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
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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), [...]
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Jan 2011
Haiti one year later: What Have We Learned?
Unless you’ve been very far away from any media over the past year you know there was a devastating earthquake in Haiti last January. And you may have observed that [...]