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2013

• Dr. Is In Session: David Wu (PATH) and Peter Drury (Splash)
• May 8th Global Social: Latin America
• General Petraeus returns – strongly supports USAID, state funding
• Dr Is In: Everything You Want To Know About Social Media
• World Malaria Day at PATH: “We’ve learned what works.”
• Dr. Is In! Developing your case and messaging: Stand out for what you stand for!
• Global Social: Vietnam and Southeast Asia
• Global Socials: Mingling With Purpose
• Dr. Is In! GlobalWA launches capacity-building workshops for members
• Invest in America Act Introduced to Cut Foreign Aid and Spending
• Presidential Memorandum to Strengthen Our Work to Advance Gender Equality Globally
• Kerry’s Confirmation Hearing: “Foreign Policy is Economic Policy”
• Mali: An Early Test of U.S. Military Policy in 2013

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2012

• Senator Richard Lugar Wins 2012 Commitment to Development Award
• A Generation of Global Citizens: Craig Kielburger’s Keynote Address
• 2012 Global Hero Award: Therese Caouette
• The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility: Development, Fair Trade, and Best Practices
• The Power of Education: Sakena Yacoobi’s Hopes for the Women of Afghanistan
• Obama Administration’s Second Term Aid Priorities: More of the Same?
• President Obama focuses on Libya attack and Middle East in U.N. address
• Secretary Clinton praises $1 billion hunger pledge by InterAction members
• Foreign aid a non-partisan issue? 
Senator Frist and Governor Richardson find much to agree on in aid policy
• Global Workers Series #3: Launching Your Career in Global Health
• Washington’s Own Dr. Bill Foege, Slayer of Smallpox, Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Budget Cuts Affect Global Health Programs
• Member Guest Post: A Letter to Mothers in the Developing World
• Global Workers Series #2: “What Employers Really Want”
• “GiveBIG” Brings in $7.4 million, Doubling 2011′s Results
• Empowering women doesn’t mean men don’t count. Quite the contrary.
• Guest Post: Business Tools for Social Impact–Continuous Improvement
• Kim Who? Some Thoughts on the World Bank’s Newest President
• Member Guest Post: The Butterfly effect – everyone was a hero in Cairo
• Opportunity for Action Asks Us All to Pave a Better Future for Today’s Youth
• Coldplay and Food Aid
• Educating the Next Generation: A New IYF Report
• Global Workers Series #1: ‘Get your boots wet’ on the Path to Global Development
• Transcript from the State Department and USAID’s briefing on the President’s FY13 budget request.

