poverty

Bloggers Influence And Shape Opinion

Kelly Jad'on — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:58:20 -0400

October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action
Day. An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.
The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and
videocasters, by posting about the same issue on the same day.
Thousands of blogs post and millions of readers are reached. By

Getting Americans to Think Globally: How Advertising is Leading the Way

Karma Martell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:28:52 -0400

Getting Americans to Think Globally: How Advertising is Leading the Way

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, Noon – 1:00pm
RSVP: dkulzer@adcouncil.org

This panel will discuss several high-profile advertising efforts to engage Americans globally and the challenges, pitfalls and successes. Whether it's poverty, AIDS, clean water or world hunger, learn about the latest thinking and innovative communications strategies being used to motivate the American public to take action.

Panel:

Social Responsibility

Bio and Interests: Paul Barnett

Paul Barnett — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:56:52 -0400

I am a 42yr old British guy based on Brazil. My background is in marketing (stragey & brand building). I ran a boutique agency in London before moving to Brazil in 2004. Now I would descibe myself as a social entrepreneur. I am building ethical brands designed to make a positive impact on the world in one way or another.

So what happened?

Jeff Mowatt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:01:13 -0400

I join a site about technology, take the option to start a blog spend half
an hour typing and linking and it just disappears.

have I come to the right place?

The Global Marshall Plan

Jeff Mowatt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:40:51 -0400

A few days ago UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a Global Marshall Plan pitch at the Kennedy Memorial Lecture.

Interestingly for me, he brought up two topics which were first pitched at US President Clinton nearly 12 years ago, those of the threat of terrorism which derives from leaving people in poverty and the role that IT accessibiity could have in changing the outcome.

http://p-ced.com/History/tabid/58/Default.aspx

Ideas like Kiva

Jeff Mowatt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:09:14 -0400

Kiva set the concept of P2P finance in motion, without doubt.

C4 world is another I've come across in my virtual travels, an org from Europe:

http://www.myc4.com/Portal/Default.aspx

Then there's Zopa

http://uk.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/

Even more interesting to me is the concept of asset based finance rather than debt based microcredit. It comes from a former City of London regulator whose ideas came long before the sub-prime crisis.

http://www.opencapital.net/

Ideas Like Kiva.org

Faith

Tomas Proszowski — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:57:51 -0400

In my opinion people live in a modern times with the highest level of advanced technology that the poverty notion shouldn’t exist in our minds not any more and Global economy should provide any facilities to create a well-being for every human individual.The only problem to solve is how people should uderstand the everlasting life fenomenon

Rest of the thoughts are expressed under this link http://artandfaith-john.blogspot.com/

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

April Joyner — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:59:51 -0500

From the author of the best-seller The End of Poverty comes an exhaustively researched, persuasive self-help guide for our planet that, despite the forbidding title, is surprisingly accessible to the non-economist. Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, identifies four key goals we must meet to avoid economic collapse: environmental sustainability, stabilization of the world population, the end of extreme poverty, and effective global cooperation.

Social Responsibility

The Fourth Chair

randulo randulos — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:35:46 -0500

Today, I had four chairs that "required some assembly" delivered. The first one took about 20 minutes to put together. The fourth chair was done is about 4 minutes.

Most creative mind?

randulo randulos — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:39:13 -0500

Ideas Like Kiva.org

Tuesday Feb 19th at 12 Noon EST (17h GMT) Conference Call

randulo randulos — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:27:26 -0500

Where and when indeed? Your ideas and comments are needed on this subject. You can call in from any phone:

Call (724) 444-7444
Enter 22062# 1#

Join this call and you might just change someone's life.

Ideas Like Kiva.org

Transform International

TRANSFORMER RAMAKRISHNA MURTHY — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:04:25 -0500

Aiming at building Capacities of Non Profits, helping Corporates in finding innovative ways of Social Responsibility in the process of the transfomation of the world.

Where and when is the next KIVA.ORG going to happen

randulo randulos — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:46:10 -0500

I've asked the question everywhere, I'll ask it here. In order to answer, you need to understand what makes KIVA.ORG unique.

Kiva is funded by tax deductible donations and grants.

Loans do NOT pay interest, except in the feeling of helping others thrive through hard work.

Ideas Like Kiva.org

Ideas Like Kiva.org

randulo randulos — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:40:09 -0500

http://kiva.org is proabably the greatest concept ever thought of that uses the web to do good. People all over the world are helping others all over the world to start or grow their businesses by funding loans. Microcredit has been around for years and was the subject of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.