Arts, Culture, Humanities

We hope you have had a chance to check out our Be Bold Podcasts (our Q&A show about meaningful careers with Britt Bravo and Lara Galinsky).  

We're thrilled with the positive response so far, and need your help to keep the fresh, novel, and challenging career questions coming.

In this season of graduation and tough economic times, there's a lot to talk about! We believe that sharing stories and resources is a powerful way to help others make their own impact-driven career decisions and learn from your challgenges and experiences.

After a short break, the Be Bold Podcast returns!

Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green answers listener questions about creating meaningful careers. Britt Bravo hosts the show.

Question 1:

Katie Orenstein, 2008 Echoing Green Fellow and founder of The Op-Ed Project, has been taking the media by storm recently!

Young professionals…social entrepreneurs…movement builders…you!
 
Join Echoing Green and our Social Investment Council in celebrating the business of social change at Be Bold Cocktails! This annual fundraiser will take place on Thursday, April 23, 2009 from 7:30pm to 10:30pm.
 

We got word this week that musician and philanthropist Peter Buffet and R&B/pop star Akon are releasing a new track titled “Blood Into Gold” this Wednesday, March 25th. The song was written to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It will be performed live at the United Nation’s General Assembly Hall on Wednesday night.

Are you into looking good while doing good?

So are we.  That’s why we’re introducing Echoing Green’s first t-shirt design contest. But it’s not any old design contest... we're crowdsourcing it with our friends over at crowdSPRING.com.  Each entry in the contest is made public on their website, and if you sign up for an account, you can help us decide by voting for your favorites. 

1992 Echoing Green Fellow Bart Decrem has had an astonishing entrepreneurial career.  He founded PluggedIn with an Echoing Green Fellowship in order to bridge the digital divide in East Palo Alto, CA in the days before web browsers and that whole Internet craze.  He later went on to work on several high-profile technology projects including GNOME and the web browser Flock as well as co-founding the philanthropic Full Circle Fund.

In 1987, Public Enemy released their debut album, Yo!