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2011

• Global Washington’s K-20 Education Summit, November 18th
• Third Global Washington Happy Hour event: an intimate and thoughtful conversation with KJ Zunigha, Special Projects Coordinator, Corporate Services at PATH.
• Is the hub of global development innovation the “other” Washington?
• 11.1.11 – Global Action Day
• A Bright Future for Business Education in Rwanda
• Take Action to Advocate for the International Affairs Budget
• Protecting Endangered Languages
• Global Washington’s Global Social – Bringing Some Attention Back to Latin America
• Global Washington convenes Disaster Relief organizations to share experiences with supermodel Petra Nemcova
• Member Guest Blog: Web-based Education Tool Aims to Mainstream Land Rights into International Development Thinking
• Interested in helping to shape recommendations for the future of global education in our state? Help us by hosting or joining a conversation!
• Reforming Aid: Transforming the World
• New Approach to Development
• Funding for Foreign Assistance – views from Washington DC
• Volunteerism: Finding the Perfect Match, and Then What?
• “Back to the Future: Recent Evolutions in EU Development Policy and Its Implications for the Global Development Agenda”
• Foreign Assistance: A moral imperative
• Foreign Aid Reform: Why now?
• How and Why Seattle’s Do-Gooders are Working to Create a Collaborative Community
• House of Representatives appropriations activity — State/Foreign Operations
• New Leadership in Global Health–BRICS Health Ministers pledge support
• Moldova and Europe: Change, Diversity, and the Future
• Global Washington Continues Series on the Role of Tech in Development
• MFAN proposed legislative standards –an important step towards global Development
• Global Washington Workshop on Results-Based Management
• International Development Companies among the Best Places to Work in Seattle
• Evaluation and taking lessons forward
• Global Washington joins Global Campaign for Aid Transparency
• Guest Blog: Why are all these white folks deciding what Africa needs?
• Member Guest Blog: Two Steps Backward for Innovation to End Poverty
• High Growth is Said to be “Biggest Factor in India’s Micro-Credit Crisis”
• Technology magnifies intent and capacity
• What do the Zambian economy and a volcano eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo have in common?
• Can Seattle Save The World? Event Shows Stellar Seattleite Interest
• Member Guest Blog: Clear Path International
• “Developing a Communications Plan for your Organization”
• Global Development Still Matters
• Member Guest Blog: Strengthening Our Global Donors Network in the Pacific Northwest
• Member guest blog: Landlessness is not forever
• Water for Life
• Feeding the Future
• 50 Years of Peace-Building: Thanks to Peace Corps Volunteers, Past and Present
• Washington Organizations, Companies, Citizens Respond to Japan Quake
• Global Washington members address development issues for women and girls around the world
• Development assistance for the poor in not-so-poor countries
• Local students, global vision
• The Budget Crunch: Why Save Aid?
• Rajiv Shah Addresses U.S. Diplomats; Stresses the importance of development and highlights opportunities for partnership with USAID
• Clinton reiterates diplomacy as critical to successful U.S. foreign policy
• Foreign Aid Budget Battle
• USAID’s New Evaluation Policy
• Global Development Aligns with Business Goals at Davos and Beyond
• New U.N. Agency for Women’s Empowerment Announces Priorities
• Gauge Country-Level MDG Progress with a New Online Interactive Tool

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2010

• Foreign Assistance Dashboard- Bringing more transparency to US foreign aid
• Enhancing U.S. Education and Competitiveness
• QDDR Released Today
• Washington State builds cross-sector and cross-issue partnerships as a leading example of a new approach to development
• Closing Remarks and Conclusions
• Assessing Our Impact: from Strategy to Implementation
• Trends in International Philanthropy
• Lessons Learned from Successful Private/Public Partnerships
• Global Development and the Future of Washington Jobs
• Why Wait? How Youth are Affecting International Development
• Ensuring Environmental Sustainability: Stories of Successful Partnerships
• Investing in Women and Girls – Access to Rights and Resources
• Setting the Context: “Global Development through Aid, Partnerships, Trade and Education”
• Ambassador Melanne Verveer on Global Women’s Issues
• The Midterm Elections’ Impact on U.S. Development Policy
• Global Washington’s Seminar on Fair Trade: Promising Future, Unmet Potential
• Compare aid efforts worldwide with the new QUODA assessment tool
• Secretary Clinton’s Remarks on Innovation and American Leadership to the Commonwealth Club
• Universal Literacy as a Catalyst for Achieving All MDG Goals Part 2 of 2: Barriers to literacy and educational strategies to accelerate progress.
• Obama Announces New U.S. Global Development Policy
• The Millennium Development Goals Summit Has Arrived- News & Views from around the Web
• Universal Literacy as a Catalyst for Achieving All MDG Goals Part 1 of 2: The state of global literacy and its role in poverty alleviation.
• Opening Markets to the Poorest Countries: A Discussion with Congressman McDermott and Kimberly Elliott of the Center for Global Development
• How Do Americans Feel about U.S. Foreign Aid And the Millennium Development Goals?
• Tech-Aid: Innovation and Development
• New U.S. Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
• Another Step on the Path to Reform
• Millennium Development Goals: Only 5 years to go, are we on track?
• Local Experts Weigh In On International Framework to Improve Development Effectiveness
• In the Market for Conservation
• The Release of Global Washington’s Policy Paper
• The President’s New Approach to Development
• President Obama’s New Global Health Initiative
• Dr. Ignacio Mas on Mobile Banking for the Poor
• Push for Peace Corps Campaign Needs Your Help
• Rajiv Shah Speaks about USAID Reforms
• Water Quality and the Millennium Development Goals
• A Conversation with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
• A New Way Forward on Global Development: How the Leaked White House Plan Measures up to Global Washington’s Principles of Aid Effectiveness
• Global Washington is hiring!
• Fragmented Aid: the Case for a National Strategy
• Jim Kolbe on Foreign Aid Reform: Is Congress the Best Hope?
• Secretary Clinton Announces Award for Innovation in Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
• Tracking the Impacts of Micro-Finance
• Buzz on the Leaked PSD
• Policy News Roundup – May 6
• White House Document Leaked Outlining a “New Way Forward” on Development
• Policy News Roundup – Proposed Cut to Foreign Affairs Budget
• Women’s Empowerment is Human Empowerment
• Appropriated Aid Not Reaching Afghans
• Delays in the Foreign Aid Reform Process
• Policy News Roundup – Will they reform foreign aid before it implodes?
• How to Find Foreign Aid Data
• Policy News Roundup – March 30, 2010
• Policy News Roundup – March 23, 2010
• Haiti Civilians Picking Up Where Official Efforts are Failing
• Global Education News – March 17, 2010
• Policy News Roundup – March 16, 2010
• U.S. Contributions to Multilateral Organizations
• Drawing Support for the FY 2011 International Affairs Budget
• Special Edition of Policy News Roundup: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
• FY2011 International Affairs Budget Makes Progress
• Global Education News – March 3, 2010
• The Gap in the Secular Discourse
• Policy News Roundup – March 2, 2010
• Global Education News – February 24, 2010
• Policy News Roundup — February 23, 2010
• Christian Science Monitor Offers Suggestions in Haitian Reconstruction
• Policy News Roundup
• Lessons in Foreign Aid Reform from Haiti
• FY 2011 International Affairs Budget Request
• Global Education News Clips
• Policy News Roundup
• Our New Legislative Index is Up and Running
• Global Education News Clips
• Policy News Roundup
• Global Development in the State of the Union Address – We Do it Because it is Right
• Policy News Roundup
• Refocusing Global Health Sector Aid…But to Where?
• Focus on Global Education: Global Washington Members
• Policy News Roundup – Clinton vs Congress, Spinning the Haiti Crisis, and more
• Washington organizations responding to the Haiti disaster
• Welcome to the NEW Weekly Installment of the GW International Education Blog!
• What’s New and Exciting? Policy News Roundup
• Secretary Clinton’s Future of Development and Global Washington’s Principles of Aid Effectiveness

