Posted on July 24, 2010
“A simple bowl of white rice sits on a conference table inside the Seattle headquarters of global-health nonprofit PATH…For every 100 grains of rice, the bowl contains one grain of Ultra Rice. It’s actually not rice at all, but pasta fortified with vitamins and minerals and squeezed through a rice-shaped mold. The manufactured grains are made from a mixture of rice flour, nutrients and binding agents derived from seaweed.”
Ultra Rice: Whatcom County Invention Holds Hope For Health
The Seattle Times | Kristi Heim | July 24, 2010 Read More “Ultra Rice: Whatcom County Invention Holds Hope For Health”
Posted on July 20, 2010
Puget Sound Investors Realize Social And Financial Returns From Microfinance Investment Fund
Global Partnerships’ first fund provided five years of double-bottom-line returns
Seattle – Today, Global Partnerships (GP), a Seattle-based nonprofit that invests in high-performing, socially focused microfinance institutions in Latin America, announced that the cycle of its first $2 million microfinance investment fund has been completed, less than five years after the fund was closed. As of last week, Global Partnerships had repaid all investors to Microfinance Fund 2005, either on time or early, with interest.
“This is a watershed moment,” said Rick Beckett, president and CEO of Global Read More “Puget Sound Investors Realize Social And Financial Returns From Microfinance Investment Fund”
Posted on July 7, 2010
“The United States needs a national strategy to clarify the goals of foreign aid, trade policy consistent with those goals, an easier process for small businesses to participate and support for international education programs,” according to a set of recommendations for improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid assistance released Tuesday by the Seattle-based non-profit Global Washington, the Seattle Times reports. More than 40 development experts worked together to create the policy paper (.pdf), titled “Global Development through Aid, Partnerships, Trade and Education: Recommendations from Global Washington,” in response to a request by Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. and Patty Murray, Read More “Seattle Non-Profit Recommends Strategy For Improving U.S. Foreign Aid Efficacy”