Springboard Celebrates, Showcases and Honors Women Entrepreneurs and the Investors Who Support their Ventures New York City, NY – October 29, 2008: Venture Catalyst Springboard Enterprises takes time out to take its victory lap this week in the company of its network of successful women entrepreneurs, patrons, stakeholders, trusted advisors …
Kimberly King Receives Eleanor Roosevelt Global Humanitarian Award
Visionary Social Entrepreneur and Peace Ambassador Kimberly King honored at 25th Annual Living Legacy Awards at Joan Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. Women’s International Center has named Kimberly King the first recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Humanitarian Award in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration …
The Value of Face-to-Face in a Virtual World
The Value of Face-to-Face in a Virtual World by Tiffany Houser Green Monkey Online social networks have allowed us to reach more people, but are we building anything significant within these networks? I asked myself this question earlier this year. With all of the goals I had for my former …
Celebrating the Female Sensibility: “We Are Different!”
Ritual death, rebirth, and the power of new being. The model of self-organizing systems. The dangers of being colonized by male consciousness. Authenticity: herstory, not history. Beyond catharsis: “It’s time for celebration!” The patterning of the male nervous system vs. the female sense of network and context. By this point …
Can advertising be ethical?
There is an old adage that everybody hates advertising until they have something to sell. No matter what people think about advertising, everybody thinks about it. How can you not? Nearly everything we see, hear, touch or eat has a logo on it. Even our thoughts are branded. Advertising has …
Earth Policy News – INCREASING EQUALITY BY EDUCATING EVERY CHILD
September 10, 2008 Lester R. Brown The social and economic gap between the world’s richest 1 billion people and its poorest 1 billion has no historical precedent. Not only is this gap wide, it is widening. The poorest billion are trapped at subsistence level and the richest billion are becoming …
The Power of Yin In Action
by Rosalinda Sanquiche, Executive Director, Ethical Markets Media, LLC Mercado Etico: Ethical Markets leadership in Brazil Rosa Alegria has a warm smile and lilting Brazilian accent. Christina Carvalho-Pinto has the sophisticated air of a TV personality and sees beauty in everything. Both are Hazel Henderson’s cherished friends and long-time colleagues …
The Power of Yin Newsletter Archive
June 25: Women Entrepreneurs Ask Angel Investors How to Use The Power of Yin in Business July 16: Meditate Before Speaking with Business Associates August 13: Do you wear BUSY like a Badge of Honor? Sept 10: 7 Motivations For Doing Business Sept 17: Personal Growth = Business Growth Sept. …
Do You Wear BUSY Like a Badge of Honor?
She wakes up at 5 a.m. She runs her own company. She has three children. She is president of her neighborhood association. She volunteers at the community center. She bakes her own cakes. She takes her parents to doctor appointments. She runs marathons. Good. Great. So what? Many of us …
The Power of Yin: MEDITATE BEFORE SPEAKING WITH BUSINESS ASSOCIATES
Why? When we are in a rush to close a deal, When we are frantic to pay the bills, When we are impatient for the day we will see our face on the cover of a magazine as the next amazing entrepreneur to watch… We forget the reasons we went …