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Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on August 31st, 2009Whether to do or not to do, that’s the difference, I guessed. Today, we visited Brown Paper Tickets which provided quality ticketing service for ticket sellers and buyers with the smallest service fees in the Industry. With their service, ticket sellers can use a lot of useful services (for example, 24/7 internet and phone orders, [...]
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Hideo Suzuki (SIIS'09) on August 31st, 2009Our team visited LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute. I would like to report a visiting memo as follows, LIHI provides many condominiums and houses to low-income and homeless people. Some of those people are in a difficult situation, such as drug, abuse and alcohol. LIHI’s member said “Housing first”. Also, LIHI tries to change their [...]
Hideo Suzuki (SIIS'09) on August 31st, 2009We met Ms. Sternberg, who is a senior project manager of Group Health. We learned her organization, so I would like to report a visiting memo as follows, Group Health is nonprofit health care organization that is mixed health care and insurance. Drug and doctor’s fee are so expensive in the US that they focus [...]
Hideo Suzuki (SIIS'09) on August 31st, 2009We visited Sound Transit last Thursday. Sound Transit is Commuter train service for Central Puget Sound citizens and has annual targets for environment and sustainability. I’d like to report a visiting memo as follows, – Site : Sound Transit , Mass transit system – Date : August 27, 2009, Thursday – Sound Transit – [...]
Michael Kraft (TTL'09) on August 30th, 2009I wanted to add a post to this blog before leaving, but the tempermental Internet service at Chipembi would not cooperate. I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop in the Johannesbug airport, two hours to go until the long flight from here to Atlanta. I’m part of the way home, both physically and culturally. I [...]
Tsuyoshi Takahara (SIIS'09) on August 29th, 2009We went to Theo Chocolate for our first site visit. Then I would like to post a feed back about that. Theo chocolate is the first and only organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory in the U.S. “Fair Trade” was a kind of new idea for me (it is pretty popular word in recent world [...]
Hideo Suzuki (SIIS'09) on August 29th, 2009Yusuke, Ryoich, Nozomi and I visited KCTS9 as internship of ShoreBank Pacific on August 27. I report on the summary as follows, – Site : KCTS9 , Broadcast – Date : August 27, 2009, Thursday – Vision – To improve the quality of life in the communities we serve by providing meaningful programming [...]
Michael Kraft (TTL'09) on August 28th, 2009After discussing the initiatives that the village association is working on (see Part II), Dick Daka, Village Secretary Mwashikela, and I headed back to Ward Councilor Mbonfwana’s home to have some lunch. Upon our arrival, the councilor’s wife had a hearty traditional meal waiting for us. Clockwise from the top of the photo, the meal [...]
Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on August 27th, 2009Hello everyone ! I’m Yusuke Sawa a member of SIIS 2009. Today, 4 of SIISers visited to 4 interesting and very sustainable wise companies for the internship of Shorebank Pacific. That’s very impressive time ! In detail, Hide (also SIISer) will post. I post some pictures of today’s exciting time ! Best, Yusuke
iLEAP on August 26th, 2009iLEAP is happy to welcome our 2009 cohort of Social Innovation in Seattle participants to Seattle! Hide, Yusuke, Ryoichi, Yuhka, Nozomi, Ayumi and Tsuyoshi will be here until mid-September–learning all about social enterprise and innovation in our glorious Emerald City.
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