessarily professionally - more personal stuff like being a dad one day and being a good neighbor to the people who live on my block. I want to be the kind

Uncharted Insider - March 2018

Hi everyone, Welcome to the March edition of the Uncharted Insider, a monthly email from me that provides an inside look into our organization and what we're thinking about. Uncharted Update: * Food systems and collective impact: In 2017, we ran an accelerator [https://uncharted.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/

The Next Phase of Social Impact

In the social impact space (if there is a "space" so encompassing), it seems like the last ~20 years have been characterized by experimentation with different models and tools to create impact. It's been a renaissance of exploration. Organizations and individuals have applied entrepreneurship to solve

Solutions Looking for Problems

Many organizations we see are led by visionary leaders who want to effect change on a grand scale: tackle poverty, disrupt food systems, slow down global warming, transform healthcare. We need these people to expand our field of vision of what's possible, but many of their solutions fall

Uncharted Insider - February 2018

Hey everyone, Welcome to the February edition of the Uncharted Insider. The Uncharted Insider is a monthly email from me that provides an inside look into our organization and what we're thinking about. Uncharted Update: * Top-Secret revealed: Last month I mentioned we're running an undercover accelerator

Uncharted Insider - January 2018

Hey everyone, Welcome to the January edition of the Uncharted Insider. The Uncharted Insider is a monthly email from me that provides an inside look into our organization and what we're thinking about. Uncharted Update:* * Top-Secret: We're working on an undercover accelerator that will support organizations