Rafe Steinhauer - USA

Rafe joined a longer version of our Be The Change Program in November of 2007.

While on the program Rafe and another participant, Celeste Donovan, developed an idea for a social enterprise. When Rafe finished our program he went to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for GVN Foundation's African Children's Fund. Rafe then stayed in Africa and volunteered with GVN in a school in Kenya for 2 months.

Upon his return home, Rafe re-visited the social enterprise idea he had developed while in New Zealand and recently founded 'Benefeast'. Benefeast is a social enterprise in which people who are interested in meeting other socially conscious people in their area pay a small fee to Benefeast to go to a group dinner in their area. Benefeast sets up dinners in cities around the USA. Benefeast then donates a portion of their payment to the charity of their choice.

Rafe has created a sustainable company that promotes community and social change!