Poverty Alleviation

Do You COTAP? Alternative Energy for MBAs in Dismal Times

Bryan Gobin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Poverty, Developing Countries, Carbon Offset Credits, Carbon Offsets, Economic Crisis, Poverty Alleviation, Global Warming, Reforestation, Green Nonprofit, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, Impact News
Bryan Gobin

COTAP connects projects to individuals who want to offset their carbon footprint, but have a strong preference that their donations support poor farming communities in developing countries that already experience the brunt of climate change.

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Gene Demby

Tavis Smiley: 'This Is Our Last, Best Chance To Turn This Around'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Women-in-Poverty, Sheryl WuDunn, Tavis Smiley, Childhood Poverty, Video, Poverty, US Poverty, Bv-Politics, Obama Poverty, Faye Wattleton, Suze Orman, Poll, Cecelia FireThunder, Julianne Malveaux, Poverty Alleviation, Black Voices News

"Two decades ago we were celebrating what was the Year Of The Woman in '92, and now we're dealing with a war on women in 2012," Tavis Smiley said on a...

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My Top Ten Beliefs as a Social Entrepreneur

Asher Hasan | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Social Enterprise, Interfaith, Social Justice, Interfaith Dialogue, Social Entrepreneurship, Poverty Alleviation, Minorities, Impact News
Asher Hasan

I believe that all human beings have intrinsic value: Regardless of their ethnicity, religion, etc. For those of us who have faith we were all created by the same Creator and therefore should respect ALL of his creations.

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World Food Prize Recognizes Leadership in Agriculture, but More Policy Support Is Needed to Feed the World's Hungry

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Borlaug International Symposium, Zero Hunger Program, Hunger, World Food Prize, Ghana, Agricultural Policy, Malnutrition, John Agyekum Kufuor, John Ruan, Brazil, Luiz inácio Lula Da Silva, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News
Danielle Nierenberg

Policymakers around the world need to step up their efforts to combat hunger, malnutrition, and poverty by providing greater support for agriculture.

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How Smartphones Can Safeguard The Future Of Agriculture

Deborah Bassett | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Farming, Mobile Tehcnology, Karl Muth, Grameen, London School of Economics, Africa, Smartphones, Sustainable Agriculture, Deborah Bassett, Uganda, Bankers Without Borders, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News
Deborah Bassett

Ugandan farmers can now access important information at their fingertips. Photo: Karl Muth What does mobile phone technology have to do with farmer...

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Urbanization of Poverty

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urbanization, Globalization, Urban Poverty, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News
Jonathan Lewis

Megalopolises, teeming with people, pollution and poverty, may not be an attractive lifestyle for you. But, urban life is the future for most of the world's poor.

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How Cause-Integrated Businesses are Working to End Poverty

Auren Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: InVenture Fund, Ashoka, Acumen Fund, Poverty, Echoing Green, Ending Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Scaling Poverty Alleviation, Business Ending Poverty, Patient Capital, Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Kiva, Empowering Developing World Business, Cause-Integrated Business, Startingbloc, The Hub, Cause Integration, End Poverty, Cause Entrepreneurs, Impact News
Auren Kaplan

As the movements of social enterprise and cause-integrated business mature, a new funding model is proving that scaling innovations for poverty alleviation in the developing world can be both possible and profitable.

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The Danger of Demonizing Profit Making Companies That Serve the Poor

Hugh Whalan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Poor, Acumen Fund, World Resources Institute, Microfinance, World Bank, Non-Profit, India, C.K. Prahalad, Global Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News
Hugh Whalan

The true issue here is not whether for-profits play an important role -- it should be clear that they do -- but rather how to encourage the right kind of for-profits to address the social needs of the poor.

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Opportunity Collaboration Equals Transformational

Saul Garlick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Change, Social Entrepreneurship, Conference, International, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News
Saul Garlick

There is simply no venue that compares to Opportunity Collaboration for exploring the most difficult questions social entrepreneurs face. I realized that while there.

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Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developing World, Nonprofits, Public Health Solutions, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Nonprofit Sector, Impact News
Jonathan Lewis

In the view of market fundamentalists, government and nonprofits are conflated into the inefficient enemy and their opposite, the private sector, embodies all that is true and noble. This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality.

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A Market Solution to Help the World's Poor?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dsm, United Nations, Innovation, International Finance Corporation, Hidden Hunger, Business, Stephan Tanda, South Africa, Vitamins, Base of the Pyramid, Micronutrients, Poverty Reduction, Minerals, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Development, Poverty Alleviation, Poverty, Social Innovation, Ecommerce, World Resources Institute, Developing Countries, Malnutrition, New York, Mdgs, Trade, Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Bangladesh, Global Poverty, Free Market, Food Fortification, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Is there a real business in helping the world's poor? According to the World Resources Institute and the International Finance Corporation, there is.

