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meshaq — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:02:57 GMT

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Becoming a philanthropist (CoEEF).

SistaWeotch — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:57:00 GMT

(Reposted from my blog.)

Wahooo!

Remember how I said I wanted to grow up to be a professional philanthropist? Yay! Adulthood beginning now!

I was a bit concerned about finding charities that are efficient and in line with all of the things that tug at my heart strings. I regularly send small amounts to the ASPCA, Sea Shepherds, Mercy Corps, and the ACLU and am happy to do so. But one thing that is REALLY important to me is education. When someone knows their own mind and the power they have at their disposal, nothing is impossible!

TheDave23 recently told me about the Children of Ethiopia Education Fund. Damn! It's just... so awesome. They send Ethiopian girls to school, feed them, provide medical care, and help build more schools in the area. At first I was a little miffed that it was just girls, as I am all about equality. The thing is, it's addressing the current inequality in the area, as girls are rarely educated and generally expected to stay home, cook, clean, and do all that happy horsesh**. Well, here's some stuff from www.coeef.org:

Following their first visit to Ethiopia, Norm and Ruthann [the founders] recognized that Ethiopian society was weighted to favor boys over girls. Women will generally not speak in the presence of men, and are expected to perform most of the menial labor associated with Ethiopia's largely agrarian lifestyle. In most families, if there is a choice of who to send to school, the son will go before the daughter. In fact, while 64 percent of boys attend school in Ethiopia, only 36 percent of girls do so. Even girls who do attend school are often forced to drop out around age 12. Then, they are expected to tend the herds or care for younger siblings. Often, they are given in marriage by their families, or become sexually active and contract AIDS/HIV. In rural areas, young girls are often kidnapped for wives by men from other villages and never seen by their families again.

And yet, studies have shown that in sub-Saharan Africa, girls who stay in school are less likely to get AIDS, will marry at an older age (and thus be better prepared for the responsibilities of being a mother, rather than passing poverty on to a child with a teenage mother), and are more likely to improve the lives of their children than comparably educated men. In fact, at the 1994 Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, one speaker declared, "Educate a woman and you will educate a nation." For this reason, COEEF remains primarily a girl’s education program.

A bit sexist, perhaps, or maybe just addressing the current situation there? In any case, the real clincher is that besides sponsoring a girl there, Dave *actually went to Ethiopia and met her*! He said the things they are doing there for the children are amazing. He knows the people who founded it, I believe, as they are from SLC like he is (don't worry, no LDS proselytizing at the school ;), and are really nice folks.

So... education -- check! Addressing inequality -- check! Proselytization-free -- check! Ability to donate a relatively small amount and make a HUGE difference -- check! (That last thing comes with the added bonus of minor ego stroke -- check! :P)

I got paid yesterday and just made a donation. OMGOMGOMG! Some girl gets to go to school now! THAT'S SO FREAKIN' AWESOME! :D :D :D

Oh, and I made my donation through my Network For Good badge, a little linky thing you can set up on MySpace and Beliefnet.com and other places. Way cool!

If you're interested in learning more about CoEEF, check out this page on their site: http://www.coeef.org/whatwedo.shtml

Network For Good is here: http://www.networkforgood.org/

My badge is here: http://www.networkforgood.org/pca/Badge.aspx?BadgeId=112646 , in case you want to bump up mah numbahs! ;D

Wahoowahoowahoo! Now I'm off to climb Vesuvius! :D

Hugs,
SW

Edit: Ooo, look! Videos!

http://www.goodtube.org/video.php?organization=79&l=Children+of+Ethiopia+Education+Fund

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Rudy Autio, artist

davepattison — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:22:57 GMT

My friend, teacher, and mentor died yesterday.
Maybe you knew him, maybe you didh't...

http://www.rudyautio.com/
http://www.stremmelgallery.com/exhibitions/autio_little/index.html

"Rudy Autio, 1926-2007 / Ceramic artist, icon left trailblazing legacy"
By JOE NICKELL, JAMIE KELLY and BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian newspapaper, Missoula, Montana.

His friends were many, his legacy great, his influence immeasurable. As word spread Wednesday of the death of internationally celebrated ceramic artist Rudy Autio, those who knew him struggled to find words to describe their feelings of loss, and their sense that one of the great artists of this era has passed.

“I'm kind of numbed by it all right now, it's so hard to fathom what we've lost,” said Steve Glueckert, curator of the Missoula Art Museum. “Rudy was a real giant, a genuine superstar in the world of art, and yet such an approachable, nurturing person.”

