September 2009
The U.S. Dilemma Over How to Help Zimbabwe: Some... →
Zimbabwe is not only a problem for all of Africa, it’s a vexing dilemma for U.S policymakers. Some facts: Morgan Tsvangirai won the March 2008 elections and should rightfully be president
Robert…
Pardoned: For What? →
By Anasuya Sengupta
In January 2008, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, a 23-year-old Afghan male, was sentenced to death. His crime? Promoting women’s rights. The Afghan Senate confirmed the sentence…
Check your volume levels →
Three ads from The National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD - New Zealand) made for Deaf Awareness Week held last week. Obvious iPod style ripoff.
“Mp3 players do permanent damage to…
Pink Ribbon: Circle of life →
Where ReThink Breast Cancer failed in their communication for this years Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pink Ribbon magazine made a wonderfull approach: Circle of life. The…
Rebuilding the lives of war-affected women →
When she was 13 years old, Ashoka Fellow Milly Auma was captured by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, and was forced to serve as a the wife of a rebel commander. Eight years later,…
Malagasy Blogger Reflects Upon Climate Change... →
Sept, 27th marked the end of a busy week-long journey for Malagasy blogger and Foko coordinator Stephane, a.k.a pakysse. Stephane took off from Antananarivo, Madagascar on the 21st and landed in…
NextAid: Beats Build Hope for Africa →
Introducing NextAid
Imagine taking the power of music, the conviction of environmentally sustainable process, and the commitment to the children of Africa and combining them all to reach those…
Do we need to ration growth, and if so, who gets... →
Spoke at a Quaker conference on the ‘zero growth economy’ at the weekend. Quaker meetings are different: when I finished speaking to an audience of 350 people, there was total hear-a-pin-drop…
Opportunities and challenges for SMEs in... →
First global scientific conference supporting UN... →
ClimateVoice bloggers →
Africa’s Development in a Changing Climate →
DatAgro: Increase the quantity and quality of data... →
Uzbekistan’s struggling private sector →
Farmer community content for local radios →
Hug-an-orphan vacations →
The growing popularity of short-term international volunteering (voluntourism) has led to the disturbing trend of hug-an-orphan vacations. While visiting a foreign country people take time to…
Social Media Planning for Nonprofits →
I write about Social Media a lot because I think its vital to building trust. However, combined with the rest of the noise in the online space on this topic, its easy to go-go-go and even…
Doing Business in Kenya 2010 →
Be the change: Rebecca Thorman →
I have a dream book. Not the kind where you put your sleepy, bleary-eyed memories of the night before under shut-eye, but the kind where you sprint to write down all the excitement in your chest…
The IMF beyond Istanbul →
This post originally appeared in the Business Standard.
Wanted: An Asian Managing Director and new approaches to capital flows.
The IMF will strike a triumphalist tone at its forthcoming annual…
Clive James talks in Mexico on agricultural... →
Former CIMMYT research director Clive James was in Mexico to give the presentation “Agricultural Biotechnology Facing the Challenges of the Food Crisis and Global Warming” on 8 September…
This man is sick →
Charles Taylor, rebutting ” Zig Zag” Marzah’s earlier testimony that he was Taylor’s “chief of operations,” and headed operations for Taylor in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Cote d’Ivoire:
“I…
Hey Jesus, Thanks for everything →
Like, thanks for sunshine, but what about sunburn?
How come the more you have, the more you want?
We’ve got more friends, but less friendship
More convenience, but less patience
…
“Uncontrollable elements” →
Two good updates on the killings of protesters in Guinea are here(Ethan Zuckerman) and here (Texas in Africa).
An excerpt from an editorial in Liberia’s Daily Observer:
After the…
Ask our Giving Guru: Sarah Koch on getting started... →
Giving Guru Sarah Koch is a Nonprofit Coordinator for Causes on Facebook, where she helps nonprofits develop effective and impactful online campaigns. Prior to her time at Causes, she worked…
Pew! that was close →
Volunteers give out aid in Typhoon-hit Philippines →
By Laura Sheahen, Catholic Relief Service (A Caritas Internationalis member)
Tropical storm Ketsana (local name: Ondoy) struck Manila and surrounding areas on Saturday, Sept. 26. The massive flooding…
Video: Ask the Guru with Beth Kanter →
We are in our final week of Gear Up for Giving Ask the Guru sessions. Yesterday’s lively session featured Beth Kanter, author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of…
Qadhafi’s horror show →
In the The Moor Next Door:
The spectacle of 24 September is that a world of misery will go without any meaningful attention from Western presses, leaders or diplomats and it will…
Chad, Guinea: Lets talk about violence against... →
Amnesty International have released a report on the sexual violence being carried out against refugee women in Chad. The violence is taking place in the Eastern region where Chad borders with Sudan….
