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<br />Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-11300882497994998392017-02-12T22:00:00.000-08:002017-02-12T22:00:08.470-08:00MTI - Good station-area planning is critical for the successful operation of a high-speed rail station<b><i><span style="color: blue;">MTI Report 12-75 was edited by Aggie Writing Services.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"><strong>San José, Calif., February 8, 2017 —</strong>Good
station-area planning is an important prerequisite for the successful
operation of a high-speed rail (HSR) station; it can trigger
opportunities for economic development in the station-area and
station-city. What is less clear, however, is what constitutes good
station-area planning.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Researchers at the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://transweb.sjsu.edu/index.htm&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNH0CyodI3vX2-71UM91jdeaZBbyEA" href="http://transweb.sjsu.edu/index.htm" target="_blank">Mineta Transportation Institute</a> recently completed a comparative analysis of HSR station development in order to provide valuable lessons for the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.hsr.ca.gov/&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNFcVpWBzQxxk5ro1pXUwxovBc8aaA" href="http://www.hsr.ca.gov/" target="_blank">California HSR system</a>, in general, and the San José, California, Diridon Station, in particular. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://transweb.sjsu.edu/project/1502.html&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNFQ0Y0TWhzviEne-av7dUquA3J86w" href="http://transweb.sjsu.edu/project/1502.html" target="_blank">A
Comparative Analysis of High-Speed Rail Station Developing into
Destination and Multi-Use Facilities: The Case of San José Diridon</a>
identifies the elements of good station-area planning, documents what
experts consider as challenges and opportunities, and extracts
recommendations to improve future HSR station-area development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">The
team, led by Dr. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, reviewed literature on
planning intermodal transit facilities, completed an in-depth assessment
of current planning efforts for Diridon Station—including site visits
and interviews with planners and urban designers—and conducted in-depth
case studies of five European HSR stations: Lille and Lyon, France;
Utrecht and Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and, Turin, Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">According
to Loukaitou-Sideris, “there are a number of attributes that
characterize successful HSR station-area planning.” These include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Strong spatial connectivity, defined as the seamless integration of the station with its surroundings;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Strong
intermodal connectivity, defined as the seamless integration of
different transportation modes at the station, and convenient access and
transition from one mode to the other; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Strong
operational connectivity, defined as good project governance, and
coordination and collaboration among the public and private sector.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Specific
recommendations for San José Diridon Station focus on station design
and services, intermodal connectivity—including connections to nearby <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.flysanjose.com/fl/index.php&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNEdgLazDIiqBjAcxflWddhWFBs1_w" href="http://www.flysanjose.com/fl/index.php" target="_blank">Mineta San José International Airport</a>—as well as operational connectivity such as the development of a Joint Powers Authority.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">The report is available for free download from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://transweb.sjsu.edu/project/1502.html&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNFQ0Y0TWhzviEne-av7dUquA3J86w" href="http://transweb.sjsu.edu/project/1502.html" target="_blank">http://transweb.sjsu.edu/<wbr></wbr>project/1502.html</a></span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"><strong> Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, PhD</strong> is a professor of urban planning and associate dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. <strong>Deike Peters, PhD</strong> is an assistant professor of environmental planning and practice at Soka University of America. <strong>Paige Colton</strong> is a graduate student in the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning program at UCLA. <strong>Eric Eidlin</strong> is a transportation planner and Sustainability Lead with the Federal Transit Administration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"><strong>ABOUT THE MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE<br /> </strong>The
Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) conducts research, education, and
information transfer programs regarding surface transportation policy
and management issues, especially related to transit. Congress
established MTI in 1991 as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act. MTI won national re-designation competitions in 2002,
2006 and 2012. The Institute is funded through the US Department of
Transportation, the US Department of Homeland Security, the California
Department of Transportation, and public and private grants. The
internationally respected members of the MTI Board of Trustees represent
all major surface transportation modes. MTI, the lead institute for the
nine-university Mineta National Transit Research Consortium, is
affiliated with San Jose (CA) State University’s Lucas College and
Graduate School of Business. Visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://transweb.sjsu.edu&source=gmail&ust=1487051610100000&usg=AFQjCNF00gOXQiS_9Md8tpJiewkvgsW-1A" href="http://transweb.sjsu.edu/" target="_blank">transweb.sjsu.edu</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;">Contact:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"> Hilary Nixon, Ph.D.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"> MTI Director of Research and Technology Transfer</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"> <a href="tel:%28408%29%20924-7564" target="_blank" value="+14089247564">408.924.7564</a> | </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times;"><a href="mailto:hilary.nixon@sjsu.edu" target="_blank">hilary.nixon@sjsu.edu</a></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.greenamerica.org/">Green America</a></b> stands strongly against President Trump’s executive order on immigration. We are proud to partner with the <b><a href="http://asbcouncil.org/">American Sustainable Business Council</a></b> to ensure that businesses and employers can raise their voices in opposition.<span id="more-8608" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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The ban on travel and immigration, which initially included valid visa and green card holders, and applied to seven predominantly Muslim countries, unjustly targets Muslims. Discriminating against individuals based on religion and national origin is fundamentally un-American.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America is already great</strong>—because we are a nation of immigrants. Our diversity is one of our greatest strengths, especially for businesses able to tap into a diverse employment pool to compete in the global marketplace. Since the founding of our country, immigrants have brought their talents and fresh perspectives, promoting strong communities and a strong economy.</div>
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Anti-discrimination policy exists today to prevent discrimination in the workplace. Simply put, President Trump’s order is in direct conflict with how we run our businesses, and is not how America operates. We reject discriminatory actions; we respect people irrespective of their religion and we seek broad-based prosperity for all Americans.</div>
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This ban is dangerous and fundamentally disruptive to society and the economy. President Trump has created a culture of fear and uncertainty that ultimately hurts our communities, families, and the marketplace.</div>
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We believe we can achieve both safety for ourselves and safety for those fleeing crisis or conflict in their home countries. We welcome all immigrants seeking opportunity.</div>
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Green America’s Green Business Network is proud to join the growing number of businesses from a wide range of sectors in opposition to Trump’s executive order on immigration. We stand for diversity, which is crucial to our country’s continued prosperity and innovation. Raise your business voice, and tell the Administration that you oppose the immigration ban.</div>
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<br />Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-84865546931738153772016-12-14T08:21:00.000-08:002016-12-14T08:21:27.019-08:00GA/GBN: US SIF Foundation Releases 2016 Trends Report on Sustainable, Responsible, and Impact Investing<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by Scott Kitson | Dec 01, 2016</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidt0zDAPQgS7znTxy9i79kgufEIl_3AKQV6d-BHTW1XN56B5BepNSzvklGCO9IZBdF2XfzIeO2oba0d4aiKtxf-ek1ma0MrbVkek0pcXUJc6Kp6FlrSxfqlHRADWEvrelQSEqeQOht5na/s1600/ussif-report.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidt0zDAPQgS7znTxy9i79kgufEIl_3AKQV6d-BHTW1XN56B5BepNSzvklGCO9IZBdF2XfzIeO2oba0d4aiKtxf-ek1ma0MrbVkek0pcXUJc6Kp6FlrSxfqlHRADWEvrelQSEqeQOht5na/s1600/ussif-report.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the latest report from the US SIF Foundation,
sustainable, responsible, and impact (SRI) investing assets have
