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Value(s) for Money? Philanthropy as a Catalyst for Social Change (March 6-9, 2014)
Increasing social and environmental challenges, writ globally, are raising the stakes for philanthropy to find "solutions". The deeply complex nature of these challenges, however, defies easy fixes and requires more sophisticated and diffuse systems level approaches. Is the philanthropic sector ready, or capable of meeting critical systemic challenges? Probably not, as seen through the lens of Michael Edwards in a recent think piece entitled 'Beauty and the Beast: Can Money Ever Foster Social Transformation?'.
Innovative funding mechanisms that support social change - like crowd-funding, social impact bonds, payments for eco-system services and prize-backed challenges - have diversified the funding landscape and brought in new resources. The system, however, is arguably out of balance with too much focus placed on revenue-generation, and directing financial resources, through the market. At the same time, less funding is available for the deeper, less tangible drivers of social change - change that is driven by the beneficiaries themselves and is inherently more democratic. Money, while a seemingly essential tool in change processes, can be a "curse", reinforcing or exacerbating the very circumstances and power imbalances at the heart of systemic social challenges.
The objective of this program, in partnership with Hivos, is to shape a new narrative on funding for deep social change that can influence current and future funding trends and global policies.
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For a photo walk along the Rhône banks, Lyon, France, I took again my Praktica IV camera but equipped this time with a Helios-44M lens :2 f=58mm, the normal lens of my Zenit 122 camera.
With the Helios-44M-6 lens, the diaphragm is stopped down automatically to the selected aperture value by pressing the shutter release but there is no auto/manual selection possible from the lens. For all the views the lens was equipped with a yellow screw-on 52mm filter assuming a coefficient of x2. The lens was also equipped with generic modern cylindric shade hood.
The Praktica camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Ilford HP5+ and exposed for 200 ISO instead of 400 to compensate the yellow filter absorption. Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The weather was relatively cloudy (13h30-16h30) giving typical exposures of 1/100s at f/8.
February 6, 2024
69002 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (= Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 6min.
The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printing framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
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About the camera :
I got the camera body Praktica IV and a set of related KDH Leipzig accessories from an eBay seller near Paris, France.. The whole arrived to me on January, 31, 2024, in Lyon, France.
The Praktica IV was designed by the prestigious KW (Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz) German company in Dresden on the basis of their previous Praktica FX SLR camera's. The camera was produced first under the KW name starting from June 1959 then within the Kombinat VEB Pentacon after the merge of the company in 1960.
166.800 Praktica IV and V (6 models) were produced until January 1966. Praktica IV essentially incorporates a condenser focusing screen plus a pentaprism. Due to the Praktica FX architecture the Pentaprism looks protruding from the camera body with an unusual style. It fits lenses with M42x1 mount and the mirror has no automatic return. The shutter is made of two horizontal curtains of rubberized fabric giving 1/500s to 1/2s plus B in two registers of slow speeds (1/2s to 1/10s) and high speeds (1/25s to 1/500s). The film is advanced coupled to the shutter cocking using either the right upper button or the rapid lever underneath the body.
The Praktica IV handles the "Auto" M42 lenses with the lever for automatic iris closing upon the release. Sequentially, when pressing the shutter release button, the diaphragm closes to the indicated value, the mirror is lift-off and finally the shutter is erased at the given value. If a non-auto (manual closing) M42 is used the pushing lever could be cancelled (declutched) moving a small red button to the right in the mirror chamber.
The camera camera came without lens but with a body cap and the original ever-ready leather bag with et "Ernermann tower" Pentacon logo. This model is likely the second Praktica IV essentially the same as the initial KW one with a different front plate. The camera was likely art of a collection and is completely preserved without use marks.
The KDH Leipzig (Kurt-Dieter Huffziger Foto- und Kinozubehör) accessories set included:
-A panoramic tripod head
-A set of three extension tubes M42x1)
- A big aluminum shade hood (screw-on 49mm) for wide-angle lens.
