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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

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She is also a Penn student and a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards , as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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Samin Nosrat: Cook, Teacher, Writer, Accidental Activist

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Her newest project is organizing Chez Panisse Foundation's Eating for Education , a grassroots effort to create national awareness about school kitchen/garden programs. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: July 9: Jumpstart your Blog!

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Foko Madagascar: It Takes A Village To Raise An Idea

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The project will also include training these rural women to create podcasts, videos, and blog posts. The Foko project is participating in the United Nation Billion Tree Campaign and will plant 1,000 trees a day over a ten-day campaign. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer. Environmental program.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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In 2005, I started my business, Big Vision Consulting, with the idea of inspiring people and giving them the tools and resources to support their big vision for a better world through coaching, consulting, my blog and my podcast. Full disclosure: I'm the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold podcast. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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What is your 15SecondPitch? An Interview with Laura Allen

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I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. I think that our current technology (cell phones, ipods, blogs, podcasts, blackberries, etc.) Why did you launch your company? After 9/11/01 in New York, the economy was truly dismal. Now, we live in an A.D.D.

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Ten Books for Every Nonprofit Professional’s Reading List

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I recently I was the ending keynote for Feeding America’s national conference and David was the opening keynote (although due to an accident his daughter, Jennifer Aaker, a professor at Stanford, delivered his keynote on his behalf). Effective storytelling is the secret sauce of nonprofit fundraising and marketing. It is a must read.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL?