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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. "In order to meet the demand, we needed to integrate regional offices and functions that had operated more independently into a cohesive national team.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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The Iraq War was raging. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies.

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

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So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. It's all about collaboration. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. How to have relationships.

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