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Invest In Diverse Leadership For A Richer Ecosystem
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Bold Idea: We need leadership that reflects the diversity of the communities we seek to influence. In several of our Black Male Achievement Fellows, we saw enterprising social innovators who have fresh ideas to scale the environmental movement by empowering their communities to be the agents for change. Just as our…
Find Your Moment of Obligation
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People who successfully tackle big social, environmental, and economic problems are driven by what I call a moment of obligation — a specific time in their life when they felt compelled to act. These moments become their North Star; they keep them going in a positive direction when everything seems dark. The…
Historic Fellowship Seeks to Improve the Lives of Black Males
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The Campaign for Black Male Achievement’s Shawn Dove discusses how his organization is providing opportunities for social entrepreneurs and activists. The Black Male Achievement fellowship is an historic, first of its kind, initiative born of a partnership between the Open Society Foundations and Echoing Green, two organizations with long-standing histories of supporting crucial social…
Markese Bryant: From the mean streets to the green economy
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When Markese Bryant was growing up in Oakland, Calif., his schoolyard was next to a freeway. He shot hoops at a makeshift court where tattered nets hung from power line poles. His mother died when he was 5. His father was in prison. He was raised by his strictly religious…
