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Explores the benefits of service learning for middle and high school age students, where students can see their work and what they are learning impact their community with tangible results. Discusses the ways such projects can effect greater tolerance and social change.
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"Huge numbers of people in developing countries and up to one quarter of populations in developed countries live below the poverty line. Poverty is linked to migration, warfare, low-skilled work, and women's and children's rights. This book looks at some of the key anti-poverty campaigns and activists, from Josephine Butler to campaigners today tackling period poverty and setting up microbanks. Links to further information help readers find out more...
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A true global citizen, Marisa Handler was born in South Africa to a Jewish family. They moved away from the imposed apartheid to California's San Fernando Valley, when she was eleven years old. She has since become an activist for social justice, and is inspired by the wisdom of her spiritual convictions of compassion, and her understanding that the process of deep listening is the true road to world peace.
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A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederage flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as...
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A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing — investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return—and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change.
Impact investment — the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return — has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field...
Impact investment — the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return — has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field...
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Making your audience care about your message is a skill that many filmmakers continue to develop throughout their careers. This programme looks at seven easy ways to ensure a video’s message about social change hits its audience exactly where it needs to. It includes the importance of picking a relatable issue, creating emotive appeal, and keeping it simple. All of this will lead young activists to producing original videos with lasting impact.
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Learn how to understand and engage with movements in ways that can achieve positive results both for your company and society at large.
Social movements matter. They matter to your customers, your workers, and to members of the communities where you operate and sell your products and services. Yet historically, businesses have largely avoided involvement with controversial causes. In the face of today’s fomenting social movements, companies must...
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What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A Black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations began as a running online interview series in which host Jerome Moore sits down over pizza with Nashville leaders and community members to talk about the past, present, and future of the city and what it means to live here. The result is honest conversation...
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"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways. These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus such as Michael Pollan, and numerous other popular and academic commentators have all talked about the...