While working full-time as part of the Goldman Sachs global investment firm, Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist and writer wrote the very popular book titled Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for […]
The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the United States and other countries has been one of the largest humanitarian problems of our decade. App-based Airbnb, a lodging rental company, offered to step up to help the Afghan refugees […]
What carries food in its belly, has no hands or feet, but can serve you a meal? It’s a robot waiter; it’s real, and a restaurant in Miami is using them with great success. The robot server’s name is ASTRO […]
Florida’s Take Stock in Children Program Provides Hope for First Time College Bound Students For several years now, I have been a mentor for high school students at our area high school. Mercy Lab Foundation allows for the donation […]
The people in Cambodia are lifting themselves out of poverty! There has been a notable rise in the standard of living there for the past 15 years. According to the World Bank, between 1995-2017 Cambodia has sustained an average growth […]
The days after Christmas must be a good time for many people to do some deep cleaning at their homes. Maybe it’s because some people have off for consecutive days and have time to tackle some projects. Perhaps people are […]
By historical standards, work-related fatalities have fallen 95% in the 20th century. Steven Pinker, a Harvard University psychologist, documents data in his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018) estimating that 61 workers per 100,000 […]
Incredible progress is being made with the near eradication of polio. For 30 years, global health funders—predominantly Rotary International, have been on a mission to eliminate the deadly disease. In many parts of the world, polio is not a disease […]
In 2016, the city of Fort Worth in Texas implemented a noble and effective program that employs homeless people who want to work. It’s called the Clean Slate Program, and it has proven to be sustainable. It actually is NOT […]
One of the best examples of a highly successful foundation that applies a data-centric/quantitative approach is the Robin Hood Foundation. Founded in 1988 by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, this foundation is now the largest poverty-fighting organization in New […]