by annaread | Feb 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Microsoft and Starbucks call home the urban area of Seattle Washington USA — and so does Unitus, an organization that has sought to leverage the strengths and opportunities of microfinance around the world. Unitus provides start-up capital for microfinance... by annaread | Feb 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
A food pantry run by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Port Huron, Michigan USA has a new location and a new way of making food available: “client choice.” Read the story. by John Freund, CM | Feb 24, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Moving from scavenging dangerous refuse heaps . . . to recycling trash into treasures. Urban waste disposal is an enormous problem – waste often piles up faster than cities can remove it. Changemakers.net celebrates a pair of social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh who... by sjs | Feb 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting... by annaread | Feb 22, 2008 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Uninsured and underinsured cancer patients in central Texas will be beneficiaries of a $3 million (US) grant given by the Daughters of Charity Foundation to the Seton Family of Hospitals. Read the story. by annaread | Feb 21, 2008 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Having an enemy in common — malaria — has not meant that combatants agree about means and methods. This week’s publication of an internal document of the World Health Organization (WHO) that is critical of the Gates Foundation has turned the...
