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Next week, members from the private sector, NGOs and State/Local Governments will convene in Chicago for the first ever Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America event. CGI America is built on the success of Clinton Global Initiative and is focused on one overarching theme: economic recovery and job growth. Apparently, this event was initiated as a [...]
Continue Reading →World Poverty and Human Rights Online has published an article I wrote earlier this year on restructuring corporations’ profit incentives to align with society’s best interests. Click here to check it out. Good timing for #CGI2010
Continue Reading →Since their inception, call centers have been infamous for high turnover (especially in the outsource world). While this is no revolutionary statement, I recently had the realization that by my mid-twenties I had personally fired, or overseen the termination, of over 1,000 people (an average of about 200 people a year). I believe my personal [...]
Continue Reading →Last summer I wrote a post about the book A Billion Bootstraps which led to Amy and I getting involved in Microfinance. Since that time, I’ve been wrestling in my mind with how to combine some of the most successful elements of capitalism with those of non-profits in order to create charities that are self-sustaining. [...]
Continue Reading →About a month ago, I wrote a post on the book “A Billion Bootstraps” and briefly discussed the concept of Microcredit. Since reading the book earlier this year, Amy and I have been actively researching Microcredit and sizing up the best angle and mechanisms for us to get involved. Coincidentally about two weeks ago, we saw a special on [...]
Continue Reading →A couple months ago I was in my local book Bookstore looking for Al Gore’s “Assault on Reason” (forthcoming review) and happened to stumble on a book called “A Billion Bootstraps“. Being new to the idea of Microcredit, and a philanthropist at heart, this one caught my eye. I have to say, this book is a great introduction [...]
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