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Grading How Obama Handled His Nobel Prize Winnings | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org Nathaniel Whittemore grades president Obama's Noble charitable giving. He's gets some A's and some F's. (tags: philanthropy) The Social Brain | The Greater Good Blog New research shows our heads are filled with "mirror neuron" that make us empathetic. Some...
What Drives Philanthropic Success?
Peter Frumkin is the author of Strategic Giving, an excellent book that I reviewed last year. Earlier this week, Peter wrote a post on the Philanthropy Central blog calling into question some of his own assumptions about what drivers are most important to successful philanthropy. Peter wrote: …I am increasingly troubled by...
VPP | Chairman's Corner: 'Social Outcomes': Missing the Forest for the Trees? After his essay last month in which he worried that many efforts to measure nonprofit results have gone far off course, Mario Marino of Venture Philanthropy Partners returns with an essay looking at the "whys" and "whats" to measure...
Does Logic Impair Philanthropic Effectiveness?
One of my favorite new (to me) blogs is the fantastically named Full Contact Philanthropy, authored by David Henderson, CEO of Idealistics Inc. and social enterprise consultant Dan Elitzer. In the wake my back and forth with Martin Brookes over the role of guilt in social investing, Dan left a...
The Social Sector’s Micro Problem – Full Contact Philanthropy David Henderson makes the case that the social sectors current interest in "micro" solutions is misplaced and won't lead to the big changes that we need. (tags: philanthropy) Tweet This Post...
Blog Reaction: Philanthropy and Guilt « High Impact Philanthropy The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has weighed in on my debate with Martin Brookes about the role of guilt in social investing. (tags: philanthropy) FT.com / Comment / Opinion – How banks can help the world’s poor The CFO...
SocialEarth
Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program
Singapore International Foundation has been around since 1991 carving out greater community understanding on the western seaboard, but this year marks the first time they’ve instituted a camp for young, aspiring social entrepreneurs. In partnership with Volans Asia, they’ve launched a three-day camp at the YWCA Fort Canning Lodge in...
Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon Shot
One of the greatest challenges of being a teacher is trying to convince your students why they should care about anything that you write on the blackboard. You have to bridge the gap between their current boredom and ten years later, when they will finally appreciate the utility of what...
Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Throughout the decades, one word has lasted to describe the unadulterated creative capacity of humanity: awesome. In a world increasingly overrun by the mundane, ordinary, and co-opted, who will defend the legacy of this essential quality? The Awesome...
What I’ve Learned from the Unreasonable Institute
If you haven’t heard of the Unreasonable Institute, you will. The Unreasonable Institute attracts, incubates, and finances young social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to change the world. Dan, Teju, Vladimir, and Tyler – the founders of Unreasonable – exploded onto the scene less than one year ago. Since then, they...
As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits and Atoms lab crew. It took over seven years for the World Bank to deliver on its promise of some wireless internet access and that was...
Social Entrepreneurship Weekly
This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum Of all of the world’s gatherings, none has a higher-power attendee list than the World Economic...
TreeHugger
photo: Arbor Day Now Are you an amateur videographer at heart just waiting for your time to shine? Well, now's your chance. The Arbor Day Foundation is looking for compelling videos to get people planting trees. And the top contest winner will receive $2,500 in free trees to shade their...
Crowdsourcing the Most Energy-Efficient Life
ISO bright ideas. Photo by Paul Keller via Flickr. If you want to get people to boost their personal energy efficiency, you should appeal to their vanity, their inner couch potato, their wallets, and their competitive nature. That's the strategy that came out of a cocktail party hosted by the online...
Florida Governor Wants Bailout for Drywall
HVAC heat exchanger corrosion associated with Chinese drywall presence. Image credit:Chinese drywall PSC This headline is certainly the meta-story that hovers above the request by Florida's Republican Governor for Federal money to cover the cost of re-repairing thousands of hurricane-damaged homes which were repaired first with Chinese drywall. Florida's...
The 2012 Menace May Be Real, Like Sarah Palin
Credit: Flickr via Michael Francis McCarthy. 2012 is a movie, the end of the Mayan calendar, maybe the end of the Earth. But, thankfully, it's all a myth. Or is it? The 2012 phenomenon gets a new spin from Lawrence M. Krauss in the March 2010 issue of Scientific American. The...
