{"id":4397,"date":"2010-03-16T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2010-09-03T18:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T22:17:26","slug":"bead-for-life-in-harlem-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=4397","title":{"rendered":"Bead for life in Harlem anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?s=harlemguy\" target=\"_blank\">HarlemGuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I rode the subway to work this morning reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/14\/opinion\/14kristof.html?sudsredirect=true\" target=\"_blank\">Times<\/a> on my iPhone, I came across an article about\u00a0an organization called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadforlife.org\/1about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beadforlife<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 It helps poor Ugandan women leverage their beading skills to rise out of poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The history behind the organization is fascinating.\u00a0 But what really got my attention was\u00a0the organization&#8217;s\u00a0innovative pairing of two traditions to create something truly transformational:\u00a0 African beads and the American Tupperware party.\u00a0 They call it a &#8220;bead party&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadforlife.org\/5host.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more about them &#8211; and how to throw one).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That got me thinking.\u00a0 Has anyone in Harlem ever heard of this organization?\u00a0 Hosted a beadparty?\u00a0 Or be interested in hosting one?\u00a0\u00a0 What impact has such a party had on residents of Harlem and their families wherever they may live?\u00a0\u00a0 What can we learn about\u00a0being equally innovative in exploring sustainable ways to continually meet the persistent needs of our community more directly??<\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear from you on any of the above, and to be part of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for reading HarlemCondoLife.\u00a0 Available everywhere including <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlemcondolife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>www.HarlemCondoLife.com<\/em><\/a><em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Harlemcondolife\" target=\"_blank\">email subscription<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Harlemcondolife\" target=\"_blank\">rss reader<\/a>, <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HarlemCondoLife\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HarlemCondoLife\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=300984075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.podbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Podbean<\/a> (podcast downloads and streaming).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what really got my attention was the organizaiton&#8217;s innovative pairing of two traditions to create something truly transformational:  African beads and the American Tupperware party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[1280245,17834,37970920,208620,4510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}