What makes nonprofits great? Listen to this excellent podcast of Ms Grant summarizing her and Leslie Crutchfield’s new book, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits. They also offer a course at Stanford University: Stanford Continuing Studies Course: BUS 92. Thanks to Bob Rehner for the referral.
Excellent program on the impact of a few dollars’ investment on quality of life, environment and economics in Bangladesh. Don’t miss it. See this preview.
Watch this January 10, 2008 video of A conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammed Yunus on Charlie Rose. Excellent discussion of principles and social business (or entrepreneurship). One of our opportunities is to contribute to the goals he discusses. His new book ($18 at www.bn.com) is Creating a World Without Poverty : Social Business …
Happy New Year and Peace on Earth!I want to take this opportunity and thank our donors. You are too many to all be listed individually but a few I will introduce to you all and explain the purposes that are attached to the donations. Thank you to our 200+ donors during the year 2007 who …
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest medical research funder, has just made public access to NIH-funded research mandatory. Congratulations to the U.S. Congress, Senate, and President for a forward-thinking move that will lead to accelerated health research and better health care for everyone, everywhere! From: Alliance for Taxpayer Accesswww.taxpayeraccess.org For immediate releaseDecember …
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For pictures see http://AIDSfreeAFRICA.blogspot.com From Cameroon’s Capital YaoundéI am writing this on a french computer with french keyboard – thus forgive me the typos…. Thursday the US Embassy called with my appointment for Friday morning. I finish my e-mails and run home from the Mezam Policlinic’s office to gather my things and to let everyone …
The good thing about waiting for others is that it gives me time to write this blog. Especially since it is Sunday morning, everyone is in Church and the internet is fast.The sad news is that we lost two children from the DILICIG School to Malaria yesterday. One child was rushed to the hospital with …
OK, here is the short run down: Cameroon was singled out with praise by the latest UN report for having implemented behavior changes regarding HIV/AIDS. The sad news is Cameroon has lost US$8 Million in new Global Fund money. The Fund complained that monies from previous years have not been spend and are sitting in …
Hello everyone,this will be my first trip to Africa with the capacity to blog – to be in communication with you!Please read it and respond. I look forward to hearing from everyone.I made it into Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon “African Style” I slept the first night at the airports police departments metal bench. And …
The World Health Organization has launched TRopIKA Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation & Knowledge Application. Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News.