What makes someone inspirational?
A few times recently I’ve found myself writing these words: “One of the most inspirational voices of our time” about Kumi Naidoo, Paul Farmer and Wangari Maathai. As I don’t [...]
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Oct 2010
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Sep 2010
What have we learned from all of this talk about Millennium Development Goals?
Last week in New York world leaders, NGO representatives, and a multitude of other stakeholders and interested parties met for a review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addition [...]
21
Sep 2010
What’s all this talk about Millennium Development Goals?
In September 2000, 189 world leaders met at the United Nations and agreed on a roadmap setting out eight time-bound and measurable goals to address extreme poverty by 2015. These [...]
01
Sep 2010
CIVICUS World Assembly 2010
I have been a member of CIVICUS since it was founded in the mid-1990’s. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of NGOs (Civil Society Organizations in [...]
10
Aug 2010
A GlobalScale Wiki!
For the past 20+ years I have worked with nonprofits, NGOs, associations and others that have had “good ideas” that have spread around the world, sometimes strategically, more often in [...]
09
Jul 2010
What’s all this interest in the World Cup?
I hadn’t originally thought I would blog about the World Cup. But as I’ve spent a significant amount of time over the past month watching matches, talking about them with [...]