Jul 30, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Environment & Sustainability, Networked Institutions
C40 Cities continues its annual program to recognize leadership and best practices with an awards competition designed to draw attention to outstanding city-oriented actions that have achieved success in the challenging environmental context. The awards ceremony for...
Jul 29, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...
Jul 25, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity
The 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) will be held in Nairobi this weekend. The sixth annual gathering of entrepreneurs at all stages of business development, the African location helps to underscore the fact that five of the world’s 10 fastest growing...
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...
Jun 29, 2015 | Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
One of the UN’s MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) of 2000 was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015, yet one in six people are still surviving on a dollar a day. Or less. Striking photos by the Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renee C. Byer have been...