Free "Making Photos Fantastic" Workshop

“Making Photos Fantastic!” will be offered here at Marlboro College Graduate School on Tuesday, May 29^th, 2012, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.  The workshop is free and open to the public.

Digital cameras (and smart phones with good cameras) are everywhere!  We take pictures of everything!  But sometimes we just don’t know what to do with all those images. Well, roll up your sleeves, pull out your simple digital cameras or smart phone and join Will deBock, founder of Prof. deBock’s Innovator Network, for a hands-on technology workshop focused on making the most of your digital images.

This will be a hands-on technology workshop focused on making the most of digital images. There are free and low-cost (yet robust) tools that can help crop, filter and enhance images. There are also fun tools that can create a movie poster from a favorite image or a motivational sign for students or employees.  You will explore tools like Paint.net, Photoshop Express, and Picassa as well as specialized web applications.  

You should bring your own laptop, camera, and smart phone with camera (observers without computers and cameras are also welcome).

Will DeBock earned his Master’s in Technology Management at Marlboro Graduate School and has been a faculty member for Kaplan University, a Vice President, and the Founder of its Innovations Lab.

To register, go to hotworkshop_photos.eventbrite.com/

The class is presented by the Grad School’s EdTech program and is part of their public-service “HOT: Hands On Tech Series.”

TEDxSIT: Building Bridges, Connecting Communities

Presentations

Sunday, May 6, 10:00am-4:30pm • New England Youth Theater, Brattleboro

Marlboro College is the co-sponsor of this year’s TEDxSIT event, coordinated by students from SIT Graduate Institute, in partnership with faculty, alumni and community members from Brattleboro and the larger Vermont area, to share creative and profound ideas. This year’s presenters include Chinese-American filmmaker and poet Lee Mun Wah, non-violent communications specialist Raj Gill, sustainable agriculture promoter Bo Muller-Moore, the Brattleboro Concert Choir and Marlboro’s own dancer Cookie Harrist ’12. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.tedxsit.com. The event will be streamed live at the Marlboro College Graduate School free of charge.

FREE Volunteer Management Workshop

New to volunteer recruitment and management? Looking for help with addressing specific volunteer management challenges or just for tips and new ideas? Please join us for a FREE Volunteer Management Workshop! 

What: Explore an overarching framework for engaging volunteers, as well as specific tips for increasing volunteer engagement and productivity. 

When: Friday, April 20 | 11:30am-2:00pm 

Where: Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 46 Barre St, Montpelier
Please park on a side street, rather than in the parking lot so as not to take spaces used by senior citizen members. 

RSVP: to Ariel Brooks, Marlboro Director of Non Degree Programs (abrooks@marlboro.edu, 802-451-7118) by Wednesday, April 18.

NOTE: Please bring a brown bag lunch. We will provide hot beverages and dessert.

FREE Meeting Facilitation Workshop

Pre-planning, combined with specific tools and activities, can change meetings from dreaded events into time that is both productive and fun! Come learn strategies for effective agenda planning and facilitation.

What: Effective Meeting Facilitation -- FREE workshop

When: Tues, April 10, 5:30-8:00pm -- cookies and light snacks provided!

Where: Marlboro Graduate School, 28 Vernon St

Who: Anyone interested in facilitating better meetings, but particularly those involved in community organizing or nonprofit work.

RSVP: Ariel Brooks (abrooks@marlboro.edu), Marlboro Director of Non-Degree Programs

Meet Marlboro MBA in Boston

Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability program director Ralph Meima will host an informal networking and information opportunity at Sauciety Bar in the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Wednesday April 25, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

This is a chance to learn about our progressive, radically different MBA program - built from scratch around sustainability principles and practices to serve the change agents and social entrepreneurs transforming our economy from the inside.

Change the climate of business!

An RSVP is strongly encouraged.

Questions? Contact Ralph Meima at (cell) 802 380-1029, or email him at:  rmeima@gradschool.marlboro.edu

Marlboro (pre)College Summer Programs

Information Session

Friday, April 6, 5:00-6:00pm • Marlboro College Graduate School, 2nd Floor

Come learn about our week-long summer programs for teens who like to think and do. We’ll also have information available about Marlboro’s free classes for high school students and other opportunities for teens to get an early taste of college. Can’t make it to the info session? Read about our (pre)College Summer Programs.

