Lauren Bush Lauren, founder of FEED and granddaughter of President George H. W. Bush, spent time in the classroom with students at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University prior to her remarks at the Bank of America Program on Volunteerism.
Bush Lauren spoke to Dr. Laurie Paarlberg’s Grant and Project Management class on Monday afternoon on the social purpose business model of her company, FEED. FEED is an accessory retailer and social business that donates proceeds from each product sold to provide meals to children and families around the world. Bush Lauren also touched on the challenges she faced launching and growing a business as a young entrepreneur and emphasized the importance of reaching out to others when seeking to solve a problem.
“Students asked about the FEED Foundation and how it is different from her business and how philanthropy and young people’s commitment to social action is changing,” Paarlberg said. “At the end of the discussion, one student mentioned that this was the ‘best guest speaker’ that we’ve had in two years!”