Good News: EU Is On Track To Meet Its Renewable Goals
photo via flickr There's a lot of grim climate news, of course, but the EU keeps moving forward. On Friday, the European Commission announced that the EU, which is made up 27 member countries, is on track to meet its goal of generating 20 percent of its energy from renewable...
Ethical Fashion Finds at Arboretum Apparel
Whether you're located in Healdsburg, California or virtually--like I am in NYC--visit Arboretum for ethical fashion finds. Olsenhaus' Elizabeth Olsen told us about the boutique; they were the first to place an order for her delectable vegan shoes nearly two years ago. Click through for more green designers in...
Kiva Stories from the Field
Kiva Lebanon: Two Models for Microfinance Success
When I compare Lebanon to other countries in the region, it stands out on many levels—its religious diversity, economic resilience in the face of political conflict and war, vibrant and cosmopolitan urban life, and its varied approaches to microfinance. I have the great fortune to work with both of Kiva’s...
Maxima “works,” because Maxima WORKS!
If you think YOU work hard (well, you probably do) but so does my MFI…. I am a Kiva Fellow currently volunteering with one of Kiva’s Micorfinance Partner’s, Maxima, in Cambodia. MAXIMA MIKROHERANHVATHO CO., LTD was founded in March 2000 by a group of friends experienced in financial services. They began...
The working mothers of Benin (includes instruction video: how to strap a baby on your back)
The one income family doesn’t exist in Benin. Just like their moms and their mom’s moms, Beninese women enter the work force as soon as they’re able and keep going no matter what. They’ll work through the rain, they’ll work through malaria, they’ll work while pregnant with all of their...
Video: Follow Your $25 to Vietnam!
Dear Lender, Have you ever wanted to see what happens to your money once you press the “LEND” button on kiva.org? Well, wonder no more as I take you on a visual person-to-person experience into the rural provinces of Hanoi, Vietnam. Every couple of weeks, I will be posting a video...
The other night, I was on the back of a moto entering a major intersection. It was a typical Phnom Penh intersection: motos, tuk-tuks, cars, trucks and bicycles waited their turn to cross. Each driver determined the most desirable path for their vehicle and the many modes of...
It’s All About the Benjamins, Baby
Although it´s more like Sacagaweas here! What in the world am I talking about? Well, today, March 13, 2010, is the ten-year anniversary of the US dollar being used in Ecuador. That´s right, most people are unaware that the official currency of Ecuador (and Panama...
Philadelphia
Fifteen days until Philly Twestival!
Countdown to Philly Twestival Global 2010, Search for Concern: 15 days! What to expect: 7-7:30PM - assemble at National Mechanics to check in, get your wristband and 1 raffle ticket, form scavenger hunt teams, get your clues, buy more raffle tickets for $1 7:30-9:30 - bar crawl/scavenger hunt around Olde City! Tweet your...
We’re so happy with the generosity so far! The winning team of the scavenger hunt will get first pick at the prizes, and then we will raffle off the remaining items. Each participant will receive one raffle ticket at check-in to the event, and will be able to buy more...
Philadelphia Twestival Global 2010 information
On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Philadelphia will once again participate along with hundreds of cities around the world in Twestival Global to benefit the charity Concern Worldwide. On February 12, 2009, 202 cities around the world, including Philadelphia, held the first Twestival Global to benefit charity:water. Over $250,000 was raised,...
Each attendee will get 1 raffle ticket with their admission ($10 in advance, $15 at the door). Buy your tickets HERE. Huge thanks to those who have donated raffle prizes so far to us! If you wish to donate a raffle prize, please DM @phltwestival or email phillytwestival AT gmail.com. *A copy...
Huge thanks to those who have donated raffle prizes so far to us! If you wish to donate a raffle prize, please DM @phltwestival or email phillytwestival AT gmail.com. *A copy of Chris Brogan’s new book, Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, donated by...
Tickets are now on sale! $10 in advance, $15 at the door: Buy here. Our goal is to raise enough money to sponsor 10 families to each be able to stay 1 week at Gift of Life Family House. This means our goal is $2800. Please help us reach that goal...
News at Tonic.com
How to Watch the Oscars From Anywhere
You don't need cable or even a TV to watch the Oscars....
