To Mama with Love
Those of us who work in the “social good” arena professionally come in contact with many good causes to support. This is the first of periodic “thematic” blog posts on [...]
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May 2011
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Apr 2011
Contests
I often have this gut instinct not to like ‘contests’ or lists of “Best or Top (fill in the number)”. I know this is not a popular view. I also [...]
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Apr 2011
Global Health: What We're Learning
This past weekend I participated in the Global Health & Innovation conference sponsored by Unite for Site and hosted by Yale University. The conference discussions were for me a ‘check’ [...]
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Apr 2011
Day without Dignity: Awareness raised, now next steps…
Last week I wrote a blog post on raising awareness to participate in the Day without Dignity campaign. As part of that effort I wrote about the importance of placing [...]
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Apr 2011
“Raising Awareness” towards what goal?
April 5th this year is a Day Without Dignity a counter campaign to a Day Without Shoes. Saundra Schimmelpfennig the originator of A Day Without Dignity had a number of [...]
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Mar 2011
Moving a global program and alliance forward
In June of 2010 I wrote about the launch of the Helping Babies Breathe Global Development Alliance and then provided some updated information here in November and on the Global [...]
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Mar 2011
International or Global?
A recurring conversation in organizations that engage internationally is “What does it mean to be an international or global organization?” These terms are often used interchangeably in the international community, [...]
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Feb 2011
Whither Global Health?
In preparation for a session that will be discussing global health trends, I have been thinking about how the field has changed in the past decade. Some of the trends [...]
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Feb 2011
Build it and they may come….
Although the movie Field of Dreams made the line “Build it and they will come..” famous, in reality we all know it’s a bit more complicated than that. When we’re [...]
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Jan 2011
What did you Say? (NGOs and Internal Communication in a Technologically Driven World)
Last month I wrote about the importance of communication loops to effective internal decision making. Systematizing effective communication is hard within any organization (especially in an era of ‘information overload), [...]