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Your peripheral vision, the things that you see from the corner of your eye, is much less sharp, and color blind. This part is about the size of your thumb at arm's length. The key to this illusion is that, at any one moment, you only have a clear view of a very small part of the world: the part that falls onto the central part of your retina (the fovea). In other words, you get the impression that the little stars follow your eyes around, as you scan the grid with your eyes.

But, and this is where things get interesting, you don't see any stars in the parts of the grid that you don't directly look at. WeвЂ™re more excited about our work than ever itвЂ™s clear that engaging the next generation is critical to building a brighter future for our city and our world.The stars are clearly visible when you look directly at them. вЂњWithout them, I donвЂ™t know that weвЂ™d be on the path we are today. вЂњOur work with the lab put us on the path to sustainability and scale,вЂќ Lowenstein says.

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More than 25,000 children and families from 92 percent of ChicagoвЂ™s ZIP codes have participated in volunteer projects, with 75 percent of Honeycomb volunteers coming from low-to-moderate-income communities.

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Today, Honeycomb operates with a full-time staff of four, plus twenty-five freelancers who lead hundreds of projects each year in communities across the city. Kristina Lowenstein, Honeycomb co-founder and executive director Our team from the lab helped us find the confidence to make bold decisions that balanced building quality programs with long-term scale and growth.вЂќ вЂњWhen youвЂ™re on the inside, itвЂ™s hard to see your organizationвЂ™s challenges clearly -В or the solutions. вЂњThey understood that we wanted to grow without losing sight of what makes Honeycomb so unique -providing meaningful opportunities for children to volunteerВ alongsideВ their parents and develop a lifelong love of service.вЂќ The founders and their lab team worked on creating a strategic plan that included a fundraising strategy, a road map for staffing, benchmarks for the future, and recommendations for building the right board of directors to support HoneycombвЂ™s growth. Lowenstein says the partnership with the lab team was game-changing for Honeycomb. Since 2009, the lab has helped more than seventy Chicago-area nonprofits and social ventures scale their work, improve their efficiency, and plan for long-term sustainability.

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Lab students get a deep understanding of the day-to-day operations of social ventures, and the nonprofits benefit from studentsвЂ™ input on how to solve real-life operational challenges.

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Hachikian teaches the Social Impact Lab course, which matches teams of students and faculty coaches from Booth, the Harris School of Public Policy, and the School of Social Service Administration with community nonprofits to provide free consulting services. All of our programs are so different: On a single morning, we might be facilitating a cleanup with eighty people at Rainbow Beach and hosting an intimate breakfast for guests at SarahвЂ™s Circle shelter for women.вЂќДЄt just the right moment, Lowenstein says, she met Christina Hachikian, then executive director of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

вЂњWe felt incredible pressure to meet the growing demand, so we were putting all of our time and energy into scaling our programs in a small way, but that wasnвЂ™t sustainable.

вЂњIt was just the two of us creating and leading all of these high-touch volunteer opportunities with multiple partner organizations,вЂќ Lowenstein remembers. Two years after launching Honeycomb, the co-founders were on the verge of burnout. In 2011, the pair founded the Honeycomb Project, a nonprofit that hosts hands-on volunteer opportunities to help families learn about and address social challenges facing Chicago. They found themselves brainstorming about restarting the volunteer work that had been important to them before they had kids - and involving their families in volunteering at the same time. Nearly a decade ago, friends Kristina Lowenstein and Catherine Tannen were both moms of young children.