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Fueling Detroit's Economy With Micro-Grants

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Detroit Immigrants, Detroit Impact, Immigration, Southwest Detroit, Immigrant Businesses, Michigan Small Business Grants, Kellogg Foundation, Michigan Immigration, Steve Tobocman, Global Detroit, Small Businesses, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Video, Detroit Small Business, Global Detroit Neighborhood Development Collaborative, Detroit Business, Detroit News

A new, $2.4 million initiative to pump up the economy looks beyond the boardroom to train an unlikely group of entrepreneurs: Small-business owners in...

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New Collar: Detroit's Working Class Youth

Turnstyle | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Photos, Photography, Downtown, New Orleans, Youth, Photo Essay, Decay, National, Photographer, Depopulation, Community, City, U.S., Frontline Solutions, Pendarvis Harshaw, Tagging, Kellogg Foundation, Urban, Young Voters, Midwest, Motown, Detroit, Graffiti, African American #Black #Black Americans, PHOTO GALLERY, Prevailing Community Development, Matrix Community Service, Michigan, Black Voices News
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Handle With Care: Nonprofit Fills Gaps In Miss. Early Education

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supporting Partnerships Assure Ready Kids, Children, Spark, Child Watch Column, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Kellogg Foundation, Early Education, Preschool, Kindergarten, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

“On your mark, get set, ready, go!”In the language of childhood, these words are an exciting invitation -- and a signal that it’s ti...

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Investing for Change: The Emergence of the Impact Economy

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Greenblatt

2011 could be an inflection point in the Capitol. New leadership in Congress. New staff at the White House. Perhaps even a new era of bipartisanship forged out of the tragedy in Arizona.

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Sandra Bullock Marks Katrina Anniversary At Clinic

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sandra Bullock, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, San Francisco 49ers Foundation, Education, Mitch Landrieu, Warren Easton Charter High School, High School Health Clinic, New Orleans High Schools, Mary Landrieu, Kellogg Foundation, David Vitter, Sandra Bullock New Orleans, Impact News

NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock returned Sunday to the New Orleans high school she helped...

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A View from the Field: Combating Racial Disparities, Kellogg's Important Big Bet

Jane Wales | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane Wales

Many were thrilled to see that the Kellogg Foundation had made a $75 million commitment to attacking racial disparities in communities across the country.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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Madoff Victim: Major Sustainable Food Foundation Collapses

Grist | Tom Philpott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eating Matters, Politics of Food, Business News, Green News, Environment, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Kellogg Foundation, Fair Food, Green News

For a couple of years, there has been lots of buzz in the sustainable-food world about the Fair Food Foundation of Ann Arbor, Mich. Fair Food was f...

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