expanded to $8.72 trillion in the US, up 33% since 2014. This equates to
one in five dollars invested under professional management. The full
reports explains this growth, in addition to exploring the top issues
concerning money managers and their clients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="more-8354"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <em>Trends Report, </em>now in its 11th year of publication, is a
snapshot of US-domiciled assets engaged in sustainable, responsible,
and impact (SRI) strategies at year-end 2015. The report measures two
SRI strategies: (1) ESG incorporation, and (2) Filing shareholder
resolutions on ESG issues.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The report shows a 33% growth over the past two years, and a 14-fold increase since 1995.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To read more highlights or download the full report, visit <a href="http://ussif.org/" target="_blank">US SIF</a>.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ussif.org/trends" target="_blank">US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable Responsible Investment</a>
is the leading voice advancing sustainable, responsible and impact
investing across all asset classes. Its mission is to rapidly shift
investment practices toward sustainability, focusing on long-term
investment and the generation of positive social and environmental
impacts.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The US SIF Foundation undertakes educational, research, and programmatic activities to advance the mission of US SIF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Source: http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/us-sif-foundation-releases-2016-trends-report-on-sustainable-responsible-and-impact-investing/)</span></i></span>Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-83158838753731866662016-12-14T08:11:00.001-08:002016-12-14T08:11:20.153-08:00GA/GBN: New 2017 National Green Pages Released<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by Scott Kitson | Nov 17, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://greenamerica.org/" target="_blank">Green America</a> is unveiling today its newest issue of <em>National Green Pages</em> (<em>NGP</em>), the ultimate sourcebook for green living, purchasing and investing.<span id="more-8299"></span> This year’s edition is available in hard copy or <a href="http://greenam.org/2f5uoYs" target="_blank">online</a>. The <em>NGP</em>
continues to honor the greenest businesses in the country and provides
consumers with an extensive range of ideas for greening their lives,
work, and community. Readers can also take advantage of 450 freebies and
discounts from <a href="http://greenamerica.org/" target="_blank">Green America</a>’s <a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/green-business-certification/" target="_blank">Certified</a> Green Business Network members nationwide.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Featuring thousands of socially and environmentally responsible businesses, the <em>2017 National Green Pages</em>
is a great resource for those who wish to create a safe and healthy
home, promote peace and justice, protect the environment, and support a
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details the types of green businesses “you need in your life,” as well
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invest. That power gives you the responsibility and voice to change
company practices. These practices could be about issues affecting human
rights, labor rights, the environment, and much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Source: http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/hold-corporations-accountable-with-the-shareholder-action-guide/)</span></i></span>Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-71880171440978312032016-11-15T03:32:00.002-08:002016-11-24T00:09:42.159-08:00Green America / GBN: Find Your Place in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">by </span><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/author/misha/" rel="author" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Misha Clive">Misha Clive</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> | Oct 31, 2016</span></b><br />
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While there have always been entrepreneurs working for social good, recent years have seen tremendous growth in programs and organizations to support them. From incubators and accelerators to business plan competitions and co-working spaces, a vast ecosystem has developed to support social enterprises.</div>
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As you navigate how to take advantage of this booming ecosystem, here’s the latest insights from an expert panel at the <a href="http://mentorcapitalnet.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mentor Capital Network</a>’s 2016 Annual Gathering.</div>
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Panelists included Avary Kent, Executive Director of <a href="http://www.conveners.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Conveners.org</a>; <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanessa Ferragut,</b> Founder of <a href="http://greenease.co/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Greenease</a>; <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laurin Hodge, </b>Executive Director of <a href="http://www.mission-launch.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mission: Launch</a>, and <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ben Powell,</b> Founder and CEO of <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Agora Partnerships</a>.</div>
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The ecosystem for entrepreneurs has seen such a boom that there’s been a trend in the past five years towards hyperlocal or focused programs. If you’re in a major city, chances are good that there’s not only an accelerator program near you, but even a specific program targeted for your work.</div>
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Conveners.org helps to accelerate accelerators, serving 125 programs in the Conveners.org network, and Kent reported growth in accelerators only serving food, clean energy, or other specific areas.</div>
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Ferragut recommends using <a href="https://www.f6s.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the F6S platform</a> to search for programs that meet your needs. “Keep applying to accelerator programs until you’re accepted. Have your template in a word doc and it will become easier. I keep a good paper trail and have everything ready to go,” she advises. And make sure you’re not applying solo—accelerators need to see you have a second-in-command.</div>
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It’s a sign of a maturing ecosystem that there are more hyperfocused programs, but many communities are left behind and lack access to even general opportunities. The high population density of certain cities leads to concentrations of ecosystems for entrepreneurs in places like New York, Silicon Valley, and DC. Smaller hubs of innovation such as Columbus, Ohio, don’t gain the same support. Entrepreneurs outside city areas are isolated from business communities.</div>
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Continuing to grow and build out this ecosystem for all is important to give entrepreneurs the network of support they need to survive the challenges of business. Powell runs a social enterprise accelerator program that serves entrepreneurs in Latin America where there isn’t a strong ecosystem, and brings them together for in-person bonding and deep dives with consultants. “This makes them feel like they’re not alone, like they have someone to walk with them. People need to feel like there’s light at end of the tunnel,” he said.</div>
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But when entrepreneurs lack in-person opportunities, virtual networks can bridge the gap to make connections.</div>
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If you’re outside a major hub, look for online networks to build your connections, and take advantage of Skype and Google Hangouts to get more of a human touch. When you join organizations like Green America’s <a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/join/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Green Business Network</a> or the <a href="https://socialenterprise.us/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Social Enterprise Alliance</a>, you can find like-minded peers across the country to connect to.</div>
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Tip: At Green America’s Green Business Network, we’ve launched a Facebook Group for members to connect to each other online. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/203437020051871/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Request to join »</a></div>
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Virtual networks help the ecosystem grow towards greater inclusion for entrepreneurs outside big cities. There’s still much work to be done for authentic inclusion of people across many other areas of difference, such as socioeconomic background.</div>
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Hodge focuses on entrepreneurship for people with convictions and arrest records, and sees a long way to go to achieve true diversity in the entrepreneurial community. She sees a push for “inclusive entrepreneurship” as a buzzword, but emphasized how people are held back from launching businesses due to social disabilities, like lacking the privilege or access to money. “We have to be honest that it’s <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </i>a level playing field,” she said.</div>
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Kent added that “you can’t have a friends-and-family round of raising capital if your friends and family don’t have capital.”</div>
