Results

Bill Gates: The Global Fund is "One of the Most Effective Ways We Invest Our Money"

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Davos, Foreign Aid, International Development, Results, Bill Gates, Polio, Tb, Global Economic Forum, Impact News

We know we can end AIDS. It was a pretty good year and an absolutely astounding decade.

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How Tomorrow's Infrastructure Will Be Built

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Infrastructure, Gas, Decentralization, Electricity, Private Sector, Roads, Oil, Airports, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Standards, Development, Taxpayers, Results, World News

Ideology is being replaced by standards. Never-ending arguments about privatization, who should own the electricity company, have given way to public discussions about performance, who can avoid more black-outs.

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When Service Turns to Sales

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Success, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Sales, Service, Marshall Goldsmith, Results, Business News

What are the relevant trends that have seemed to drive and affect this movement from service to sales? Technology and the evolution of customer communication.

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New Citizen Center Powers Up

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Microcredit-Summit, Sam Daley-Harris, Results Educational Fund, Reclaiming Our Democracy, Results, Impact News

If you favor opportunity and upward mobility for the downtrodden, the disenfranchised and the deprived, then you know government is the ultimate program at scale. Want to go big? Go government.

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U.S. Open 2011: Day 2 Results

Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: u.s. Open Results, Rafael Nadal, u.s. Open 2011 Sccores, U.S. Open, U.S. Open 2011, Novak Djokovic, Women's Tennis, Serena Williams, Men's Tennis, Tennis, u.s. Open Scores, Results, Video, Sports News

FLUSHING MEADOWS, New York – For a second consecutive day a reigning women’s Grand Slam champion, loses in the first round in the U. S. Open while...

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Keep your G-Strings on (and Everything Else)

Monah Li | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: No Sex, Dating Websites, Dating Advice, Dating, Results, Women News

KEEP YOUR PANTIES ON (and everything else) MY good friend is an extremely successful "Love-Coach". She teaches women how to flirt, make contact, dre...

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Are We Neglecting Crucial Links in the Results Chain?

Vinod Thomas | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Poverty, International Development, World Bank, Aid, Global Poverty, Development Effectivness, Impact, Evaluation, Results, World News

What explains the wide variability of development programs in achieving the targeted outcomes? Are we neglecting crucial links that can make development work more effective?

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Memos From the Developing World: Violence and the Failure of Institutions

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Violence, Conflict, Governance, Institutions, Development, Economic Growth, World Development Report, Poverty, Results, Drug Warfare, Cote D'Ivoire, World News

We can build institutions good enough and legitimate enough not just to prevent violent conflict, but also to avoid falling back into it. The police will be "good" when the streets are safe.

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Jarvis, Nguyen Out At World Series Of Poker 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winner, Poker, Cuong Nguyen, Mik Matusow, Jason Senti, Texas Hold 'Em, Soi, Jonathan Duhamel, Michael Mizrachi, The Grinder, Las Vegas, Rio Casino, Matthew Jarvis, The Mouth, John Dolan, World Series of Poker 2010, Results, Wsop, Sports News

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Two players were eliminated Saturday after more than three hours of no-limit Texas Hold 'em at the World Series of Poker, increasing...

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The Soul of Microfinance: Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Microfinancing for Women, Ipo, Sam Daley-Harris, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Microfinance-Summit, Results, Redemption, Ifad, Business News

The following are parts of a recent speech delivered by the head of the Microcredit Summit, Sam Daley-Harris entitled, "Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption."

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Why Are Americans Going Hungry? CNN Investigates

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kyra Phillips Hunger, Cnn Hunger, Kyra Phillips, Food Pantries, Hunger, Hunger in America, Food Pantry, Marianne Williamson, Hunger in the United States, Meredith Dodson, Cnn Broken Government, Project Angel Food, Results, Video, Impact News

According to a report from CNN's "Broken Government" series, four out of every 10 visitors to a food pantry is under 18, and 50% of food pantry visito...

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Focus on Results

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Girl Scouts, Focus, Peter Drucker, Foundation, Non-Profits, For-Profit, Frances Hesselbein, Mentality, Results, Healthy Living News

Here are a few suggestions for those looking to make their institution more focused on results.

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Womb Transplants Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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Microfinance as a Solution: Beggars, Thieves, AIDS and Prostitution

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millenium Goals, Microfinance Summit, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, Sam Daley-Harris, Microfinance, Columbia, Results, Poverty, Sex Trafficking, Fonkoze, Grameen Bank, World News

At a recent Microfinance Summit, Sam Daley-Harris spoke about making credit available not only to the poorest of the poor, but to those usually excluded from civil society, like beggars and rebels.

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The Workout Bailout

Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Workout, Weightloss, Calories, Strength, Fitness, Stefan Aschan, Diet, Detox, Results, Bailout, Healthy Living News

Yes, you do have time to make time for yourself. Taking care of yourself can be as simple as improving your diet. Find something that you enjoy. Don't go to the gym when you don't enjoy it.

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Proposal For 2012 Primaries

Will Bower | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caucus, Primary, Obama, Mccain, Democratic, Election Results, Missouri, Caucuses, Election, Republican, 2012, Margins, Primaries, Elections, Clinton, 2008, Calendar, Iowa, New Hampshire, Margin, Results, Oregon, Politics News

The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.

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Election Results: CNN's Election Night Widget

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election Night Widget, Cnn, Electoral College Results, Election Results, Election Night, Results, Politics News

Follow tonight's presidential results with CNN's election map. It's gray now, but once the polls close it will be colorful. See More Election Nigh...

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An Election Day Planner

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polls, Election Day, Indiana, Landslide, Matt Drudge, After Party, Democrats, Campaign 2008, Election Day Tuesday, Barack Obama, Fox News, Kentucky, Election 2008, Drudge Report, Fox, John McCain, Beltway Boys, Republicans, Results, Voting, Hannity, Home News

Find out where the parties are. Both sides. The Republicans usually have an open bar and the Democrats don't. If it looks like a landslide, nobody's going to be at the McCain parties, and you can get a few beers or cocktails before heading to the Obama bash.

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