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Last Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of India's anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed and many families were torn apart during four days following theassassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
The following post was written by 2007 Echoing Green Fellows Kevin Lee and Gemma Bulos in response to the recent typhoons in the Philippines...
Even though it'sonly Monday, today is an exciting milestone for two reasons: a) We just zoomed past 100,000 followers on Twitter. Wow! b) There are only thirty days left to apply for the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship...
We’re excited today to take the wraps off an exciting partnership to grow and expand our career-focused Be Bold Podcast. Last October, when we launched the Be Bold Podcast, we never imagined that it would touch so many people interested in developing careers with meaningful impact. ...
After winning a gold medal, 18 year-old South African runner Caster Semenya received a great deal of media attention. Not because of Caster's victory, but because Caster's sex was called into question...
Our friends at BBMG (a branding and integrated marketing firm) released a hot new whitepaper this month outlining a framework and approach to philanthropy's "new consumer." As they put it: The recession has affected our nation’s institutions across every sector. ...
We’ve been bursting at the seams all week, but the news is finally out! Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey was just named to U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of "America’s Best Leaders". We’r...
We are so excited to learn this week that 2007 Fellow Gemma Bulos (Co-founder and Executive Director of A Single Drop for Safe Water) received the 2009 Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Phillippines Award...
2008 Echoing Green Fellow Josh Sommer stopped by our offices recently with some amazing news: researchers at Duke University and the National Cancer Institute have successfully linked a gene to familial chordoma in a paper published in Nature Genetics...
How can China solve the growing income gap in their economy? According to 1998 fellow Vikram Akula and colleague Tahrun Khanna, bringing microfinance to China is the answer. Vikram co-wrote "Microfinancing China," which was featured in the October 7th edition of the Wall Street Journal...
Echoing Green Fellows Michael Bengwayan (PINE Tree), Gemma Bulos, and Kevin Lee (A Single Drop for SafeWater) were both in the Philippines last month when Typhoons Ketsana and Parma struck...
October seems to be a hot month for inspirational and innovative philanthropic projects! Here are three new initiatives that caught our attention this week: Google's Project 10 to the 100 ...
Congratulations to Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) and Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) for being honored by President Bill Clinton at the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative...
On Tuesday night, over seventy people filed into Room 220 in NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall. The lecture space filled quickly as people settled in with notebooks and laptops, fixing their gazes toward the podium at the front of the room. ...
Echoing Green would like to congratulate board member, Patrick Corvington, who, today, who was nominated by President Obama to the position of Chief Executive Officer at the Corporation for National and Community Service...
