Community Improvement & Economic Development

We’re less than one month away from The Feast conference on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 in New York City.  The conference is organized by the fine folks at All Day Buffet and Echoing Green is proud to be a sponsor.  

What is The Feast?

The Feast Conference gathers the world's greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.

Yesterday’s Morning Edition of NPR featured a story about the Obama administration’s newest program, the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. This program, with $50 million in funding for the first year, will provide seed capital to new nonprofit organizations who are addressing social problems in areas such as education, housing and healthcare.

NPR’s program All Things Considered recently featured a story on 2004 Echoing Green Fellow and Founder of Build Change, Elizabeth Hausler. In “Building Safer Homes Before the Next China Quake,” NPR documents Elizabeth’s work in China, where she is helping citizens devastated by the recent earthquake to rebuild their houses stronger and safer than before.

Be sure to check out PBS’ article "For Those With Low Incomes, Help Creating a Credit History," which features an interview with 1995 Echoing Green Fellow and Founder of Credit Where Credit Is Due Mark Levine. Mark discusses the origin of his organization and his goals for low-income communities.

Congratulations to 2008 Fellows Will Bradshaw and Reuben Teague, founders of Green Coast Enterprises, who were selected by Businessweek Magazine as two of America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs!

We always knew that Echoing Green Fellows had strong points of view, but recently, they’ve been spreading the word. Two fellows were in the news in the past week with opinion articles in the New York Times and the Huffington Post.