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President Obama Discusses Hurricane Sandy
Posted by on October 28, 2012 at 3:28 PM EDTAs Hurricane Sandy continues to bear down on the East Coast, federal teams are working with state and local officials to prepare for days of severe weather in communities stretching from North Carolina to Maine.
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Helping Veterans 'Get Skills to Work'
Posted by on October 18, 2012 at 4:52 PM EDTA unique private sector coalition aims to help 15,000 Veterans translate their military experience to advanced manufacturing opportunities.
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An Inclusive Vision Of Entrepreneurship
Posted by on October 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM EDTThe Small Business Administration is focused on ensuring that small business owners and entrepreneurs have the access and opportunity they need to turn great ideas into viable and successful businesses, and continues to look for new ways to support and strengthen women small business owners and entrepreneurs.
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West Wing Week: 10/05/12 or "Operation Educate the Educators"
Posted by on October 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM EDTWelcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Cross Post: Director Kerlikowske's Statement on Prescription Drug Abuse
Posted by on September 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM EDTAs part of the launch of The Medicine Abuse Project, an initiative of The Partnership at Drugfree.org, Director Kerlikowske provided a statement on the prescription drug abuse epidemic.
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Volunteering and Having Fun
Posted by on September 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM EDTAs a seventh grader, Bradley Blizard discovered an opportunity to combine his passion for baseball and helping others. After volunteering for a program called Miracle League, an organization that allows children with mental and physical disabilities to participate in baseball games, he brought the idea to his advisor at the Kiwanis Builders Club at Jamestown Middle School. The Builders Club has adopted the Miracle League project as an annual service project, and has helped more than 100 disabled children each year enjoy the game of baseball.
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Paying it Forward to Build Food Security
Posted by on September 11, 2012 at 11:11 AM EDTIn 2010, Erik Schultz helped launch Thriive, a nonprofit organization that pursues an innovative approach to food security in diverse worldwide locations such as Vietnam, Kenya, Palestine, and Nicaragua. Focusing on the growing needs of small-scale agricultural and food products businesses, such as, smallholder farms and livestock operations, Thriive helps grow the entire food chain, from producers to consumers, making them more resilient and self-reliant.
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Food – People – Power
Posted by on September 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM EDTDana Harvey is the Executive Director of Mandela MarketPlace, a community-directed and community-owned local food system that includes a cooperative grocery retail, local produce distribution center, produce service for corner markets, network of urban production farms and a youth leadership program that is a model for other communities. With the grocery stores, Mandela MarketPlace promotes healthy and locally produced foods, and provides jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities to residents who otherwise may not have a chance to own a business.
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Empowering a New Generation of Farmers at Home and Abroad
Posted by on September 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM EDTDr. Govind Kannan believes that the sustainability of small farms is the key to revitalizing rural communities and strengthening food security worldwide. Govind educates minoirty and underprivileged students, conducting applied research and outreach, to empower small, limited resource, and underrepresented farmers with the knowledge and technical skills needed to sustain successful agricultural enterprises.
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One More Mountain to Climb
Posted by on September 11, 2012 at 10:50 AM EDTIn December of 2003, Dr. June Henton and her colleagues launched "Auburn's War on Hunger," in partnership with the UN World Food Programme. Soon after, the program launched a higher education movement throughout the country and world, known as Universities Fighting World Hunger.