Hope for Freedom: A Green Beret's Perspective on the Iraq Elections
Tonic talks to Special Forces Sgt. Terence Schappert about his experience with Iraqi people....
Conan O'Brien's Twitter Buddy Sarah Killen Talks to Tonic!
Sarah Killen — the only person Conan's following on Twitter — chats about her decision to use all the new attention for good....
Donate Your Old Jeans To Keep Others Warm
The Gap partners with the Cotton. Blue To Green campaign to recycle old jeans....
Clean Energy Updates Take Power Plant for a Spin
Yup, it's a hybrid. But since it's anchored in place, the only place that it can take us is into promising new territory in industrial scale power generation....
Shatner's Myouterspace.com Blasts Off
William Shatner sits on the bridge of myouterspace.com, a new social media and job hunting meeting ground for sci-fi fans and media professionals....
...My heart's in Accra
U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful – Pew Research Center Study of attitudes about US's place in the world – interviews with general US public and with Council on Foreign Relations members – shows a growing isolationist trend, highest during the years Gallup or Pew have asked questions...
BBC News – The top 100 sites on the internet A top 100 from Nielsen, sorted by nationality. Doesn't include China's popular sites. Would be interesting to see how this compares to Alexa, DoubleClick/Google data (tags: bbc internet research technology trends visualization attention)...
Internet Observatory Report Another piece on Arbor's 2009 research on the emergence of "hypergiants" in terms of internet traffic (tags: internet research architecture filtering freespeech arbor intermediary) Arbor Networks Reports on the Rise of the Internet "Hyper Giants" | Xconomy Arbor's survey of the internet, using data collected from 70-80% of US ISPs, suggests...
Why We're Giving Away Our Reporting Recipe – ProPublica Pro Pubica decides we can't go it alone – offers the recipe for a particularly effective piece of journalism, asks other journalists to help them replicate the reporting elsewhere. Cool opensource idea. (tags: collaboration investigative media news opensource reporting propublica transparency nursing) Understanding the...
John Wilbanks on Science Commons, and generativity in science
John Wilbanks, the founder of Science Commons, is in the midst of a big move. His division of Creative Commons, focused on opening scientific research and innovation, is now five years old and is being “airlifted” to California to try to bring some of their ideas into the Creative Commons...
Why We're Giving Away Our Reporting Recipe – ProPublica Pro Pubica decides we can't go it alone – offers the recipe for a particularly effective piece of journalism, asks other journalists to help them replicate the reporting elsewhere. Cool opensource idea. (tags: collaboration investigative media news opensource reporting propublica transparency nursing) Understanding the...
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit
Feedback from Our Readers: NextBillion Readers' Survey
Authored by: Maria ZhengDear NextBillion Reader: Since 2005, NextBillion has strived to provide news, analysis and information on the "base of the pyramid" (BoP) sector. We are now the most-visited BoP site on the web, with more than 40,000 unique visitors per month- thanks to you. And we don't want to...
Weekly Roundup: Focus on Children, Early and Often
Authored by: Nathan Wyeth This week, we welcomed four new people to the NextBillion team: Maria Zheng, Andrew Eder, Bryan Farris, and Adeena Schlussel. Watch for their contributions and insights! This week, staff writers took new looks at how enterprises can intervene in education and early childhood to create new security and prosperity...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: KEJob Location: Western Kenya (English required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs,...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: RWJob Location: Southwest Rwanda (French required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing,...
Internships - Decision and Policy Analysis Program
Organization: Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)Location: Cali, CO Opportunity for internships and jobs for recent graduates to gain international experience The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is seeking English speaking recent graduates for 6-12 month internships. CIAT is an international research center, one...
Staff Update: New Additions to the NextBillion Team
Authored by: Francisco NogueraThe last few weeks have been unusually busy at NextBillion. You've seen several new names, topics discussed, and the diversity of perspectives represented in our pages continues to expand. Moreover, the site's managing partners (Acumen Fund, WDI and WRI) recently met for a planning session where we...
Acumen Fund Blog
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Get Involved with our San Francisco Chapter!
We’re pleased to announce that the San Francisco for Acumen Chapter will be having its Wine Tasting Event on 25th March, at the SNOB Wine Bar & Lounge from 6.30pm - 9.30pm. In preparation for the event, local chapter leaders are gathering on Sunday, 14th March, at 50 Fremont Street for...
