Philanthropy - Oprah Winfrey

Inside Philanthropy - Oprah Winfrey
 Net worth: $3 billion
 Main Source: Oprah Winfrey Show/Harpo Productions/Winfrey Network
Love to Know - Charities of Oprah Winfrey
 Main Charities:
 - The Angel Network
    - supports and pulicizes on her talk show hoping to get audience "to be more involved in giving             and volunteering"
    - collects millions of $'s in donation then gives grants to organizations focusing on her initiatives               (education, developing leaders, protecting human rights, making support communities)
    - started in 1997/98
    - pays all overhead and operating costs herself & 100% of donation goes to funding a project
 - The Oprah Winfrey Foundation
    - runs it exclusively
    - provides grants (funded by her personally) to non-profit organizations
    - no donations or grant applications; she chooses charities
 - The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation
    - exclusively for Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa
      - began in 2007
Other Charities:
 - O Ambassadors
    - school-based program which encourages kids "to give and act on behalf of their peers in                     underdeveloped countries"
 - The US Dream Academy
    - after school program that works with children who have a parent in jail
    - aims to "break the cycle of incarceration"
    - Oprah is one of the biggest supporters
Bio. - Oprah Winfrey Biography
 - single mother in Mississippi
 - sexually abused by several male relatives and friends of her mother when she was young
 - launched  The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986
 - Harpo Productions (Oprah backwards)
 - Oprah's Book Club --> put many unknown authors on top of bestseller lists & renewed popularity       of pleasure reading
 - co-founded Oxygen Media --> dedicated to "producing cable internet programming for women"
 - Angel Network has raised more than %52 million for charitable programs
 - proposed a bill to Congress, which was passed in 1994, making a nationwide database of convicted    child abusers
CNN - Oprah Wifrey Fast Facts
 - President Clinton signed "Oprah Bill"
 - "Oprah's Book Club" = influential in the publishing world
 - "Oprah Winfrey Show" was originally called "AM Chicago"
 - Won the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002
 - Opened school for girls in 2007 ($40 million to open)
    - houses 152 girls from bad backgrounds and gives them education
 - OWN was originally "Discovery Health Channel"
 - was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2010 at 33rd annual Kennedy Center Honors gala
 - received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2001
 - Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2013

Industry Book Cover

This book cover displays the relationship between innovation and the growth of American industry.

Learning About Issues and Innovations

     In order to keep up with the growing trend of not only the quality of the products, but also how they are produced, major companies such as Nike and Apple are constantly working to improve the production of their products. One major factor that the companies are paying attention to is the environment. They are looking closer to how the making of their products are affecting the environment. For example, on the Nike website there is a whole page dedicated to informing the public about how they halved their energy usage, reduced their water usage, and using leftover materials and wastes to make products.

Supply Chain Management Definition

Supply Chain Management (SCM):

 - "the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to      manufacturer to retailer to consumer."

Smoke Signals

     For modern-day Native Americans, aspects of their culture such as storytelling, ancestral bonds, and being connected or returned to nature can help them find power and meaning. On the other hand, being stuck on the reservation, money troubles, alcoholism and obesity, and the need to act like the stereotypical Indian can be problems that keep them from excelling. In the film Smoke Signals, directed by Chris Eyre, both the good and bad sides of present-day Indian life and culture can be observed. The movie follows the story of two Native American boys as they come to terms with who they are and what it means to be Indians.

      At the beginning of the movie, the audience sees Arnold's alcoholism and his families money problems. On several occasion, when Victor has a flashback to his childhood interactions with his father, Arnold can be seen drunk and angry. The audience sees Arnold slapping or hitting his son or wife in two of Victor's flashbacks. Later in the movie, when Victor has made the decision to go get some of his father's belongings, he runs into a problem: he doesn't have the money. Only when Thomas offer him some of the money he has saved, can Victor go get Arnold's things without having to walk the long distance.

     One of the main characters, Victor, can be seen throughout the movie struggling to figure out what it means to be a Native American today in the United States. With an alcoholic father who left him and his mother when he was young, his only role model on being an Indian man is American stereotypes from movies, TV, and books. In one scene of the movie, the audience sees Victor get onto Thomas for "smiling too much" and wearing a suit. He tells Thomas that "Indians are supposed to be stoic and brave-faced" like no one can mess with them. He is later corrected by Thomas who tells him that they were actually descended from a tribe of fishermen, not great warriors. Victor sees himself as the American stereotype of a brave-faced warrior that can't be messed with. This is because his only role model left him as a kid and the only thing telling him how he was "supposed" to act was American entertainment.
   
     The other main character in the film, Thomas, can be seen seeming to already accept and understand what being a Native American man is in the modern United States. In several scenes of the movie, he is telling  stories, either to fill the silence or, one time, as payment for a ride. A big part of the Native American culture was - and still is - storytelling. The point of Indian storytelling, however, wasn't always just to inform the listeners of what had already taken place. Sometimes the story was told for purely entertaining purposes or even to teach a lesson about life. Thomas tells stories to several characters in the movie for several reasons: to trade for a ride to the bus station, to make someone laugh, or even to teach someone a lesson.

     Another big part of the Native America culture is being connected or returned back to nature. When the two arrive back home, Victor gives Thomas some of Arnold's ashes with which he could do what he wanted. In one of the final scenes of the movie, Victor takes the remainder of his father's ashes and throws them in a river, returning him back to nature. With the release of Arnold's ashes, the release of Victor's internal struggles can be seen. The audience can see Victor come to terms with who his is and what that means for him.

     This film is great, not only for seeing the daily life of some of the modern-day Native Americans, but also seeing the internal struggles they have with figuring out who they are and what it means to be an Indian today in the United States.

The Sioux Chef

   Chef Sean Sherman has made it his goal to recreate foods made by the Native Americans. He has spent much of his time researching and trying to recreate the foods almost exactly as they were made by the Native Americans. But because the recipes were passed down verbally - and a lot of them forgotten - all he has to work with was his research on indigenous foods that they used. He works mostly on trial and error, trying to make the foods exactly as they did.

   Not only does he use the same ingredients, but he also obtains and prepares them in a similar fashion. He sun dries food on spits, wakes up early or stays up late to collect and gather the berries and herbs for his dishes, grows his own fruits and vegetables, and even goes as far as burning juniper branches to ash to use as seasoning!





NY Times -The Movement to Define Native American Cuisine
The Sioux Chef - An Indigenous Kitchen

Historic Newspaper: Albany, OR

Albany, Oregon 1871

   In a typical Western newspaper from around the year 1871, one could read about the happenings going on in their town or city. Some such "local affairs" are the health statuses of people in the community, events that have taken place in the community or the lives of certain citizens, new products coming out in certain stores, things happening in nearby communities, etc. Anything mildly interesting happening in the community was recorded in the newspaper so that everyone could know.



   Another thing that can be found in the typical newspaper is ads. Ads for doctors, different medical drugs, new products, etc.

Medicine from late 1800's

"The Great Blood Purifier"