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Strategic partnerships are also key to strengthening ecosystem connections and building social impact. For Powell, it’s what social innovation is all about—“figuring out where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”</div>
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One strategic partnership model that’s effective in the non-profit social impact world is connecting small and innovative organizations to larger organizations with greater capacity. Smaller organizations may lack the competency or capacity to apply for large grants, while larger but less innovative organizations may have the grantwriting expertise and capacity. “There are lots of under-resourced organizations. Incubating them in larger organizations and helping them stay on the cutting edge is part of what a robust ecosystem does,” Powell said.</div>
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Hodge’s organization has used this method. While they achieved 501©3 status in 2014, they have formed a partnership with an organization that’s been around since the 1990s, and can access more grants for their work through the partnership.</div>
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Plucky new for-profit businesses follow a parallel model by partnering with larger, well-established businesses, providing fast-moving innovation while partners offer stability and standing in the marketplace.</div>
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“Stick to your commitments, make time for each other, and share clearly and honestly when things aren’t working,” Kent advised on building partnerships. “There’s an added burden in social impact because the risk if we fail is a lot higher, the systemic problem will continue to exist. What is your critical path to success, and what does your partner need?”</div>
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Mentorship also plays a huge role. Ferragut gained a critical mentor through <a href="https://food-x.com/startup-companies/greenease/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">her participation in Food-X</a>, who has supported her on the journey to build Greenease, a mobile app that connects consumers to locally sourced and sustainable food. When Ferragut gets a call for help, she takes it. “Once somebody was there for me, so I want to keep being there for the community.”</div>
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The central importance of mentorship is the foundation of the Mentor Capital Network, which draws on a global web of experienced mentors and investors to provide support to early stage, visionary entrepreneurs who are using business to solve the world’s biggest social, economic, and environmental problems.</div>
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Getting to scale is a challenge in the world of social good, but necessary for truly world-changing impact. Social impact businesses continue to struggle to access the financing needed to achieve greater scale. Companies like Amazon that are all about scale can go for ten years in the red, but social impact businesses and organizations face different standards.</div>
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Funders want to see the impact of their work throughout development, but it takes time to build something with depth that’s ready for scale. And when organizations and companies scale too quickly, the unintended consequences can undermine the intended impact.</div>
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Social impact businesses are also navigating a different exit strategy from conventional businesses seeking funding. “In impact investing, selling out to another company is not the primary objective. If you’re doing this to solve a problem in the world, how do you talk about exits and making sure investors get their money back? Social enterprises need different support to scale. They’re not allowed to lose million before they see revenues. Tech companies play a different game and it’s somewhat unfair we’re held up against them,” Kent said.</div>
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Search for investors that understand the world of social impact. Work your local networks for opportunities and explore online marketplaces like <a href="http://www.impactusinfo.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ImpactUs</a> and <a href="http://www.missionmarkets.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mission Markets</a>.</div>
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After Food-X, Greenease raised a round of funding through a pitch competition. It was refreshing to her that the investors she connected to had a realistic understand of the slow growth in food, and didn’t expect a return for seven years. “They said, we’re not just investing in your business we’re investing in you,” she said.</div>
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But the investors asked Ferragut to focus on just the DC and NY areas, and she wanted to go nationwide. Ferragut ultimately stopped fundraising and focused on growing the business through her own funding.</div>
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Powell has seen much change in the field since starting one of the first impact investing funds, but feels the field continues to grapple with fundamental questions. “Impact investing was born with an identity crisis. Is this about changing and evolving capitalism for the 21th century, or how we modify existing [investing] products to satiate demand from investors for money to do more than just replicate itself?”</div>
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Hodge said there’s an awareness that “somebody needs to pay” for social impact, but governments, foundations, and the private sectors haven’t figured out who’s going to pay the bills.</div>
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Powell emphasized the importance of values-aligned investors recognizing the tradeoffs between return and impact. He painted an example where a company may have gotten thousands of children nourished and the investors aren’t going to make back thirty percent—but they’ll get their money back and can reinvest it and continue to make an impact. “We’re kidding ourselves if we say there’s no tradeoff,” he said.</div>
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And even when there is positive impact in the world, it can present more challenges. Hodge’s organization Mission: Launch is a not-for-profit social enterprise that creates opportunities for citizens facing barriers to employment due to an arrest or conviction record. They have to work quickly through strategic partnerships to move from sustainability to greater scale, driven by the heightened national interest in the past year around criminal justice issues.</div>
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As you navigate the challenges of investing, make sure you’re seeking investors who understand the unique challenges of growing social impact businesses and are willing to take the journey with you. “Do due diligence on your investors! Investors are going to do due diligence on us. But I failed to do my due diligence on them because I was so excited to have raised a round. Find out who they have invested in and talk to those folks,” said Ferragut.</div>
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But while conventional companies may have fewer investing challenges, you have communications and marketing opportunities based on your mission and impact that can help you stand out. “Realize how much communications and marketing matters to this space,” Hodge said. “If your product is more expensive, it’s an opportunity to explain why it’s better. Be a differentiator.”</div>
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Powell offered one last piece of advice from “the most successful social entrepreneur in the US,” Benjamin Franklin. “’Energy and persistence conquer all things.’ It’s about sticking with your vision, finding your allies, doing whatever it takes to succeed. Because we need to succeed.”</div>
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This article draws on insights shared at the <a href="http://mentorcapitalnet.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mentor Capital Network</a>‘s 13th Annual Gathering in 2016 from a panel discussion on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Since 2002, MCN has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs launch organizations that have gone on to create more than 20,000 jobs.<br />
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MCN’s entrepreneurs make the world a better place with their success, with focuses on clean energy, sustainable agriculture, educational innovation, sustainable construction, financial access, and dozens of other critical areas. Entrepreneurs can apply for MCN’s <a href="http://mentorcapitalnet.org/home/join-us/entrepreneurs/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sustainable Business Plan Collaboration Program</a>. The <a href="http://mentorcapitalnet.org/home/annual-gathering-2016/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mentor Capital Network Annual Gathering</a> is an opportunity to engage in the conversation around social entrepreneurship on a global scale, with two full days of intimate, challenging sessions that address big topics including public health, off-grid technologies and refugee camps, food security, and clean energy. The 2016 Annual Gathering was held Sept. 29 to Oct 1.</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">by </span><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/author/scott/" rel="author" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Scott Kitson">Scott Kitson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> | Nov 10, 2016</span></b><br />
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A note from Alisa Gravitz, <a href="http://greenamerica.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Green America</a>‘s President and CEO:<span id="more-8278" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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I think we can all agree that this was the most wrenching campaign of modern times.</div>
