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 [...]
16
Sep 2010
Resources for NGOs Engaging Internationally
As a follow-up to my post earlier this month on the CIVICUS World Assembly this is a listing of some of the interesting resources that were shared at the Assembly. [...]
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 [...]
28
Jul 2010
Words that Communicate
Don’t all words communicate? you may be thinking. Well, yes, of course they’re intended to, but we don’t always define and practice ‘communication’ as two ways – a message that [...]
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 [...]
23
Jun 2010
A really big dream takes its first steps to reality
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one million babies die each year from birth asphyxia (eg. inability to breathe immediately after delivery). A few years ago a group of [...]
02
Jun 2010
Living with Ambiguity
When I was an Executive Director and hiring staff, I liked to hire people who had international experience. There are many skills one learns from living in another culture that [...]