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In Part 2 of my interview with Greg Overholt, executive director of Students Offering Support, he explains how SOS is thriving thanks to student volunteers, why students should volunteer to help their careers, and why SOS is the ideal place for students to volunteer.

By working with students from across Canada over the last five years, Greg Overholt has used Students Offering Support (SOS) to champion student engagement, active citizenship, and the promotion of education to fight child poverty.

I always make fun of the avid cyclists in my office, so they dared me to ride 10K and raise $1000. We dared our boss to shave her head. Some people are losing weight. Canadian musician k-os is going back to an old McJob he had.

Social entrepreneurs are people who recognize a need for change or improvement in a certain aspect of society and engineer their company to address this need. They start charities and not-for-profit organizations with the sole intent of making the world a better place.