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When it comes to the core issues that you and I work on together through Green America, I think it is fair to say that many of President-elect Trump’s promises on the campaign trail were in direct opposition to creating a green economy. Most significantly, Donald Trump does not accept that climate change is real, and wants to ramp up coal. His agricultural advisors all support Big-Ag over family farms and local food systems. He is on record stating he wants to eliminate the EPA. He does not support policies that will protect our diversity or help the most vulnerable amongst us when it comes to wages or responsible banking.</div>
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This is a time to take action. Together, you and I have put the foundations in place for a green economy and made enormous progress over the past three decades. Together, we can continue our progress in the economy for clean energy & climate, sustainable food & agriculture, responsible finance and fair labor, even in the face of gridlock or worse in the national political system.</div>
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And, as we’ve done since our founding, with you by our side, Green America will continue its leadership role in working directly with consumers, businesses, and investors to create green economy solutions that don’t rely on Washington. We’ll use the voice and buying power of our 200,000+ consumers nationwide to encourage companies to be truly green, support the greenest small businesses nationwide, and help companies dramatically change their supply chains to improve labor and environmental conditions worldwide.</div>
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Together, we’ll protect the progress we’ve made and advance our important green economy work on:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Responsible Finance</strong>: Crack down on the abuses of Wall Street, strengthening the role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in protecting our most vulnerable citizens, and reining in predatory payday lenders.</li>
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So, let’s all take a deep breath and become ever more tenacious about creating an economy that truly works for people and the planet.</div>
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Looking forward to continuing our work together.</div>
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Whether you’ve met Denise once or have worked with her for a lifetime, you know she is a force for good and makes real change happen. Her joy for life—and bubbly laughter—always leave you energized.</div>
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Green America (then Co-op America) first opened its office on September 25, 1982, in Washington, DC. From the beginning, Denise gave 34 years to the organization, working hard to grow the green economy. She has enjoyed working with so many innovative green business leaders and change-makers over the years.</div>
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Denise tells the story of first starting at Green America, working from a shoebox full of index cards with members’ names and addresses. She adds, “I thought I was only going to have this job for 6 months!”</div>
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Three decades later, Green America engages with millions of people, from every background, who share our vision for environmental sustainability and social justice. Denise’s fearless spirit has helped lead us every step of the way.</div>
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When Green America began, Denise had a two-year-old son. Now, she has a two-year-old grandson.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">View highlights from Denise’s retirement party:</strong></div>
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Green America’s Board of Directors invites you to <a href="https://www.greenamerica.org/supportus/donate/hamler2016.cfm?source=WDDHND&step=form&ref=&ask=1000-500-100-50-100-34-20-10" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">make a gift in honor of Denise’s many contributions to social justice and environmental sustainability</a>. Gifts will be placed in a special <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denise Hamler Endearment Fund</strong> that will support our powerful green economy programs.</div>
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Our goal is to raise $1,000 for every year she has served our mission — $34,000! The fund will remain open until December 31, 2016. <a href="https://www.greenamerica.org/supportus/donate/hamler2016.cfm?source=WDDHND&step=form&ref=&ask=1000-500-100-50-100-34-20-10" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Please celebrate Denise’s extraordinary legacy by making a tax-deductible donation today</a>.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Source: http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/denise-hamler-retires-after-34-years-at-green-america/)</span></i>Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-67842103556592007532016-10-28T01:01:00.000-07:002016-10-28T01:01:07.446-07:00Green Business Network: Join us at the San Francisco Green Festival, Nov. 11-13, 2016<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Join us to celebrate the 15th annual San Francisco Green Festival Expo, Nov. 11-13, 2016, at a new location: Pier 35.</span><span id="more-8233" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="http://www.greenfestivals.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Green Festival</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> is excited to spread healthy and sustainable initiatives in convention centers. San Francisco presentations and mentoring sessions kick off on Friday, Nov. 11. Enjoy the vibrant green marketplace and attend programming all weekend long on green business and green living.</span><br />
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Learn from a wide range of experts in sustainable business and social enterprise at the San Francisco Green Festival Expo. Check out some of the weekend’s inspiring speakers:</div>
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<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 59.3875px 59.3875px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-shamini-dhana.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shamini Dhana, CEO, Dhana Inc."><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Shamini Dhana, CEO, Dhana Inc." class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-shamini-dhana.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
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<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 59.3875px 59.3875px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-adrienne-pierce.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Adrienne Pierce, Head of Business Development, The CSR Group"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Adrienne Pierce, Head of Business Development, The CSR Group" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-adrienne-pierce.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 59.3875px 59.3875px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-brian-macmahon.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Brian MacMahon, Expert Dojo"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Brian MacMahon, Expert Dojo" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-brian-macmahon.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 59.3875px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-abigail-steinberg.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Abigail Steinberg, Author, Recipe for Success"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Abigail Steinberg, Author, Recipe for Success" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-abigail-steinberg.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 59.3875px 59.3875px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-angela-chou.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Angela Chou, Founder/CEO, Utterly"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Angela Chou, Founder/CEO, Utterly" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-angela-chou.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 59.3875px 59.3875px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-daniel-kurzrock.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Daniel Kurzrock, Co-Founder, Re-Grained"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Daniel Kurzrock, Co-Founder, Re-Grained" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-daniel-kurzrock.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
<li class="et_gallery_item" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 59.3875px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px;"><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-josh-prigge.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Josh Prigge, Director of Regenerative Strategy, Fetzer"><span class="et_portfolio_image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Josh Prigge, Director of Regenerative Strategy, Fetzer" class="attachment-et-pb-portfolio-image" height="200" src="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sfgf2016-josh-prigge.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="150" /><span class="et_overlay" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.901961); border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: all 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 225.438px; z-index: 3;"></span></span></a></li>
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After the hottest summer on record, we need to ramp up climate solutions. Alisa Gravitz will discuss the trends and the most effective climate strategies. We can win—if we double down now. Find out how we can do it.</div>
