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Aug 1

Open Letter to President Biden: It’s regulators, not workers, who should clean up AMPTP’s mess

Mr. President, Recently, representatives at several of the companies belonging to the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers (AMPTP) told the press that they will hold out on a deal with writers and actors until they start “losing their apartments.” This escalation of bad-faith negotiations in the entertainment labor dispute…

Strike

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Open Letter to President Biden: It’s regulators, not workers, who should clean up AMPTP’s mess
Open Letter to President Biden: It’s regulators, not workers, who should clean up AMPTP’s mess
Strike

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Feb 15

Committed Leadership with Michael Baptiste

Sometimes it’s possible to get a lifetime’s worth of education in just 30 minutes. Such was the case in our latest Inclusive Leadership Session with Michael Baptiste on Committed Leadership. Michael is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Metro Atlanta Chamber and he is responsible for…

Inclusive Leadership

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Committed Leadership with Michael Baptiste
Committed Leadership with Michael Baptiste
Inclusive Leadership

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Jan 11

Why Job Role Clarity Should be the Foundation of Your Innovation Work

The #1 thing you can do for employee engagement and company innovation is simpler than you think. This past year at Film Forward we worked with over 30 enterprise clients to deliver our workplace capacity building program called Behaviors of Belonging which develops individuals, teams, and organizations to build more…

Workplace

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Why Job Role Clarity Should be the Foundation of Your Innovation Work
Why Job Role Clarity Should be the Foundation of Your Innovation Work
Workplace

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Dec 1, 2022

10 Years of Building, a Thank You

Bear with me, I am emotional today. 11:59am on December 1, 2012. My tiny Brooklyn apartment was filled with filmmakers who were taking a risk on a brand new crowdfunding platform called Seed&Spark. Their crowdfunding campaigns were about to become the “founding campaigns” on our brand new website, which was…

Startup Lessons

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10 Years of Building, a Thank You
10 Years of Building, a Thank You
Startup Lessons

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Apr 28, 2022

No More Burning the Midnight Oil

On May 2, 2022, Seed&Spark will transition to a 4-day work week. We’re joining a cohort of US-based companies that includes other community-based platforms like Kickstarter and OwnTrail who are all piloting this work schedule at the same time in association with 4 Day Week Global. This impacts our service-level…

Work Life Balance

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No More Burning the Midnight Oil
No More Burning the Midnight Oil
Work Life Balance

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Seed&Spark: Sparking Conversation

·Feb 8, 2022

BIG NEWS for the creators

Let’s cut to the chase: the last couple years have been brutal and we need as much good news as we can get. So that’s what we’re here to do, and you, Seed&Spark’s community of creators, made this good news happen. You all have shown profound resilience, creativity and courage…

Crowdfunding

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BIG NEWS for the creators
BIG NEWS for the creators
Crowdfunding

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Seed&Spark: Sparking Conversation

·May 13, 2021

Let discomfort be your guide.

White leaders: we are not supposed to feel comfortable as we pursue equity work in our organizations. To do this work is to dismantle some of the very structures that led us to be where we are. Over the last several months we’ve seen stories break of companies — nearly…

Workplace

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Let discomfort be your guide.
Let discomfort be your guide.
Workplace

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Seed&Spark: Sparking Conversation

·Mar 29, 2021

Entertainment doesn’t have an answer for this.

I no longer believe the entertainment business has solutions for the problem we at Seed&Spark have long been interested in solving — helping films to shift culture. If you want them to shift culture, they can’t just shift perception, they have to shift behavior. …

Film

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Entertainment doesn’t have an answer for this.
Entertainment doesn’t have an answer for this.
Film

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Seed&Spark: Sparking Conversation

·Apr 2, 2020

The End of Mentorship

Refrain: What was “right” before probably doesn’t make sense anymore. As we face down humanity’s biggest crisis in our lifetime(s), whose long-term implications we’re only just starting to understand — I’ve come to a destabilizing realization: There are no experts on how to lead right now. Building Seed&Spark for the…

Strategy

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The End of Mentorship
The End of Mentorship
Strategy

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Seed&Spark: Sparking Conversation

·Mar 12, 2020

We must move forward — safely

It has become very clear that the best path forward for all of us is to actively participate in mitigation of a global pandemic. The best plan for mitigation is social distancing. In the face of so much uncertainty about how distancing will affect our health and the health of…

Filmmaking

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We must move forward — safely
We must move forward — safely
Filmmaking

4 min read

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Emily Best

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Founder&CEO @seedandspark. Mom. Persistent AF. Co-Creator of @FckYesSeries

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