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Mind the Gap: Companies Partner to Build Skilled Labor

Impact & Innovation

October 26, 2015 Amanda MacArthur no comments

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 ...

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As a Fulbright Scholar, Citizen Diplomacy Goes Beyond the Definition of “Work”

Citizen Diplomacy

October 21, 2015 Kelsey Figone no comments

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. Read par...

Global Pro Bono Converts Insight to Innovation

Global Pro Bono

October 19, 2015 Michael Serino no comments

Authored by Laura Georgianna, who is a Director in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at the ILR School and Director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program ...

Four Things Forgotten in Our Race to End Hunger

Impact & Innovation

October 15, 2015 Morgan Singer no comments

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. Ev...

Can Better Toilets and Latrines Solve the World’s Sanitation Problem?

Enterprise Development

October 15, 2015 Melissa Mattoon 1 comment

“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 doo...

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Could Cervical Cancer Be the Next Polio?

Impact & Innovation

October 14, 2015 Alicia Ness no comments

Augustina Mejiasamata, a 34-year- old Quechua woman who lives in an Andes mountain village two hours outside of Cusco, Peru, had already waited in line for almost an hour...

Peace Corps Paves a Pathway to Service-Driven Partnership

Citizen Diplomacy

October 7, 2015 Daniel Breneman no comments

This is part one in a three part Citizen Diplomacy series highlighting how cross-border experiences shape individuals and their communities. Read part two here. Read part...

Dow Discovers the Value of a Swamp

Impact & Innovation

October 6, 2015 Laura Asiala no comments

What’s the value of a swamp? Traditionally, an accountant would book the value at the cost of acquisition. Environmentalists might argue for the value of its natural pres...

How One Woman’s University Education Helped Open Many Opportunities

Leadership

September 29, 2015 Menghun Kaing no comments

Seoun Sri-leap is a quiet young woman with an easy smile, her long, dark, wavy hair swept over her shoulders. Occasionally, she curiously looked at the notes I was taking...

Going Beyond the Grid to Provide Electricity to Millions

Impact & Innovation

September 25, 2015 Katrina Pielli no comments

Written by Andrew M. Herscowitz, Coordinator for Power Africa, and Katrina Pielli, Senior Energy Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development. Four years ago, star...

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