We have a treat this week to hear from yet another one of our awesome M121 Fellows, Mark Rankin, who is passionate about the fight to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Here’s a great list of some of the most amazing organizations doing their part. Mary is also founder of a blog called Modern …
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Mind officially blown here at the Ideation Conference. Some amazing people doing some inspiring work to change the world. If you get a chance, you have to attend next year here in Chicago! Here are our top 22 hacks and perspectives on becoming a social entrepreneur. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN 4 WORDS: Be you. Become …
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Hard to believe, but we are half way through the M121 Fellowship at our Social Leadership Academy. Our initial class of Fellows have covered a ton of ground. We somewhat purposely didn’t tell them exactly what to expect from the get-go, except that this was not a “listening/reading” fellowship – the best way to learn …
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Not going to lie, people: it takes courage to go down this path. If we really want to make a difference in the world and be a part of something bigger than ourselves, we have to take that hardest, first step. We have to stare reality in the eye and see it for it really …
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I know it’s been a while since we last posted here on the blog, so I wanted to give you all a quick update of all the things going on with Movement121. We’ve been hard at work in several fronts. Movement121 Store – Coming Soon in a few weeks! First and foremost, we are putting …
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The M121 Social Leadership Academy has been going really well. Lots of great people having some much needed conversations. While KONY 2012 takes all the recent headlines, one of the M121 Fellows, Nkechi Charles, recently wrote this thought-provoking piece on sweatshops. Are sweatshops good or bad? Things aren’t as black and white as they seem. …
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Brad Jeffery, President-CEO | Servant of M121 is in India for 3 weeks and sending updates along the way. Follow his journey here and on facebook) Day 23 | Farewell – Back in the U.S.A. I arrived back to the good ole U.S. of A at 5am this morning. It’s a bit of a culture shock. …
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