It's time to shape the future and not be shaped by it.
zyOzy is change.
zyOzy is connectedness and purpose.
zyOzy is finding, teaching and creating dynamic balance.
zyOzy is a noble battle, an adventure that finds beauty to rescue.
zyOzy is change.
zyOzy is connectedness and purpose.
zyOzy is finding, teaching and creating dynamic balance.
zyOzy is a noble battle, an adventure that finds beauty to rescue.
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The Engaged University’s Master Peace Community Farm aims to provide a local, sustainable, and healthy supply of food to the residents of Prince George County. By reinventing local food production, this entrepreneurial urban farming initiative will supply quality produce to low-income communities as well as create last...ing green jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and preserve open spaces. Project Leaders are seeking to expand their operations in order to foster a sustainable urban agricultural model that can be replicated throughout the region.Read More
Source: engagedu.umd.edu
The Master Peace Community Farm is a major undertaking, located at the Center for Educational Partnership (CEP), which now houses the Engaged University staff. CEP is a University-owned community partnership center adjacent to William Wirt Middle School in Riverdale Heights.
the ZYOZY foundation “When she turned 10 and read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, about the clash between Igbo tradition and the British colonial way of life, everything changed: ‘I realized that people who looked like me could live in books.’ She has been writing about Africa ever since.” - Washington Post
Source: zyozy.org
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. In this inspiring TEDTalk, Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns ...
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Many of us believe that aid to Africa is crucial to lift people out of poverty. But not Dambisa Moyo. In a controversial new book, she argues that foreign aid has been a disaster for Africa and must be stopped. ...
the ZYOZY foundation Traditional charity often meets immediate needs, but fails to help people to solve their problems over the long term.
the ZYOZY foundation If you want to help the world’s poor, you have to invest in them, rather than just giving them money.
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“We figured that rather than just give them money to build wells that will not be working a year from now, we would find an entrepreneur to build a company that could provide water to the local community and we would provide our acumen and investment.” - Jacqueline Novogratz founder Acumen Fund
Five years on, the water ...purification company that Acumen helped to reach reached one million people in India with safe, affordable water, at a cost of just six cents for the water needs of a family of five for two days. “It is now the largest decentralised water distribution company in India,” says Novogratz. The company aims to grow from 150 water systems to 2,000. Other small enterprises have sprung up around the company, such as water delivery men.Read More
Five years on, the water ...purification company that Acumen helped to reach reached one million people in India with safe, affordable water, at a cost of just six cents for the water needs of a family of five for two days. “It is now the largest decentralised water distribution company in India,” says Novogratz. The company aims to grow from 150 water systems to 2,000. Other small enterprises have sprung up around the company, such as water delivery men.Read More
Source: www.thenational.ae
Jacqueline Novogratz, wearing yellow, the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, on a visit to India. The firm has helped 40 companies in four countries, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Tanzania, and is now looking to Egypt. Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos
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Paul Polak: Poverty Reduction Revolutionary
While he doesn't have the panache of Bono or the credentials of Jeffrey Sachs, the wily, suspender-clad Paul Polak has something altogether more important in development circles: measurable results. By his count, the organization he founded - International Development Enterprises (IDE) - has helped to lift some 17 million people out of dollar-a-day poverty.
Source: www.governancevillage.org
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Dambisa Moyo and Bill Easterly in conversation;
Clip 1: Africa, the sentimentality of aid, and Bono.
Clip 2: Africa is to aid as Mars is to NASA.
Clip 3: Why mobile phones are better than aid.
Clip 4: Can we stop the aid bandwagon?
Clip 5: Why we should fund entrepreneurs not governments.
Source: www.templeton.org
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the ZYOZY foundation How One Woman Has Improved the Quality of Her Coffee and Her Life
Source: zyozy.org
In this video, we meet Athanasie Musabyimana, a Rwandan woman who has overcome extraordinary obstacles. Today, Athanasie is a coffee farmer, and with training and support from nonprofit organization TechnoServe, ...
Source: www.foreignpolicy.com
A recent op-ed in the Boston Globe argues that microlending "doesn't actually do much to fight poverty" and that it may be time to "think macro rather than micro." Maybe the hype surrounding microcredit as a panacea for everything from poverty to discrimination is undeserved. ...
Do microfinance Web sites like Kiva really help alleviate poverty? - By Sandy Stonesifer - Slate Mag
Source: www.slate.com
Do you have a real-life do-gooding dilemma? Please send it to ask.my.goodness-gmail.com and Sandy will try to answer it.
Source: www.moneyweek.com
The inventor of microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Now, idea has gone global. But is it just a new debt bubble in the making? Simon Wilson reports on the economics of giving small, cheap loans to the poor.
Source: microfinance.cgap.org
The CGAP Microfinance Blog: research, analysis, and insights from CGAP's experts on microfinance and access to finance.
the ZYOZY foundation 'Banks and Microbanks' examines how the presence of formal, regulated financial services providers in an economy might affect the profitability and outreach of financial institutions which narrowly target the under-banked and unbanked populations.
Source: financialaccess.org
