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Building an Alaska Native Kelp Economy with Native Conservancy

The Native-led kelp movement in Alaska is taking off and is integral to JumpScale's efforts in Alaska to support the wellbeing of Alaska Native entrepreneurs. Along with NDN Collective and Tamalpais Trust, we recently returned from Cordova, Alaska, where we went on a deep dive into the work of Dune Lankard and the Native Conservancy team to restore Native sovereignty, repair the ecosystem, and build a Native-led regional kelp economy.

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Welcome to an Alaska Native Resilience Journey

Over a dozen collaborators and movement-makers joined JumpScale and Native CDFI Spruce Root in Southeast Alaska on a remarkable learning journey to support Resilience Circles, a wellbeing-centered accelerator for Alaska Native business owners. We learned in community with Alaska Native leaders in hospitality, regenerative forestry, plant medicine, weaving, carving, and more.

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How Laughter & Joy Transforms the Workplace

According to A.J. Jacobs (Drop Dead Healthy), it is! “Humorous thinking has parallels to the way we should be thinking in business. It has a lot to do with creativity: taking disparate ideas and mashing them together,” he says in The Business Case for Humor from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The JumpScale team agrees wholeheartedly with this perspective, and to illuminate how humor and joy can transform your workplace, we collected some tips, tricks, and insights from our team..

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Learn From Ukrainian Leaders Running a Humanitarian Lifeline

This dynamic Q&A features Anastasia Dieieva, Executive Director of award-winning Ukrainian NGO - CO 100% LIFE - along with CO 100% Life founder Dmytro Sherembei, Jessica Bleyzer of DAAR Charitable Foundation, and Kyiv-based impact investor Igor Konstantinovsky. Hear first-hand accounts from the first days of the invasion and the critical humanitarian efforts now underway.

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3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Start The Year Well

It’s a new year, and leaders of businesses large and small are doing the critical work of setting themselves, employees, and organizations up for success in the months ahead. I’ve been through this January planning phase many times in my entrepreneurial journey and wanted to share a few insights that our JumpScale community and I have identified over the years.

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