“Above and beyond his talent, he was a fabulous human being to student ceramicists all over the country, and to the community,” noted Peter Held, a former director of the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, who now serves as curator at the Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University.

“He was very thoughtful and giving; people just loved him. He is a Missoula icon.”

Autio was born Oct. 8, 1926, in Butte, the son of Finnish immigrants. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he enrolled at Montana State University in Bozeman. There, he studied under Frances Senska, the most celebrated crafts-artist and educator in Montana at the time.

During his time in Bozeman, Autio met two other people who would become essential influences and supporters in his life: his future wife, Lela, and fellow artist Peter Voulkos.

After earning a bachelor's degree in applied art in 1950, Autio attended Washington State University in Pullman, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. During the summer of 1951, Autio returned to Montana and took a job along with his friend, Voulkos, at a brickmaking factory in Helena called the Western Clay Co. The company was owned by Archie Bray, an industrialist with a love of fine art.

Bray agreed to allow Autio and Voulkos to fire their ceramic works in the brick factory's kiln. Inspired in no small part by what the pair of artists produced that summer, Bray chartered the Archie Bray Foundation, a nonprofit educational institution devoted to the advancement of ceramic arts.

Autio was named one of the foundation's founding resident artists.

“Together with Peter Voulkos, Rudy helped change what it meant to be a ceramic artist in America,” said Glueckert. “Before 1945, ceramicists were potters. They weren't considered artists. Peter and Rudy broke all the rules and transformed what it meant to do what they were doing.

“American ceramics changed because of the two of them.”

Autio left the Archie Bray Foundation in 1957 to take a position as professor of ceramics and sculpture at the University of Montana in Missoula. He would ultimately spend 26 years at UM, where he became the figurehead of a department that was soon flush with talent.

Over the years, his work was celebrated in exhibits in far-flung regions of the world, including Chicago, New York, Helsinki, Prague, Buenos Aires, London, Brussels, Belgium, Bucharest, Istanbul and Tokyo.

He was named a “Master of the Medium” by the James Renwick Alliance, an affiliate organization of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and he won countless other awards and fellowships for his work.

But Autio's influence wasn't simply as an artist. During his tenure at UM, Autio taught generations of students who would go on to become recognized in their own right. One of those students, Beth Lo, is now a professor of ceramic arts at UM.

“Rudy had an incredibly generous spirit,” said Lo. “He was in a small group of elite ceramic artists internationally. (But) he always came across as very wise and very humble; he always had a good word to say.”

Local art observers will recognize Autio's signature forms - horses and women - in the 30-by-20-foot wall hanging in UM's PAR-TV Center. He is also the artist responsible for the 7-foot-tall, 5,000-pound bronze grizzly bear statue on the UM Oval.

But Autio is best-known internationally for his large, voluptuously shaped ceramic works, painted over with abstracted female figures and other images.

A 1980 article from American Crafts magazine asserted that, “If Peter Voulkos has been considered the Picasso of the American sculptural ceramics movement, then Rudy Autio is its Matisse.”

That isn't the only such comparison Autio has drawn.

Ken Little, who taught ceramics at UM with Autio from 1974-1980, said Autio was one of four giants of American ceramics.

“If the ceramics world had a Mount Rushmore, it would be Peter Voulkos, Rudy, Paul Soldner and Don Reitz,” said Little, a lifelong friend of Autio and now a professor of ceramics at the University of Texas-San Antonio. “He was the Thomas Jefferson of Mount Rushmore.”

Little said Autio was a “genius” at finding the perfect balance between the craft and emotion of art, crediting him with instilling in Little the need for both a left-brain and right-brain approach to teaching and creating.

“I knew a lot of art theory, and a lot of ideas and conceptual underpinnings of how to make artwork, but I was not comfortable with my emotional side, and the idea you work with feelings from your gut,” he said. “Rudy was very good at reinforcing me to trust that, and allowing me to interplay between my gut and my brain.”

Little spent last weekend with the ailing Autio, Autio's wife Lela, and their children and grandchildren, singing songs and playing games with the man who he said “raised me like a son.”

Having lost his battle with leukemia, Autio was at peace with his death, said Little, and the two spent a lot of time laughing and talking about old friends and experiences.

“We sang old cowboy songs,” said Little. “He had a song he loved called ‘Amelia Earhart' that he used to play for me on guitar. We sang that together, and basically I just tried to convey to him how important he had been to me and how much I loved him.”

