Citizenship
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BIF is helping United Way of Rhode Island (UWRI) engage Rhode Islanders from all walks of life in their Strategic Planning 2020 process through the experience design and facilitation of Community FIRST Conversations.
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How might providers re-design and/or better integrate their services in order to form next
practices and new business models that will deliver more inclusive, person-centered support to the disability community in RI, in a way that enables its members to have and build great lives?
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BIF kicked off a new project with The Sherlock Center on Disabilities and five service providing agencies in RI to reimagine the services offered to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state.
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Dr. Nneka Tapia is an experienced psychologist who is passionate about mental wellness, criminal justice reform, and supporting young people who have experienced trauma.
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Movement is a fundamental right that we all should have. Botha is finding a way to bring autonomy via accessible tech advances to those utilizing wheelchairs as their primary source of mobility.
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With a powerful voice beyond his year, Royce Mann is using his voice and position to bring awareness to marginalized communities.
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"Stories are opportunities to hear ideas and to connect different ideas all in one place. A good story will inspire you, inform you, and activate you. Stories drive change by activating people to learn more that they can do."
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“I’ve been both a victim of violence through [the legacy of] the Holocaust and then was top dog when it came to the Palestinians. I’m part of the weak and part of the strong; that’s a very humbling experience.”
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"I love to tell stories, and have since I was young. Acting in itself is implicit in telling a story. Being an actor you have to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, empathize with a totally different character. And everyone has the potential and the ability to listen to and to tell stories. That makes us special."
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"Story is the thing that can wake people up, that has an opportunity to bring a higher level of consciousness."
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BIF's Chief Market Maker takes the stage to emphasize community and our role as citizens to co-create a better future.
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When we share stories we share our humanity. And if we do it honestly, we share our vulnerabilities.
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In the days after Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic rainfall and flooding forever changed the landscape of Houston, TX, Angela Blanchard set up a shelter in the NRG Center to house 10,000 people. How long did she have to set it up? 24 hours.
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BIF2017 Storyteller Mark Brand challenges perspectives by constantly striving to improve the lives of others, while providing opportunities for growth and social change through emerging technologies, alternate currencies, and best practices.
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We had an opportunity to catch up with Mark Brand, CEO of MB, Inc. and highly anticipated storyteller at BIF2018. Passionate and purposeful, Brand talks to us about the power of connectivity, combining purposeful networks, and some of the fascinating endeavors he's taken on.
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"I came to realize, as I was watching the trends and the moving ship, shapes of public discourse around the world, change and morph into unrecognizable things, that politics was the new Fast Company. And that I had to change my own focus from helping people start businesses."
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This (100k Ideas) is our favorite type of model here at BIF because it taps into what we call “the gold in the grey space” — working across sectors and industries to meet true citizen needs while transforming each of the latter.
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"Something is happening and it affects us all. A global revolution is changing politics and politics is changing the world. We want to change the world."
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Our Citizen Experience Lab is pleased to announce that it will once again be partnering with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, to work with a group of stakeholders to co-create a shared platform for advocacy around innovation and entrepreneurship in the state.
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You have to get to know the community with which you are working, the people that live there, and what their aspirations are before you can begin any sort of sustainable work in community transformation.
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In collaboration with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation BIF supported a collaborative effort between environmentalist groups and New England fisherman to create a shared vision for sustainable groundfish stocks in New England.