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Help your favorite non-profit working to improve the bay area win $5,000. Green Festival supports inspiring organizations that educate and benefit their local communities with the <a href="http://www.greenfestivals.com/awards/green-festival-community-award.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Green Festival Community Award</a>. You’ll have a chance to vote online prior to the Festival or on the show floor. The winner will be declared Sunday afternoon at the Expo.</div>
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All exhibitors are nominated for the Green Festival Brand Award. Exhibitors: <a href="http://www.greenfestivals.com/awards/green-festival-brand-award.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">invite your followers to vote for you</a>.</div>
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We hope to see you at Pier 35! <a href="http://greenfestivals.org/san-francisco-2016-nov-11-13.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get your ticket to San Francisco Green Festival Expo »</a></div>
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Business and the broader economy work best when prosperity is widely shared, especially historically disadvantaged populations or those who have faced barriers to opportunity. An inclusive economy is representative of all interests in society – major and minority population groups, women and men, old and young people. Bringing about an inclusive economy requires a systems approach that brings together government, the private sector, and communities.<br /><br />Women, in particular face significant obstacles to securing the same financial compensation as their male counterparts in the work world. Sign the declaration today.</div>
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We the undersigned business leaders find there is a robust and growing case for moving aggressively on the gender-equity front. It is well documented that gender-diverse companies show higher profitability, while gender-balanced economies are consistently linked with peace and prosperity. Gender equality, when measured by a combination of business, environment and social impact indicators, is a win-win for companies and their communities. Seven public policy solutions have been identified to reach these goals:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Require a 30% or better representation of women on the boards of public companies. (In Norway and France, 34% are current comparative figures.)</li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Expand funding of federal Small Business Administration (SBA) and Small Business Innovation Research programs for women-owned small businesses, and have the SBA to be more transparent and timely in requiring gender and racial data when awarding government contracts. </li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Raise the goal for awarding government contracts to women-owned and small, disadvantaged businesses from the current 5% figure to a modest target of 25%. Raise the current goal of 3% of spending of federal prime contract dollars on ‘Historically Underutilized Business Zones’ to at least 15%.</li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Require gender-blind hiring and promotion by all companies and institutions, and require disclosure of employee gender mix at each pay level.</li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hold federal agencies accountable for meeting legal ‘inclusion’ quotas and requirements as set forth in the Dodd-Frank law. These are guidelines to ensure that entities that contract with federal agencies support economic opportunities for women and minorities, and provide fair wages. Encourage and watchdog implementation of Section 342 of Dodd-Frank (Minority and Women Inclusion), requiring (voluntary) disclosure on business activities and workforce composition by gender and race, to apply to financial institutions, federal contractors and their regulators. </li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Implement federal and state legislation that addresses workplace issues such as pay equity, paid leave, and childcare; the lack of which disproportionately limits women and minorities from reaching financial independence and becoming industry leaders.</li>
<li style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Decrease the barriers to entrepreneurship for disadvantaged groups through mentorship programs, crowdfunding and expanded resources that coach individuals in loan applications, in order to improve success rates for traditional financing options.</li>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">by </span><a href="http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/author/scott/" rel="author" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Scott Kitson">Scott Kitson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> | Sep 26, 2016</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The Social Venture Network (SVN) is hosting its Fall Conference in Philadelphia, PA from November 2-5. Attendees will learn about social entrepreneurship and hear from experts about the importance of making an impact through social ventures.</span><span id="more-8193" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">For 29 years, high-impact business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors have convened at</span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="http://svnconference.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SVN conferences</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">to have conversations with values-aligned peers. </span><br />
<span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This unique conference experience creates a space where the true challenges of leading a mission-driven organization can be addressed, and where long-time SVN members and first-time attendees find the people, resources, and ideas they need to succeed and grow.</span><br />
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Other speakers include Meghan French Dunbar (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.consciouscompanymagazine.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Conscious Company</a></em>), David Levine (<a href="http://asbcouncil.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">American Sustainable Business Council</a>), and Uri Berliner (<a href="http://www.npr.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NPR News</a>).</div>
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<a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-venture-networks-fall-conference-2016-tickets-20113101829" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Registration</a> rates are $,1299 for SVN Members and SVN Affiliates (before October 11, 2016), and $1,799 for Non-Members (before October 11, 2016). Prices will increase in the weeks leading up to the event, so register today.</div>
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<a href="http://svn.org/who-we-are/about-svn" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Learn more about the Social Venture Network</a> and how they empower diverse, innovative business leaders.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smithsonian Institution is a leader in environmental education but gets a failing grade for refusing to use any recycled paper in Smithsonian Magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forests are essential to life on our planet and are a major ally to combat the destructive impacts of climate change. However, every day, natural forests are disappearing at a rate of 20 football fields per second because of pulp and paper production. Paper production also requires an immense amount of fresh water and can pollute the air and nearby waterways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each ton of magazine paper made from virgin (non-recycled) fiber requires 18 trees to be cut down. This also releases sequestered carbon into our atmosphere. After it’s used once, paper is often sent to the landfill, where paper products account for 40% of all solid waste, and releases toxic methane during its decomposition. However, recovered paper can be used up to seven times, meaning that if we simply use recycled paper effectively, we can relieve a significant amount of the pressure on forests for virgin wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smithsonian Magazine has the chance to be a leader in publishing by choosing recycled paper. As an institution which claims to advance sustainability, incorporating recycled paper into its magazine would be a logical step. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://action.greenamerica.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18570&tag=homepage">Join us</a> in calling on Smithsonian to practice what it prints and move to recycled content paper!</span><br />
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JAWS member Carole Ashkenazi Kay, a pioneering journalist who served as the first woman on the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s editorial board, died of cancer Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in hospice in Atlanta.</div>
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Carole shared her hospice news with JAWS and her other friends in early August, continuing to read the email list and sharing her life on Facebook.</div>
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“Journalism and Women Symposium members are saddened by Carole’s passing,” said JAWS President Sandra Fish. “Carole and her career embodied the JAWS mission to support ‘the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism’ and to work ’toward a more accurate portrayal of the whole society.’ ”</div>
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Below is the obituary she wrote as it appears on <a class="external" href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=carole-kay&pid=181464767&fhid=5314" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Legacy.com</a>:</div>
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Carole Ashkinaze Kay, a pioneering female journalist, author and media strategist, died Monday, Sept. 19, 2016 in Atlanta. She was 71.</div>
