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Three Important Social Good Events – This Week and Next
The next two weeks promise to be extremely busy for the NGO, social good and philanthropy communities. Here are three events that take place this week and next. Child Survival Call to Action: This Thursday and Friday USAID along with India’s and Ethiopia’s governments will convene the Child Survival Call to Action event at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.…
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Join Moms Groups for a 30-Minute Chat About the Earth Summit
Chat Details What: 30-Minute Chat About Sustainability with Million Moms Challenge, Moms Rising, Moms Clean Air Force, Mom Bloggers for Social Good with experts: Aaron Sherinian and Richenda Van Leeuwen Where: Million Moms Challenge When: 1 – 1:30 PM EST This is an extremely important month! Rio + 20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable…
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Women Rights and Rio+20
Yesterday the Gates Foundation published my latest piece on their blog Impatient Optimists: A Push for Women’s Rights at Rio+20. The piece discusses the UN’s Conference on Sustainable Development that will take place in June and the demands the Women’s Major Group has set in place for the conference. Women are seeking rights-based improvements that will…
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Women and Environmental Sustainability
This June the UN will hold high-level talks about developmental sustainability at the Rio + 20 conference. One of the key issues that will be on the agenda is women and environmental sustainability. In the developing world women are disproportionately reliant upon forests for the well-being of their households (Forests and Gender) whether it is gathering firewood, fuel,…
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Rio + Social: A Social Media Conference for Social Good
The United Nations Foundation* is hosting a global social media event, Rio + Social, on June 19 in Brazil the day before world leaders converge upon Rio to discuss weighty issues surrounding sustainable development. From discussing the environment and climate to food stability and the world’s oceans, high level talks will take place at the United Nations’ Rio…