tagged w/ ending poverty
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Walk with 4 young social entrepreneurs/grad students on a journey that takes them through Colorado, California, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and India.
This 18 minute documentary sits at the intersection of international development, sustainable business, social entrepreneurship and groung-breaking MBA programs.
Be inspired....their stories are true and their ideas are life changing.
Compliments of the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program at Colorado State University. www.csugsse.orgWalk with 4 young social entrepreneurs/grad students on a journey that takes them... more
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After successful premieres at Tribeca and Silverdocs Film Festivals, this film will be having grassroots screenings this fall. Check out the trailer and sign up to host a screening to bring awareness to the international women's empowerment movement that is working to solve global poverty. Audiences have been moved and inspired to take action!After successful premieres at Tribeca and Silverdocs Film Festivals, this film will be... more
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This charity is working to bring clean water to the people living in poverty. It is a crisis that is killing as many as 50,00 children a day - the equivalent of 20 airliners filled with children lost everyday to an entirely preventable public health crisis, 1.1 billion lack access to clean water, 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation. It is a crisis driven by inequality and poverty, where the burden falls most heavily on women. It is girls who are denied an education because they are tasked with fetching water or drop out of school in adolescence because of inadequate sanitation facilities. And as adults, women continue to waste hours each day in the search for water and inevitably look after the children that are ill or dying from diarrhoeal diseases. It is a crisis that hampers economic growth and an entire generation.This charity is working to bring clean water to the people living in poverty. It is a... more
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Kiva is changing the world through microfinancing. Kiva allows people to lend as little as $25 directly to the poor. They use that money to start a busiess that helps them get out of poverty. 99.9% of the loans have been paid back.Kiva is changing the world through microfinancing. Kiva allows people to lend as... more
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ONE is a charity organization that is helping to make poverty history. ONE is a campaign of over 2.4 million people and growing from all 50 states and over 100 of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. ONE is raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries. ONE is asking our leaders to do more to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.ONE is a charity organization that is helping to make poverty history. ONE is a... more
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Hillary Clinton on Welfare & Poverty
Go to webpage above and click for 16 full quotes on Welfare & Poverty OR background on Welfare & Poverty.
* Partner with faith based community in empowerment zones. (Dec 2007)
* Considered idea of $5000 at birth to pay for future college. (Oct 2007)
* Time-out for mortgage companies on march toward foreclosure. (Sep 2007)
* Wellesley thesis: Saul Alinsky & people over bureaucrats. (Jun 2007)
* Hedge funds incentivize risk, but need regulation. (Apr 2007)
* Lazio weakened housing standards and limited public housing. (Oct 2000)
* Lazio fought against FHA on low-interest housing loans. (Oct 2000)
* Equal access to capital and jobs. (Jan 2000)
* Working should mean no poverty. (Jan 2000)
* Community involvement helps, but only in short term. (Dec 1999)
* Don’t criminalize the homeless. (Dec 1999)
* Microcredit is an invaluable tool in alleviating poverty. (Feb 1997)
* Link payments to good parenting behavior. (Feb 1997)
* Establish a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. (Jul 2003)
* Tax credits to promite home ownership in distressed areas. (Apr 2003)
* Fully fund AmeriCorps. (Jun 2003) Hillary Clinton on Welfare & Poverty
Go to webpage above and click for 16 full... more
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