by Gwasa
January 10, 2011 in United States Institute Of Peace by Gwasa
USIP: Former USIP president Samuel Lewis interviewed in Ha’aretz today on MidEast peace http://bit.ly/ezjlXw
Twitter / USIP
January 9, 2011 in US State Department by Rights Writer
StateDept: President Obama Op-Ed: “In #Sudan, an Election and a Beginning” http://go.usa.gov/rPb
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by hima
January 6, 2011 in Civil Society by hima
New York, NY (Vocus) June 15, 2010
Ventureneer.com and Adin Miller Consulting have partnered to provide easy access to insights and ideas from the Inaugural Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling June 17 and 18 in New York City.
The Social Impact Exchange is a national membership association focused on increasing investment and sharing knowledge on scaling high-impact nonprofit programs and initiatives.
To help the Exchange in its goal of building “a community that collectively advances the practice of scaling impact in the social sector,” Ventureneer has set up a dedicated web page where the thoughts, take-aways, recommendations, and analyses of influential commentators will be posted.
The Ventureneer site will include links to all blogs from the conference, providing a one-stop central resource for information about the conference and its subject matter.
Information and ideas about innovative methods for scaling effective social programs are the focus of the conference. A mix of philanthropists, foundation officers, wealth advisors, and social-sector leaders will join together to explore ways of financing and implementing the growth of high-impact nonprofits.
The conference will address key issues of how to fund and implement scaling initiatives, and will combine both knowledge-sharing sessions and opportunities for taking direct action. Conference themes include scaling in Youth and Education, Poverty Alleviation, Health, and Impact Investing.
“The most important aspect of the Conference is the active participation of attendees, both during and after the event,” said Alexander Rossides, president of Growth Philanthropy Network, one of the event’s co-producers along with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Duke University’s Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (CSPCS), and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE).
Sponsors include Bank of America, American Express, Public/Private Ventures, The Whelan Group, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, GEO, HSBC, Beyond the Bottom Line, and Louder than Words.
Conference participants can contribute to the Ventureneer site in three ways:
Tweet using #siex10.
Bloggers or those hosting content on their websites can send the site’s link to siex10(at)ventureneer(dot)com
Participants who can’t host their own content can send commentary to siex10(at)ventureneer(dot)com to be posted as Ventureneer guest blogs.
To follow news and commentary, on Twitter, use #siex10. For all conference highlights and an archive for both blog postings and tweets go to SIEX10 conference highligts. Coming soon: track blog posts via rss feed or link directly to SIEX10 central.
Miller had the initial idea for the centralized resource. “Blogging teams have worked effectively for past philanthropy conferences to share content with conference participants and those who cannot attend in person,” he said. It’s a wonderful way to extend the reach of the discussions and engage a wider audience.
“It was a no brainer when Adin Miller Consulting suggested we partner. I had been a coach for the competition and was planning to blog,” said Geri Stengel, founder of Ventureneer. “Our web developer, Nonprofit Solutions Network, had built the Ventureneer website to be flexible so that we could respond to these opportunities by uploading content and apps easily and quickly.”
The initial blogging team will include Adin C. Miller of Adin Miller Consulting, Geri Stengel of Ventureneer.com, and Deyan Vitanovm, CEO and President of Philanthropedia.
About Geri Stengel
Geri is founder of Ventureneer, an online education and peer support service. An adjunct professor at The New School, she honed her online experience at companies like Dow Jones and Physicians’ Online. Geri co-founded the Women’s Leadership Exchange and is president of Stengel Solutions, a consulting service for social-impact organizations.
About Ventureneer
Ventureneer.com provides nonprofit and small business advice as well as entrepreneurial and nonprofit training through a new approach to learning: a blend of traditional, formal instruction with informal, peer learning that takes advantage of Web 2.0 technology to capture and share knowledge. Ventureneer’s customized blogs, virtual classes, peer-to-peer learning, coaching, web events, and articles help entrepreneurs make faster, better decisions for their enterprises.
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by Diren Shah
January 6, 2011 in US State Department by Diren Shah
Press Statement
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I offer my deepest condolences to the people of Trinidad and Tobago on the passing of their first president and last governor general, Sir Ellis Clarke.
Sir Ellis was a towering figure on the Trinidad and Tobago landscape. He helped lead the country to independence. His passing will be felt not only in Trinidad and Tobago, but around the world. He was an Ambassador, a humble public servant and the consummate statesman. Sir Ellis embodied the values that we should all strive to uphold. Today my thoughts and prayers are with his son, Peter, his daughter, Margaret-Ann, and his entire family.
PRN: 2011/012
by Diren Shah
January 5, 2011 in News by Diren Shah
Nonprofit plans rollerthon, duathlon events for charity
A Sparta nonprofit plans to hit the ground running in 2011 by introducing the county’s first-ever duathlon and rollerthon this spring and fall. “People want something different, that’s why we went with wheels,” said race director and president of Main Street Events Andy Ball.
Read more on New Jersey Herald
New report lists TOD funding programs
On Tuesday, National nonprofit group Reconnecting America released a new report on programs that provide funding for transit oriented development (TOD) projects.
Read more on Metro Magazine
by Diren Shah
January 2, 2011 in US State Department by Diren Shah
StateDept: #SecClinton has arrived in Brasilia, #Brazil to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Dilma Rousseff. http://go.usa.gov/rjP
Twitter / StateDept
by Ritu
December 30, 2010 in The Asia Foundation by Ritu
An article in Reuters focuses on South Korea’s president Lee Myung-bak’s support for inter-Korea dialogue to tackle a possible nuclear crisis. However, many analysts are not as optimistic about six-party talks because of deep divisions and a lack of pressure on North Korea. Scott Snyder is quoted as saying, “There could be some sort of alternative process in 2011 but it is hard to say. There is a lot of pessimism about North Korea right now.” Read the full article: “South Korea’s Lee says talks the answer to nuclear crisis.”
by hima
December 25, 2010 in Human Rights by hima
Initiated by Krytyka Polityczna, an Open Society Foundations grantee, a number of prominent
public figures, including former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and sociologist
Zygmunt Bauman, have called for liberalizing Polish drug laws.
