Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Operational and Delivery Networks
The 10% Resilience Pledge program was announced by the 100 Resilient Cities global solution network in November. The program urges mayors to promise 10% of their cities’s annual budgets toward resilience projects and goals without raising any extra funding or...
Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks, Platforms, Poverty Alleviation
CloudFactory, the technology outsourcing company based in Kathmandu, connects workers in developing countries with client companies worldwide. The employees benefit from skills training and job creation, and the clients get quick and cost-effective data entry and...
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...
Jul 10, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Joan Bigham EdD, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks The Center for Financial Inclusion is continuing its work on Financial Inclusion 2020, or FI2020, a program directed at building a movement to mobilize stakeholders to achieve full global inclusion with the...
Jul 9, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, New Cities Foundation @Greg_Lindsay School is out, summer holidays are just getting started — this might just be the busiest season on the urbanist’s conference calendar. A year ago, my June schedule included the 14th Venice...
Jul 3, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Governance Networks, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks, Policy Networks
Brendan Guy, Global Policy Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council Four dynamic networks are guiding the development of proposed targets in advance of the UN summit to adopt the post 2015 development agenda‑2015 Time for Global Action for People and Planet—which...
