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Remembering Franklin Thomas

Candid

I was hired to work for Ford Foundation in 1991 as a program officer in Brazil, when Frank was still President. Soon thereafter, my direct boss, Joan Dassin, became regional director for Latin American and the Caribbean, based in New York, and I was promoted to take her place. Negotiate, I did not.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. His forthcoming. newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Is a crisis management plan enough?

ASU Lodestar Center

Natalia has been working in the nonprofit sector for 10 years and is currently the Director of Guest Experience Programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California. She is passionate about staff training and development, storytelling and working toward creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive sector.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

As a people, we have to tell our own story.” – Evans Okinyi, CEO, East Africa Philanthropy Network Coming from a family of storytellers and strong matriarchs, I was interested in “Black (Women’s) Power: Our Voices.” Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change. “As

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. Nobody could afford you, or nobody's big enough to hire a promotion director. And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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