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A Few Words with Denise Byrne

In this month’s A FEW WORDS WITH, SmartLink speaks with Denise Byrne, a founding board member and acting executive director, of the nonprofit organization, Friends of New Orleans [FONO].    FONO is a private, non-profit, non-partisan, membership organization for people in the U.S. and abroad who care about the region. Its mission is to advocate for New Orleans and its surrounding parishes. FONO's approach to its mission and to community building, in general, has much to teach philanthropy about making connections and making a difference in communities.

A Few Words With: Rachel Mosher-Williams
With President Obama’s designation of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, the ideas and inspiration behind the term social innovation and social entrepreneurship have taken on even greater import.  In August 2009, we sat down with Rachel Mosher-Williams to learn the promise of social entrepreneurship for low-income communities and how family foundations and donors might tap into the networks and ideas pushing the social innovation agenda forward.