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Article: WINNER OF THE MARGARET MEAD 2001 AWARDS.
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- Whole Earth
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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AIO'S AMBASSADORS PROGRAM
If Margaret Mead were alive today, the Ambassadors Program of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) would be a favorite of hers. AIO's staff has remained small (six to seven). Rather than consolidate and fatten itself, AIO has chosen to spawn "children." It has nurtured individuals--especially in its Ambassadors Program--and fledgling organizations, and sent them out into their own communities to navigate among the pressures and pleasures of modern Native American life. "Our principal talent," says Laura Harris, executive vice president, "is the ability to identify needs in the community, bring in experts to talk with that community, ...