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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. It was a tough pill to swallow, but I clearly understood that my role as a leader from the rear and as a mentor helped contribute to the success of the team. It certainly did for me.

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

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(1) Downer News Cycle: Last week, in an interview with NPR , I pointed to the long cycle of bad news we had experienced over the summer as one possible reason the Ice Bucket Challenge had so much appeal. But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. It was probably one of the best books I've read and definitely helped me to better understand the issue, and America's policies and history around it. I'd like to up that number to 6.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. Then, I moved into the world of teaching.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast.

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

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I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. The other thing I think that helps me is to realize that we are seed planters, and that we are going to probably die before we see all those seeds become trees, and it doesn't matter. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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