Artist India Integration Story 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2005
Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. The idea that a social entrepreneur serving the poorest of the poor in India might bump into a world famous politician is not a surprise here at the World Economic Forum. They say hi and shake hands.
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NOVEMBER 20, 2005
SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize. Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Britt Bravo: You talk in your book about how meditation and spiritual practices are an integral part of your activism. BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2010
"She stood up in our meeting and said that was exactly why women are afraid of taking loans in India, but with Nest, because it's interest-free and they can repay in their necklaces, they didn't have that kind of fear. Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world.
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MAY 4, 2010
They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. Was there any individual vignette, or story, or person, or something that happened, that really touched you? The work can be slow at times, but it's something that's important to us.
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