Great Bay recently selected its 55th grantee organization, ReCycle North, located in Burlington, Vermont. The organization is only the second the Foundation has funded in Vermont since it expanded its grantmaking to the state in 2007. (The first was Vermont Works for Women, which received Great Bay planning grant funds last fall. Note [...]
A recent article by Linda Baker in Fast Company magazine illustrates how emerging “green-collar jobs” can be used to achieve social change. “I’m Bad! I’m Slick” (May 2008) focuses on the work of Van Jones, a social entrepreneur in Oakland, California who has been leading an effort to create our country’s first green-collar jobs [...]
Great Bay’s newest grantee is an arts-based social enterprise dedicated to making youth more self-reliant.
Founded in 1990 by social entrepreneur Susan Rodgerson, Artists for Humanity (AFH) provides paid employment in the arts to inner-city high school youth. AFH operates a number of micro businesses, including those related to painting/murals, sculpture/industrial design, silk screen, graphic [...]
Still More Great Bay Videos!
10 Jun
Posted by Elizabeth as Grantee Network, Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
Four more new videos are up and live on our website. You can view them along with our others via Great Bay’s You Tube Channel, or you can go directly to grantees’ Chris and Jodi Martin (ITE - Information Technology Exchange); Melvin Murrel (New Hampshire Aquaculture Association); and/or friends of the foundation, Alta Fleming (Sovereign [...]
More Videos!
06 Jun
Posted by Elizabeth as Grantee Network, Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
Three new videos are up and live on our website. You can view them along with our others via Great Bay’s You Tube Channel, or you can go directly to Mike Rodrigues (Triangle); Eileen Hayes (Amos House); and Harold Siefken (Group Home Foundation) on our website.
Great Bay on You Tube
02 Jun
Posted by Travis as Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
In our ongoing efforts to keep apace in the multimedia world arena, Great Bay has now launched its own You Tube channel. Click here to visit the page, browse our videos, and subscribe. More home grown videos featuring enterprising social entrepreneurs and their innovative projects, as well as other notable leaders in the [...]
Clara Miller and Paul C. Light at Great Bay’s Annual Conference
02 Jun
Posted by Elizabeth as Conference Speakers, Great Bay Videos
In addition to our new video series: “Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words,” Great Bay videographers have begun to capture nuggets of Social Enterprise wisdom from our conference speakers, and other experts contributing to this evolving field. Our first two preeminent, guest video subjects are Clara Miller, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Paul [...]
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