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H&H/GFS Partnership – Business Cards
The GFS Fellows get their brand new business cards courtesy of H&H.
Ghetto Film School Presents: DEAD ON
Check out the GFS Thesis film DEAD ON written, driected, crewed, and edited by GFS Fellows.
Dead On from Derrick Cameron on Vimeo.
Ghetto Film School and The New York Times
Check out this amazing article about the Ghetto Film School.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/movies/06ghetto.html?_r=2
The H&H/GFS Partnership teachs these students about the media industry and trains them to help them get internships and jobs.
Come to tonight’s meeting to learn more about what you can do to be involved.
SWIFT
8pm, Tuesday, September 7
34 E 4th Street
We’ll stake out a place in the back
Praying for a Miracle
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT -
It’s all about energy. You want to rule the 21st century? Create clean energy. Here’s to hoping that a philanthropist does it ahead of a corporation – otherwise the world’s poor are in trouble.
I am a big fan of the metrics related philanthropy that Bill Gates has fostered. Running philanthropy like a business. I like how there are more smart people than ever committed to creating change. Big dollars hopefully followed by big changes.
The Expectations of Greatness
Expectations are a tricky thing. For some they can be crushing – for others they can inspire. And for a select few – it comes with the territory.
Myron Rolle embraces his potential and embodies something that has been lost in our age of hyper specialized division of labor- renaissance. While there are experts in every known field there are also a set of people whose job it is to communicate between the experts to connect and translate between different groups.
Make your own expectations.
Two Kings Set the Bar
Jay Z and Lebron sharing resources and ideas and leveraging their contacts and collective coolness to make business, change and create industry.
These two future billionaires are committed to the hustle and making a difference.
Look for something big to come out of these two. Really big.
Wish I was at this dinner.
Positive Psychology
For years, psychology has focused on abnormalities and disease and the negative. Lately there has been much more research into ‘happiness’. The most popular freshman class at Harvard is ‘Positive Psychology’ and the study of happiness is a cultural trend that can offer key insights into new modes of training, development and management. People always thought happiness was happenstance – but in fact there are significant agreed upon maxims that are standard for most happiness.
Health and Happiness
Jay Parkinson is leading the charge in re-imaging health under the 21st century paradigm.
His new company, Future Well, will be a place to explore how to be healthy and happy. Spending your hard earned money on your health should not be a take it or leave it proposition.
Why are we so scared of innovation in the health field?
Human Capital
It does not matter what your group’s motivation is.
If you gather a committed number of 1,000 people or greater you hold tremendous human capital.
Then you can use that group to crowd source solutions, products, ideas, experiences. Gather a group and more or less you have a business or at least the capital to tackle somethin