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A Case for the Third Reconstruction: Part 3 — What Have You Done for Equity Lately?

A Case for the Third Reconstruction: Part 3 — What Have You Done for Equity Lately?

(This essay is Part 3 of a series. You can check out the first two installments here and here).
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Carl Settles Jr
A Case for the Third Reconstruction: Part One

A Case for the Third Reconstruction: Part One

Introduction
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Carl Settles Jr
Beyond Virtue Signaling: How You Can Help Employ and Empower Youth of Color Today

Beyond Virtue Signaling: How You Can Help Employ and Empower Youth ...

With everything that has happened over the past 3 months, I haven’t really had much time to reflect and write anything here. I’ve been…
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Carl Settles Jr
ACCELERATE YOUR PLANS

ACCELERATE YOUR PLANS

HOW TO JUMP START-UP YOUR DREAMS AND CHANGE YOUR VIEW-POINT ON LIFE IN FIVE SHORT MONTHS!
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
E4 Youth Earns St. David’s Foundation Innovation Grant

E4 Youth Earns St. David’s Foundation Innovation Grant

As part of the St. David’s Foundation Healthiest People Initiative, E4 Youth has received an $85,000 Innovation Grant. The grant will…
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Carl Settles Jr
How to create free job training and educational content for prisoners.

How to create free job training and educational content for prisoners.

Level is a nonprofit that creates free job training and educational content for prisoners. I want to share with you a short letter from a…
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Level
Austin Digital Heritage Project

Austin Digital Heritage Project

Goals: Build a community of practice that
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Carl Settles Jr
Project Manager Spotlight — Ashley Bird — Prowess Project

Project Manager Spotlight — Ashley Bird — Prowess Project

Background — what have you done, where are you from, what do you want us to know about your past.
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Prowess Project
WHERE’S THE BEEF??

WHERE’S THE BEEF??

One of the best parts of creating a CPG healthy food product start-up like our new Company, Diva-Licious Brands, is knowing that once we…
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
AJC’s Response to the New Land Development Code Revision

AJC’s Response to the New Land Development Code Revision

AJC is working to develop a Complete Communities Initiative, focused on two central questions:
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Austin Justice Coalition
LOGO LAND

LOGO LAND

Two years ago, I started DIVA-LICOUS BRANDS, a healthy, diabetes-friendly, flavor-packed, culturally-based food products business, and…
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
STORYTIME FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS

STORYTIME FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS

I spent 25-years of my adult life telling stories that I’ve written and published to an audience full of mostly elementary school-aged…
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
THE ART OF THE PITCH

THE ART OF THE PITCH

For the last few months, my Austin Impact Hub Social Innovation Accelerator mentors and cohorts have been working on clarifying our vision…
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
Takeaways for Women Entrepreneurs — Prowess Project

Takeaways for Women Entrepreneurs — Prowess Project

A few weeks back, I went to my first Women@Austin event. Women@Austin is on a mission to advance women entrepreneurs striving to grow…
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Prowess Project
Teach a man how to learn to fish

Teach a man how to learn to fish

I have more good things to say about our new pitch deck! Alex reached an interesting conclusion as he thought about our work from the…
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Level
Building the Prowess Project Algorithm — Prowess Project

Building the Prowess Project Algorithm — Prowess Project

There are a few times in my career that I feel like all my past education, experience and focus comes together in one project and I get…
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Prowess Project
Help Us Build the E4 Virtual Archive (E4VA) of East Austin Oral Histories

Help Us Build the E4 Virtual Archive (E4VA) of East Austin Oral His...

The E4VA, pronounced “Eva”, will serve as a virtual archive of oral histories that will allow both new and long term residents, tourists…
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Carl Settles Jr
A NEW “MATCH.COM” FOR STARTUPS, MENTORS, AND VC FIRMS

A NEW “MATCH.COM” FOR STARTUPS, MENTORS, AND VC FIRMS

When you’re a new startup, finding a mentor or a VC investor is sort of like trying to find your life partner. You’re looking for certain…
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Angela Medearis, THE KITCHEN DIVA!
On Renaming + Rebranding

On Renaming + Rebranding

I got my first hint that we might have to rename our organization when I told my wife that we had decided on “Magnazine.” She squinted the…
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Level
TOOF Needs a New Van!

TOOF Needs a New Van!

We have been approved by the City to fund an expansion starting October 1st. This will allow Workforce First to nearly double in capacity…
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The Other Ones Foundation
Most Teachers Don’t Look Like Our Students and That’s a Problem.

Most Teachers Don’t Look Like Our Students and That’s a Problem.

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 20% of of all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States during the…
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Carl Settles Jr
Red Salmon Arts’ first event since move brings artists & youth together

Red Salmon Arts’ first event since move brings artists & youth toge...

Our first event, Before the Borders, was a wonderful success. We had many cultural organizations, artists, healers, and performers stop by…
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Red Salmon Arts
Pitching the Forest

Pitching the Forest

The first fruit of Level’s renaming / rebranding process is a gorgeous pitch deck by my co-founder Alex. He did a beautiful job of…
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Level
Red Salmon Arts is a RESIST Grantee!

Red Salmon Arts is a RESIST Grantee!

Resist is an organization that has provided critical funding to some of the most influential progressive organizations in the US since the…
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Red Salmon Arts
Balancing Work and Self Care

Balancing Work and Self Care

As a small staff at Red Salmon Arts, we are often talking about self-care, about how busy we feel, and we are transparent with each other…
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Red Salmon Arts
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