Tamara Stenn Discusses Fair Trade

Friday, March 23, 5:30–7:00pm, with a networking social event to follow

Tamara Stenn is a business developer and economist who spent 15 years working with Bolivia’s indigenous women creating fair trade sweaters for export through her company, KUSIKUY Clothing Company. This interactive workshop will introduce participants to fair trade and help them to envision the world of fair trade producers. Fair Trade is a multi-billion-dollar model of global trade, which provides free technical assistance, education, training and global market access for marginalized people in lesser economically developed countries.

Largely understood as benefiting people through economic opportunity, an equally important aspect of fair trade is the space it creates for people to meet, talk, share ideas and feel supported and empowered. Stenn conducts ethnographic research on the women involved in fair trade to bring awareness to their needs and unique situations. By working together and sharing experiences, Stenn believes that greater equality can be brought to trade, resulting in a fairer and more just world. Stenn is an adjunct professor teaching Women and Empowerment and Measuring Fair Trade at Keene State College. Her upcoming book, Fair Trade and Justice will be published in early 2013.

This event is hosted by the Marlboro Net Impact chapter.

A $5 donation is suggested to help support future Net Impact events but is not required for attendance.

Volunteer Management Workshop

Workshop

Friday, March 23, 11:30 to 1:30pm • Marlboro College Graduate School, Room 2NE

If you are new to volunteer recruitment and management, or an old hand looking for new ideas and for help with specific volunteer challenges, this lunchtime workshop could be the jump-start you need. Part of the non-profit management program at Marlboro College Graduate School, the workshop will explore an overarching framework for engaging volunteers as well as specific tips for increasing volunteer engagement and productivity.  

Healthcare in Vermont

Talk by Dr. Karen Hein

Tuesday, March 6, 6:00pm • Marlboro College Graduate School

National authority on health care organizations Dr. Karen Hein addresses the Strategic Planning and Policy class, part of the graduate school’s MS in Management–Health Care Administration program. Dr. Hein is a national authority on health care organizations, and currently serves on the Green Mountain Care Board, which is developing the single-payer system reform for Vermont. She has served on boards that focus on health care reform, youth development, global health and the professionalization of humanitarian assistance in other countries. During the Clinton health reform effort, Dr. Hein served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the United States Senate Finance Committee.  Please register online.

Jeff Allar Speaks On Values In Business

• Friday February 10, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 2012

Jeff Allar, Vice President of Human Resources at Stonyfield Farm, will offer insight on Stonyfield’s experience, including the role of a CEO, retaining long-term independence, and the moral obligation to disclose.

In addition to its natural and organic dairy products, Stonyfield Farm is known for doing well by doing good. Jeff Allar, Vice President of Human Resources, leads the team with a track record of being good to its workforce by providing a healthful, productive work place offering opportunities to grow. This commitment coupled with the company’s mission has has led to Stonyfield being recognized as one of the Best Companies to Work for in New Hampshire for the last two years in a row. Jeff and his team have introduced enhanced wellness programs and a smoke-free workplace. Jeff also serves as the executive champion for Stonyfield’s Walking Our Talk (SWOT) Team.

Jeff joined Stonyfield Farm in 2008 after 13 years in many roles, most recently as the head of Supply Chain Human Resources for Good Humor – Breyers / Unilever Ice Cream in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Jeff’s specialties are workforce learning and development, and organizational performance. He has served as a Senior Examiner and Judge for Wisconsin’s Forward Award and as an examiner for the nationally recognized Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Jeff is currently the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Bridges, the domestic violence and sexual assault organization serving the Nashua community, and he serves on the Board of Directors for New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility.

Planned Giving

Workshop

Saturday, January 28, & Sunday, January 29 • Marlboro College Graduate School

People and organizations all need to plan for the future. This practical workshop will range from technical understanding of planned giving vehicles to the emotional, philanthropic and visionary choices people make as they think about estate planning. Taught by fundraising consultant Christine Graham and planned giving specialist Tom Smith, the course will look at how to plan for and benefit from bequests, annuities, charitable trusts, retirement funding gifts and gifts of life insurance. Learn more or register. Cost: $200.

