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Pat Heffernan

Pat Heffernan — marketing strategist, writer, and founder of Marketing Partners in Burlington, Vermont — writes about strategy, words, and communication to create change.

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How AI Can Transform Human Work: Inspiring Real-World Examples

At MPI, we love tracking emerging ideas that might positively shape how changemakers work and live. A recent Inc. article caught our attention for...

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Global Flourishing Study: A Collaborative Inquiry into Human Well-Being

I was thrilled to watch the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) announcement video earlier today, April 30, 2025. This collaborative, multi-year effort...

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Support Caregivers, Help People You Know — and the Economy Too?

I am comfortable stating that we all know someone who is either a caregiver or who needs regular care — and I don't like to use the word "all"...

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Americans are Turning Off the News

If you find yourself skimming the morning news and skipping the evening news, you're not alone. Columbia Journalism Review reports that there is a...

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Slowly Ever So Slowly More Female CEOs

Over the past 20 years, the number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has increased by nearly 14-fold. Sounds good until you realize in 2021...

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Ageism, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship

The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are... Does age predict entrepreneurial success? Yes, say many Americans, and they would be right. But they would...

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Is Your Trust in the CDC Eroding?

Despite missteps amid a charged political season, I believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remains a public health institution...

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Public Health-Food System-Public Interest Communication Challenge

The most compelling and convincing of the many pieces I've seen during National Public Health Week 2019 are an article and a video in The New York...

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