Green Options » aspen institute http://greenoptions.com/tag/aspen-institute Posts tagged 'aspen institute' Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Van Jones Wins Aspen Institute Energy and Envrionment Award for Individual Thought Leadership http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/29/van-jones-wins-aspen-institute-energy-and-envrionment-award-for-individual-thought-leadership/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/29/van-jones-wins-aspen-institute-energy-and-envrionment-award-for-individual-thought-leadership/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:13:06 +0000 Tom Schueneman http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/29/van-jones-wins-aspen-institute-energy-and-envrionment-award-for-individual-thought-leadership/ Click here to view the full post.

Van Jones founder of Green for All and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, has been awarded the Individual Thought Leadership Award by the Aspen Institute at the conclusion of this week’s Environment Forum: Powering the Planet: Energy for the Long Run.

Jones was recently tapped to serve in the Obama administration to serve as Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation.

]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/29/van-jones-wins-aspen-institute-energy-and-envrionment-award-for-individual-thought-leadership/feed/ Microenterprise Leaders Working to Help Small Businesses Affected by US Financial Crisis http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/12/03/microenterprise-leaders-working-to-help-small-businesses-affected-by-us-financial-crisis/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/12/03/microenterprise-leaders-working-to-help-small-businesses-affected-by-us-financial-crisis/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:20:41 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/12/03/microenterprise-leaders-working-to-help-small-businesses-affected-by-us-financial-crisis/ As credit tightens up and business conditions worsen in what has now been officially declared as a recession, small businesses that rely on funding are the first to suffer.

Responding to the sharp economic downturn facing the nation, a group of seven leading nonprofits that offer lending and support services to small businesses are taking swift actions to help entrepreneurs challenged by higher costs, declining sales, and tightening credit.

Leaders of the seven organizations came together last month in Albuquerque, NM, to share their approaches, including: customizing their counseling and coaching services to help businesses adapt to the economic downturn, implementing new technology and reconfiguring staff to increase loan production, and developing new loan products and financial counseling services for credit-challenged customers.

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