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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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Towards that vision, they are creating a networked community of cultural entrepreneurs, cultural investors, and cultural entrepreneurship educators. Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans. This was 7 years ago.

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Solutionary Women: Rebecca Kalin

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After a few years of designing and producing educational radio programs in Africa, I decided to go for a Masters in public health-my favorite content area. As an artist born of artist parents, I thought that seemed a heck of a lot easier than biostatistics. And, if you really want to do this kind of work … call me!

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REALLY Hot Women

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While surfing for some more BlogHers to add to the Nonprofit and NGO BlogHer blogroll, I came across the REAL hot 100: See How Hot Smart Can Be. Their findings are captured in a video they made last year with Beyondmedia Education , Respect Me, Don’t Media Me Anne Elizabeth Moore, 35, Chicago, IL What makes her REALLY hot?

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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It’s been the most rewarding thing I have ever done, and it really I think – at least in my own head – helps me with keeping Lokahi itself grounded in this idea of education and empowering and being about reaching out to people. women nonprofit activism music ONE campaign

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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Women are walking hours each day to access clean water; therefore, they're not getting access to education, and an opportunity to create a livelihood for themselves. If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. billion people are without clean water.

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

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professional level but even at the educational level for elementary. with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. Presentations on the use of open data in development cooperation ( AidData ) and discussions on transparency and publication of open data by NGOs. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and.

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