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The Groop Helps Causecast Debuts at TechCrunch 50

October 20th, 2008

Causecast

The Groop, a Los Angeles based firm best known for their innovative approach to business strategy and user experience design, announced today the launch of Causecast.org. Causecast is a powerful online social medium that connects nonprofits, leaders, celebrities and brands to those who want to make a positive impact on the world. Causecast selected The Groop as their product development partner because of their ability to marry both business and creativity to help them execute.

The Groop collaborated closely with Causecast in developing business planning, product definition, financial modeling, brand strategy, visual identity, user experience and development. You can see the results of the collaboration at http://www.causecast.org

” The Groop has been instrumental in helping me build my business. The business and creative consulting that they provided makes being an entrepreneur easy” commented Causecast CEO Ryan Scott.

Groop CEO Jose Caballer said ”We are honored to be able to help an entrepreneur like Ryan Scott build his business. It is very rewarding for Barrett Reiff and myself to see the impact that marrying business and creativity has. Seeing Causecast at TechCrunch really makes me proud.”

Causecast is a powerful online social medium that connects nonprofits, leaders, celebrities and brands to those who want to make a positive impact on the world. The site educates and entertains using original content and – most importantly – inspires people to get involved with the issues they want to support, in the ways they want to support them. Only on Causecast do media, social networking and philanthropy all converge in an unexpected and unparalleled way. Causecast helps make it easy for you to give back and make doing good your own. Causecast is also the only outlet that provides real-time daily coverage of cause-related news from around the world.
People globally are beginning to want to make a difference in the world and to get involved, but they just do not know how. Causecast makes it easy. Change your world, and the world will change.

Artists, Flakey’s, Creatives, Get Your Sh*t Together Now!

October 20th, 2008

Are you a fine artist who is struggling to make it work? Or who wants to make it work even better?

As you know here at The Groop we are very involved in the art’s community. Part of that commitment is letting you know about event like Side Street Projects’ professional practices workshops for emerging visual artists:

Get Your GRANT Together
5 Saturdays, (9/20/08-10/18/08)
Location: Pasadena, CA

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Get Your WEB 2.0 Together
8 Saturdays (10/18/08-12/13/08)
Location: Pasadena, CA

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Get Your SH*T Together
8 Wednesdays + 1 Saturday (10/1/08-11/22/08)
Location: Downtown LA

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Over the past few years, Side Street’s workshops have really changed the lives of participants, sometimes in very profound and dramatic ways.

Check out their website for full details:

http://www.sidestreet.org

If you’re a visual artists, you should sign up. If you
know a visual artist who might benefit, please spread the word.
Thanks!

How Do You Track The Bad Economy With Art?

October 20th, 2008

Come find out at tonights opening at Bank.
In it’s most recent exhibition JOSHUA CALLAGHAN Very Concerned, Somewhat Concerned, Not at all Concerned Callaghan culls together found material to create abstract sculptures of graphs and charts mapping a variety of data. These linear geometric forms can easily be dismissed as homage to minimalist object making until the titles reveal their true identity. The sculptures are pictorial devices measuring human behavior, cultural garbage, political strife and so on. This exhibition is as much a collection of ideas about how our cultural defines itself through statistics as a collection of formal propositions.

Saturday, May 10th at 6 pm.

For more details and directions visit:
http://www.bank-art.com/

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