Big Vision Podcast

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Dancing for Peace: Interview with Sara Potler Nov 13, 2011

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Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace. Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. Dance 4 Peace began in Bogota, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogota. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal.

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Learn more about Sara and Dance 4 Peace:

Dance 4 Peace: http://www.dance4peace.org
Dance 4 Peace on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dance4peace
Dance 4 Peace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/dance4peacenow

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Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
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Twitter: @Bbravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody Oct 01, 2011

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Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley. She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley.

Carinne did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India.

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Learn more about Carinne, The Girl Effect and Maternal Health:

Carinne Brody on LinkedIn
The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect Blogging Campaign
Carinne worked with Fatima Jibrell in Somalia
Resources she recommended:-From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice by Anne Firth Murray (Founding President of The Global Fund for Women).-Maternal Health Task Force -A Walk to Beautiful
Carinne and I connected at an event for the International Museum of Women

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Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
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Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Halle Butvin, One Mango Tree, a Fair Trade Clothing Company Sep 07, 2011

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Halle Butvin is the Founder and Director of One Mango Tree, a fair trade clothing company. One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provide income-generating opportunities for women in impoverished and conflict areas around the globe. At the moment, their work is focused in Uganda. In addition to working on One Mango Tree, Halle often works as a development consultant focused on economic development in conflict areas. She spent much of 2010 in Pakistan assisting women-owned garment businesses to develop their products and export potential.

Listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast on iTunes.Learn more about Halle and One Mango Tree

One Mango Tree website: http://www.onemangotree.com
One Mango Tree blog: http://onemangotreeuganda.blogspot.com
One Mango Tree on Twitter: @onemangotree
One Mango Tree on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onemangotree
Halle's personal blog: http://hallemarie.blogspot.com
Halle on Twitter: @hallebutvin

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Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project Jul 23, 2011

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Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones. Both an installation artist and photographer, Naomi was the founder and director of The Cradle Project, a large scale installation calling attention and raising funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 550 cradles were created and donated by artists around the world. Naomi has served as an artist-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago in 2008, 2010 and 2011. She speaks internationally on the topics of art and activism as well as her installation works. She is currently both a TED Senior Fellow and Carl Wilkens Fellow, respectively.

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Learn more about Naomi and One Million Bones

Website: www.onemillionbones.org
Twitter: @onemillionbones
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OneMillionBones
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/profiles/onemillionbones/bio
The Cradle Project: http://www.thecradleproject.org

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Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
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Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Samin Nosrat: Cook, Teacher, Writer, Accidental Activist Jul 03, 2011

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Samin Nosrat creates community around food with her varied endeavors as a cook, teacher, writer, and accidental activist. She's known for the Pop-Up General Store, Tartine Afterhours dinners, Home Ec Cooking Classes, and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000. Her newest project is organizing Chez Panisse Foundation's Eating for Education, a grassroots effort to create national awareness about school kitchen/garden programs nationwide. At the heart of all of Samin's work is the fundamental belief in the power of food to create meaningful connection.

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Learn more about Samin:

Website: www.ciaosamin.com
Twitter: @ciaosamin
Eating for Education: www.eatingforeducation.org
Twitter: @eat4education

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Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Bbravo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Creating Your Generosity Plan: Kathy LeMay, Raising Change Jun 01, 2011

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Kathy LeMay is the author of The Generosity Plan: Sharing Your Time, Treasure and Talent to Shape the World. She's also the Founder and CEO of Raising Change. Raising Change helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and helps individuals create Generosity Plans to help change the world. She has been a social change fundraiser for 15 years, raising more than $150 million dollars in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement-building.

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Learn more about Kathy LeMay:

Raising Change: http://www.raisingchange.com
The Generosity Plan: http://www.thegenerosityplan.com
The Generosity Plan on Amazon
Generosity Plan Facebook Group
Twitter: @raisingchange

Connect with me

Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Bbravo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw Mar 15, 2011

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Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. Hand2Paw provides homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. It also ensures that thousands of homeless and abandoned animals get the socialization and training they deserve.

Rachel has loved animals since her parents got her the Eyewitness Companion Guide to Dogs for her 8th birthday. This fateful Hanukkah present, they now realize, was wholly responsible for her career trajectory. She is also a Penn student and is a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant.

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Learn more about Hand2Paw:

Website: http://www.hand2paw.org
Blog: http://hand2pawblog.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hand2PawFB
Twitter: @Hand2PawOrg
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Hand2Paw
How to Bring Hand2Paw to your town
Blog: Alternative Spring Break at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Connect with me

Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Bbravo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Next Generation Big Visionary: 18-Year-Old Aneesha Raghunathan, Hope Line Fashions Feb 25, 2011

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Eighteen year old Aneesha Raghunathan is the founder of Hope Line Fashions. Hope Line's mission is to empower women around the world through the sale of unique T-shirts made by women.

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Learn more about Aneesha and Hope Line Fashions:

Connect with me

Website: http://brittbravo.com
Speaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speaking
Blog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Bbravo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/KenyaMasala and http://www.sourceconsultinggroup.com/the_team.html

Funny and Fun Fundraising with Crowdrise: Conversation with Co-Founder, Robert Wolfe Feb 01, 2011

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Robert Wolfe is the co-founder of Crowdrise, an online fundraising website with the tagline, "If you don't give back, no one will like you." They're all about, "raising money for charity and having the most fun in the world while doing it."

Robert co-founded Crowdrise with his brother, Jeffrey Wolfe. Before creating Crowdrise, they started and built Moosejaw, a successful multi-channel retailer that combined humor, crowdsourcing, social commerce and creative marketing.Crowdrise's two other co-founders are Shauna Robertson, who has produced comedies like Suberbad, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Anchorman, and Edward Norton (pictured here with Robert), who you know from his roles in films like Fight Club, American History X, and 25th Hour, but who is also a committed social and environmental activist. He has personally raised over 100 million dollars for charitable causes over the last 20 years.

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Connect with Crowdrise

Website: http://www.crowdrise.com
Twitter: @crowdrise
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crowdrise
Koh Scholar Computer Drive Robert mentioned:
http://www.crowdrise.com/KohScholarComputer/fundraiser/KohScholarCorey
Will Ferrell's Crowdrise campaign Robert mentioned:http://www.crowdrise.com/scholarshipsforcancersurvivors/fundraiser/willferrell
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Gabriela Masala: How to Organize Have Fun Do Good Flash Mobs Jan 19, 2011

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Gabriela Masala is the Founder of the One Love Alliance. The One Love Alliance creates visionary arts community flash mob events that are both transformative and entertaining, and are fueled by the values of unity, playfulness, creativity and love. Gabriela is the creator of the Inner Wealth Deck, and is a choreographer, dancer, intuitive consultant, retreat leader, and mom. She's also the wife of Kenya Masala, whose song, "Mango Delight," I use for the intro and outro of this show.

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Connect with GabrielaWebsite: http://www.innerwealthintuitiveconsultations.comBlog: http://onelovealliance.blogspot.comTwitter: @oneloveallianceFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmasala1YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/gabrielamasala

Learn more about flash mobsOne Love Alliance: http://www.onelovealliance.org Improv Everywhere: http://improveverywhere.com

Connect with meWebsite: http://brittbravo.comSpeaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speakingBlog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.comTwitter: @BbravoFacebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/KenyaMasala and http://www.sourceconsultinggroup.com/the_team.html