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Open Space Baltimore Gives the Gallery a New Look
Scott Ballum | March 1, 2010

Story contributed by Eric Bos.

Last July, in a neighborhood far away from any cultural institution, a coalition of 14 young artists created Open Space, a gallery and performance space aiming to showcase all types of artistic endeavors. Located inside an auto body shop in the heart of the Remington industrial district in Baltimore, the gallery poses no air of haughty indifference. Rather, it is a modest space run by modest people.

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From Madison to Manhattan: Underground Food Collective Shares Their Community
Maggie Feuchter | January 25, 2010

As a Manhattan girl on a budget, I relish the opportunity to have a nice meal out every once in a while. But when I find out that the Underground Food Collective is making a trek to New York City for one of their many-coursed meals, I lose all sense of fiscal responsibility and drop few nice dinners’ worth of dough without a second thought in order to attend. And after partaking in their dinner for a third time, I’m already saving up my dollars for when they return.

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The Linkery Learns From Its Mistakes, and Changes a Bit of the World in the Process
Scott Ballum | January 14, 2010

The Linkery in San Diego’s North Park is one of the hottest, if not the most recommended, farm-to-table, high caliber restaurant around. But if owner Jay Porter were in the same position now as he was in 2004, he certainly wouldn’t open a restaurant again.

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A Personal Tour Guide to Independent San Diego
Scott Ballum | January 10, 2010

Sometimes it feels like you just lucked out and cold-called the right guy. I just came back from lunch with Nate Benedetto, the founder and publisher of San Diego's Urbanist Guide, and I can't imagine a better person to know as I slowly settle myself into a longish stint on the West Coast. Since the Professor got a job teaching out here, I've been bouncing back and forth to Brooklyn, which means I've just had little tastes of what the city has to offer.

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New: From the Editor
Scott Ballum | January 4, 2010

I am excited and humbled by the extent to which Sheepless.org continues to grow, thanks to a wonderful team of contributors. I'm inspired to double my own efforts in 2010, and invite all of our readers to join in the conversation and collaborate in as many ways as you would like. I'm looking forward to spending more time on the West Coast this year, and am looking forward to bringing in new writers from California and Denver soon, and contributors from all over.

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Village Capital
| December 29, 2009

Inspired by the village bank model used in microfinance throughout the world, Village Capital is an innovative investment model built on the hypothesis that entrepreneurs, working intimately together and providing peer support to one another, will be able to efficiently and wisely allocate investment to one another’s companies.

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The New Rules Project
| December 28, 2009

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics. The rules call for:

  • Decisions made by those impacted
  • Communities accepting responsibility for the welfare of their members and the next generation
  • Households and communities possessing or owning sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth
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Ashoka's Changemakers
| December 28, 2009

Changemakers is a community of action where we all collaborate on solutions. We know we have the power to solve the world’s most pressing social problems. We’re already doing it, one project, one idea at a time.

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Unreasonable Institute | Incubating and Investing in Social Entrepreneurs
| December 28, 2009

"What we do: We unite up to 25 high-impact social entrepreneurs from around the world to attend our intensive 10-week summer institute. There, we will incubate their ventures with rigorous skill training and expert mentorship. At the end of the ten weeks, we will connect our Fellows with the start-up capital and global network of support needed to give their ventures wings."

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SSE - School for Social Entrepreneurs
| December 28, 2009

The School for Social Entrepreneurs exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. We also want to recruit more innovative and capable people into voluntary and other organisations.