poverty
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As World Continues to Divide, Young Global Leadership Critical
By Amy Tarar, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Young Global Leader Overcomes Tragedy to focus on Education in Memory of Parent’s Legacy. Now: a Foundation and Medica…
On the Emergence of New, Young, Global and Ethnic Leadership
By Ramin Herath, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Through my personal experience, young leadership is extremely crucial in fighting the many issues we still face as…
Ambassadors Awarded for Achievement in Global Goals
New York, N.Y. It’s a heady experience to be surrounded by world leaders, so it was a particular pleasure for me to attend a special celebration of the adoption of the ne…
Eradicating Poverty Means Ending Humiliation and Exclusion
New York, N.Y. Poverty is both a cause and consequence of marginalization and social exclusion, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing that to…
Extreme Poverty Below 10%, Meeting U.N. 2030 Goal – World Bank
New York, N.Y. The World Bank announced today that extreme poverty is likely to fall to below 10 per cent this year, “giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long su…
How to Help Those in Need: Tips, Reasons for Support
New York, N.Y. The poor are always with us – and in great numbers. In the United States, about 46.5 million people live in poverty, according to the Brookings Institution…
Indian-American Med Student on Malaria & Poverty in Nigeria
There were so many burned patients I even had to help cut off patients clothes, try to secure IV lines, and help patch burns all while trying to stomach the constant scre…
Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium with U.N.
New York, N.Y. The obscene issue of child soldiers is being discussed this week at an international symposium in Rome. The Italian government is hosting this important sy…
Memphis Hosts Habitat’s Jimmy Carter Work Project
Atlanta, GA. Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, along with country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, helped build a home tod…
Micro-Finance Meets Multi-Nationals at Clinton Global Initiative
New York, N.Y. Nobel-prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus , founder of the microfinance pioneer Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, addressed our breakfast at the Clinton Global…
Poverty: Quite Simply, It Could Be You
Baltimore, MD. Poverty as defined by the Center for Disease Control is, “when a person or group of people lack human needs because they cannot afford them. Human needs in…
Taking Steps to Reduce Violence Against Persons with Albinism
New York, N.Y. United Nations human rights expert Ikponwosa Ero called upon government representatives gathered in New York for the General Assembly to take swift action…
TRASH: Ambassadors Awarded for Achievement in U.N. Global Goals
New York, N.Y. It’s definitely always a heady experience to be surrounded by world leaders, so it was a particular pleasure for me to attend a special celebration of the…
United Gala for Orphaned Children in Developing World
New York, N.Y. Orphaned children-especially in poor countries-face daunting odds against succeeding in life. In many countries they have little, if any, opportunity to ob…
Dwayne Spencer Heads Habitat for Humanity in Memphis
Memphis, TN. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis ’ President and C.E.O. Dwayne Spencer has worked in nonprofit management for 22 years and has led Memphis Habitat for…
He's Back! NBC's Brian Williams - Changing World for Better (2009)
Originally published in The Huffington Post , November 13, 2009. New York, N.Y. Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and C…
Jimmy Carter in Memphis for Habitat for Humanity Build
Memphis, TN. In 1975, as a high school student in the Midwest, I was a strong supporter of Jimmy Carter's bid for the White House. Fast forward forty years, and I continu…
Jonathan Reckford, C.E.O., Leads Habitat for Humanity
New York, N.Y. I met Jonathan T.M. Reckford this fall when Habitat for Humanity International (LINK) invited several foundations, including the Ford Foundation and our ow…
Lauding Success in Fighting Hunger, U.N. Urges Sustained Commitment
New York, N.Y. Despite a rising global population and the perilous effects of climate change, the goal of eliminating hunger around the world remains within reach, Secret…
Oxfam: Richest 1% to Own Half the World's Wealth by 2016
Washington, D.C. The richest 1 percent of people in the world will have a majority of the wealth on the planet next year, according to development nonprofit Oxfam. The mo…
So Many In Need, it's Hopeless? Quandary of Assisting Youth in Greece
New York, N.Y. The needs of children and young adults in Greece are enormous. The problems there are so insurmountable that the Greek government alone cannot solve them.…
Pope Wants a Church of the Poor and For the Poor
Assisi, Italy . Pope Francis made a pilgrimage this week to the hillside Italian town of Assisi, following in the footsteps of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century…
Charlie Rangel Honored at Uni Haiti Gala for his Efforts to Rebuild Haiti
New York, N.Y. Congressman Charles B. Rangel was honored by The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation with its Humanitarian Award for his decades of work to encourage developm…
Book Speaks to Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity
Washington , DC. Although our lives have turned out different, I learned in my friend Charles "Chic" Dambach's exciting new book, Exhaust the Limits , that we have much i…
Cambodian Children's Hospital Benefits In N.Y. & L.A.
New York, N.Y. I have been a friend of Friends Without A Border (FWAB), the international fundraising source of the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), for several years.…
First 'Davos' for Women's International Development in NYC
New York, N.Y. I met Cecilia Attias, former First Lady of France and founder and executive chair of the Cecilia Attias Foundation for It was extraordinarily successful -…
My Favorite Coffee Table Book: India Unveiled
R obert Arnett's India Unveiled is, for my taste, Coffee Book of the Decade. Did you know that India is the most populous democracy in the world? It is the second-most po…
The Dichotomy of Haiti: Hell Meets, well, Heaven
New York, NY. The images from Haiti before the earthquake were dismal. 'Poorest in the Western Hemisphere,' we heard again and again. Post-quake reporting has seemed to f…
The Stewardship Report Announces Editorial Calendar
New York, N.Y. A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still in sof…
Winning Hearts & Minds, Transforming Lives in Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica. For decades, Jamaica has been facing high and rising debt to GDP ratios that has undermined its capacity to achieve sustainable growth and has contribu…
Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?
New York, N.Y. The 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's exile has generated much press and media attention. News accounts have been full of the Dalai Lama's visa revocati…