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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa. Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

Have Fun - Do Good

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Kennedy University. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. How can we uplift people out of poverty with this new green boom and not leave some people out. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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