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2009

• Rajiv Shah Confirmed and Other News
• Copenhagen Outcome: Disappointing, but not Devastating?
• Coping with Climate Change in Copenhagen
• Thinking local is key to world aid, concludes Seattle Post-Intelligencer blogger
• Petition the White House for a Global Development Strategy
• Thanks for Taking Part
• Perspectives on Public-Private Partnerships
• Public-Private Partnerships Key to Solving Global Issues
• Washington Contributions to Women and Poverty
• Nicholas Kristof Opens Global Washington Conference
• Live Coverage of our Annual Conference.
• Transparency and Corruption: like Garlic and Vampires
• We Need You to Act Now for a Robust FY11 International Affairs Budget
• Kerry/Lugar Foreign Aid Reform Bill in Markup Today
• NGOs Live by the Code, Ideally
• Former Gates Foundation Leader to be Nominated for USAID Administrator
• Blueprint for Action: Convene, Strengthen, Advocate in a Digital Democracy
• Rural Development Institute Receives $9 Million Grant!
• Halloween Has Come and Gone but USAID Remains Headless
• Do We Hold Our Adversaries More Accountable?
• Is the U.S. a Development Commitment-Phobe?
• Global Social Event: North & West Africa
• Featured Organization: Woodland Park Zoo
• Where Were You on World Food Day? What can you do NOW if you weren’t there?
• Ambassador Bagley to Speak at Global WA Conference
• Community ownership works – and now there’s a Nobel Prize to prove it
• Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
• Global WA Development Policy: The Blog!
• Global Social Event: The Middle East
• Global Social Event: East & Southeast Asia
• Global Social Event: Convening Central & South Asia
• Screening: Beyond Good Intentions with Tori Hogan
• Global Socials Series: Saludos Centroamerica

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