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Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges

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I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. Michele Jolin , Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House was the panel moderator. A May 6th White House blog post by Jesse Lee, What is the Social Innovation Fund?

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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

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." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. You can also listen to the interview on the player at the bottom of this post, on the Big Vision Podcast landing page , or on iTunes.

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

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He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below. You're a Fellow at the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. JVH: So Freedom from Oil is a campaign that looks at the behaviors of automakers and tries to pressure them and negotiate with them in order to have them change their behavior and really be the leaders in weaning America off of oil.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett.

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

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Below is an edited transcript of our conversation for the Big Vision Podcast which you can listen to online , or download from iTunes. They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work.