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Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend Archives | Social Enterprise
Fulmore-Townsend is President and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network. Chekemma att... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week training program in entry-level jobs.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
her WAVE cofounders, Karan Chopra and Bryan Mezue. The three shared the experience of having grown up in Africa and the desire to help solve youth unemployment. Another classmate, Navid Rahimi, joined the team along with two classmates... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
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Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
fledgling campaign to talk about business, politics, and what we should consider when we think of youth in Baltimore. Why do you want to be mayor of Baltimore? I want to be a counterpoint for Baltimore and what our city has heard about... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
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Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News Boston Alumni Find Leadership Inspiration in Project Impact Series Hunger and food insecurity. Racial justice. Youth and education. These issues have served as the central organizing topics for Project Impact, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Eugene W. Rhodes
Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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Heather McLetchie-Leader
means providing at-risk youth with the educational tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, giving them the chance that someone made sure I had. Personally it means serving wherever I see need, whether it be running a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Sound Bites: Joy to the World
Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) CEO, East Boston Social Centers Illustration: John S. Dykes For people like youth in foster care, people experiencing poverty, people facing a variety of other hardships—what do they ultimately want for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Speaking out on behalf of the disabled
He does this through his participation in case discussions and in extracurricular ventures, such as a recent apprenticeship program, in coordination with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s “Downtown Project,” which connected local youths to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education. Curiel cofounded Rising Farmworker... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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HBS Community Rolls Up Its Sleeves
constructing trails for the Metropolitan District Commission to painting apartments in cooperation with Boston Senior Home Care. Volunteer Michael Echenberg (HBS ’02) did some spring-cleaning at the Cambridge Youth Guidance Center. “The... View Details
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John Paul Andree
just a youthful adventure story of my past. That can never be. Comfort can make you complacent. I survived for a reason. My life has a purpose. To be the best version of myself, find meaning in every moment, value every life with dignity... View Details
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Brooke-Logann Williams
“Run.” A fellow volunteer sprinted while creatures crawled across the prison corridor. Rats. Mouth agape, I ran through the connecting yard between the adult and youth units. Once we both reached the other side, she told me it happens... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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The Play's the Thing
Baron: prize winning playwright. Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron (MBA '78), is a play about the relationship that develops between an elderly widower and the youthful executive who almost kills him while driving recklessly down a... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 08 Sep 2021
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Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
for exemplary service, Keshavjee says, “I’d like to play my small part in reducing the inequalities of income on this new-frontier continent. I’d like to inspire youthful entrepreneurs and the creation of social enterprises.” Keshavjee... View Details
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Christopher Maloney
wherever I go-I just need to work to find it. Nonetheless, embracing that realization may take a lifetime. I work primarily on African development issues. My affinity for Africa started in high school, working with disadvantaged youth in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call
right," says Brooks, who went home that night and began discussing with his family the calling he felt he could no longer ignore. He then spent several years examining his life, working with his church's youth group, and praying, before... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
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Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
authors noted, among other things, that last year, magazine advertising for the three cigarette brands most popular with young people on average reached more than 80 percent of American youth seventeen times per brand. King and Siegel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Slam Dunk
cultural center for 25 years," influencing youth fashion, lifestyle, and music. These elements will also be a big part of HoopsTV, thus presenting a variety of revenue opportunities. O'Neil has signed on some big names (such as basketball... View Details