Alumni Helping Working Parents with Innovative Childcare Finance
Jamee Herbert helps make paying for childcare expenses more manageable for working parents. Her company, BridgeCare Finance, offers payment plans designed to help families provide for pre-kindergarten learning and childcare needs. “It’s a meaty challenge to address, and finance is an important part of solving the issue,” says Jamee. She launched the business with the help …
The Collective: Thriving on Community
Collecting at The Collective PGS gathered together on November 14 for the Bring Your Values to Work, in a stunning space generously provided The Collective, a shared working space co-founded by Alum Alex Mondau. The Collective exists because of Alex’s vision. He noticed that Seattle lacked gathering spaces, places to share ideas and to collaborate. …
Kawayan Collective: Elevating Bamboo as a Modern Building Material in the Philippines
Importing building materials can be costly and has created a shortage of millions of affordable homes in the Philippines. Bamboo grows wild all over the islands, but very few companies have undertaken commercial processing of the material … yet. Kawayan Collective collects, treats, and distributes durable Filipino bamboo. It is a social enterprise that provides …
Mona Das brings System Thinking, Sustainability, and Representation to the Washington State Senate
Mona Das (D-Kent), is a newly elected Washington State Senator and a Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI – now Presidio Graduate School) alumna. Das brings systems thinking and a passion for sustainability and representation to the Washington State Senate. She has introduced 11 bills to the legislature so far. Das enjoys meeting and learning from constituents. …
Culture Bites Brings PGS Culture to the Business World, One Bite at A Time
The environment that surrounds you at work is culture. You might not be able to see it, but know it is there. Successful leaders are careful to spend time thinking about how to encourage employee contributions to workplace culture. Alumni from Presidio Graduate School (PGS) launched Culture Bites, a start-up to help companies have these …