CALGARY - During the Jan. 12 launch of the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC), speakers at the Calgary Farmers' Market shared strengths and hopes for the sector during this year.
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Cincinnati's design community makes a difference in community development at home, worldwide

When Mahsino Blamoh started as a student with the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, she expected to come out trained to "make pretty things for rich people."
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Over the past 10 years I have helped design and facilitate over 50 large-group Appreciative Inquiry summits, often working directly with Dr. David Cooperrider. The most recent was a four-day format attended by 450 stakeholders, but I have also experienced surprising success (don't tell Dave) utilizing one-day day formats with as few as 20 participants.
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'Aging is integral to our humanity,' says the founder of the
Eden Alternative

As a young doctor leaping into the world of medicine, Dr. Bill Thomas thrived in the fast pace of hospital emergency rooms, but his life was forever changed when he looked into the sad, blue eyes of an elderly woman in the slower surroundings of a nursing home where he worked one day a week.
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'I want to work for a company that has the same mission and values as I do'

When director of sales and marketing Julie Matthews returned to Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls Inc. (BLJC) in December 2011 after a six-year hiatus, she says it felt like she was "coming home."
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