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IBM Uses the Corporate Service Corps to Attract, Develop and Retain Talent
Throughout its eight year history, the CSC Program has proven to be an effective method for attracting, developing, and retaining talent. The program draws in millennials by giving them cause-based...
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Citizen Diplomacy Spotlight: AbdelKader Education Project
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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Reducing Post-Harvest Loss Can Help End Hunger
At the 1959 World Health Assembly, Soviet scientist Victor Zhdanov put forth a radical idea: a global campaign to eradicate smallpox, a disease that first surfaced more than 10,000 years ago and which...
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The Rockefeller Foundation Launches YieldWise, a $130 Million Initiative to...
The earth’s global food system is facing a quiet crisis—one-third of all food produced is never consumed while 1.2 billion people go to bed hungry or under-nourished, as global economic losses mount...
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Partnership Paves a Pathway for Purpose
Across the street from the PYXERA Global office, industrial hoses spray water to contain the clouds of dust unleashed by an army of wrecking balls and cranes. The sale of the long-time Washington Post...
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Passport DC: Cultural exchange for citizen and official diplomats alike
When I first moved to Washington, D.C., my daily work commute took me straight down a section of Massachusetts Avenue known as “Embassy Row.” This length of street gets its name from the high...
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Water, Waste, and Recycling Take Center Stage at U.S. Chamber Foundation...
“Externalities are outpacing profits.” That’s the new reality, according to Martin Stuchtey, who spent the better part of two decades advising companies on sustainability, as the former director of the...
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Experiential Learning Accelerates Sustainable Leadership Development
Experiential learning accelerates both intellectual understanding and emotional intelligence. In this second article in our series exploring leadership development through action learning, Matt...
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The 2016 Spring Social Innovation Summit Features Inspiration and Impact
An astronaut, a basketball player, and a Fortune 500 CEO walk out on stage– that’s the setup and the punchline of The Social Innovation Summit (SIS). Now in its fifth year, the bi-coastal, twice-annual...
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The Five Habits of Effective Global Citizens
Purposeful Global Engagement starts with effective engagement—around the world. And that means being a good global citizen. But what does that actually mean? What do ‘global citizens’ actually do?...
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Lessons in Sustainable Management from the 2016 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
“You have to decide if you want to make a difference or if you only want to run a business.” Mads Nipper, the CEO of Grundfos, the largest water utility in the world, paced the dais of the United...
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An Interview with Bancroft Global Development’s Strategic Advisor for...
Whitney Shinkle, Education and Civil Society, Bancroft Bancroft consists of Bancroft Global Development, a nonprofit mentoring organization, and Bancroft Global Investments, a venture capital...
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How a Team of IBM and BD Volunteers Are Helping a Local Clinic Save Lives in...
By Gina Tesla and Paula Kapotes With over half a million cases reported each year, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of death for Peruvian women...
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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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