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She was a leading voice for women’s and civil rights in Atlanta in the 1970s and ’80s, and the first woman in the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s history to serve on its editorial board. She later served on the Chicago Sun-Times’ editorial board, as Media Chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund, and as a longtime consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union.</div>
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In her first job out of journalism school, she covered the Watergate hearings for Newsday and shared in a Pulitzer Prize (1970) for investigative reporting of political corruption on Long Island.</div>
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Best known in Atlanta for her provocative columns and editorials about women and minorities, she was the first to write seriously about women’s lives and needs in any Georgia news medium. She addressed abortion, domestic violence, rape and discriminatory statutes, including a “Head of Household” law, which stripped women of their legal and civil identities when they married, making them “subject to” their husbands under Georgia law.</div>
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She urged equal pay for equal work, the appointment of more women to state and federal government, and ratification of the federal Equal Rights Amendment, which most Georgia legislators opposed as “anti-family,” “un-Christian” and “immoral.” She crusaded for the installation of a women’s restroom in the Georgia capitol building, so the small but growing number of women legislators would not have to wait in line, behind visiting Girl Scout and school groups, and miss votes. She worked for the creation of a shelter for battered women and wrote critically of Atlanta’s venerated debutante cotillions.</div>
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She also “integrated” the paper’s Style Section during a stint as Features Editor, insisting that women of color be sought as models in its previously all-white fashion pages, and wrote frequently about racial and ethnic inequities.</div>
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She won many national awards for these ground-breaking stories and initiatives, including Planned Parenthood’s coveted Margaret Sanger Award, and the National Women’s Political Caucus “EMMA” (Exceptional Merit Media Award).</div>
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She later joined the Editorial Board of the Sun-Times in Chicago, where she wrote regularly about threats to legal abortion and violence against abortion providers; she was the only pro-choice commentator in that city at the time, and a sought-after speaker by women’s groups. She also was the first to take up Native Americans’ demands for restoration and protection of the Dickson Mounds burial grounds in Illinois, and among the first to second Anita Hill’s complaints that Clarence Thomas was unfit for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. She covered Carol Moseley Braun’s historic campaign for the U.S. Senate, and correctly predicted its success. She received the Kizzy Foundation Image Award in 1991 for her coverage of women and minorities in Chicago.</div>
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A graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, Carole spent her early career at daily newspapers. She also worked briefly as Public Service Director of WXIA-TV in Atlanta, winning the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade (top) award for editorials she wrote and produced, before joining the Journal-Constitution in 1976.</div>
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She later relocated to Washington, D.C., where she worked for nearly 20 years as a media strategist for nonprofits. These included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Communications Consortium Media Center, the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (The Fulbright Program), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Mac Arthur Foundation. She also spent three years as Night News Editor in the McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau, taught journalism at American University in Washington, and led professional journalism seminars (for the U.S. Information Service) in Haiti and Tanzania. She spoke French fluently.</div>
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Her books include “The Closing Door” (with Gary Orfield) published in 1991, named Outstanding Book on Human Rights in 1992 by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Arkansas. She also edited “Strategic Communications for Nonprofits” (1999, Jossey-Bass) and “In Pursuit of Equity in Education” (2001, Kluwer).</div>
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Her volunteer activities included more than a dozen years as a literacy tutor in Washington D.C.</div>
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A longtime member of Temple Sinai in Washington, she completed an adult Bat Mitzvah class there in 2000, and was married there by Rabbi Mindy Portnoy in 2009. She married late in life, at 63, to a retired oil company executive who had been widowed the previous year.</div>
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After her retirement, they moved back to Atlanta, where she devoted much of her time to volunteer work with the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.</div>
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She and her husband, Irving Kay, also liked to visit Atlanta hospitals on holidays, to chat with and distribute sweets to patients who were there on their own. At Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital’s chemotherapy infusion center, where they donned rabbit ears and passed out Easter eggs every spring, they were known as “the Jewish Easter Bunnies of St. Joseph’s.”</div>
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Her newspaper columns, papers and oral history have been digitized, and are in the Women’s History Archives permanent collection at Georgia State University.</div>
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Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 with Rabbi Peter Berg officiating; burial will follow at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">By</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.copydesk.org/blog/author/aces_admin/" rel="author" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by ACES Staff">ACES Staff</a></strong></span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="featured-date" style="box-sizing: border-box;">September 9, 2016</span></div>
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College students with a passion for editing now have a shot at increased scholarships from the American Copy Editors Society (ACES).</div>
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The ACES Education Fund has been awarding four $1,000 scholarships annually. Those are now worth $1,500 each, effective immediately.</div>
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And, in the same competition, ACES continues to offer a top-prize scholarship of $2,500. In addition, each of the five winners will receive travel and hotel money and free registration to attend ACES’ skill-building national conference, which <a href="http://www.copydesk.org/aces-2017-st-petersburg/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">next year will be in St. Petersburg, Fla., March 23-25</a>.</div>
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The application process is not arduous. The deadline is Nov. 15. <a href="http://www.copydesk.org/blog/category/education_fund/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Details are at the ACES Education Fund scholarship page.</a></div>
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The competition is open globally to college students majoring in any subject. Applicants need to demonstrate skill in editing written English.</div>
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The nonprofit American Copy Editors Society is an alliance of editors working in newsrooms, magazines, websites, Fortune 500 companies, other businesses, government agencies and nonprofits, as well as freelance editors, students and their professors. The society’s Education Fund has awarded a total of 88 scholarships.</div>
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JAWS’ mission is to support “the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism” and to work “toward a more accurate portrayal of the whole society.” What started as a small group of female journalists in the 1980s has grown into a thriving nonprofit organization of more than 800 women journalists.</div>
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Their early, intimate fall gatherings, affectionately referred to as “camp,” grew into CAMP (“Conference and Mentoring Project” ), a well-attended three-day annual event.</div>
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“JAWS is a journalism-focused organization, but many of our members are columnists or op-ed writers,” said JAWS president Sandra Fish. “This will be a mutually beneficial partnership that helps both organizations extend our reach.”</div>
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Lisa Smith Molinari, president of NSNC, said it’s critical that women in journalism work together and reach out to each other. She cited a study from <a class="external" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/25/stagnant-american-newsroom-diversity-in-charts/194597" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Media Matters For America</a> found that women make up only 38 percent of newsroom staff. Women in journalism matter. When women and men equally report and share their views of what’s going on in the world, as reporters and as columnists, our community receives a more rounded view.</div>
