6 results for month: 04/2018

A Spirit of Service: Technologists Are Advancing UN SDGs

There are many wonderful, bold projects around the world, not just in the US, being developed in answer to the world’s most pressing problems, from giving identity to the most vulnerable to trafficking, giving banking to the unbanked, transparency in food supply chain, and tokenizing activities to give everyone financial inclusion in this data-driven economy.

PARTNERSHIP, TRUST, RISK: DANIEL BADER ON THE PRACTICE OF PHILANTHROPY

"It's all about partnership at different levels. We take our concept of partnerships very seriously. We're not just merely an organization that gives money to nonprofit organizations. We work in partnership with nonprofit organizations—and it starts from the very beginning, from the very first conversation."

Peace Tech is Good for Business

We like to say that, “We can spot stories before they become stories.” We’re projecting things like likelihood of protests—some of which are violent—down to the city and date. That’s what we’re actually doing in terms of our projections. We monitor data, and we can see some trends and say, “Hey, this might turn into some big story.”

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS

In the future, I think there’s going to be much more emphasis on local procurement than on the old model of shipping of containers from other countries. I don’t see the old model completely disappearing—there is a legitimate place for excess usable goods, especially new, to be utilized in the humanitarian sector rather than ending up in landfills—but it’s going to be much more thoughtfully and philosophically done going forward.

PASS Webinar

We kindly invite you to attend a PASS Webinar: TURKEY AND THE KURDS: It’s Complicated Featuring: David L. Phillips  Director, Peace-building and Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), Columbia University Moderator: James Cottrell  Senior Advisor, PASS, LLC Monday, April 16, 2018  I   12:00 - 1:00 pm Click the "Register" button to receive a webinar link and submit questions ahead of the event. For questions, please email us at info@pass-usa.net Background Relations between the US and Turkey are at their lowest point since the late 1970s when, in the aftermath of the Cyprus war, the US ...

James Creighton Senior Advisor

James Creighton is the Chief Executive Officer for Eagle Point Global Solutions, LLC. He has coordinated and executed high-level discussions in Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Berlin, Belgium and many other locations which have focused on developing locally derived practical solutions to difficult problems. Jim served as the Chief Operating Officer for the EastWest Institute for four years, two of which included performing the duties of the Chief Executive Officer. He retired as a Colonel from the United States Army after thirty years of service where he held key command positions. He graduated from the United States Military ...