I’m a commercial real estate director for a contemporary art museum, and the Associate Director for a community development research center, and the director of a home ownership and business assistance program for artists. In other words, I’m professionally schizophrenic. I’m also a writer, a husband, a father, and a former Peace Corps volunteer. I live in southern Vermont with my wife and two little girls on a dirt road a couple of miles from the New York and Massachusetts borders. I work for MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, a former mill town in the Berkshires, where most of my schizophrenia plays out. I can be reached at blair @ massmoca.org.
June 10, 2007 at 6:47 pm |
Hi Mr. Blair:)
This site is encouraging I will utilize it, to me, it feels good to be a dogooder.
Most Respectful,
Trinna Smith from the Midwest
smithbusinessgrp@sbcglobal.net
June 11, 2008 at 5:21 pm |
Blair,
As someone who recently returned from working in Ghana as a Kiva Fellow, I’ve returned to the U.S to re-dedicate myself to extending the reach of financial services to the working poor here in the U.S. Instead of focusing on microloans, however, I am developing a project based on the increasing inertia behind asset-building. I’d love to talk sometime about your experiences.
Keep up the good work.
Dylan
September 30, 2008 at 11:28 am |
Dear Benjamin: thanks again for covering CFED’s 2008 Assets Learning Conference as our first-over ‘official’ blogger! Your posts are excellent. I was hoping to meet and talk with you there but unfortunately never connected with you in the crowd. I am working with Andrea, Michael Torrens and others members of CFED’s Innovation Team on our new initiative, innovation@cfed.org. I was wondering if we could possibly get a directly link from Asset Almanac to http://innovation.cfed.org? ALSO, please note that under your section, “Asset Policy & Advocacy Resources,” our name is incorrectly shown as “Center for Enterprise Development” — we are actually “Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)” Thanks so much for letting me know about the link to innovation@cfed’s website. Sincerely, Anne Li, Program Director, Innovation at CFED.