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Van Jones named Special Advisor for Green Jobs

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Word on the blogs the past two days (and confirmed today by the Green for All website) is that Van Jones, Founding President of Green for All and senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, has accepted the position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation at the White House Council on [...]

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Council staff at CGI U

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Several Council staff are back in the office today after a long weeked in Austin Texas where they took part in the Clinton Global Initiative University conference.  While mainly involved in the Poverty Alleviation track, Council staff also got to participate in the plenary sessions with President Clinton, and in several of the breakouts in [...]

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Clinton reveals donors

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just this morning, former President Clinton released for the first time his complete donor list.  Over 200,000 donor names appear, all having given to his foundation since 1997.  The publication of the list is one piece of a nine-part agreement with President-Elect Obama to dispel any concerns of a conflict of interest if Senator Hillary [...]

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Pam Omidyar: from Slavery to Surfing

Posted in Africa, Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Chronicle of Philanthropy published a nice profile of Pam Omidyar yesterday. Pam, co-founder of the Omidyar Network, created Humanity United in 2005 as a foundation to end slavery and mass atrocities, based just down the road in Redwood City. Noticing the disconnect between activists, policy experts, and scholars on these issues, Pam chose to [...]

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Looking Forward: Making Good on our Promises to the Poor

Posted in Philanthropy, Policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Across all panels in the past two days, and especially this morning, we have seen that technological innovation now arms us with unprecedented opportunities for alleviating poverty. In our final panel for the poverty alleviation track, we heard about the nexus between information and poverty from moderator Sonal Shah, Head [...]

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Day 2: How will we Shape the Landscape of the 21st Century?

Posted in Philanthropy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning, we were swept onto the campaign trail as Senators Obama and McCain shared their plans for US policy in each of CGI’s four focus areas: education, poverty alleviation, climate change, and global health. Each addressed the current financial crisis, and the international cooperation that we need going forward [...]

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At the Clinton Global Initiative: Bono and others Find Hope Amidst the Financial Crisis

Posted in Philanthropy, Policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“This country that we sit in is a great country. And it’s a great country because it’s not just a country, it’s an idea. And that idea was supposed to be contagious – it’s bound up in the idea of the inalienable rights of men and women and children, equal in the eyes of God.” [...]

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