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Maya Ajmera and her amazing organization, Global Fund for Children, have authored and published over twenty children’s books. I just received a copy of their latest release, Faith, and I must share it with you. Faith explores world religions through themes of hope, worship, and peace while highlighting the practices that make each faith unique.
One does not have go much further than learning of a patent called “Method of swinging on a swing” to realize that something is terribly wrong with the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Luckily, reformers like Echoing Green Fellow, Daniel Ravicher, featured in last week’s Christian Science Monitor, push the PTO to limit granting patents that are undeserving.
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.
The film Slumdog Millionaire is not only drawing attention for its cinematic value; it is also raising awareness about poverty-stricken children in India and around the world. In a recent interview on NPR’s Tell Me More, 1993 Echoing Green Fellow Maya Ajmera discusses the plight of children living in slums and how her organization, The Global Fund for Children, is working to solve these deeply rooted problems, such as poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, and trafficking.
Congratulations to 1994 Echoing Green Fellow Van Jones on his recent appointment to the White House Council on Environmental Quality as a special adviser. The news hit the wires yesterday and has been covered today by The New York Times, U.S.
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.
2008 Echoing Green Fellows and I-MAK co-founders Tahir Amin and Priti Radhakrishnan are featured in this month’s issue of IndiaCurrents. In “Challenging Patents for Patients,” author Kalpana Mohan talks with Tahir and Priti about their efforts to help sick and dying individuals in developing countries get the medicine they need.
Last weekend marked the I Do Foundation’s birthday! 2002 Echoing Green Fellows Bethany Robertson and Lawrence Miller celebrated their organization’s seventh year in existence with some incredible statistics.
Earlier this month, Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker wrote an portrait of 1994 Echoing Green Fellow and Founder of Green for All, Van Jones. Van gets plenty of press coverage, but this in-depth profile offers that distinctive and colorful New Yorker lens onto his personal background, activist philosophy, and social change career.
Last week, the New York Times ran an amazing story on 2007 Echoing Green Fellow Chris Myers Asch, founder of the Public Service Academy. It seems that not only the mainstream media, but the Washington establishment are beginning to follow Chris’s lead: as of this writing, the legislation to create the Public Service Academy has 23 Senate sponsors and 123 House sponsors.
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