Episode #5: Sheela and Erik rethink "success" in school and life
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Greenagers runs employment and education programs designed to support youth, environment, and community all at once.
Conservation, Agriculture, and Trades training programs pay youth ages 14-24 to build trails, grow food, and build and repair local inf…
The Social Observatory: integrating the social sciences for adaptive practice
The Social Observatory (SO) is a unit in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. It has worked for seven years with a $5 billion portfolio of community-based livelihoods projects in India. This work combines rigorous impact evaluations with ethnography, process evaluations, and the development…
12 Leadership Lessons from a Fortune 500 CEO - Bill Foote, former Chairman and CEO of USG Corporation
As chairman and CEO of USG Corporation, Bill Foote led one of the most remarkable Chapter 11 restructurings in American business — an achievement Warren Buffett called “the most successful managerial performance in bankruptcy that I’ve ever seen.”
Bill’s career spans some of the most respected inst…
He left the Fortune 500 fast track for local nonprofits and to help men be better fathers
Larry Smith grew up on the east side of Indianapolis. After graduating from Southport High School and then Williams College, he landed at Fortune 500 engine maker Cummins Inc. and quickly found himself on the fast track to upper management. By his early 30s he already was director of corporate stra…
Marc Tayer "Televisionaries". Inside the digital revolution.
Marc Tayer wrote Televisionaries following a thirty-year career in the media and communications technology business. He joined General Instrument’s New York corporate headquarters in 1985 and transferred to its San Diego–based VideoCipher Division in 1987. Two years later, he was appointed core tea…
From the Archive: Lawrence Raab
Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This summer in 2026, we are sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archives! Poetry Medicine for the Soul first began in 2020, in partnership with the Stockbridge Libr…
August 20, 2026: Staged spectacles
We once again enter THE THEATER.
In Great Barrington, The Berkshire Opera Festival is launching its main-stage production of Lucia di Lammermoor, a difficult bel canto classic, on the stage of the Mahaiwe. But the festival does much more than present incredible works as it hones the craft of young …
Ned Donoghue: Prisoners of Congress, Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777 to 1778
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For over 245 years, historians have ignored the incidents that pitted the Patriots against the leaders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Some publicly accused the Quaker leaders of being traitors to their country; they maintained they…
Ramón Javier
Ramón Javier is head of school at George Jackson Academy, a middle school for boys on Manhattan's Lower East Side where every family receives financial assistance. A lifelong New Yorker and Prep for Prep alumnus, Ramón grew up on welfare in Washington Heights before attending boarding school, Willi…
Jack & Susie Wadsworth
In this episode Jack and Susie Wadsworth reflect on a life shaped in part by Camp Kooch-i-ching. They share their roots in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, where they met in seventh grade, and recall marrying after Jack’s graduation from Williams College before spending their honeymoon at Koochiching in 1961…
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