Jul
28
I am a big fan of TED Talks, they have created a list with the Top 10 TEDTalks. My favorite among those ten is Jill Bolte Taylor talking about My stroke of insight.
You can view the talks by Themes, Speakers or the Talks List. ANd while you are there, sign up for their newsletter and [...]
Jul
11
Cnn runs a story about Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages. A family in Atlanta, Georgia, has decided to sell their house, donating half the proceeds and moving into a house half the size.
Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod, estimating the money could affect more than 20,000 people in Ghana, said that:
This will [...]
May
23
LinkedIn has started something called LinkedIn For Good. The introduction goes like this:
With a network of over 11 million professionals spanning the globe, LinkedIn is an immensely powerful platform. A few of us here decided that we should be doing more to leverage the network to promote positive social change, and LinkedIn For Good is [...]
Nov
7
November 7, 2006 – 9:06 am
At TED talks is a very interesting speak by Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen Fund. Jacqueline Novogratz persuasively argues for a new approach to foreign aid: “The question isn’t ‘how do we fix this?’ The question is ‘How can we help Africans to do this for themselves?’”
Sep
3
September 3, 2006 – 10:41 pm
The Hunger Project (THP) has the tagline: Effective Action to End World Hunger.
The Hunger Project uses low-cost, people-centered strategies for the sustainable end of hunger. I recently was at meetings were two persons from Bangladesh talked about how The Hunger Project works there. The country manager, professor Badiul Alam Majumdar, gave a more theoretical talk [...]
