A Different Approach to School Readiness
YES Summit Gathers Young Entrepreneurs and Creative Minds
Back to the Basics: Financial Literacy and Civic Engagement
New Conversations in Social Equity: Kelly McGowan on Participatory...
Using a strengths-based approach, Smart From the Start works to promote school readiness and...
Young entrepreneurs, community organizers, thought leaders and CEOs gathered at the YES Summit to...
Nathan Rothstein discusses the challenges facing young people today and suggests new paths forward.
In September, I attended an Art of Hosting gathering called the Art of Participatory...
The Heidelberg Project is an open-air art environment in Detroit’s East Side. I first encountered it when I was maybe 10 years old. My father's company maintained several properties in Detroit. Each weekend we would drive from site to site to check the progress of the previous week's work. With its famous polka dot...
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On June 30th, the 29th graduating class from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization’s Moving from Debt to Assets (MFDTA) program wore colorful scarves instead of caps and gowns. With hennaed fingertips, palms and soles, 25 Somali-American women celebrated their first step on the road to financial freedom.
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Prosperity Candle invests in women entrepreneurs in distressed areas of the world—places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, and Rwanda—who are excited to start their own businesses producing candles for local and international markets. The company was founded to empower women entrepreneurs in places of conflict so that they may not only survive, but thrive.
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On my own path to self-employment—something I’m still in the process of figuring out—I quickly realized there were three...
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For many years I thought of community service in very narrow terms. Service meant volunteering at a local shelter...
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