This document summarizes Ngoc Anh Cao's experience in the EPG program and an internship. It discusses how the EPG program prepared her for challenges like finding an internship and expanding her comfort zone. It describes how she embraced these challenges by drawing on lessons from the EPG program. The document ends by reflecting on insights gained around challenges nonprofits face and achieving social equality, and Cao's motivation to pay forward what she has learned.

1. DFE: FROM EPG TO A GREATER WORLD
A Personal Experience of Perceiving and
Embracing Challenges
Ngoc Anh Cao
EPG Cohort 11 - Berea College ’16
September 23, 2015

2. AGENDA
• Introduction
• How EPG experiences prepared me for my internship
• Challenges and how I overcame them
• Insights
• Future plans

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4. AND ME
• Recognizing opportunities
• Mobilizing resources
• Engaging complexity and uncertainty
• Advocating changes

5. THINK LIKE AN EDUCATOR
ACT LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR
Challenges = Opportunities to Grow

6. CHALLENGE: INTERNSHIP HUNTING
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7. CHALLENGE: EXPANDING COMFORT ZONE
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8. HOW I EMBRACED MY CHALLENGES

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10. SUCCESS: WORKED AS A STAFF, NOT AN INTERN

11. INSIGHT 1: CHALLENGE FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

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13. INSIGHT 2: CHALLENGE FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY
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14. INSIGHT 3: CHALLENGE FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY
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15. BIGGEST LESSON: IF YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING
THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE, BUILD IT!
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16. BIGGEST MOTIVATION: PAY IT FORWARD

17. THANK YOU!