Julie Lucas, the head of fund-raising for Fordham Law School, is trying to raise $100 million at a time when few people are giving money and universities are still seen as having lots of it. How does she do it? First of all, she goes to where the money is now. The career fundraiser put together a list of tips for her staff about how to raise money in tough times, and No. 3 was "Follow the market."
Read Article It all started with mosquito nets. Or, no, with guinea worm filters. Or, before that, with a million yards of wool in the mountains of Sweden. Or, taken back another generation, to uniforms for hotel and supermarket workers. There are plenty of charitable foundations and public agencies devoted to helping the world’s poor, many with instantly recognizable names like Unicef or the Gates Foundation.
Read Article The success of their fund-raising efforts in support of children in Africa has exceeded even their expectations.
Read Article Nicholas Kristof, an Op-Ed columnist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, brings attention to human rights abuses and social injustices around the world.
Read Article Life is priceless. But in Africa a long one may cost no more than $10. And after realizing what such little money can do, a group of Southeast Texans recently traveled overseas to bring health to more than a half-million children. Four people from Southeast Texas joined a national relief campaign sponsored by the United Methodist Church and spent 10 days in Africa earlier this month in an effort to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets and vaccines to poverty-stricken villages.
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Read Article Today, at the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign will announce a major commitment to send over 600,000 long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets to vulnerable refugee populations living in 27 temporary camps in East Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Read Article With a dramatic series of announcements Thursday, world leaders declared what experts just two years ago considered virtually impossible: They believe the number of deaths caused by malaria can fall from more than 1 million annually to zero by 2015.
Read Article Last year a campaign started on the DePauw University campus that saved the lives of hundreds of children by providing nets to protect them from being bitten by malaria carrying mosquitoes.
Read Article The World Health Organization (WHO) has cut its global estimate of yearly malaria cases by more than 100 million, according to a report released Thursday by the health agency. Almost all of that downward revision was attributable to updated surveillance numbers — mostly in Asia, and particularly in India — rather than a measurable reduction of actual malaria cases, agency staff said.
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