Before he started Summit Series, an informal society of some 200 of the world’s top young entrepreneurs, Elliott Bisnow was just the head of a $2 million-a-year start-up facing a common challenge for a 22-year-old chief executive.
Read ArticleNot content with life just as an international musical artist and performer, Usher tells WL how he's playing a new tune with his work with Nothing But Nets - the UN Foundation's Malaria campaign - and his own foundation, Usher's New Look.
Read ArticleIt's Nothing But Nets Week in the nation's capital and Washingtonians have committed to send 10,000 insecticide-treated bed nets to displaced families in Africa. Since last weekend the Nothing But Nets campaign has hosted events in Washington to garner more support in the fight against malaria – the number one killer of refugees in Africa.
Read ArticleNothing But Nets, a campaign that provides malaria nets to African communities, rolls into DC this week to host a 10-day tour chockfull of various rallies, parties, sporting events and happy hours.
Read ArticleSaana Nyassi considers himself lucky. He is fortunate not just because he has a natural talent for soccer and the dedication to rise through the ranks in his native Gambia and eventually go to the United States to play for the Seattle Sounders. Before leaving the tiny West African nation for America, Nyassi contracted malaria.
Read ArticleR&B star Usher has been bouncing around Washington, D.C. since yesterday, promoting national service and the Nothing But Nets campaign. POLITICO sat down with him at the U.N. Foundation for a lengthy interview today and asked him for his opinion on President Barack Obama.
Read ArticleNow, apparently, Ted Turner is ready to throw in the towel, and give the race over to Kutcher, if he comes through on his promise to donate 10,000 bed nets to fight malaria in Africa.
Read ArticleChicago Fire Soccer today announced that the club will participate in a four-team fundraising challenge to benefit the Nothing But Nets campaign. The Fire, D.C. United, the Los Angeles Galaxy, and Seattle Sounders FC will each collect donations to see which club can raise the most funds for Nothing But Nets during a month-long Major League Soccer initiative that culminates on World Malaria Day on April 25.
Read ArticleD.C. United will participate in a four-team challenge to see which club can collect the most funds for Nothing But Nets during a month-long Major League Soccer initiative that culminates on World Malaria Day on April 25. Created by the United Nations Foundation, Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. A $10 donation goes directly toward the purchase, distribution and education about the proper use of a long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed net, which can prevent Malaria.
Read ArticleActor Tom Cavanagh and platinum recording artist Gavin DeGraw traveled to a refugee camp in Uganda earlier this month with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets, a grassroots campaign to fight malaria. This is day one of Tom and Gavin’s trip diary.