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This panel discussion, titled “Venture Philanthropy and Entrepreneurial Nonprofits: Transformational Change Agents Business Tools and Social Goals,” explores thought leadership, social-focused business, and culture change as a means to attaining goals. The members discuss the complications of proven technology and systems and their connection with financial infrastructure.

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the first round match between couple girls

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The National Mentoring Program connects university students with corporations. Queens University and Molson Canada have partnered to advance the professional lives of young people.

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http://www.ted.com In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy — one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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To me he will be remembered by all three.

Sadly, I think the negative public image will be up there with the great music - people looking at pictures of him in years to come will no doubt be struck by his unusual appearance and the stories about the surgery and all the other alleged bizarre behaviours will persist. The philanthropy will definitely be remembered but it’ll take a back seat to all the other "weird" stuff.

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More infos at http://www.spin-off.fr - New NBC Summer Show

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Series Premiere Wednesday, June 24th 10/9c ON NBC!

Filmed in South Africa, Mozambique and Prague, “The Philanthropist,” starring James Purefoy (”Rome”), is an eight-part drama for NBC that follows the heroic adventures of Teddy Rist, billionaire playboy-turned-vigilante philanthropist, taking him across the globe from Haiti to Myanmar, Kashmir to Paris, Kosovo to San Diego. But the story starts off in Nigeria.

Teddy loves money, women and power, but following a severe flood in a Nigerian town, he is haunted by the memory of a young boy he rescued. Teddy is spontaneous and impulsive and quickly decides to channel his passion, power and money into helping those in need. The danger and risk to his life is the only way Teddy can feel genuinely alive and he’ll do anything in order to achieve his goals and keep the adrenaline pumping; putting his business head and money-making skills to good use through bargaining with the self-righteous, making deals with drug barons, and trading with the nefarious.
But these actions are not just about helping others — Teddy is purging his soul to help exorcise the inner demons that have been festering ever since his young son died and he lost everything he truly loved.

The pilot is written by Tom Fontana (”Homicide: Life on the Street”) and is directed by Peter Horton (”Grey’s Anatomy”) and boasts a heady cast of established and up-and-coming talent. Purefoy takes on the lead role of Teddy Rist, Jesse L. Martin (”Law & Order”) plays Teddy’s business partner and friend, Phillip Maidstone, and Neve Campbell (”Burn Up”) plays Olivia, Phillip’s wife, who also runs the charitable foundation set up by the two billionaires.

Purefoy and Martin are supported by a fabulous lineup of names from both sides of the Atlantic including Lindy Booth (”The 4400″), Michael Kenneth Williams (”The Wire”) and newcomer James Albrecht. The series is based on a concept developed by Charlie Corwin, CEO of Original Media, and Jim Juvonen.

“The Philanthropist” (8 x 60′) is a Carnival Films production in ociation with Original Media for NBC Universal for transmission on NBC in spring ‘09. The executive producers are Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Charlie Corwin, Peter Horton, Gareth Neame and Teri Weinberg.

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