Archive for March, 2009

 
 

Kansas City entrepreneurs give $800,000 for Guyana village

(via bizjournals.com) Kansas City entrepreneurs Joe and Judy Roetheli, who sold one of the world’s most successful dog treat companies two years ago, are sharing their wealth in Guyana. The Roethelis recently returned from a visit to the South American republic, where their $800,000 gift is helping to build a village for more than 600 [...]

 

USAID Program Has Helped Curb Spread of HIV in Guyana

(via kaisernetwork.org) Guyana’s Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said recently that a U.S.-supported HIV/AIDS prevention program has helped to reduce the country’s HIV/AIDS prevalence from nearly 3% to about 1%, the AP/Google.com reports. Ramsammy said that the USAID/Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project, or GHARP, “is a huge success story.” According to Ramsammy, the government has [...]

 

PEPFAR Country Coordinator

PEPFAR Country Coordinator The United States Embassy in Georgetown is seeking an individual for the position of PEPFAR Country Coordinator. BASIC FUNCTION OF POSITION: The incumbent is the primary point of contact and Coordinator of activities related to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Guyana, and will play a critical role in [...]

 

Monkey Vs Robot – My Weekly Idealist post

Google Voice In 2007, Google acquired GrandCentral, “a free service that offers ‘one number for life,’ so that one incoming call to that number gets forwarded to all your other numbers — work, mobile, home or hotel room…Landlines, computers and cellphones can all access its services.” Since the acquisition little had been done with GrandCentral [...]

 

Idealist and Reddit are launching IdealistNews.com

With this new service we hope to highlight the remarkable things happening in the nonprofit world, as well as important and timely news affecting the nonprofit sector. From the smallest of commitments to the greatest of possibilities, there are a plenty of amazing projects and ideas promoting change around the world. For those that aren’t [...]

 

Idealist and Reddit are launching IdealistNews.com

With this new service we hope to highlight the remarkable things happening in the nonprofit world, as well as important and timely news affecting the nonprofit sector.  From the smallest of commitments to the greatest of possibilities, there are a plenty of amazing projects and ideas promoting change around the world. For those that aren’t [...]

 
 

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