Open Society Institute: Justice
December 24, 2010 in McKnight Foundation by Rights Writer
McKnightFdn: #McKnight president thanks grantees for 2010 efforts, & forecasts 2011 grantmaking: http://bit.ly/i0L4X2
Twitter / McKnightFdn
by Diren Shah
December 24, 2010 in McKnight Foundation by Diren Shah
December 2010 – Open letter to McKnight’s grantees from foundation president Kate Wolford.
McKnight Foundation news
by Ritu
December 23, 2010 in Human Rights by Ritu
Today’s momentous victory would not have been possible without the help of veteran advocates from across the country. They told their stories, contacted lawmakers and traveled the country to keep up the heat on repeal.
Today, after the president signed into law the historic bill that begins the process of ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” two veteran advocates who spent the past year working with HRC stopped by our offices to record a special thank you message:
SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEO
by Gwasa
December 23, 2010 in Open Society Institute by Gwasa
Initiated by Krytyka Polityczna, an Open Society Foundations grantee, a number of prominent
public figures, including former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and sociologist
Zygmunt Bauman, have called for liberalizing Polish drug laws.
Open Society Institute: Europe
December 21, 2010 in Yahoo Answers by Rights Writer
Question by rare2findd: What is Bush talking about? War in Iraq “necessary for American security, Iraqi hope and world peace”??? ?
BAGHDAD – A man threw his shoes at President George W. Bush and was dragged away by security officials during the president’s farewell trip to Iraq.
The incident occurred as Bush was appearing Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Bush ducked and wasn’t hit by either shoe. Bush joked, saying that all he can report was that it was a size 10 shoe. then calmly took questions.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
BAGHDAD (AP) — His legacy forever linked to an unpopular war, President George W. Bush flew under intense security to Iraq on Sunday and called the nearly six-year conflict hard but necessary to protect the United States and give Iraqis hope.
Bush visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days before he hands the war off to President-elect Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. At the end of nearly two hours of meetings at an ornate, marble-floored Salam Palace along the shores of the Tigris River, Bush defended the 2003 invasion and occupation.
“The work hasn’t been easy, but it has been necessary for American security, Iraqi hope and world peace,” the president said. “I’m just so grateful I had the chance to come back to Iraq before my presidency ends.”
The president wanted to highlight a drop in violence in a nation still riven by ethnic strife and to celebrate a recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.
But in many ways, the unannounced trip was a victory lap without a clear victory. Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is intensely disliked across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the conflict, which has cost U.S. taxpayers $ 576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.
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ah mr. bush. was it a sincere wish for peace and patriotism, or a pernicious pathology?
The world is not a safer place. We are surrounded with enemies, as yet revealed. Saddam killed tens of thousands of his own…well excuse me, but thanks to bush, over a million innocent Iraqis – including so many children – are dead. In fact, Iraq is a graveyard. One does not have to flag themselves as a ‘liberal’ in order to think for ourselves. The deadly dramatics and theatre of a war gone wrong will take decades to repair, if at all. I will never look upon bush as a leader. I will see him, remember him, as a man who – in his so-called religious belief – actually told us that “God told me it was all right to invade Iraq”.
Well if “God” told him that, I’m perfectly free to disbelieve that there is a God after all.
Best answer:
Answer by grob
He is trying to re-frame his pathetic legacy.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
by Gwasa
December 7, 2010 in Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation by Gwasa
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program, issued the following statement to mark the launch of MenAfriVac—a new vaccine against Meningitis Group A—in Burkina Faso.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
December 4, 2010 in News by Rights Writer
Save the Children. Westport, CT, USA.
by Diren Shah
December 3, 2010 in DFID-UKAID by Diren Shah
Andrew Mitchell meets with the President of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud Silanyo during his first visit to the UK since his successful election.
DFID News Stories
by Ritu
December 3, 2010 in News by Ritu
Betsy Campbell is vice president for programs at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, providing leadership to the Fund’s program and grantmaking activities. She also works closely with the program, grants management, and communications staff to help further the overall RBF goals and activities across program areas.
Before assuming her current position at the Fund in June 2007, Ms. Campbell spent over twenty years working with donor and non-governmental …
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
by Diren Shah
December 3, 2010 in Rockefeller Brothers Foundation by Diren Shah
Geraldine F. Watson is vice president for finance and operations at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She was promoted to this position on October 1, 2006. This senior management position includes oversight of the finance, accounting, information technology, human resources, and operations functions. Ms. Watson joined the RBF in 1994 as comptroller, directing the financial reporting responsibilities for the RBF as well as the Rockefeller Family Fund …
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
by Ritu
December 3, 2010 in Human Rights by Ritu
As the war-crimes trial of former Congolese vice president Bemba opens in The Hague, the court
has a chance to demonstrate its ability to hold a high-profile, fair, and speedy trial and to
prove that it takes sex crimes very seriously.
Open Society Institute: Justice
by Gwasa
December 2, 2010 in Health & Education by Gwasa
Pollution is among the biggest health hazards in the developing world, says Richard Fuller, president of toxic cleanup experts the Blacksmith Institute, but there are ways to stop industry poisoning the poor.
Allianz Knowledge – Safety & Health
