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Rethinking Entrepreneurship in the United States

Kiva Zip | Posted 03.30.2013 | Impact
Read More: Kiva.org, Small Business, Jobraising, Crowdfunding, Microfinance, Jobraising Challenge, Entrepreneurship, Kiva Zip, Kiva, Fellowship, Opportunities-Working, Opportunity-Working, Impact News
Kiva Zip

2012-11-13-jrlogo300x60.gif Ever since I started with Kiva Zip in the U.S. my sixth sense seems to have awakened. I see entrepreneurs... everywhere! I think my understanding of what an entrepreneur was had until now been quite limited.

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Ramadan Reflection Day 6: Who Speaks For American Muslims?

Imam Khalid Latif | Posted 09.24.2012 | Religion
Read More: Muslim Community, Islam, Religion News, Muslim Art, American-Muslim-Artists, Fasting, Story Telling, Muslim Artists, Fellowship, Ramadan 2012, Ramadan, Religion News
Imam Khalid Latif

Muslims today find themselves in a place where our narrative is being told by others. Many equate a normative understanding of Islam to something that is radical in its nature. Most of time we find ourselves reactively saying what we are not.

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Ramadan Reflection Day 5: Forgiveness

Imam Khalid Latif | Posted 09.23.2012 | Religion
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Imam Khalid Latif

If you find it hard to forgive someone, don't make it worse for yourself by thinking you are doing something wrong. Give yourself the time needed and speak to people who make sense.

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Ramadan Reflection Day 4: Sustaining The Experience

Imam Khalid Latif | Posted 09.22.2012 | Religion
Read More: Muslim Community, Islam, Fasting, Slideexpand, Ramadan Fasting, Muslim, Fellowship, Ramadan 2012, Ramadan, Religion News
Imam Khalid Latif

Fasting brings with it a heightened level of introspection and it seems that each year I learn so much about who I actually am and what I am capable of doing and staying away from. It also seems like once the month is over, I forget a lot of what I learned.

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A Most Unstable Summer

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.24.2011 | Arts
Read More: Arts Management, Strategic Planning, Arts Budgets, Arts, Government Funding, DeVos Institute, Fundraising, Fellows, Fellowship, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

Virtually every American arts organization is dealing with the residual effects of several years of deep recession, but many of my international Fellows are dealing with far more difficult and dangerous situations.

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

College Dropouts Wanted: Peter Thiel Awards $100,000 Fellowships To Entrepreneurs Under 20

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 07.25.2011 | College
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Midway through his freshman year at Harvard University, Ben Yu felt like Harvard's core curriculum kept getting in the way of his other interests. So ...

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The New Armies of the Night

Charles Kearney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Authors, Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer's Wife, James Joyce, Literary Prizes, Writer's Colony, Fellowship, Naked and Dead, Norman Mailer, Books News
Charles Kearney

Norman Mailer died in 2007. But his life and his death have been transfigured into a writers' colony that searches the English-speaking world for the next generation of writers.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Opening the Black Box of Peer Review

Michèle Lamont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Michèle Lamont

An essay excerpted from How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press) Excellence is the holy grail o...

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