When a VFX town hall was held back in March, the visual effects community was in a state of panic, unsure of how best to unite to battle subsidies, runaway productions, untenable working conditions and other issues endemic to the industry. A follow-up event held last night in La (and online from San Rafael and Vancouver — watch it here) focused movement toward forming a VFX union, but it marked only slight progress for organizing efforts. With many La VFX artists preoccupied by the work that’s draining away from the region to other subsidized cities, community meetings like this remain hung up on the kinds of nightmare stories of extreme work days and paycheck delays that keep circulating around the biz. “I bought my co-worker toothpaste because she didn’t have money to afford it,” said VFX artist Diana Marie Wells, late of infamous NewBreed VFX, who streamed in from...
- 6/27/2013
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
Peace Dividend is one of three to take the People's Choice Award for its game-changing approach to foreign aid in Afghanistan and Haiti.
Over the summer, Ashoka, along with the White House, Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, and several of the world's leading institutions, launched the Sme Finance Challenge to identify and fund innovative initiatives that help grow local businesses in developing markets. And while most of the winners were announced last week, only three winners were spotlighted today in Seoul, at the G20 summit, as the People's Choice Award winners.
One winner is the Peace Dividend Trust, a unique team of former aid workers, entrepreneurs, and diplomats who help spur public-private partnerships, local business training, alternative financing, and on-the-ground investment in stricken countries like Afghanistan and Haiti.
“Their approaches propose achievable, yet groundbreaking ways to get more finance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by sparking policy and regulatory changes,...
Over the summer, Ashoka, along with the White House, Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, and several of the world's leading institutions, launched the Sme Finance Challenge to identify and fund innovative initiatives that help grow local businesses in developing markets. And while most of the winners were announced last week, only three winners were spotlighted today in Seoul, at the G20 summit, as the People's Choice Award winners.
One winner is the Peace Dividend Trust, a unique team of former aid workers, entrepreneurs, and diplomats who help spur public-private partnerships, local business training, alternative financing, and on-the-ground investment in stricken countries like Afghanistan and Haiti.
“Their approaches propose achievable, yet groundbreaking ways to get more finance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by sparking policy and regulatory changes,...
- 11/12/2010
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
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