Yasmina Zaidman is Director of Communications at Acumen Fund. I’ve been an avid watcher of “So You Think You Can Dance“ for years, and since reading Linchpin, Seth Godin’s latest book, it has become clear to me why. The show’s name is a little ironic. The kids featured in this competition reality show,...
When access to healthcare matters most: a personal experience of emergency medical care
Yasmina Zaidman is Director of Communications at Acumen Fund. She recently returned from vacation in the Dominican Republic, where she personally experienced the importance of access to emergency medical care. I try not to think too much about work when I’m on vacation, but when I found myself in the back...
Building a community that will change the world
Blair Miller manages the Fellows Program at Acumen Fund. Over the course of the past few months, we completed the interview process for the 2011 Class of Acumen Fund Fellows. Through the process, we got to meet bankers, doctors, artists, investors, microfinance experts, brand managers, development workers, academics, and entrepreneurs,...
How Acumen Fund can help: The case of Ghonsla
Brian Trelstad is Chief Investment Officer at Acumen Fund, where he runs the global portfolio team, coordinating our investment process and post-investment management support. Every now and again we meet compelling entrepreneurs with nascent businesses that offer real breakthroughs in how to serve the poor. Sometimes the meetings are pure...
Skip A Lunch
Coca-Cola and the Boys & Girls Club
Coco-Cola, through a special partnership with Facebook, is giving us a way to contribute to the Boys & Girls Clubs and a chance to get a sneak peak at one of their upcoming Super Bowl spots. If you’re like me, not only do I love the Super Bowl commercials but...
McHappy Day … Just One Dollar Makes a Difference!
Dear readers, what a perfect charity that symbolizes Skip a Lunch. Just one dollar, not even half a latte! Let’s all get together and support the McDonald’s charity event known as “McHappy Day”, from November 10th to the 20th. Purchase a hand for $1 or certain food items and your dollar...
2009 America’s Giving Challenge
The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE magazine launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge on October 7th and has already surpassed 10,000 donations and raised $250,000. Imagine that, in just one week they’ve achieved this! Let’s get involved with this great program! Details on the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge: America’s Giving Challenge participants will compete...
Ask.com Breast Cancer Search for the Cure
Ask.com has a great program running from September 13th to December 31st, 2009 called “Search for the Cure“. Ask.com will donate up to $100,000 in addition to monies raised by folks answering breast health questions and those who adopt the special homepage skin. From this program, Ask.com has pledged to...
The Fresh Air Fund – a Summer 2009 Update
Wow, The Fresh Air Fund had nearly 8,000 children enjoying their best summer yet. If you recall, we featured The Fresh Air Fund back in July for the NYC Half-Marathon they hosted. Check out the latest here. The Fresh Air Fund 2009 Summer Memories video is worth the visit. From their...
Over the Edge of Waikiki for the Special Olympics
Wow, this is not for the feint of heart! Raise $1000 for Special Olympics Hawaii and you’ll be able to rappel over the edge of Waikiki’s tallest building, landing at the Edge of Waikiki which is the Sheraton Waikiki’s new adult infinity pool and bar. Crazy huh? The Over the...
Green Inc.
Health Costs of California Air Pollution
Air pollution in California cost federal, state and private health insurers $193 million in hospital costs, according to a RAND Corporation study released last week....
Made in the U.S.A.: Efficiency Materials
A recent study by an energy efficiency nonprofit found that more than 90 percent of caulking and insulation is made in the United States....
Executive Departures at Clean Energy Firms
In the last week, the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels have stepped down....
Is Green Insurance Worth the Price?
Necessity or marketing gimmick? The Bucks blog helps consumers decide whether green insurance is worth it....
Five Countries Fall Behind on European Renewable Energy Goals
The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans....
Home Efficiency Program Poised for Growth
A program to encourage homeowners to add solar panels and make their houses more energy efficient through higher property taxes aims to scale up....
Cluttercast - Connecting through Clutter
Living so near Pebble Beach, you can’t help having some connection to golf. Even if you don’t play. For years I was a volunteer at some of the major golf tournaments held at Pebble Beach—which meant I had to dress the part—and buy the official uniform. This has the official...
