Dell'Arte International - Deborah Mendelsohn and Marsh Agobert are helping this Northern California school and performing company update and expand their marketing. Dell'Arte's Professional Training Program and MFA program have turned out a full third of the clowns working today in Cirque du Soleil. But they are much, much more than a clown school. Heirs to the "physical comedy" lineage of the French master Jacques LeCoq, Dell'Arte creates unique original theater pieces that tour the US and the world. Stressing "a theater of place," they collaborate with local Indian tribes, isolated rural communities and other neighbors in their productions. DR Group's Kay Elewski is Dell'Arte's School's Admissions Director.

Deborah Mendelsohn spent a week last summer as a fellow at the Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont. Nominated by the Merck Family Fund because of her leadership on the Board of Directors of the Mainstream Media Project, Deborah joined with some 20 others from around the US and Mexico for a week-long "Whole Thinking Retreat."

A project set in Iraq that Kay Elewski and Deborah Mendelsohn created with Link-TV and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting was green-lighted by the United Nations earlier this year, but has not gone forward due to deteriorating conditions on the ground.