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Gathering: looking back

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So many people did a great job making this the event for social enterprisers in North America. Another person with equal dedication was Julann Jatczak, who was chairing the program committee for a second Gathering (her first was also successful: the Milwaukee Gathering a few years back)! Most Successful Ever!

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place. You have a regular day job. How do you find the time to run this project and do your job? I'm lucky I have the day job I have. He's out of Milwaukee. Yes, I do [laughs]. Oh my gosh!

Cancer 68
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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

Tocqueville declared in Democracy in America that these associations were indispensable to a functional democracy and that the knowledge of how to work together was the “mother of all forms of knowledge” in a democratic country. We have long known that civic engagement strengthens democratic systems.