Arts, Culture, Humanities

Recently, the I Do Foundation, started by 2002 Echoing Green Fellows Bethany Robertson and Lawrence Miller, caught the attention of Modern Bride magazine.  Modern Bride has asked them to partner with the magazine on an exciting campaign, “I’m a Modern Bride,” which features celebrity brides. The magazine is donating $5,000 in honor of each of five bridal celebrities profiled in their latest issue.

Reciprocity Foundation youth on ANTM

If you missed the most recent episode of Tyra Bank's America's Next Top Model, then you missed the linkage between modeling and social entrepreneurship. The show featured none other than 2007 Echoing Green Fellow Taz Tagore and Reciprocity Foundation youth. In their own words:

This is what we call a perfect union. Social Edge is the Skoll Foundation's website by and for social entrepreneurs. Echoing Green identifies and supports social entrepreneurs. It's like a hand and a glove. Peanut butter and jelly....

Toni Blackman, a 1999 Echoing Green Fellow and international champion of hip-hop culture, was recently interviewed on New York’s WCBS’s morning show. As hip-hop ambassador with the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad Program, she is on her way to the Congo to demonstrate the power of music to heal--even in a war-torn country.

Watch the whole interview here.