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  • Telling Stories, Saving Lives, Building Community: Are The Arts The Answer?

    Kianna Hampton, 10, waits outside for Pedro Reyes to show up. Not necessarily an unusual scene on city streets across the country. But Kianna isn’t waiting for a ride, or a tutor, or something more pernicious in the projects she calls home. Kianna is waiting for art. She’s waiting for her chance to be a film producer, it’s what she does after school.

    You see, armed with laptops, Reyes is an Afterschool Resident Artist at Streetside Stories in San Francisco. So he has set up an editing suite for movie-makers in Kianna’s apartment complex, and kids like Kianna can spend those after school hours using art to tell the stories of their lives.

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  • Teddy Gross - Using Common Cents To Save The World

    Teddy Gross is the founder and executive director of Common Cents, a national not-for-profit educational organization, which specializes in designing citizenship programs for children and young people, and supporting their work in schools throughout the country and across all demographic divides.
     

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  • Patricia Wenskunas - Assault Survivor, Victim Advocate

    Patricia Wenskunas was victimized at the early age of eight, and again as a young woman, but both times instinctively survived. Now she helps others learn how to overcome their plight as a victim of violent crime and learn how to survive and thrive!

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Editor Blogs

  • Because they are ENTITLED

    Posted May 16th, 2008 by Natalie LaFontaine

    They’ve been entering the work-world.... asking for the office, expense account, not to do that job - but do THAT job instead (your job), increases to the retirement/vacation package, and parking paid for!    The Entitlementers.

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  • Why Aren't Schools Greener?

    Posted May 16th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

     I am very dissappointed that schools are lagging so far behind when it comes to "Going Green".  I would argue that schools are some of the biggest environmental offenders (excluding the corporate world of course, schools do not pollute oceans and rivers and emit toxic funes into the skies).

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  • Blogging for Human Rights: Free Speech

    Posted May 14th, 2008 by Anne-Marie McRe...

    Is free speech a human right?

    Google says no.

    Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says yes.

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  • Entrepreneurs Anonymous

    Posted May 14th, 2008 by Alyssa Royse

    Before getting the seemingly crazy idea to start JUST CAUSE IT, I never would have thought that I was someone who loved business. I mean, business? Aren’t business people those uptight men sitting in offices and doing, I dunno, boring business stuff?

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    Saving The World Without Phones or Lights?

    Posted May 13th, 2008 by skyekilaen

    Last week, I got an email from a company I love and respect. They are fundraising to help those affected by the cyclone in Myanmar, which is great.

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  • Hospital Safety and Infection Reduction

    Posted May 12th, 2008 by Alex Elliot

    I've had many new experiences and spent time in different places ever since becoming a mother. For example, as a 20 something single woman, I rarely frequented playgrounds, museams, or...well...hospitals. Parenting has changed that Besides my own hospital stays for two c-sections, both of my children have unfortunately needed to go to the ER.

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