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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2008, Will was named a John D. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored.

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23 Years Ago Today and How Not To Pitch A Blogger Redux (And Twitter pitches too)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos. So, here's some advice on how to not to pitch a blogger.

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Investing in the Infrastructure of Nonprofit Organizations

Tech Soup

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. "Like a body without a backbone, a sector without a strong infrastructure will crumble."

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

In addition to utilizing SMS, this campaign also utilizes national and local TV, local radio, and magazines. The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting.

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Guest Post: Rearranging the Fossils - Using Museum 2.0 to Get a Stuck Innovation Process Moving Again

Museum 2.0

The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving. The wiki did become more active when I started to organize workshops and asked participants to contribute inspiring images.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. Whenever I contribute to websites or magazines, I insist that the editors allow me to include a recipe. As with most ethnic cuisines, it has some of the decadent foods, but that's not the totality of it. You're a Fellow at the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

Seane has been featured in commercials and has appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal , Fit Yoga , and many other magazines. Then, I started going around the country teaching workshops around spiritual activism: why it's important to take your yoga off the mat and into the world, and the different ways that we can get involved.