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Rural Knowledge Meets Tech Innovation: What Ultra-Poor Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World
What happens when Barefoot College, a global NGO which trains entrepreneurs in poverty-stricken rural areas, melds its expertise and values with tech innovators like Apple? It sparks the emergence of a new kind of entrepreneur who has much to teach the world, says Scot Bolsinger – along with new opportunities for rural communities to share and connect in ways never before possible.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Asheesh Advani: ‘Anybody can be an entrepreneur’
Asheesh Advani, 45, is president and chief executive officer of Junior Achievement Worldwide, one of the largest NGOs in the world, dedicated to educating young people about financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work-force readiness.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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NGOs in East Africa must monitor health issues
The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers has directed that non-governmental organisations in the region incorporate health issues into their projects. NGOs will be expected to integrate issues like population control, disease prevention and treatment in their project work plans in order to have a direct impact on humanity.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pfizer Offers Cut-Price Pneumonia Shot for Humanitarian Crises
U.S. pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer is to offer its pneumococcal vaccine at the lowest possible price to non-governmental organizations seeking to protect vulnerable people from illness in humanitarian crises.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: After Hurricane Matthew, Will Aid Predators Ravage Haiti?
n Tuesday, Hurricane Matthew moved slowly through Haiti’s south-west armed with heavy rain and 145 miles per hour wind. Any country subjected to a category 4 hurricane would suffer great damage to its infrastructure. Haiti, however, experienced a catastrophe.
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- Environment
- Region
- North America
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- aid agencies, NGO
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World Health Organisation Should Outsource Key Duties, Experts Say
Global public health experts have called for “fundamental and extensive reform” of the World Health Organisation (WHO) including major outsourcing of key activities, warning that the organisation is already at risk of repeating the mistakes it made in handling the Ebola crisis.
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- Health Care
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- global health, NGO, nonprofit, public health
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Nonprofits Fret as Clinton Foundation Plans to Transfer Programs
Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala said Wednesday that the organization has largely solidified plans to terminate, reconstitute, or hand off the bulk of its international programs if Hillary Clinton is elected president. It would be a major undertaking — the political context is without precedent, for starters — and has some nonprofit leaders worried.
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- Impact Assessment
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- NGO, nonprofit, philanthropy
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Key Implementers of U.S. Global Health Efforts
To carry out global health efforts around the world, the U.S. government (USG) funds a wide range of implementing entities, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral/international organizations, private sector organizations, educational institutions, and other governments.
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- Health Care
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- global health, health care, NGO
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