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

Have Fun - Do Good

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. For example, I'd seen potters in Peru whose tradition was to make clay water jars for their community. We do that through mentoring. It depends on their interests.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes. The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Exposure can be a motivation. Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. What's interesting about the way the organization is shifting into this place of more of a foundation, and more of that team, and sustainability, is it's giving me the space to build in my own sustainability. We think it's because of the mentorship.

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