Building Blocks

Hi Everyone! After finishing my 3000 mile x-country trip all the way back to Savannah and spending the holidays with the folks, I have returned to Atlanta, home of CNN, the CDC, and Coca-Cola and my alma mater, Emory.

I've been enjoying catching up with Justin Ortiz, current EIS officer at the CDC in the influenza branch and a former resident with me at UCSF. But, to backtrack a little, several interesting things happened to me before I left San Francisco that I was hoping to chat about. First, . . .

Via Craigslist, I had a chance encounter with an interesting person who happened to buy some of my furniture. Her name is Jennifer Anastasoff and she is the CEO of Building Blocks International.

Below is the introduction from their web page. Check it out. I personally really like the merging of traditionally different work cultures and the bringing of some of the business/management skills of the for profit sector into the NGO/non-profit world.

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Building Blocks International: Building Global Leaders through Public Service

BBI is an international nonprofit that is working with corporations to develop what Business Week calls a corporate "Peace Corps" and what we call corporate service fellowships. During a corporate service fellowship, employees spend four weeks to a year (full-time) applying their management skills within community-based organizations around the world.