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“NSNC has always believed that when you reach out to friends, there is strength in numbers,” Molinari said. “A networking partnership with JAWS,” much like the relationships with the Association of LGBTQ Journalists and the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, “will allow us to exchange ideas and connect with new audiences.”</div>
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In the coming months, the NSNC and JAWS will cross-promote the other organization’s major events on websites, email newsletters and social media portals.</div>
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JAWS’ <a href="http://www.jaws.org/jaws-camp-2016/" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2016 CAMP</a> is being held Oct. 28-30 at the <a class="external" href="http://www.hotelroanoke.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center</a> in Roanoke, Va. <a href="http://members.jaws.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=804790&group=" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Registration is still open</a>.</div>
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By <a href="http://www.jaws.org/about-jaws/board-of-directors/pamela-moreland/" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Pam Moreland</a>, JAWS Board Member</div>
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Give JAWS your gift cards, your collectibles<br />
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–With profuse apologies to Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty</div>
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With fewer than 100 days before CAMP 2016, it is time to get serious about donations to the Online and Onsite Auctions.</div>
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We need your help to make this year’s auctions successful. After all, money raised by the auctions will help to underwrite JAWS programs.</div>
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Think Online Auction for high-end items, vacation rentals, services (from ski instruction to guided tours, from counseling and editing of your manuscript to vetting your podcast demo tape). If it’s too big to fit in a suitcase, then it’s perfect for the Online Auction.</div>
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Think Onsite Auction if you are coming to Roanoke, Va. Bring jewelry, clothing, accessories of all shapes and size (large earring are a must!). Books, small gadgets, foodstuff (if it won’t spoil), media-related swag, tchotchkes and more for the onsite auction. If it’s easy to pack or carry on to an airplane, then it is perfect for the Onsite Auction.</div>
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If you don’t know what to bring or what to donate, let’s talk. There are lots of ideas and lots of ways to participate. Even if you can’t come to CAMP, you can still donate stuff (and participate in the Online Auction).</div>
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Tickets to “Hamilton”? Perfect for the Online Auction.</div>
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Autographed copy of Amy Schumer’s new book? Perfect for the Onsite Auction.</div>
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Platinum Apple Watch? Perfect for the Online Auction.</div>
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$30 in iTunes Gift Cards? Perfect for the Onsite Auction.</div>
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Brand-new boxed board game for Game Night? Perfect for the Onsite Auction.</div>
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Adult Beverages? Wine Not! Perfect for the Online Auction OR the Onsite Auction. (You can share your successful purchase with your fellow JAWdesses.)</div>
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Contact Pam Moreland at <a data-cke-saved-href="mailto:goldenwheelcom@gmail.com" href="mailto:goldenwheelcom@gmail.com" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">goldenwheelcom@gmail.com</a> or Meg Heckman<a data-cke-saved-href="mailto:mheckman32@gmail.com" href="mailto:mheckman32@gmail.com" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">mheckman32@gmail.com</a> with information about your donations. We will get back to you for the details, and any advice on which auction seems more appropriate.</div>
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The only limit is our imagination. Let’s talk and let’s get the bidding going.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In consideration of our commitment to sustainability, Aggie Writing Services is proud to take part in the <a href="http://divestinvest.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"Divest/Invest"</a> campaign, with major sponsorship by the <a href="http://asbcouncil.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">American Sustainable Business Council</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. My business will make no new investments in the <a href="http://fossilfreeindexes.com/divestinvest/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">top 200 oil, gas, and coal companies</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. My business will sell* my existing assets tied to these oil, gas, and coal investments within three to five years and begin investing in fossil free financial instruments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. My business will invest in a sustainable and equitable new energy economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. As a business owner, I will reach out to institutions, such as pension funds, universities and foundations, that I have relationships with and encourage them to divest any fossil fuel investments in their portfolios.</span></div>
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Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-34660074150421185212016-08-22T16:31:00.002-07:002016-08-22T16:31:24.969-07:00ACES: Rules for 2016-17 scholarship applications<img alt="American Copy Editors Association" src="http://www.copydesk.org/wp-content/themes/aces_bones/library/images/logo_aces.jpg" /><br />
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Please email the following items to Alex Cruden at <a href="mailto:alex@copydesk.org" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;">alex@copydesk.org</a>:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">An original essay, written by you, on the aspects of copy editing most important in a multi-media world. Do not exceed 500 words.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your résumé.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The names and contact information for three references (supervisors and/or faculty members).</li>
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(a) Six headlines or tweets, or a mix thereof, that you have written. Include context, such as the first part of the material that you summarized with the headlines and/or tweets.</div>
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(b) Your answer to the exercise posted below.</div>
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Email your complete application before Nov. 16, 2016.</div>
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Please read the following article and then choose an appropriate summary of it from the three options below.</div>
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A recent Missouri School of Journalism master’s thesis sought to understand how the digital era has affected copy editors — the people who do the final editing for journalistic and other articles. The new and various responsibilities and expectations can often compete and operate in conflict with one another — leading to role conflict.</div>
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For many copy editors, the advent of the digital age has increased the number of tasks to be done within the same amount of time. A consequence is an increase in the number of roles per person. Even if it’s not part of a specific job title, many copy editors are also social media editors, web managers and aggregators. As the number of roles a person handles increases, each becomes more and more of a sliver.</div>
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The study found that the number of tasks copy editors handle is highly correlated with the amount of conflict they feel. The more tasks, the more conflict they experience. However, the study went one step further and found that certain types of tasks are highly correlated with conflict. The more that social media and website management are part of a copy editor’s responsibilities, the more conflict they are likely to experience. This could be because social media and website management can’t simply be focused on for half an hour and then be considered done, particularly in journalism jobs.</div>
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The data yielded some additional tidbits. On average, copy editors considered more than half of their tasks a high priority, and almost 30% of respondents felt they frequently did not have enough time to complete traditional copy editing in a way that meets their personal standards. It seems that they are conflicted between doing their jobs to the best of their ability and taking care of all the tasks required of them.</div>
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If you were placing this article on a general or mainstream news website, which of the three terse summaries below would you choose as the most appropriate for the article? Specify your choice and write a few sentences explaining why you selected it.</div>
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1. Copy editors are torn between fragmented jobs and personal standards</div>
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2. Research looks at the effect of conflicting roles on copy editors</div>
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3. Multi-task pressures grow on last-line editors, study finds</div>
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Since 1999, the American Copy Editors Society Education Fund, a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has awarded scholarships to deserving students who have a passion for editing. <a href="http://www.copydesk.org/education-fund/about-2/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;">Learn more about the Fund</a>.</div>
