{"id":57889,"date":"2015-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-creates-group-that-helps-others-find-purpose-receives-changemaker-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-creates-group-that-helps-others-find-purpose-receives-changemaker-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/uri-student-creates-group-that-helps-others-find-purpose-receives-changemaker-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student creates group that helps others find purpose, receives Changemaker Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 28, 2015 \u2013 Kyle Nacci did not have a smooth start to his college career. The 溏心vlog免费B站 senior psychology major attended Lehigh University on and off for several years before transferring to 溏心vlog免费B站 in the spring of 2014. He was frustrated with the constraints in higher education that made it difficult for him and his fellow students to discover their strongest interests. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI became very interested in educational reform with the goal of helping people find their passions,\u201d said Nacci, who grew up in Cranston and now splits his time between Warwick and Providence. <\/p>\n


\nThat interest led him to found a student organization called Big Thinkers, which was inspired by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s branding tagline, \u201cThink Big. We Do.\u201d The group was divided into 10 committees, each focusing on a different social action like educational innovation or international hunger alleviation. The weekly meetings of each of these committees made Big Thinkers the most active student organization at 溏心vlog免费B站 last spring. Now called Thrive Academy (thriveacademy.co), the group\u2019s focus has shifted to helping students discover their life\u2019s purpose. Members can choose from eight projects to work on\u2014from a social network that connects people by their interests to a festival for fostering innovation.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cPeople think that changing the world is such a ridiculous ambition. They think you have to be crazy to believe you can do it,\u201d Nacci said. \u201cThis is an organization where it\u2019s OK to believe that; we\u2019ll embrace that level of craziness. But if you focus on changing individual lives, you can see the immediate effects of your actions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIt was there in his own organization that he found his own purpose: helping others to thrive.<\/p>\n


\nHis efforts resulted in his receiving Social Entrepreneurship Greenhouse\u2019s Changemaker Fellowship, which is awarded to one student at each of the 11 Rhode Island universities and colleges. The fellowship supports entrepreneurial students in their own projects, and encourages them to provide support for other students on their campuses. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cA lot of people aren\u2019t interested in entrepreneurship because they think they are just about making money. I want to show people that entrepreneurship is a tool for solving problems and helping people,\u201d Nacci explained.<\/p>\n


\nMany of Nacci\u2019s cohort members reported that their schools did not have entrepreneurship groups, so he offered them an idea: \u201cInstead of starting your own entrepreneurship club,\u201d he asked, \u201cwhy not take what I\u2019ve created here at 溏心vlog免费B站 and bring it to your campus?\u201d <\/p>\n


\nNacci is helping students at eight colleges and universities create their own Thrive Academy chapters.<\/p>\n


\nThrive Academy is important because of the community it provides its members. \u201cI believe that when you connect with other people who share your passions, you can work together, and that\u2019s so much more powerful than going it alone,\u201d Nacci explained. \u201cI\u2019ve been an advocate for positive psychology for a while, but it wasn\u2019t until I had a community of people to work with that I started achieving things.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNacci is proud of his group\u2019s success. He cites his first meeting with Big Thinkers as his proudest moment at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even sure if anyone would show up,\u201d he remembered. \u201cBeing in that meeting and seeing all these new people coming together, I remember thinking that they could have been anywhere else, doing anything else. But they wanted to be there because they cared about making a positive impact\u2014that\u2019s what\u2019s driven me throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nEmma Clarke, a senior 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing & Communications intern and a public relations and French double major, wrote this release.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto courtesy of Kyle Nacci <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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