Jeremy Grantham Discusses Investing, Resource Limitations & Globa

Friday December 2, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Jeremy Grantham, founder of GMO, a global investment management firm responsible for over $93 billion in client assets, will speak at Marlboro College Graduate School on  “Irrational Avoidance of the Unpleasant: Perspectives on Investing, Resource Limitations & Global Warming”.

A recent New York Times profile of Grantham says his quarterly letters “command a cult following of readers within and beyond the financial industry, (because they) inspire even the most short-term profit-minded investors to do a little fate-of-the-world-scale thinking.”

Grantham is an impassioned environmentalist who channels his wealth to The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which tries to raise public awareness of environmental issues and to promote collaboration within the environmental movement. He also supports the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting, which awards the $75,000 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism.

Grantham has been featured in Forbes, Barron’s and Business Week and is routinely quoted by the financial press. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Reading Grantham’s latest quarterly letter, you get a glimpse of his ability to intertwine compelling storytelling with well documented research. He includes a tale of “The Devil and the Farmer” which highlights his interest in soil erosion and sustainable agriculture. Jeremy Grantham’s son, Rupert, who is a MBA candidate in the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability, is completing his Capstone on “Promoting Sustainable Agriculture“, a project sponsored by the Grantham Foundation.

Introduction to Nonprofit Leadership

Workshop

Monday, January 16, 8:45am-5:00pm • Marlboro College Graduate School

Have you volunteered your time for a local community organization but want to take it to the next step? Looking ahead to a career in environmental advocacy? Want to share your passion and expertise on healthcare, education or the arts as a board member? The Introduction to Nonprofit Leadership Workshop will give you the basic tools you need to be a positive force in any mission-driven organization.  Cost: $25, or a 300- to 500-word essay on the following topic: If you had $10,000 and a year, what would you do to make a difference? Learn more and sign up.

Innovation Lab Open Saturday, November 5

Discussion Forum

Saturday, November 5, 11:45am–1:00pm • Marlboro College Graduate School

Do you have a project you'd like to discuss? Perhaps you'd prefer to listen or offer suggestions to others on how they can move their projects forward. The MCGS Innovation Lab is the place where students, alumni, faculty and now local business people gather to discuss and refine product ideas and make progress. The lab is open this Saturday from 11:45am to 1:00pm at the Marlboro Graduate School on Vernon Street, in Brattleboro. Plan to attend and enjoy the brainstorming and discussions about activities that support project success.

Bring your lunch and enjoy discussions that help drive progress. Contact Jill Hart for more information. The MCGS Innovation Lab is powered by Brain Logic, LLC.

Active Living Workshop

Presentation by Dan Burden

Tuesday, November 1, 6:30pm • Marlboro College Graduate School

Dan Burden, an internationally recognized authority on livable and sustainable communities, healthy streets, traffic calming and bicycle and pedestrian programs, will present the results of the AARP Vermont-sponsored Active Living Workshop taking place earlier in the day. The intent of the workshop is to improve livability, walkability, and active transportation along Canal Street. Dan is the co-founder and executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute based in Port Townsend, Washington. For more information, contact Sue Fillion at 802-251-8154 or sfillion@brattleboro.org.

America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward

Talk by Robert Repetto

Friday, November 11, 5:00pm  •  Marlboro College Graduate School

A senior fellow of the United Nations Foundation in its Climate and Energy Program, Robert Repetto has worked for over 25 years to develop and promote reasonable responses to the challenges of climate change. His talk will lay out those challenges and how they can best be met and overcome. Prior to his work at the foundation, Repetto was professor of economics & sustainable development at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Earlier in his career he was vice president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., a Pew Fellow at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an advisor on economic planning in India, Pakistan and Indonesia. He is the author of a new book, America’s Climate Problem: The Way Forward.

Artificial Animal: Society, Government & Corporations

Talk by Peter Kinder

Friday, October 14, 5:00pm • Marlboro Graduate School

With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the U.S. Constitution guarantees corporations the right to participate in elections, the rights of corporations as individuals has again become a hot issue. But debating “corporate personhood,” obscures the ultimate question the court has raised: what is a corporation? History holds some surprising answers; it also suggests paths to change. Peter Kinder has studied the relationship between society and corporations for 40 years and is former president and co-founder of KLD Research & Analytics, a company that researched corporate behavior for socially responsible investors. He now blogs on the subject—and many others—at thebell.us.