I didn't start with sustainability.
I started with giving.
For a long time, philanthropy, to me, meant writing cheques, supporting causes, responding to moments that called for it. It was instinctive — almost emotional. You see something broken, and you try to fix it. You see someone in need, and you step in. That was my entry point.
"Giving was happening. But impact? That was harder to see. Harder to measure. Harder to scale."
But over time, something began to feel incomplete. Somewhere along the way, I began asking a different question —
What if giving didn't have to sit outside the system?
What if impact wasn't occasional, but embedded into the way things worked, every day?