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Welcome! Citizens Market is a nonprofit user-generated website for ethical consumption. This site is under construction. We appreciate your patience.
Our first grant! Echoing Green, an angel investor in social change, has announced that our Executive Director, Stephane de Messieres, will receive the 2009 Echoing Green Fellowship. Echoing Green will provide $60,000 over two years, plus technical assistance, consulting support, and other administrative benefits. Echoing Green received nearly 1,000 applications, with Citizens Market earning one of only fourteen spots. We are absolutely thrilled to receive this recognition and financial support!
Echoing Green prepared a video of the new fellows and taped Stephane as he pitched high-bounce balls at the judges during the final competition:
Oh, and don't forget to check out our new profile on the Echoing Green website!
A real office! Thanks to BzzAgent, a crowdsourced word-of-mouth marketing agency in Boston's South End, for selecting Citizens Market to receive free space in their office. We're thrilled to be sharing the space with other entrepreneurs and BzzAgent's web-savvy staff.
The ultimate internship. Now that we have office space, we're recruiting a Community Development Intern to join our team this summer. Please share the internship description with students who may be interested.
Check out our YouTube video! We're applying for funding from the Google Project 10^100. Help us out by clicking this link to rate our 30-second video!
We want your input as we re-design our website. Please take a few minutes to fill out our short survey. We welcome any other feedback.
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