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"When I heard about Celebrating Solutions! I was very
excited. I think it is a vital undertaking if we are
to continue to prosper as a multi-cultural society.
It will promote understanding. It will give hope to
people who have been desperately seeking solutions. I
give it my wholehearted support."
Jane Goodall
Founder, "Roots & Shoots"
The Jane Goodall Institute
"...I had no idea about the depth of your organizing,
creative leadership, and community involvement....In
essence, I believe your project as a model could move
us from 'Connecting Communities' to 'Improving
Communities'. That's a major paradigm shift!"
Charles Benton
Chairman, The Benton Foundation
Communications in the Public Interest
"Celebrating Solutions! is the most important project
in the country that brings together stories of people
who have done something positive with their lives with
simple how-to information on how others can solve
community and neighborhood problems. It is the most
exciting project that aims to create a multi-media
interactive solutions-oriented form of journalism.
Celebrating Solutions! takes situations potentially
filled with tragedy and despair and turns them into
hope and positive actions."
Stephen Silha
Partner, Good News/Good Deeds
Citizen Effectiveness in the Age
of Electronic Democracy
"Not all of the problems of the world can or should be
solved from the top down, by governments and agencies.
Bottom-up, grassroots solutions to the problems of
neighborhoods, communities, and municipalities are
urgently needed, and ultimately, may be effective
globally in ways that top-down efforts cannot be
effective. Communities do not lack for people who
strive to solve local problems, but what has been
lacking is an effective way to connect people within
and between communities, and to diffuse solutions
widely, so that each community does not have to
reinvent the solution to each problem. What has been
lacking is a way of using local activists, mass media,
and Internet-based many-to-many media. By using
television to attract broad attention, local
face-to-face meetings to build social capital, and
Internet-based discussions (virtual communities) and
databases to tie people and their solutions together,
it is possible to use communication technology to
leverage and amplify the efforts of people who are
working to make a difference. The tools, social
infrastructure, and plans for initiating such an
effort exist in Celebrating Solutions!."
Howard Rheingold
Author, The Virtual Community
"SOLUTIONS is an exciting new, well-designed concept.
By providing a forum for people to gather, it ensures
a better opportunity for them to work together. One
of our interests as a public broadcast station is to
keep the dialogue going. The multi-media approach to
this project extends the lifetime of the discussion.
SOLUTIONS is a wonderful idea and one from which we
feel our viewers would benefit greatly."
Mary Bitterman
Formerly President and CEO
KQED TV9, San Francisco
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