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Hey there ANCHOR blog readers,

Next Friday, August 19th (7pm) at Sayles Hall over at Brown University, there will be an event that follows a unique format that leverages the power of social media and coalesces the entrepreneurial community in Providence.

#Connect@Brown is a new way of sharing rich feedback from hundreds of people to a group of emerging social entrepreneurs. This is the culminating event of a week-long summer institute on social entrepreneurship for an elite group of semi-finalists from the prestigious Dell Social Innovation Competition (DSIC) run out of the RGK Center at UT-Austin. As the inaugural class of DSIC-Semi-Finalist Fellows, their innovative ventures range from building better homes in Haiti to designing smarter toys for children with chronic illnesses.

The program includes 4 minute presentations from these fifteen entrepreneurs, including 3 minutes about their venture and 1 minute framing the key questions/challenges they need help addressing. The audience will give feedback via Twitter, which will be projected on a screen at the event and shared with the Fellows after the event. This advice will connect the most creative ideas of the future with the sharpest minds of the present, thereby forging a global social entrepreneurship community.

They have a number of local and national luminaries coming to the event - including Ron Cordes, the founder and CEO of Impact Assets, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, Senator Jack Reed, and US Representative David Cicilline. There will be a live webstream of the event and they will be joined by entrepreneur communities across the country, some of whom will be gathered at watch parties in San Francisco, Washington DC, and Mexico City. RSVP at the link below to attend in person - or would like to receive information to watch and participate online.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/brown.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlN...

Cheers,
the ANCHOR team

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BIF-7 is a national gathering of amazing people who are driven by their passion, creativity, and smarts to create value in entirely new ways. Believing in the power of stories to change the world, the BIF Summit is a storytelling jam, peppered with tales of personal discovery, innovation, and transformation -- from Daniel Pink to Umair Haque, from Mallika Chopra to John Hagel. At BIF-7, you will hear from, connect with, and be surrounded by artists, architects, and even an alpinist. You will find educators, entrepreneurs, and evangelists.

The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) creates real world laboratories where organizations can design, prototype, and test new models for delivering value. BIF's mission is to enable business model and system level innovation in areas of high social impact, including health care, education, energy, and entrepreneurship. An independent, non-profit organization created in 2004, BIF brings partners together to collaborate across traditional boundaries on experiments that deliver transformative, systems-level innovation and address the most pressing problems of our time.

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For many weeks now, The Woolies have been building and planning, making sure that Wooly Fair VII, To the Moon! will be a wild spectacle of galactic proportions. On July 30th, we'll be rocketing you into a lunar wilderness, full of games, live music, spontaneous theater, and, of course, the WOOLY SPACE STATION. The Space Station will be comprised of 21 pentagonal pods, which are being created for the sole purpose of entertaining and inspiring you via shimmering, interactive, artist-made installations. Here's a glimpse of what's in the works and what to expect on your maiden voyage To the Moon! RSVP on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166492813422212. It will be taking place at the Steel Yard (see their address below)

AS220's Foo Fest is a grandly proportioned summer celebration of Rhode Island's vibrant arts community and also the 25th anniversary party this year! Last year's Foo Fest drew over 5,000 people to downtown Providence.

http://www.as220.org/foofest_2011/index.htm

Erica Saladino and Kristin Amico converted a 1950s International Harvester Metro Van into a tiny mobile cupcake bakery! The Sugarush Truck has a variety of locations & you can find out exactly where via twitter, facebook & the website. The truck specializes in (but is not limited to) vegan baked goods & locally roasted coffee from New Harvest, attends local events and will eventually be available for private parties. Be sure to email us at sugarushtruck@gmail.com for information about special orders!

http://www.sugarushtruck.com/
http://twitter.com/sugarushtruck