Sep 12, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Luum is a cloud-based software platform that addresses urban congestion caused by automobile commutation. Businesses, tenants, or students can engage the software to optimize parking, create commuter services, manage demand and change behaviour. Learn more about Luum...
Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
By Valentina Jovanovski Health workers in Kenya’s refugee camps would be more likely to stick with their jobs if they were offered more training and the possibility of academic qualifications, according to a study. Healthcare assistants who are from the refugee...
Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity
Nonprofits looking to build capacities for innovative technical approaches to development face funding hurdles. Overcoming them requires more from the private sector than just funding. The promise of harnessing today’s innovation to chart a course for development to...
Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks
Brendan Guy, Global Policy Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council Stakeholders from governments, businesses, and civil society actors convened in Addis Ababa on July 15, 2015, to pledge funds, establish programs for the sharing of data sets, and develop technical...
Jul 27, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security
Joan Bigham, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks. Several times a week subscribers to the Avaaz email newsletter can see the organization in action. From the decimation of African elephants to the immigration disaster unfolding in slow motion in the...
Jul 17, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Top US companies have joined together to launch “100,000 Opportunities,” a program that plans to hire and train 100,000 “opportunity” youth—16-24 year olds who face systemic barriers to jobs and education—with training programs and full and...