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A Jewish New Year: A New Approach to Philanthropy

Saul Garlick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Enterprise, Impact Investing, Poverty Alleviation, Rosh Hashanah, Social Business, Jewish Philanthropy, Kenya, Impact News
Saul Garlick

It is our obligation as the Jewish people to give future generations a world more peaceful, more secure and more just than that which we inherited from our parents and grandparents.

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Let's Try Something New: Engage Women, Drive Change

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ami Vitale, Women, New Course, Ripple Effect Images, Poverty Alleviation, Biodiversity, Conservation, Jamie Bechtel, Development, Impact News
Jamie Bechtel

If we want to successfully protect our incredibly valuable and important natural resources, the inclusion of women is non-negotiable. If we want to drive change, we must engage women.

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Measure? Alleviate? No, Eliminate Poverty

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microfinance Impact, Microfinance, Fundacion Paraguagya, Poverty Alleviation, Poverty Measurement, Business News
Elisabeth Rhyne

While academics from prestigious East Coast universities are developing randomized trials to test the impact of microfinance on poverty - and coming u...

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Switching Viewpoints: Africa Is Not a Victim of Nature; It Is a Victor of Nature.

Allan Afuah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African Aid, India, Ethiopia, Poverty, Africa, Niger, China, Poverty Alleviation, World News
Allan Afuah

We need to see Africa for what it really is, not a victim of nature that has to beg for handouts to survive but a victor that can thrive by learning how to create value and wealth using its abundant natural resources.

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South Africa's World Cup Legacy: Operationalizing Ubuntu

Shari Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 World Cup, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Fifa, Poverty Alleviation, South Africa World Cup Legacy, South Africa, World News
Shari Cohen

Will South Africa be able to harness the joyful unity of the World Cup and use it for the improvement of some very real and very pressing issues that face the country as a whole?

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News
John W. McArthur

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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The Poor Feel Poorly

James S. Marks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Education, Poverty Measure, Poverty, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Food Stamps, Health, Poverty Alleviation, National Governors Association, Lyndon Johnson, Council of Chief State School Officers, Medicaid, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
James S. Marks

In the long run, each life that is diminished by poor education, and diminished goals and achievements drains growth, innovation and health at the expense of our nation's future.

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A People's Plan of Action to Fight Extreme Poverty

John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Education, Mdgs, Haiti Earthquake, Poverty, People's Plan of Action, Millennium Development Goals, United Nations, Sustainable Development, Bill Gates, HIV/AIDS Africa, Global Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, World Economic Forum, Impact News
John W. McArthur

By Johann O Koss, CEO and President of Right to Play & John W McArthur, CEO of Millennium Promise Government leaders cannot solve global challenges ...

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Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs

John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Compact, G8, Mdgs, Poverty, Malawi, Poverty Alleviation, United Nations, Malaria, Community-Based Development, Millennium Villages Project, Mali, Millennium Development Goals, g20, Millennium Villages, Extreme Poverty, Sauri, Community Health Workers, Kenya, Impact News
John W. McArthur

This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya. The article by Jeffrey Gettleman highlights the co...

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Jeffrey Sachs:

ottawacitizen.com | Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millenium Development Goal, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Bonuses, Millenium-Development-Goals-United-Nations, Poverty Alleviation, World News

The world has found trillions of dollars in financial bailouts and squandered trillions more in war and military outlays. Yet it has not been able to ...

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Amidst Conflict, Pakistanis Persevere

Susan Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Education, Poverty, Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Working Women, Women in Business, Taliban, North-West-Frontier-Province, Nwfp, Poverty Alleviation, Brac, World News
Susan Davis

The impoverished North-West Frontier Province lays claim to devastating maternal and child mortality rates, and scant education for girls. But courageous women here are increasingly agents of change.

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Is Bjorn Lomborg Dangerous or Helpful?

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Bjorn Lomborg, Climate Change, Poverty Alleviation, Green News
Andrew Winston

Bjorn Lomborg's most famous argument is that we shouldn't prioritize climate change over other pressing social priorities like poverty alleviation -- as if they're all separate.

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Why the G-20 Protestors Were Astoundingly Wrong and Naïve

Steve Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G-20 Summit, China, Capitalism, Poverty Alleviation, G-20, g20, Business News
Steve Strauss

The G-20 protesters have it completely backwards. Capitalism is not the problem, capitalism is the solution.

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People Are Hungry: How Can We Fix It?

Lisanne Finston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Poor, Helping the Needy, Government Assistance, Poverty, Charity, Donating to Charity, Soup Kitchens, Poor and Needy, Donating to Non-Profits, Helping the Poor, Charitable Organizations, Hunger, New Jersey, Soup Kitchen, Food, Donations, Poverty Alleviation, Politics News
Lisanne Finston

What are we to do to address the problem of hunger around the nation? We must move beyond the quick fix emergency system that band aids the problem, to a long term approach that builds food security.

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