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Jim Nowak Shares Thoughts On Teaching Social Entrepreneurship Philosophies In High School

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Jim Nowak

  • Founder, Building Futures
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1951 (Age: 73 years old)
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Biography

Jim Nowak is recently retired from teaching at Fairport High School. He has spent the last three years rebuilding schools in Western Kenya. He recently began an organization called Building Futures that focuses on school construction in Africa.

Jim Nowak is a graduate of Cornell University.

I guess in my mind I did three of my own programs in the school. I want to say the third, fourth, fifth year I was at Fairport High School. There have been several years in a row that one or two kids have been killed in car accidents and almost usually it had to do with drinking and so some kids a...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 25 Jim Nowak States Pricing Is Always A Work In Progress
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 2 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses Summer Pool Business He Started At Age 15
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 3 of 25 Jim Nowak States Entrepreneurs Are Part Nature and Part Nurture
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 4 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses Challenge of Balancing Pool Business With Teaching
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 5 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses Advantages Of Having The Pool Business
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 6 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses Experience At Cornell and Decision To Go Into Teaching
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 7 of 25 Jim Nowak States Getting Outside Your Box Is a Critical Piece To Your Education
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 8 of 25 Jim Nowak States Importance of Always Learning
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 9 of 25 Jim Nowak States Teachers Can Be Entrepreneurial In Their Approach To Education
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 10 of 25 Jim Nowak Shares Beekeeping Anecdote
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 11 of 25 Jim Nowak Shares Thoughts On Teaching Social Entrepreneurship Philosophies In High School
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 12 of 25 Jim Nowak Draws Parallel Between Social Entrepreneurship and Teaching
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 13 of 25 Jim Nowak Shares Thoughts on Kenya
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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  • 2 min. 31 sec.
Video 14 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses His Project of Building Schools In Kenya
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
  • 12/21/2007
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  • 4 min. 53 sec.
Video 15 of 25 Jim Nowak States Disappointment That Well-off Americans Aren't More Generous To World's Poor
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
  • 12/21/2007
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  • 1 min. 36 sec.
Video 16 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses Challenge of Dealing With Money And Contractors In Developing Countries
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 17 of 25 Jim Nowak Outlines How People Can Support His Non-Profit Organization, Building Futures
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 18 of 25 Jim Nowak Shares Anecdote Of How A Small Donation Can End Up Supporting a Larger Project
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 19 of 25 Jim Nowak States It Isn't Only About What You Do But Who You Do It with
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Video 20 of 25 Jim Nowak States Non-Profits Need To Operate In the Black
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 21 of 25 Jim Nowak States Great Leaders Are Hard Workers and Good Listeners
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 22 of 25 Jim Nowak States You Only Learn If You Can Be a Leader By Leading
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 23 of 25 Jim Nowak States Failure Is Temporary
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 24 of 25 Jim Nowak Discusses His Personal Philosophy and Drive
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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Video 25 of 25 Jim Nowak States Importance of Developing Self-Sustaining Projects
  • Jim Nowak - Interview - Building Futures
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