Overcoming the Money Disorders that Threaten Our Financial Health—in case you can’t read the subtitle. I was on a conference call the other day with the author of the book, Dr. Brad Klontz, one of the experts for H & R Block. He is a financial psychologist—an area of expertise...
Cluttercast update: Clarity? Closure? Or Clueless?
It’s your call— after you read what I just posted on my personal blog: Are you making a New Year’s Resolution? Exactly one year ago, as my New Year’s resolution, I started my other blog, Cluttercast. Every day I posted an item from my clutter, and gave it away to someone who wanted...
While I’ve been slacking off, someone else is picking up the ball and taking Cluttercast to a whole new level. I first “met” Kim on Twitter, then for real at BlogHer…and now this makes her the all-time Guest Cluttercaster. You MUST see what she’s doing on her blog,: where she calls her...
….in. And just checking that you’re still awaiting the return of Cluttercast—which will happen soon. The problem is clutter….not the clutter in my house, but the clutter in my brain—which is filled with too many other projects, all going on simultaneously. Lots of people have the same problem; they handle the overload...
While I’ve been procrastinating, my clutter is still circulating….so here’s some catching up—with posts in general and Cluttercatchers in particular: IQ test: The kids are back in school and that includes Lilli, whose mom thought she would enjoy the Mensa game. Lilli and her mom Denys first played at home over the summer—and...
Rochester Twestival Global
Share Rochester’s Value of Education with the World! - Post by Jenna Kempie
“Twestival - what’s that”? That’s what I asked myself a year ago. However, over the past year I’ve not only become an avid Twitter user, but also discovered what the true meaning of Twestival is and the large impact it makes beyond 140 characters…social good! I am volunteering my time...
Team Member Post, Jason Breese or Vision Ford - ROCHESTER
By @ROCTwestival Team member, Jason Breese. (http://jaybreese.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/twestival-why-i-am-onboard/) So as not to come off as negative, let me say, i love our country, and I love our world. I truly believe we are all made to serve, and serve in every capacity within us. Some of us have the financial resources to...
Entertainment, Drinks, Food, USTREAM, and more!
200+ cities around the world (see map here) will rally on a single day (March 25) to raise money for a single charity (Concern Worldwide for Education). Our goal in Rochester is to raise $5,000 from ticket sales & online donations from the Rochester Community (and surrounding towns). We are...
A list of the Twitter folks involved so far #FollowFriday
We’ve been pushing around ideas for our 2nd Annual Global Twestival event here in Rochester for the past few weeks now. If you are not familiar with a Twestival, it is a Twitter + Festival event to raise money for a single charity on ONE day, across the entire globe! This...
Twestival Global 2010 - Rochester Twestival for Concern Worldwide
On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. Twestival™ (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. All of the local events...
$1,096 raised for @DDW_Team & Safe Journey on 9/12
The total raised was $1,476! - And after expenses from the event, $1,096 goes to Discovering Deaf Worlds & Safe Journey Find out what Discovering Deaf Worlds & Safe Journey do with the money we raised for them! Without our local Rochester sponsors this event could not have happened! Thanks to: Mac Village Production...
Case Foundation - Investing in People and Ideas that Can Change the World
Guest blogger Scott Henderson is managing director of CauseShift,helping organizations think, innovate, and solve problems. You can find him at causeshift.com, his blog, rallythecause.com, or on Twitter @scottyhendo. “Do you really think you’ll end hunger this way? That seems to be a pretty audacious statement for you to make,” is something...
The Power of Social Innovation: A discussion with Steve Goldsmith and Sonal Shah
The Case Foundation was a proud sponsor of an Aspen Institute Book Talk this week on the Power of Social Innovation. The talk, which was moderated by Aspen CEO Walter Isaacson, featured Stephen Goldsmith (former mayor of Indianapolis, Corporation for National and Community Service Chair and Kennedy School professor/program director) and Sonal Shah (Director...
Upcoming Conferences: the Case Foundation team hits the road in March
The next ten days will be busy ones for several of the Case Foundation team members as we hit the road for a couple of key conferences. First up is WeMedia in Miami from March 9-11, which brings together a range of professionals in the media, technology, business and communications fields...
