We Can Do Better: Let’s Give Fans And Sponsors What They Want
I lived in South Africa in the 1990’s at a time where the divide between the haves and have nots was more marked than you can imagine. It was also a time in which sport played a central role in the lives of everyone, irrespective of which side of the divide they found themselves. Building […]
Real Leaders And Sustainable Brands Redefine The Good Life
Real Leaders, the world’s first sustainable business & leadership magazine, and Sustainable Brands, the premier global community of business innovators, have joined forces to produce a special edition of Real Leaders – highlighting stories that inspire the future. You can view the magazine and read some of the highlights here: How KoAnn Skryzniarz, Founder of […]
Starbucks and USAID Empower Colombian Coffee Farmers
Coffee farmers in Colombia faced challenges maintaining their crops during the country’s 50-year civil war. An alliance between Starbucks and the U.S. Embassy, through its Agency for International Development (USAID) is now helping farmers refocus on their crops with an emphasis on coffee quality. “At times, coffee farmers were unable to travel in certain areas […]
New Film Exposes Child Sex-trafficking In America
I am Jane Doe, is a powerful new documentary film that chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their under-age daughters who were bought and sold for sex on Backpage.com, the adult classifieds section that for years was part of the iconic Village Voice. Reminiscent of Erin Brockovich and Karen […]
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
The nonprofit sector has limbs. It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s foundations and massive individual donor base that fund it and help it to move. It has blood pumping through its veins – 10 […]
Forget Glamour, Model Lily Cole Wants Tech to Inspire Women
As a British supermodel and actress, Lily Cole has lived a life of glamour, but it is her new role as a social entrepreneur using technology to do good that she hopes will inspire women. Scouted on a London street in 2002 at age 14 and featured on the cover of British Vogue at age […]
Gender Pay Gap Means Women in UK “Work for Free” Until Year End
Women in Britain will effectively work for free from Thursday until the end of the year because of the disparity in earnings with their male colleagues, a leading women’s rights group said. Overall, women in Britain were paid 13.9 percent less than men in 2016, a slight improvement on the previous year when the average […]
My Lessons on Women at a Male-dominated Conference in Dubai
Since 2012, the United Nations has recognized October 11 as ‘International Day of the Girl,’ in an effort to improve the health, education, and well being of women and girls everywhere. The magnificence and irony of this day, for me, was recently highlighted by the message I heard in Dubai on October 11, 2016 while […]
It’s TED Time Again: Technology, Entertainment and Design
TED has always been the birthplace of ideas that impact the global village. TED talks have been seen more than 3.5 billion times, and nothing inspires quite like them. Started as a 4-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown worldwide to support world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives with talks ranslated into 93 languages. TED fans are just about […]
UN Secondary Education Goals Will be Missed by 50 Years
The world is set to miss by more than half a century a deadline for ensuring all children receive secondary education, the United Nations has said, adding that 40 percent of pupils are being taught in a language that is not their mother tongue. World leaders agreed last year that by 2030 all girls and […]
