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Big Paycheck or Service? Is There a Middle Way?

blogher.com     Jun 25, 2008   1 related          

The New York Times recently published an article, Big Paycheck or Service? Students are Put to Test, about graduates who go into school with high ideals for changing the world, but come out working for big business. (Hat tip to...                

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Echoing Green announces 2008 Fellowship Class

es.wordpress.com     Jun 19, 2008          

Each year, Echoing Green awards approximately 20 individual or team fellowships for aspiring social entrepreneurs. They've been at it since 1987 and have supported some organizations that grew into field changers such as Teach...                

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Introducing Social Entrepreneurship

yahoo.com     Jun 18, 2008          

Echoing Green. Echoing Green applies a VC mindset and discipline to funding and supporting entrepreneurs seeking not to build profit-generating business models, but rather to create organizations intended to tackle some of...                

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Spring has sprung, finally

timesunion.com     Jun 15, 2008          

Pitchers are no longer testifying about the state of their rear ends in front of Congress and national television -- now they're throwing in Tampa, Fort Myers and Port St. Lucie. Thank God. It's time to close the book on the...                

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Mississippi watchdog group leader slams FEMA's decision on delivering ice

charlotte.com     Jun 8, 2008   2 related          

Ben Smilowitz, executive director for the Disaster Accountability Project, said Friday that ice brought in for the public is a necessity after a hurricane, and criticized FEMA's decision to deliver it only for medical...                

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Cottages May Be No Safer Than Trailers

bestcyrano.org     May 30, 2008   62 related          

The following press release is from the Disaster Accountability Project. The Sierra Club recently tested five “Katrina cottages” being used in Mississippi and found all to contain higher levels of formaldehyde than is recommended for...                

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Envirolution! Green Society Gets the Red Carpet Treatment

shapingyouth.org     May 20, 2008          

Shaping Youth's fellow semifinalists in the 2008 Echoing Green competition are founders Tim, Alex, and Antuan, of Envirolution who made it along with yours truly as one of the top 25% of global orgs applying. Alas, both of our orgs lost the top slot, but role modeling resilience like an "Ahnuld" ...                

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Poverty, Petroleum and Politics

indymedia.org     May 5, 2008          

University of California, Berkeley 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building * Close to the Downtown Berkeley BART station ... : How oil and mining industry secrecy fosters poverty and conflict (And what YOU can do to change that) Featuring: Tutu Alicante, Founder of EG Justice,...                

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