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Category Archives: Awareness
Photoessay: Committing to Child Survival
Here is a beautifully presented photo-essay by UNICEF that helps to tell the story about what work is going on around the world to combat child mortality. It doesn’t cost you to look a these photos, except for your time. … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Child mortality, UNICEF
Tagged Child mortality, Photographs, UNICEF
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Tiffany Eyes Off Grace’s First Birthday Cake (…meanwhile, somewhere in Sierra Leone…)
My good friends Nick and Liz have a daughter. Her name is Grace, and last weekend we all gathered in their backyard to celebrate her First Birthday Party. It was a beautiful day, lovely weather, too much food to eat, … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Birthday, Child mortality
Tagged Awareness, Child mortality, Tiffany
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12.12.12 Design Forum
The journey taken during the 10 City Bridge Run will culminate in a Design Forum held in Seoul on 12 December 2012 (12.12.12) to crowdsource good ideas, and to listen and learn from four key questions. * Q1: What is best … Continue reading
Be the difference that makes the difference
I am asking for your help. Please join me on this challenge – the 10 City Bridge Run – only by working together can we build a bridge to close the gap on poverty. Child mortality is not a new … Continue reading
10 Reasons to Care
Franklin D. Roosevelt argued “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little“. Bill Shore in his book The … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Inspiration
Tagged Child mortality, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Millennium Development Goals
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Small Change? “Why the revolution will not be tweeted”
Malcolm Gladwell’s recent The New Yorker article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted argues we have lost a true sense of activism through a hyper-networked digital world. Thanks to my friend Kim who recommended this article. Gladwell … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Malcolm Gladwell
Tagged Activism, Malcolm Gladwell, Social media
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10 Steps to Social Alchemy
One of the outcomes for the 10 City Bridge Run is to “determine 10 meaningful actions anyone can engage in without needing to spend money which will make a difference over the next five years to positively influence extreme poverty.” It … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Crowdsourcing, Extreme poverty
Tagged Activism, Crowdsourcing, Social media
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Deeks Mo-Marathon
Robert de Castella (‘Deeks’) is arguably Australia’s greatest marathon distance runner. And he sports a champion moustache. Movember is a campaign that runs throughout November where men can help to change the face of mens’ health by growing a moustache … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Movember, Robert De Castella
Tagged Moustache, Movember, Robert De Castella
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What Can I Do?
Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund in closing a conference at The Aspen Institute asks perhaps the most important question in influencing extreme poverty: What Can I Do? She observes the most important thing is our human connectedness. Participation. Collaboration. Bridge … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Extreme poverty, Jacqueline Novogratz
Tagged Aspen Institute, Bridge, Jacqueline Novogratz
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Africa- A Difficult Place to Do Business
Extreme poverty and business development strangely enough go hand-in-hand. Effective business development can help to replace the burden on aid, but it is by no means a silver bullet. Writing in the Financial Times, Michael Keating last week provided a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Awareness, Development
Tagged Africa, Financial Times, Hans Rosling
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