I was honored to have the opportunity to represent First Book at this year’s Social Capitalist Awards dinner hosted by Fast Company magazine and Monitor Group.

This year’s event was hosted in Washington, DC – a very convenient locale for many of the evening’s honorees – and brought together some of the best minds working today in the field of social enterprise. It was a thrill to be representing First Book, one of just ten organizations to have received this honor for five consecutive years.

To look around the room was truly awe-inspiring — the individuals in the room have directed their entrepreneurial vision towards solving some of the world’s greatest ills, and the reality is — it’s working. Organizations such as Accion International, College Summit and Endeavor Global are creating models to disrupt the cycle of poverty. Those actions have the ability not only to change the lives of the individuals they serve, but the society in which we all live. Let me tell you, there are worse ways to spend an evening than celebrating these incredible individuals and organizations.

One of the greatest thrills for me was getting the opportunity to meet Fast Company contributor, Dan Heath. I seized the moment to tell him how thought-proving and entertaining I found his article “The Inevitability Of $300 Socks.” I’d encourage you to take a moment to read the article at FastCompany.com and let me know your thoughts.

To learn more about the Social Capitalist Awards and the incredible individuals with whom I got to spend an evening, please visit Fast Company’s Web site.