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About the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation By convening individuals around issues, innovations and ideas that will shape the quality of life for families in Atlanta and beyond, the Blank Family Foundation aspires to spur civic action and citizen involvement for positive change in people’s lives. November 26, 2007:
Mr. Kristof writes op-ed columns that appear twice each week in The New York Times. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he previously was associate managing editor of The Times, responsible for the Sunday Times. Since 2004, Mr. Kristof has written dozens of columns about Darfur, winning his second Pulitzer Prize in 2006, for what the judges called "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world." His columns have often focused on global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world. He has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 120 countries. He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award. Connect with these organizations to do more:
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August 2, 2007:
In the first decade of the 21st Century, the future of American cities is attracting great debates. One notion is that to become a City of Aspiration, Atlanta and other urban areas must focus on providing the greatest number of opportunities to the broadest spectrum of residents. Kotkin believes that a city and region's ability to create jobs, offer affordable housing and generate entrepreneurial openings to a growing and highly diverse population are the surest signs of urban vibrancy. The City of Aspiration embraces the fundamental principle that one of the primary, historic roles of cities has been to nurture and grow a middle class - to be an engine of upward mobility. About Joel Kotkin
Joel has completed studies on the future of several major cities, including New York, St. Louis, Houston, Phoenix, Laval (Quebec’s second largest city) and Los Angeles. Mr. Kotkin is the author of the best-selling books, The City: A Global History and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape and regularly writes for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His work is available at www.joelkotkin.com. Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has lived in California since 1971. Married to Mandy Shamis, Joel has two daughters and lives in Los Angeles. For more information:
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An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, futurist Joel Kotkin is an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Presidential Fellow at the Hobbs Institute at Chapman University in Southern California.
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