- A M42x1 metal body cap in its original box.
- An accessory shoe fitting the the Praktica IV eye piece.
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About the lens :
The normal lens fitted on the camera using the M42 mount is the multi-coated version 6 of the Helios 44M manufactured at Юпитер, (Оптико-механический завод «Юпитер» , "Jupiter") Valday, Novgorod region. Helios-44 lens directly derived from the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar lens 1:2 f=58mm.
It came with my Zenit-122 that was produced in 1994 by the Russian company KMZ (Красногорский механический завод, Krasnogorskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod) located in the Moscow region. Zenit-122 were also manufactured by BelOMO factory. From 1990 to 2005, about 2 millions of Zenit-122 were overall produced. The camera is built on the tough previous Zenit chassis and uses the same curtain Leica-type shutter with no slow speeds. The body is cased with ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styren) thermoplastic. Zenit-122 is equipped with a two CdS cells for light metering (25-400 ISO) using a LED indicator in the viewfinder.
Tiansiang Youth Activity Center (Hostel) offers a great meal for $180 NT -- the city of Tiansiang is so tiny that the hostel's meals are considered the best in town in terms of value. Our hotel, the Grand Formosa Taroko, serves overpriced meals which were really mediocre.
I took this photo because I thought the heavy contrast between the green and white gave a different constant value to each half of the photo.
1) The element investigated in this photograph is value. Value is reflected in this photo by the different colours of blue. The water creates various types of blue from light to dark by having the sky contrast it.
2) The subject of this photo would be the water. I approached this subject during my vacation in Cuba.
3) The soft waves that were captured in my photograph.
4) If I had to retake this photo, I would have taken the picture differently by focus on the sand and having the water blurred as my background.
University of Michigan-Flint's professional skills camp.
September 22-24, 2011
At the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio, Midland, MI
Value Land was a sort of pound shop - even it could not survive.
Please do read my album notes.
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1. Value is seen in this picture. It is seen in the sunset.
2. The subject of this picture is a beautiful sunset in Boca Raton, Florida.
3. I believe the best aspect is the way the trees look as though they are apart of the sunset.
4. I could have taken this picture a little bit more zoomed in so it would focus more on the sunset and the roof would not be in the picture.
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The NHS Values Summit brings together a diverse range of people and perspectives to create a greater understanding of how people’s differences, social status and cultural expectations can affect their experiences of health and care.
It challenges and inspires people to think about the role of ethical leadership in improving the health and wellbeing of local communities, staff and patients and how the NHS can increase the social value of its activities.
Welcoming representatives from health and social care, alongside more than 20 partners from the voluntary and community sector, this event (in Leeds, Yorkshire) was a template for future NHS Values Summits, which will be held twice a year in different locations across the country. Each event will explore a different theme relating to equality, health inequalities and human rights. The next gathering will take place in May 2013.
"Let the Sunrest under the Portico" at the America's Best Value Presidents Inn in Gilroy, California. The Inn has been and continues to be a proud recipient of "AAA Two Diamonds."
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University of Michigan-Flint's professional skills camp.
September 22-24, 2011
At the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio, Midland, MI
Dr. Duchesne has been instrumental in mainstreaming the bioproducts industry, particularly in rural and First Nation communities. Here he is standing in front of several tanks of bio-oil.
University of Michigan-Flint's professional skills camp.
September 22-24, 2011
At the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio, Midland, MI
International fashion icon and social entrepreneur BiBi Russell presented "Doing Good in Style" at Intersections on April 4, 2011. Featured in Asiaweek as one of the 20 people to watch in the millennium, Bibi Russell shared her journey from global super-model to a world leader in the fashion industry, and creating the concept of “Fashion for Development.”Bibi Productions, her company, specializes in the design and production of handmade clothing and accessories produced entirely from natural products by the artisan community of Bangladesh. She is a leader who chooses to make decisions based on value systems that promote justice, reconciliation, peace and human dignity.