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The recent Development World has seen some groundbreaking events that have set its current trajectory:

Many of our member organizations benefit from this focus on Global Development. Their field reports and blogs can be browsed anytime to see the effect Foreign Aid is having on the ground.

Questions For: Bill And Paula Clapp, Co-Founders, Seattle International Foundation

Bill and Paula Clapp are among Seattle’s most distinguished philanthropic couples. While Paula is making news this week with a new program for local youths, the couple has made it a personal mission to build the region into an international philanthropic hub. In 1994 they founded Global Partnerships, a microloan nonprofit serving parts of Latin America. Since then they’ve created the Seattle International Foundation and Global Washington, organizations that have strengthened Seattle’s reputation in the global health and development sector. [Read more]

Paula Clapp Part Of New Drive To Aid Exploited Youth

Paula Clapp, one of Seattle’s leading global philanthropists, is venturing into new territory.
After nearly two decades of focusing with her husband, Bill, on international charity work, she’s partnering with a group of women to start her first nonprofit in Seattle.

The project is Stolen Youth, a fundraising entity to help children and teens who have been forced into prostitution escape that life. [Read more]

It Takes More Than Villages To Keep Mothers Safe

Margarita Quintanilla is Nicaragua country program leader for the Seattle-based health organization PATH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s largest grantee in Seattle. Her office has grown to 15 people, now working to improve the welfare of women, introduce health technology and build bridges between that work and supporters here in the Northwest. [Read more]

Global Washington Raises Awareness Of Global Health And Development Work

Mayor McGinn proclaimed Monday Nov 1 “Global Action Day” in the City of Seattle, to raise awareness of the size and impact of the global health and development sector in Seattle and Washington State. This day coincided with Global Washington’s 3rd Annual Conference, “Opportunities and Obstacles in Turbulent Times”. Mayor McGinn provided opening remarks at the event. [Read more]

The Modest Heroine Of The 2011 Opus Prize: Lyn Lusi

As Lyn Lusi accepted the $1 million Opus Prize on Wednesday night at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she threw down a gauntlet. Churches must take on the challenge of changing relationships between men and women, everywhere in the world.

Two centuries ago William Wilberforce, a lifelong social activist, goaded churches in England to rethink the ancient assumptions that allowed people who saw themselves as virtuous and religious to accept slavery as “normal.” They did not respond immediately, but over time norms and teachings changed. [Read more]

IN PERSON Questions For: Bookda Gheisar Executive Director Of Global Washington

After spending more than two decades working on urban Seattle issues with Social Justice Fund Northwest, grassroots fundraiser and nonprofit guru Bookda Gheisar took on a global challenge. As executive director of Global Washington, a member association for the state’s growing global health and development sector, she’s had to lead the new group during an economic downturn and a period when international aid faces enormous challenges in conflict and disaster zones. [Read more]