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Dr. Katherine Loflin joined WTIP's Ann Possis recently to talk about her work in "placemaking". She advises elected officials, planners, businesspe...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 16:11
Digital health solutions are on the rise. Now X PRIZE Foundation is challenging innovators to create a wireless device that monitors and diagnoses ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 58:27
A fun video game teaches college-level computer programming skills to 10-year-olds.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:25
In a recent visit to Cologne, Germany, producer Dred-Scott Keyes spoke with three Afro-German men: Joe Otoyo, Denis Nunekpeku and Ermias Bilai abou...
- Added: Apr 13, 2013
- Length: 59:57
Invisible Americans: Stories from the New Immigrants explores the lives of immigrants through the eyes of children. “One of the values of seeing t...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Carl Lennertz, executive director of World Book Night U.S., spoke with WTIP's Buck Benson Mar. 29 about World Book Night, held April 23 each year. ...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
Co-Host Peter Kreten airs a panel discussion with Professor Cyndi Kamp of Saint Xavier University, Professor Jehanzeb Niaz nephew of Ghaffer Khan, ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 28:17
Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 47:43
What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:40
Series host Martha Burk interviews Betsy West, Executive Producer of the PBS Special MAKERS:Women Who Make America, premiering on PBS February 26, ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 28:29
The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 04:40
Recently a colleague of mine, Dr. Marc Brackett, has been named as the leader of the new Center of Emotional Intelligence which will begin operatio...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 55:09
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:25
Engaging, inspiring and informational clips from episodes featured on Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resoluti...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 28:47
Engaging, inspiring and informational clips from episodes featured on Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resoluti...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
"Whoa, the car won't start," our gentle car owner says to himself as he turns the key in the ignition only to hear a soft whimper, whimper, whimper...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:34
The nonprofit sector is too often pigeonholed into categories of service delivery and volunteerism.
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 17:29
Steve Downing reflects on the highly positive nature of the existence and effects of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
When people say things like the quote published in the newspaper the other day, they don't seem to realize what's at stake. So, this Citizen's Guid...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 03:12
Nonprofits are called on to influence systems and policies that affect the causes of problems.
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 18:29
Nonprofits can play a larger role in closing participation gaps and increasing voting among traditionally underrepresented communities.
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 25:47
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 12:46
A tip of the hat to a would-be social worker.
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 10:17
