Today we will be live-blogging from BettaKultcha Leeds. Josh Chandler, founder of Community Ethics will be speaking at this event about youth empowerment.
You can expect pictures, tweets and general updates on what is going on before, during and after the event on this page.
Stay tuned, this page will be updated from 6pm BST onwards.
Be sure to follow @joshchandler on Twitter if you have any queries or comments about his talk this evening.
How to run toward not away from your goals -
This article by Beatriz Alemar should get you thinking about your goals.
The overall message of the article is that you must face reaching your goals head-on.
Beatriz does a great job at summarising exactly how to achieve that in a meaningful way.
A Real Girl, 14, Takes a Stand Against the Flawless Faces in Magazines -
Julia Bluhm, an eighth grader from Maine, petitioned Seventeen magazine to feature unaltered photos, to give girls more reasonable body images.
Women In Society: Stop Talking And Start Acting -
It’s now or never, you either make the difference for women in society or you don’t. The cost of failure is too high.
Source: Community Ethics
Nissan to produce new hatchback in Sunderland -
Nissan’s new hatchback is to be produced at its Sunderland plant, the Japanese car giant has announced
Source: BBC
Sheryl Sandberg: “Until We Have Equal Homes, It’s Hard To Have Equal Performance At Work” -
If we had equal homes, would we have equal performance at work? This is a remark Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook made in a recent interview with “The Valley Girl Show”
It got me thinking.
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I like this Painting,
Painting of a painting of a painting of a painting
(via rosilosophy)
As we begin to expand the presence of Community Ethics in 2012, we are looking at ways to share inspiring ideas that are making a positive difference.
Tumblr is a great microblogging tool I have been using for a few months now.
I am learning so much about the functionality and decided that Community Ethics needed to get on here.
So here’s what you will find on the Community Ethics Tumblr:
This is going to be part of a growing network for Community Ethics. We want to find as many ways to share with our audience, and I am confident Tumblr will help us on that journey.
Visit it today at:
http://communityethics.tumblr.com/
Here’s an awesome article I recently read from the HuffPost that describes “Philanthrocapitalism”: Merging philanthropic/social change intentions with business and its power in implementing policy change and societal change.
Coincidently, that is the idea behind my future business/clothing line:…