LEADERSHIP
Amplify every voice with empathy and action.
The Fund: Business for Good
When seeing a need, take responsibility and lead others to make a change together.
The Spark · Origin
Wharton Investment Competition × Ladi's Dream
During the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, our team was assigned a client named Ladi, a man from Nigeria who wanted to use his investment returns to build basic housing for his hometown. He reminded us what capital could really do. If one man's investment returns could build homes for his community, why couldn't I use the same logic to help people around me? That was the first time "Business for Good" felt real to me.
The Fund · Turning Capital into Care
But one fund wasn't enough. Under the club's name, I partnered with the school to launch a campus-wide charity fundraiser, featuring secondhand goods markets, a food street, mystery box sales, and more, earning ¥41910 in total. The whole school showed up. Students who had never met these children understood their world. The event turned awareness into action, and a club initiative into a school-wide movement.
The Cycle · Sustainability
The fund's capital didn't come from one person and it was built from classmate contributions and reinvested proceeds from our charity fundraisers. Every event we held fed back into the fund, and every return generated new donations. But the most important design decision was this: when I graduate, the fund stays. The capital remains invested, continuing to grow through the stock market, generating returns that will keep funding therapy sessions long after I've left.
The Movement
From Club to Campus
Second-hand market anime merchandise
Inspired by Ladi, I established starlight charity fund with my club members, raising $20,000 in capital through charity events. To manage the portfolio, I built a quantitative stock-picking platform using AI-assisted coding, turning data-driven models into a working website that could screen and select investments. The fund generated approximately $5,000 in profit, every dollar of which went directly into funding over 300 hours of professional rehabilitation therapy for children with autism.
Milk Tea Stand in Food Street
The Commitment
I organized club members into a dedicated volunteer team, visiting and supporting children with autism twice a month, not as a one-time gesture, but as a standing promise. Leadership, I learned, isn't about the big moments. It's about the quiet Tuesday afternoons when you show up again, and again, and again.
Ignite the enthusiasm of others with your own enthusiasm, and inspire others' actions through your own actions.