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Who is eligible?</h4>
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College juniors and seniors, graduate students and recent college graduates. You must have been in school for at least one full term or enrolled for such during the period summer 2016 through spring 2017. Previous scholarship winners are not eligible. Students in countries other than the United States may apply. All entry materials must be in English.</div>
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How much is awarded?</h4>
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One $2,500 Aubespin Award and four $1,000 awards; each winner will also receive free registration and up to $1,000 for travel for the 2017 ACES national conference in St. Petersburg, Florida.</div>
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What are the award criteria?</h4>
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A commitment to a career in copy editing; exemplary work and academic achievement; recommendations from teachers and work supervisors.</div>
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What is the deadline?</h4>
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Apply before Nov. 16, 2016.</div>
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What goes in the application?</h4>
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Please click here: <a href="http://www.copydesk.org/education-fund/apply/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); box-sizing: border-box; color: #35a6b6; text-decoration: none;">How to Apply</a></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Source: http://www.copydesk.org/education-fund/apply/)</span></i>Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-7915537059644086932016-07-24T01:20:00.000-07:002016-07-24T01:35:50.579-07:00Journalism & Women Symposium: Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) 2016<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">The </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP)</span><span style="color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> takes place Oct. 28-30 at the the </span><a class="external" href="http://www.hotelroanoke.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hotel Roanoke</a><span style="color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> and Conference Center in Roanoke, Va.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.jaws.org/recent-news/camp-2016-danyel-smith-aminda-mindy-marques-gonzalez-present-keynotes/" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Our keynoters</a> will be Danyel Smith, cultural lead at “<a class="external" href="http://theundefeated.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Undefeated”</a> for ESPN, and Aminda “Mindy” Marqués Gonzalez, the executive editor and vice president of news for The Miami Herald and a member of our advisory board.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.jaws.org/training-and-mentorship/jaws-camp-2016/sessions/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Learn about some of the sessions.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Registration includes most meals and access to networking, mentoring, panels and keynotes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Looking for a roommate? Check out the <a class="external" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SxT6ox-Kmm5KZ_M-N65GmOxqZr5grOIEYJRnwTzrky8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">roomshare sign-up sheet</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note: We’ve received word that there are now no rooms with two beds available in the JAWS block <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595988" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on Thursday</span></span> night, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595989" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct. 27</span></span>. Rooms with a single King bed are still available for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595990" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday</span></span> evening in limited quantity. Rooms with either a single King bed or two double beds are still available in the JAWS block for<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595991" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday</span></span>, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595992" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595993" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday</span></span> nights. The hotel will add more rooms for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084595994" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday</span></span> night with double beds to the block if they become available. We apologize for any inconvenience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Not flying in and looking to share a ride to CAMP? <a class="external" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SxT6ox-Kmm5KZ_M-N65GmOxqZr5grOIEYJRnwTzrky8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Check out the rideshare sign-up sheet</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The fellowship application has closed; <a href="http://www.jaws.org/training-and-mentorship/jaws-camp-2016/2016-jaws-fellowship-recipients/" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">meet our 2016 fellowship recipients</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Going back to LA after an amazing weekend at <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jaws15?src=hash" rel="tag" style="color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">jaws15</span></a>. Met so many inspirational <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" data-mentioned-user-id="159616650" data-scribe="element:mention" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/womenjournos" style="color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">womenjournos</span></a>, feeling empowered!</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Source: http://www.jaws.org/jaws-camp-2016/)</span></i>Aggie Writing Serviceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287737268211955876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296383946528093812.post-88023503781024096432016-07-24T01:12:00.000-07:002016-07-24T01:12:27.075-07:00Journalism & Women Symposium: Diversify Your Panel<header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Journalism & Women Symposium logo" height="166" src="http://www.jaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jaws_logo_large-300x157.png" width="320" /></header><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></header><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><a href="http://www.jaws.org/category/news/in-the-news/" rel="category tag" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">In the News</a>, <a href="http://www.jaws.org/category/recent-news/" rel="category tag" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Recent News</a> l <a href="http://www.jaws.org/news/in-the-news/diversify-your-panel/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="11:32 pm">17 April, 2016</a></b></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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A <a class="external" href="http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-subject-of-tonight-s-discussion-is-why-are-there-no-women-on-this-panel-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8481289_.htm" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New Yorker cartoon</a> portrays a group of men addressing an audience. The caption: “The subject of tonight’s discussion is: why are there no women on this panel?”</div>
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The lack of women or people of color on panels is a problem across virtually all professions.</div>
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But the <a href="http://jaws.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Journalism and Women Symposium</a> wants to address this issue when it comes to panels discussing issues of importance to journalists.</div>
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We will help panel organizers find expert women journalists to participate in their panels aimed at other journalists or the public.</div>
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If you’re looking to diversify your panel, please fill out <a class="external" href="http://goo.gl/forms/HEppiU9MD4" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this form</a> detailing the location, the subject matter, the date and time and other information about your panel. JAWS will use our member database to suggest and provide contact information for potential panelists.</div>
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(We also encourage those seeking more diverse panelists to check out <a class="external" href="http://diversify.journalismwith.me/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://diversify.journalismwith.me/</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">)</span></div>
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Why is this important? Part of the mission of Journalism and Women Symposium is a “more accurate portrayal of the whole society.”</div>
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We believe that should be the mission of <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">any</span> journalist. If we don’t reflect that broad audience, we may lack empathy for others and the issues they face. And our broader audience will not see themselves reflected in our work.</div>
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So next time you look around and see that there are no women on your panel, don’t just ask why and let it go. Ask JAWS and, with our hundreds of members, we’ll help you diversify your panel.</div>
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