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		<title>The Bellows Foundation Sponsors a Solar Infrastructure Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consistent with its objective to support economic development using sustainable technologies, The Bellows Foundation is sponsoring a SOLAR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT in Santa Cruz County on land that abuts the Nogales International Airport.
Please pull up this PDF for details (it is a pictorial narrative&#8211;please give it a little time to load&#8212;thanks!
Final Perspective (8MB PDF)
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		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2009/12/21/the-bellows-foundation-sponsors-a-solar-infrastructure-development/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz County Approves Bellows Institute Workforce Courses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that in November 2009, the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County approved three workforce courses to be presented to County residents by The Bellows Institute.
The Bellows Institute, a division of The Bellows Foundation, is responding to an extraordinarily high unemployment rate in Santa Cruz County.  Further economic deterioriation in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2009/12/21/santa-cruz-county-approves-bellows-institute-workforce-courses/</link>
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		<title>STEM Practicums: A New Program of The Bellows Institute</title>
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The Bellows Institute is developing STEM Practicums, a new approach for re-centering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as a vital part of our next generation’s education. We seek funding to move from a pilot project status, which is meeting with success, to full operation. Our funding strategy is to bring together a number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2008/03/16/stem-practicums-a-new-program-of-the-bellows-institute/</link>
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		<title>Evolution of The Bellows Institute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(Fremont rock art of 900 AD found on canyon wall along Calf Creek, near Boulder, Utah)
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The ethos of the founders of The Bellows Institute (&#8220;Bellows&#8220;) is that the institutions of education of any society, in the best cases, are the inner compass of society; the repository of its ideals, its core beliefs that provide vital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2007/11/18/creating-the-bellows-institute/</link>
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		<title>The Bellows Institute&#8217;s Mobile Development Simulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bellows Institute has completed construction of its Mobile Development Simulator.


The Bellows Institute founders (left to right):  Dr. Orlando Blake, Ph.D.; Irma Federico, M.B.A.; Annette Brink, M.B.A.; Steve Boyle, M.A.,M.S.; Netzin Steklis, M.A.(seated); and Dr. Dieter Steklis, Ph.D.
As another example of research-guided, integrative, practicum-based learning, The Bellows Institute has just completed construction of its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2007/11/17/bellows-began-funding-initiatives-following-a-remarkable-student-presentation/</link>
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		<title>Bellows Incubator Services To Small Education and Civic Engagement Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of The Bellows Foundation mission is to be an incubator for education and civic engagement groups that are trying to move up to a higher level of activity.
The Bellows Foundation is developing this service for small organizations that wish to outsource one of more non-operational services such as certain aspects of administration, legal, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2007/02/24/bellows-providing-leverage-for-small-non-profits-organizations/</link>
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		<title>First Learning Center in the Borderland Region of Patagonia, Arizona</title>
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Patagonia, Arizona (population 900), at an elevation of 4,050 feet, lies in a narrow valley between the Santa Rita Mountains, which peak at 9,453 feet and and the Patagonia Mountains, which peak at 7,221 feet, at the intersection of Harshaw Creek and Sonoita Creek. Accordingly, the riparian habitat created by the confluence of these creeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2006/08/24/facilities-acquired-for-the-patagonia-field-center/</link>
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		<title>Prospective Second Learning Center in the Colorado Plateau-Four Corners Region of Boulder, Utah</title>
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The Bellows Foundation is providing initial funding for the research and development of a second Learning Center in the Colorado Plateau-Four Corners area of Boulder, Utah.
Boulder, Utah (population 225) is situated among some of the most awesome features of the natural world in North America, including nearby Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2006/08/23/field-center-base-for-four-corners-exploration/</link>
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		<title>Prospective Third Learning Center in the Inner Passage Region of Petersburg, Alaska</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bellows Foundation is providing initial funding to determine the feasibility of developing a Learning Center in Petersburg, Alaska. Due to weather constraints, this potential practicum center would only operate for summer terms and is an exception to other potential practicum centers Bellows is exploring, given that its location is outside the American Southwest.
Nonetheless, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2006/08/21/petersburg-alaska-considered-for-summer-term-location/</link>
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		<title>Hosting Students and Faculty of Hampshire College of Amherst, Massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of its development process, the Patagonia Learning Center hosted a ten-day visit in October 2005 by a group of twenty-three students, faculty, and one administrator from Hampshire College of Amherst, Massachusetts.
The Hampshire visit was an important experience for all parties and helped crystalize the ethos of The Bellows Institute. It was also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellowsfoundation.org/2006/08/21/patagonia-field-center-opened-november-10th-2005/</link>
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