I’ll do it. All of it. →
Tip 2: Successful individual donor campaigns are supported and managed by at least one staff.
For a smaller organization, the staff person supporting development might be the executive director….
OLPC Map Activity Updated for the XO Laptop →
With access to online maps, students can post photos of their town on a satellite map or follow a sea turtle’s journey, perhaps beginning a future in city planning, tourism, or conservation. …
CEPGL Parliamentary Chiefs Meet in Burundi →
Kigali — Senate President Vincent Biruta and lower house Speaker Rose Mukantabana have joined their regional counterparts in the Burundian capital Bujumbura for a meeting aimed at reviving CEPGL.
China goes after Nigeria's oil →
Via Tom Burgis writing in the FT:
A Chinese state-owned oil company is in talks with Nigeria to buy large stakes in some of the world’s richest oil…
Noteworthy... →
Hello (!), and thanks very much for being so patient while I transitioned back to an Oxonian existence. I’m nearly all settled and on something resembling a routine, which is quite…
“We are not cowards we will never surrender our... →
In the early hours of Saturday morning mobs attacked the Kennedy Rd settlement. Now thousands are running from the settlement, the President and Vice President are in hiding, the office is being…
My own market experiment: where I am IN or OUT →
by William Easterly Last week, some people wanted to meet up with me at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New York. I was a little embarrassed to tell them I was not invited to CGI,…
Jestina Mukoko: a picture is worth 1000 words →
Jestina Mukoko, arriving at court in December 2008 Photo from Sokanele website prior to her arrest and imprisonment
Jestina Mukoko exonerated →
from the NYTimes JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court tossed out terrorism charges against the prominent human rights activist Jestina Mukoko on Monday, ruling that she herself had been…
I can’t wait for my daughter’s first cell phone... →
Advertising agency Hill Holliday has introduced a new television spot for Chili’s highlighting the restaurant chain’s annual drive to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research…
Growth and Quality: Two keys to growing your... →
This past weekend, I gave two presentations about the American Cancer Society’s Illinois Leadership Summit. The first was a presentation about the importance of growth. The second was a presentation…
The Feast Conference: Feast on Good with All Day... →
October 1st at the Times Center in New York City there will be a feel-good, socially conscious and idea-generating experience taking place. The Feast Conference, a design- and innovation-ridden…
A new agency for women emerges →
From CNN: “A parade of world leaders took the lectern at the United Nations on Wednesday. But days before the speeches on a host of issues, the global body quietly undertook an issue that…
Egypt: Blogger warned by state security if he goes... →
The Egyptian blogger Abdel Rahman Fares was summoned to State Security headquarters, where he was blamed for his online writings. Fares was warned that he would be arrested if he goes on…
More Thoughts About Intentionality, Split and... →
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my post last week I described Gil Fronsdal’s meditation on
intentionality, and the value of setting both long term (What do you intend to do
with…
5 Presentation Tips from Steve Jobs →
Here are 5 tips to improve ANY presentation you give based on this new book: “How To Be Insanely Good at Presentations”
The tips are taken from the presentation style of Steve Jobs:
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Work with Acumen: Open positions →
Acumen Fund is seeking talented, passionate individuals for a few open positions. Complete job descriptions in PDF form can be found on the Work with Acumen page of the website.
The Manager of…
Google Exponentializes Social Good with Project... →
Google loves all things scalable. So it comes as no surprise that the Second Annual Project 10^100 seeks to exponentialize ideas which can change the lives of millions. The basic premise behind…
What happened at the Pittsburgh G20? →
I didn’t attend the G20 summit in Pittsburgh last week, but I’ve been poring over the communiqué. Here are some initial thoughts on what it all means (numbers in square brackets refer to…
Egypt: Bargaining Bloggers to stop opposing the... →
“You will be behind the sun” was the expression used by the Dean Abdul Hadi, General Inspector of State Security at Fayoum (Egyptian Province), while he was interrogating the Egyptian…