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Serbia’s EU Bid Threatens the Future of Its Social Sector
Today, Belgrade is a diverse, contemporary city with pop-up restaurants and brick-walled cafes. But just 20 years ago, the idea of a modern Serbia poised for integration into the European Union was...
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Letter From the Editor: Leading for Change in a VUCA World
Today’s leaders must be prepared to confront a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. These dynamics are so consistently true that many management experts now speak of how to lead...
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Part III: Corporate Investment and Volunteering Help Fuel Detroit’s Renaissance
This is the last in a three-part series about how investment and volunteering are supporting Detroit’s urban renewal. Read part one and two here. Since filing for bankruptcy in 2013, the city of...
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Nigeria’s Electoral Reforms Lay the Foundation for the Country’s Democratic...
A country’s elections provide an important window into its practice of democracy. Nigeria’s citizens know that the country’s past elections were not a true representation of the social construct of...
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Spotlight: MBAs Without Borders Facilitates Positive Change in WASH in Uganda
We recently spoke with MBAs Without Borders Advisor, Mikael Baker, to learn more about his experience working with Water For People (W4P) in Kampala, Uganda, where 94 percent of residents lack access...
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Harpswell Foundation Enables Education for Women in Cambodia
In 2004, I met a courageous young woman who changed my life. Her name was Veasna Chea. She was about thirty years old at the time and working with the UN Commission on Human Rights in Cambodia. Like...
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Service Learning Begins in Our Own Backyard
As I walked across the grassy field at Anacostia Park, my shoes instantly became covered in dead grass remains from the lawn mower’s job the day before. My feet sinking through the grass, I noticed...
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Three Ways Companies Build Better Leaders with Global Pro Bono
By Amanda MacArthur and Harris Ginsberg Sending senior executives into emerging markets may not be an obvious way to develop strong leaders, but many top companies are doing just that....
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Red Dirt Road Empowers Women From Michigan to Phnom Penh
In rural Cambodia, on the edge of the Mekong River, a red dirt road barely accommodates the lone minivan as it winds its way over bumps and hairpin turns. Top-heavy palm trees sporadically interrupt...
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Partners of the Americas Empowers Student Volunteers with Partners Student...
Timidly, I walked past booth after booth of college student groups that displayed colorful banners, and enthusiastic signs advertising their organizations at the Student Activities Fair at American...
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Book Review: A New Psychology for Sustainability Leadership
There are three fundamental approaches to changing bad behavior: expose and punish it, model and reinforce good behavior, or change the paradigm that drives the bad behavior in the first place....
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Five Lessons in Partnership That Can Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
This November, PYXERA Global convenes the Global Engagement Forum in Washington DC, bringing together leaders and innovators to discuss how cross-sector collaboration and partnership can effectively...
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Citizen Diplomacy Spotlight: Utopia Foundation
As part of an ongoing series, leaders from the Citizen Diplomacy Network, a signature initiative of PYXERA Global, interview leaders of member organizations working to create meaningful...
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Sanergy, Clean Team Ghana, iDE, and Dow are Working to Improve WASH, Global...
In 2000, the UN General Assembly committed to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic...
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Living Closer Together Requires Listening More Closely to One Another
“I’ve heard we shouldn’t cross over into West Savannah.” It was the first day of class, and already one of my students had heard that going into the neighborhoods we planned to visit for our project...
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Power Africa Fosters Cross-Sector Collaboration to Drive Systemic Results
Written by Andrew M. Herscowitz, Coordinator for Power Africa, and Katrina Pielli, Senior Energy Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development. Four years ago, startup Off-Grid Electric, a...
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In Cambodia, Access to University Education Enables Women to Succeed
Seoun Sri-leap is a quiet young woman with an easy smile, her long, dark, wavy hair swept over her shoulders. Occasionally, she curiously looked at the notes I was taking on our conversation. We sat...
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The Nature Conservancy and The Dow Chemical Company Collaborate to Estimate...
What’s the value of a swamp? Traditionally, an accountant would book the value at the cost of acquisition. Environmentalists might argue for the value of its natural preservation and diversity, leading...
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A Peace Corps Assignment in El Salvador Plants Seeds of Community Transformation
This is part one in a three part Citizen Diplomacy series about cross-border experiences shaping individuals and their communities. “Try this one here, it’s really sweet.” Alberto, an eight-year-old...
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Innovations in Diagnostics, Treatment, and Monitoring Could Eradicate...
Augustina Mejiasamata, a 34-year- old Quechua woman who lives in an Andes mountain village two hours outside of Cusco, Peru, had already waited in line for almost an hour to receive her free Pap smear...
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