Weekly news roundup: Chile, Grad Nation, trusted charity brands and nonprofit jobs
News from the Case Foundation and what people are talking about this week in the world of giving, tech and everything in between. 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocks Chile; tech again plays influential role in response We woke up last weekend to the unfortunate news of another significantly damaging earthquake, this time in...
Are you an innovator at the cutting edge of your field? Apply to be a TEDGlobal Fellow!
Guest blogger Logan McClure is the Program Officer for the TED Fellows program. The TED Fellows program is looking for 20 outstanding multidisciplinary innovators from around the world – artists, scientists, bloggers, filmmakers, musicians, activists, and more. The 2010 TEDGlobal Fellows will join the TED community in Oxford, UK July 10 –...
Nonprofit Jobs: Interview with Idealist.org's Ami Dar and Meg Busse
Ami Dar is founder and executive director of Idealist.org and Meg Busse directs their Career Transitions Programs. Look for additional posts from Idealist.org over the next month, as they will be contributing their own mini-series as part of this Nonprofit Job series with advice on working in the nonprofit sector. Sokunthea:...
the Change.org Blog
Turning Ideas for Change Into Actual Change
Ideas for change – we all have them. I, for one, would like to change my mailman’s annoying habit of forgetting to deliver my mail every couple of days. But, it’s a long road from saying something should be changed to making the change real. Take, for example, the Ideas for...
Victory: The Huffington Post Pulls Pit Bulls From List of Dangerous Pets
We just received word that The Huffington Post has decided to remove pit bulls from its list of dangerous pets, in response to our petition. The 284 Change.org members and other online activists who sent emails to Katherine Goldstein, Huff Po’s Green Editor, convinced her that pit bulls don’t belong...
How do Change.org Petitions Make a Difference?
A few weeks ago, I received a really interesting message from a Change.org member. This unnamed member asked a very simple and straightforward question: are your petitions real? An easy way to answer that question is to point to our Victories column. Clearly, our petitions get the job done. But, for...
Change.org’s February Field Trips
Personally, I find February to be a pretty dreary month. Even if you haven’t spent the past few weeks digging out from the Snowpocolypse on the East Coast, the weather and holiday selection are probably enough to make you want to crawl into bed and sleep straight through to March. That...
How Do You Want to Change America?
At the start of this year’s Ideas for Change in America competition, there was never a doubt in our minds that Change.org members and supporters would submit some unique and exciting ideas. From your thoughtful comments on our blog posts, to your unending efforts to raise awareness of key issues...
Today we are excited to announce the launch of Changemakers on Change.org! For the past three months, more than 100,000 Change.org members have participated in nominating and voting for the leaders who they feel best personify a Changemaker, resulting in a remarkable network of people. For those of you who haven’t...
PSD Blog - The World Bank Group
Some readers have complained in the past that they have gotten error messages when trying to submit comments to the blog. We've put in a request with our software provider to look into the problem, but in the meantime, please send an email to rru@worldbank.org if you encounter a problem....
Does the World Bank have a sense of humor?
Perhaps the title is a rhetorical question, but I felt obliged to ask it after seeing the latest parody of a World Bank initiative. If you've been ignoring CNN, you may have missed the news that the World Bank Institute recently launched a massively multiplayer game called Evoke designed to...
The first day of this year's Financial and Private Sector Development Forum is about to wind down. I had the opportunity to attend several fascinating discussions, including: A workshop on catastrophic risk insurance in the Caribbean A discussion on building venture capital opportunities in developing countries A look at Africa's...
Does Haiti (or Chile) need a Marshall Plan to help recover from the ruins of natural disasters? How has the War on Poverty progressed in the United States? What about the Gates Foundation's War on Malaria? Foreign Policy editor Moises Naim has a simple suggestion to each of these questions:...
The World Bank's new chief economist for Financial and Private Sector Development, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, has entered the blogosphere with the new All About Finance blog. In her first post, Asli considers whether the financial crisis ought to make us consider turning bureaucrats into bankers. She responds with a resounding "no"!...
Unemployment and the Oligarchs
Mark Thoma takes a look at who pays the cost of the recession: The recession is taking away opportunity for the young to gain employment experience, and many who are employed are working below their abilities in jobs they are likely to get stuck in for many years, if not...