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Diverse Partners Work to Build a Booming Toilet Business in Ethiopia
“Excuse me. May I use your toilet?” Despite my not being a paying customer, the restaurant owner directed me toward a doorway at the back of the building. Through the doorway, a woman shucking corn...
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Fundamental Realities in the Fight to End Hunger by 2030
More than three million children die each year from malnourishment and millions more lack access to food, resulting in stunted growth, poor health, and chronic hunger. Every man, women, and child...
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Merck Leverages Service Fellowships to Advance Learning, Employee Engagement...
Authored by Michael Serino: Executive Director for the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at Cornell University and Laura Georgianna: Director for the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at...
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“Working” Abroad as a Cultural Ambassador
This is part two in a three part Citizen Diplomacy series highlighting how cross-border experiences shape individuals and their communities. Read part one here. I breathe in the delicate aroma of...
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IBM and JPMorgan Chase Employees Help Develop Next Generation Workforce
Within five years, The McKinsey Global Institute predicts a global deficit of over 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers and a global surplus of nearly 100 million unskilled workers. In the...
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Alma College’s Model UN Team Discovers the Challenges of Diplomacy in India
Sweat dripped down my neck as I sat in a classroom with 40 high-school students from across northern India at TERI University in New Delhi. Without climate control, the temperature in the room hovered...
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Multi-sector Partnerships are Vital to Utilize Strengths of Diverse...
World leaders, together with the international development community, have launched a new, ambitious post-2015 agenda at the 70th UN General Assembly, building on progress made towards the Millennium...
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Cross-Sector Collaboration Starts with a Meaningful Foundation of Partnership
Partnerships with private corporations—especially the large, multinational variety—often cause social sector organizations, and even public sector agencies, to experience extraordinary discomfort and...
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Can Socially-Minded Capitalism Tackle the World’s Biggest Challenges Over the...
Since the launch of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals 15 years ago, the relationship between companies and the communities where they operate has evolved considerably. Many corporations who once...
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Can Tri-Sector Collaboration Achieve the SDGs?
This September marked a momentous occasion for the United Nations. During the 70th General Assembly, 193 countries endorsed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which will guide international...
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Empowering Women in Cameroon’s Forest Resources Trade
By Marguerite Belobo Belibi and Judith van Eijnatten. Editing by Emma Boles. “We collect fruits, seeds, and nuts from the forest floor, and we stock them in our homes to sell,” Élise tells us. “But we...
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Insights on Cross-Sector Collaboration from the Global Engagement Forum
At first glance on the morning of November 10th, the Newseum in Washington, D.C. was filled with an unlikely cast of characters. What could possibly bring together corporate executives from Fortune 500...
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Citizen Diplomacy Spotlight: ProjectExplorer
As part of an ongoing series, Matt Clark, from the Center for Citizen Diplomacy at PYXERA Global, is interviewing leaders of organizations that belong to the Citizen Diplomacy Network. The Center...
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Using Sport to Bridge Differences and Find Common Ground
From a window seat on the world’s only one-star airline, Air Koryo, I took a break from the inflight North Korean programming and peered out the window. Pristine lakes and rolling mountains pierced the...
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Weber Shandwick Research Shows Always-On Transparency Pays Off
The insights in this article are drawn from Weber Shandwick’s Always-On Transparency Report, which explores how forward-thinking organizations continually share failures, lessons, and insider...
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USAID Seeks to Accelerate Development with the Global Innovation Exchange
Smartphones and the internet have made our planet byte-sized. It is no longer difficult, or even surprising, to imagine someone in Rio de Janeiro chatting, e-mailing, and teaming-up to collaborate with...
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Citizen Diplomacy Spotlight: Hopeful Africa
As part of an ongoing series, Matt Clark, from the Center for Citizen Diplomacy at PYXERA Global, is interviewing leaders of organizations that belong to the Citizen Diplomacy Network. The Center...
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Five Events Not To Miss During Global Partnerships Week 2016
Be a part of the worldwide virtual conversation at #GPW2016 During one week each March, the U.S. Department of State inspires public, private, and social sector organizations everywhere to organize...
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Can One Organization Democratize Design Thinking for Everyone?
“From my house to the White House, we’ve used human-centered design and it actually works.” Tyson Weinert is a boisterous and ingratiating veteran trainer, who after 18 years of service, separated from...
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How Government Engages the Private Sector in the Fight Against Global Poverty
At the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Conference hosted last fall by Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program, former Administrator of USAID Rajiv Shah highlighted the...
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