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“Bet on good people doing good things,” was the advice Jeff Skoll received from Independent Sector Founder John W. Gardner as he moved from his life as a tech giant at eBay into the world of philanthropy. Now almost 12 years later, Jeff Skoll will join us at the Independent Sector Annual Conference in San Francisco to accept the 2012 John W. Gardner Leadership Award.
When it comes to networking, what happens at the IS conference doesn’t stay at the IS Annual Conference. It can impact your work well into the future.
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you @IndSector for a great experience! I leave #inspired #exhausted
#hopeful #overwhelmed #challenged and as a #changemaker. - @mobilizer -
David B. Smith, National Conference on Citizenship
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What do Isadora Duncan, Steve Jobs, Maya Angelou and Ansel Adams have in common?
They were all hall of fame level game-changers and each one called the San Francisco Bay Area home.
This year we've embraced GameChangers as the theme for the 2012 IS Annual Conference and are thrilled to call the Hilton San Francisco Union Square our home for Veterans Day weekend, November 11 & 12.
Guest post by Emily G. Culbertson, a Chicago-based nonprofit consultant
Why do we tell stories? To make friends, entertain, and teach, no doubt, but I also suspect we tell stories to make sense of the world around us. If we're working for social change, we tell ourselves stories -- about hunger, homelessness, lack of health care, you name it -- to help understand urgent problems and bring them to life, and more importantly to human size, where we might do something about them.
