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SylviaNWAF

  1. #cofLA We can't keep doing what we've been doing to address the challenges created by the deep recession. 9:05 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  2. #cofLA What are foundations doing to help improve the effectiveness, the timetable of high schools and colleges? 9:03 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  3. #cofLA Our higher ed system hasn't changed in 40 yrs; it's inefficient, doesn't deliver what students or nation needs. It must change. 9:00 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  4. #cofLA Our job: to implement growth based on equity to unleash and benefit from the participation of every one in the nation 8:52 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  5. #cofLA philanthropy's role: to test and evaluate approaches to make the case for social investments for asset-building skills and knowledge 8:49 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  6. #cofLA Angela Glover Blackwell - we are not a poor country, we need to apply resources to deal with these challenges 8:46 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  7. #cofLA Angela Glover Blackwell - it's not just the middle class, it's the nation that's in trouble, esp growing pop of marginalized people 8:44 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  8. #cofLA We need to redesign the educational system - neither families nor government can do more to pay for the high cost of higher ed 8:42 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  9. #cofLA Angela Glover Blackwell: the vanishing of the middle class will redefine the nation, as will the rapidly changing demographics 8:39 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  10. #cofLA A challenge - to find new paths to the middle class, not just college education. 8:35 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  11. #cofLA So what innovation can we expect from the gr8 recession? maybe return to thrift, scientific developments - eventually 8:33 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  12. #cofLA What is the vanishing middle class - US population w/high school diploma but no college degree 8:31 AM May 1st via QuickMobile
  13. #cofLA The new communications technology was born to be interactive; it's not a megaphone. "Plunge in, listen carefully." 1:46 PM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  14. #cofLA #cdicof Smith: don't get caught up in the technology, today's iPhone is tomorrow's walkman. Think who to reach, why and how to engage 1:38 PM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  15. #cofLA #cdicof those in poverty and minorities are more likely to use mobile technologies aggressively 1:33 PM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  16. #cofLA Ernest Wilson - innovate or die, innovate or become ineffective. "We're about empowering people." New technologies can do that. 1:29 PM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  17. #cofLA #coftech how games can promote social change - game theory 1:14 PM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  18. #cofLA Mobile Voices - a truly grassroots phone communications network by immigrant day laborers. Internet connection not required. 11:03 AM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  19. #cofLA #fundertech the tensions of transparency, personal voice and professional identity in the space of social media 10:32 AM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  20. #cofLA the tension of personal voices and professional identities, transparency and risk-aversion when you engage in digital communications 10:30 AM Apr 30th via QuickMobile
  • Name Sylvia BurgosToftnes
  • Location St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Web http://www.nwaf.org
  • Bio Every engagement is an opportunity provide value and build relationship.
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