The lessons he learned from Autio went far beyond their shared passion for ceramics.

“He was an amazing sage, and was very accepting of all things and experiences that happened to him,” said Little. “He taught me by example that life is a gift as opposed to a struggle. It was a hugely important life lesson for me.”

The gift that was Rudy Autio's life and talent won't soon be forgotten in Missoula. Beth Lo marvels when she recalls her last encounter with Autio, just this past Monday.

“He was sitting outside with his family, his grandkids were running around, and he sat there drawing in the sun,” recounts Lo.

“He just kept producing, all his life. He never seemed to let down or slack. That's a real inspiration that I'll never forget.”

Memorial services for Autio are planned in both Missoula and Helena, but details were not available late Wednesday. Autio was 80 years old.

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Understanding Travel Philanthropy

vidourle — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:13:46 GMT

http://travelmatters.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/voices-from-the-wilderness-travel-philanthropy/

Travel Philanthropy is more than a mere luxury or diversion; it is a source of deep personal fulfillment, providing a powerful connection to the world in which we live.

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Young Entreprenuer Seeking Mentor

).(KANE)*( — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:34:47 GMT

I have recently opened a business in the health and wellness field. I am coming across a multitude of ideas surrounding my business and I recognize that I require mentoring and possibly philanthropy. I am looking for someone who is well established and has a desire to help foster an era of well-being for following generations. This sounds incredibly idealistic, but I simply request that judgment be reserved until we have met. I am passionate, mostly patient, spontaneous, have an absolute love for life. I generally resonate with higher frequency energies, and have a long history of letting my conscious be my guide. My being has realized much power, recently, as my intellect has realized its limited to a dualistic reality. It has become an impressive tool in reflecting the subconscious intuition. I thank you for your time and if the previous string of words stirred a desire for action, please contact me.

May love continue to expand your Creation,

Kane
http://www.floatmatrix.com

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Visionaries - Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Emerson, etc.

GG — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:46:31 GMT

People who have made a significant change in history after them.

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Grandmothers

GG — Sun, 02 May 2004 20:40:28 GMT

Here is a story about someone's grandmother:

GRANDMA AND THE CAKE

A little boy is telling his Grandma how "everything" is going
wrong. School, family problems, severe health problems, etc...

Meanwhile, Grandma is baking a cake. She asks her grandson
if he would like a snack, which of course he does. "Here,
have some cooking oil."

"Yuck" says the boy.

"How about a couple raw eggs? "

"Gross, Grandma!"

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"

"Grandma, those are all yucky!"

To which Grandma replies, "Yes, all those things seem bad all by
themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they
make a wonderfully delicious cake! Life works the same way.

Many times we wonder why things are they way they are... and we
must suffer such bad and difficult times. But God knows that in
life, with these things all in order, they always work for the
good. We just have to trust and, eventually, they will all make
something wonderful!"

Unknown

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Who do you consider not a Benefactor, Mentor or Philanthropist of mankind?

GG — Sat, 08 May 2004 02:23:45 GMT

Cain?
Hitler?
Saddam Hussein?
Bill Clinton?
Hillary Clinton?
Rush Limbaugh?
George W. Bush?

Who?

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Thomas Paine was a Patriotic Philanthropist

GG — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:59:33 GMT

Thank Thomas Paine for the Patriotic Philanthropist he really was.

Tell us what you know of the good he did and the good he inspired in others.

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Mary Anne is a Philanthropist

GG — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:44:13 GMT

Mary Anne is an information philanthropist. She spends long hours online researching health and nutrition. She alerts us to the dangers and falicies of the modern day money machine where profit is most important where the natural laws of nature are no longer sacred. Mary Anne is a voice sounding the warning. We would do well to listen!

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Grandfathers

GG — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:54:23 GMT

I had a great grandfather who was my best friend. He was tough on me when I needed it. He helped me when it was right. He let me figure things out so I could handle things on my own. He set what to me was a perfect example. That country music song about a grandfather which said, "I thought that he walked on water" That was my great grandfather. He was loved by all who knew him.

Post a story here to honor your grandfather or great grandfather or great great grandfather, etc.

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Benefactors, Mentors, and Philanthropists in History

GG — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:39:28 GMT

I will name a few here: Jane Adams, Andrew Carnegie, Cesar Chavez, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, J P Morgan, John D Rockefeller, Margaret Olivia Sage, Madam C. J. Walker, Martin Luther King. You can learn about these and others at http://fdncenter.org/focus/youth/kids_teens/youth_celebrity.html

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