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Member Guest Post: A Letter to Mothers in the Developing World

Submitted by Landesa

In honor of Mother’s Day last weekend, Landesa addressed a letter to mothers in the developing world:

On this Mother’s Day, Landesa salutes mothers in the developing world – our partners. [Read more]

Global Workers Series #2: “What Employers Really Want”

In one of the few sunny days of Seattle’s early spring, over fifty people traveled to iLEAP’s presentation and meeting space for Global Washington’s Second Global Workers event. [Read more]

“GiveBIG” Brings in $7.4 million, Doubling 2011′s Results

The Seattle Foundation’s “GiveBIG” campaign generated $7.43 million in online contributions for nonprofits attracting more than 37,800 individual donations! This year’s astounding results more than double last year’s donations totaling $3.6 million. [Read more]

Empowering women doesn’t mean men don’t count. Quite the contrary.

What’s a smart way to empower women worldwide? Get the men involved and give them a chance to feel like they are a part of the solution. In other words, build collaboration.  This past week, Ritu Sharma, co-founder and president of Women Thrive Worldwide, wrote an op-ed, “Violence against women is no ‘women’s issue’” for Politico about the importance of men’s involvement in empowering women.   [Read more]

Guest Post: Business Tools for Social Impact–Continuous Improvement

Many people who, like me, have crossed into the social sector from a for-profit background, want to see nonprofits take advantage of business principles to generate ever better outcomes. Continuous improvement is one such tool. [Read more]

Kim Who? Some Thoughts on the World Bank’s Newest President

The mix of knowledge, insight, and experience made for compelling conversations at Wednesday’s wine reception before the screening of  Bonsai People. With financial managers mingling with social entrepreneurs, it seemed the perfect venue to ask people what they thought about the new president of the World Bank. [Read more]

Member Guest Post: The Butterfly effect – everyone was a hero in Cairo

By Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft

I landed in Cairo earlier today a few hours ago expecting to see significant changes. In many ways everything has changed yet on the drive from the airport to the hotel in Zamalek to across the Nile, Cairo is still the same. [Read more]

Opportunity for Action Asks Us All to Pave a Better Future for Today’s Youth

The Microsoft-commissioned report, Opportunity for Action, brings us a new perspective on a tale already told about the lack of opportunity for today’s youth. Reports on this dilemma have been written already; the International Monetary Fund made it the focus of their March 2012 Finance & Development magazine , and the International Labour Organization issued its report “Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 update” in October ’11. [Read more]

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Educating the Next Generation: A New IYF Report

On March 27, the International Youth Foundation released “Opportunity for Action,” a global snapshot of current state of social and economic opportunities for the world’s young people. [Read more]

Global Workers Series #1: ‘Get your boots wet’ on the Path to Global Development

With unemployment hovering around 8.5% in Washington State, it may be surprising to hear the global development sector is expanding daily. This means more opportunities for those interested in a career in poverty alleviation, global health and global engagement! [Read more]

Transcript from the State Department and USAID’s briefing on the President’s FY13 budget request.

Please note that Secretary Clinton will speak at 10:45 am tomorrow at a USAID Town Hall addressing the agency’s reform agenda and accomplishments in innovation.  Additional details are available in USAID’s press release. [Read more]