The system of public high schools in America really hasn’t undergone any kind of serious transformation in 100 years. Steve Jobs reinvented the personal computer, the animation studio, and the music player. Now his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, wants to rethink high school. On Monday, she unveiled XQ: The Super School Project, a $50 million campaign to conceive of and create the next American high school — or a “Super School.” The project launches with an open call for submissions closing on November 15, from which the project will choose winning proposals to fund. The challenge is deliberately open-ended, providing few specifics on what would constitute a “Super School.” Contestant teams are asked to submit comprehensive plans for teachers, administration and evaluation. The XQ site points out that education is in need of disruption, stating that: “In the last hundred years, America has gone from a Model T to a Tesla,” but public schools have stagnated. XQ’s chief creative officer Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary of civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, told the Washington Post that change is long overdue. The system of public high schools in America really hasn’t undergone any kind of serious transformation in […]
Continue reading... →Hello, oh powerful woman who wants to make a difference in the world! As you may know, our motto at Women Of Green is: Turn Up the Volume. And that’s what we’re doing! Sharing stories of amazing women who are game changers in their world — and inspiring other women to do the same. But we need your help! We are looking for 200 Women Of Green Advocates to share our inspirational stories and posts daily on their social media channels. That will help us immensely to touch so many more women and inspire them to be the change in their world. Can you help us turn up the volume by sharing Women Of Green with your friends? Will you be one of our beloved Advocates that will help us create permanent positive change on the planet through the power of the feminine? To say thank you, In exchange for your ongoing efforts, I will offer our Advocates a free Life or Business coaching session ($250 value) on any topic or situation that is arising for you now in your life. If that sounds like something you would like to explore, please contact me here: carolyn (at) mindovermarkets (dot) com […]
Continue reading... →Oh Marketing Whiz Who is Always Hungry to Learn More! Back in 2013, The Santa Fe Reporter interviewed me and at the very end I was asked: “any final wisdom?” My last words were, “My hope is that someday we don’t even have to use the word ‘green’—it’s just the way it is.” It’s been 12 years now that my company, Mind Over Markets, has been dedicated to helping green and socially-focused companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs take their products and services to the next level. It’s what we believe in, what we are passionate about. When we put that stake in the ground, we never looked back (even though back then “green” was used with caution in marketing because of its tree-hugger status and political connotations). Well, those days are gone. This week, the Shelton Group released a study on the effectiveness of eco buzzwords like “green,” “eco-friendly,” “sustainable,” “recyclable,” “renewable,” “low carbon footprint,” and more. The results happily report that green has gone from “niche appeal” to “baseline expectation.” For instance, 65% of the 2,000 plus respondents said that “green was considered desirable.” And it really doesn’t matter what side of the fence you are on because 67% of them were Democrats and 62% […]
Continue reading... →Because the quantum field, which is 99% energy, is where it all happens – your life, your health, your family, your work, your business, you name it. It all exists there and when you get that, you get IT – whatever that IT is you are going for.
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Continue reading... →One angel investor wants an investment portfolio full of women. Jonathan Sposato, a Seattle-based entrepreneur and the CEO of photo editing software PicMonkey, made a bold announcement last week at the Seattle Angel Conference that he’d only fund companies with one or more female founders. Women often have a more difficult time securing funding—numbers from CrunchBase show that companies with female founders only make up about 19% of seed and angel investments, and that number dwindles down as companies progress to each funding stage. But the good news is the number of female founders are on the upswing. According to that CrunchBase data, the percentage of startups with at least one female founder rose from 9.5% in 2009 to 18% in 2014. “Female entrepreneurs do have a harder time getting traction—whether that’s raising money, getting their concepts across, or even recruiting,” Sposato said in an interview with Mashable. “You can’t just take those issues and not do something about it. If you feel passionate about something, you have to be the catalyst.” Sposato says part of the problem comes from investors’ tendency to pattern match, or support startups that resemble other successful companies they funded that got off the ground. […]
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