Author Archives: Lisa Meyers

Article From Fast Company

I wonder if they’ve had the pleasure of working with a large nonprofit to help link "cool" technologies with a cause! Hmmmmm, opportunity?!? 🙂 The Brand Experience Lab links cool technologies with cool companies. Sporting Puma sneakers and a downtown hipster haircut or two, a team from the design firm Imagination USA shuffles into a fourth-floor loft in New York’s ...

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Team ACS hits $100,000 Mark!

The Futuring and Innovation Center’s third-funded project, Team ACS, has reached yet another milestone  — hitting the $100,000 mark! Additionally, since its launch Team ACS has received more than 795,000 hits to the Team ACS Web site, housed on cancer.org. Designed for the philanthropic athlete, Team ACS is an online fundraising tool that empowers participants of a wide variety of ...

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Track Me While I Run The NYC Marathon

Below is a link to the NYC Marathon Athlete Alert Tracking System. If you plug in my info (race number: 44559 and DOB: 2-22-73), the system is supposed to immediately email you with an update on where I am along the race route based on my running chip (with options to get it in increments of a 6 miles, 20 ...

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Turn Your Marathon Into a "Marrow-thon"

The concept of the “Marrow-thon” is simple – get accepted into an official marathon (26.2 miles) anytime in 2004 and raise money for cancer research, education, advocacy and service through the American Cancer Society’s Team ACS. Conceptually created by ACS volunteer Stu Glen, the 2004 Marrow-thon goal is to recruit 100 team members to raise at least $250,000. Click below ...

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