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• Microfinance’s Circular Firing Squad

  
  SeaMo: Connecting the Microfinance Community — Authority: 481
  Much ado I, like many in the microfinance community, have been following the debate that David Roodman initiated on his Open Book blog with regard to Kiva ’s transparency. It’s a worthwhile discussion, certainly, and one that has already prompted action from Kiva–with a change to their “How Kiva Works” ...
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• CAP, Chamber of Commerce, Rick Hess team up to Bash Public Schools

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 527
  From a new report produced by the Center for American Progress, the US Chamber of Commerce, and AEIs Rick Hess: Twenty-five years ago, when the National Commission on Excellence in Education released A Nation At Risk, overhauling our countrys schools became a national priority. In the intervening years, some ...
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• Global challenges and opportunities in fighting HIV/AIDS and neglected diseases

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  Health Affairs thematic issue on global health examines looming financial pressures in the world’s response to HIV and AIDS; offers solutions for combating neglected tropical diseases and saving millions of livesBethesda, MD — Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases ...
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• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Launches Collaborative Effort to Improve College Graduation Rates

  
  Philanthropy Front and Center-Cleveland — Authority: 420
  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced  (November 5, 2009) $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families , and seven cities to boost college graduation rates by better coordinating the services that colleges, schools and communities provide to students. ...
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• Protecting Children from Rotavirus

  
  ONE — Authority: 490
  If you watched Bill and Melinda Gates’ “Impatient Optimists” presentation, you probably remember this discussion about rotavirus, and the deadly impact it can have on children:The Living Proof Project also has this great corresponding photo gallery documenting clinics in Managua and Pantasma, Nicaragua where ...
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• Elias Zerhouni Talks Public Health Challenges, Culture Wars at WBBA Annual Meeting

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , Life Sciences , healthcare Gregory T. Huang wrote: Just came back from the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association’s annual meeting in downtown Seattle, where 500-plus biotechies and distinguished guests (including more than a few local politicians) gathered for a ...
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• Mesa Receives Grant to Improve College Graduation Rates

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  Mesa Community College, City of Mesa and Mesa Public Schools linking services to improve college graduation ratesMesa, AZ - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  05 November 2009 BERKELEY — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. Dr. Jack Colford , professor of epidemiology at UC ...
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• $21 Million Sweet Potato Project Launched in Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  In an effort to improve nutrition, incomes and food security, the International Potato Centre (CIP) has launched an Africa-wide project to exploit the untapped potential of sweet potato in eight African countries over a five-year period, a statement said Thursday. Tagged Sweet potato Action for Security and Health in ...
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• Grant to Improve College Graduation Rates in Phoenix

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  The City of Phoenix and Maricopa Community Colleges Receive Grant to Improve College Graduation RatesPhoenix, AZ – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• CFR Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity to Drive Up Demand for H1N1 Vaccine

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 149
  Laughter as dignitaries discuss making vaccine mandatory, tricking public into taking itA recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public to take the H1N1 flu vaccine in spite of the mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over ...
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• Dendreon Files FDA Application, DxBox Reaches Turning Point, ISB to Do 100 Genomes, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Roundup , Biotech , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: The local life sciences scene was pretty quiet this week, although we heard more than usual from medical device companies. —Paul Yager, the University of Washington’s chair of bioengineering, offered a detailed status update on a tool called the DxBox ...
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• Breastfeeding in Ghana

  
  ONE — Authority: 490
  As part of the Living Proof Project, which we’ve covered extensively here on the ONE Blog, the Gates Foundation has posted this photo gallery following women at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana. It’s part of a larger discussion about the benefits and techniques of breastfeeding, which were also examined in ...
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• Nearly 100 schools sign up for Gates-funded teacher quality study

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 623
  A two-year project to study what makes a teacher good or bad is taking root in some of the city’s schools after struggling to bring teachers on board. The United Federation of Teachers and the city’s Department of Education announced in September that they had joined forces to promote a study of teacher ...
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• Quelques questions autour des projets financés par la Fondation Gates

  
  Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA — Authority: 118
  En cette fin dannée 2009 il est essentiel pour lorganisation de la lutte antitabac dans les pays dAfrique francophone que les activistes continuent (ou commencent) à réclamer dêtre partie prenante et décisionnaire dans le cadre des programmes géants (par rapport à ce qui existait auparavant) dont lobjectif ...
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• IDRC-CRDI récapitulatif mis à jour des projets financés

  
  Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA — Authority: 118
  Si IDRC publie maintenant les données de base relatives aux subventions accordées, celles-ci ne sont pas regroupées en un seul endroit et ne font généralement pas lobjet dun communiqué de presse ou de la diffusion dune information au sein de la communauté des activistes antitabac. Nous essayons de rassembler ...
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• ATCRI receives 137 100 CAD from IDRC to manage a multicountry program

  
  Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA — Authority: 118
  The succinct description of the project is on IDRCs site . The budget (for 10 months) is US$ 127.293. The countries involved are: Bénin, Botswana,Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Togo and Uganda. A post on ATCRIs site mentions a first meeting in Lagos in early October. African Tobacco Control ...
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• UW Scientists, Backed by Gates Foundation, Enter “Put Up or Shut Up” Phase with Portable Diagnostic

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , Diagnostics , Global Health Luke Timmerman wrote: When somebody gets a fever in a poor country, there is no quick or easy way to tell whether it’s a symptom of flu, malaria, a bacterial invader, or some other bug. And if you don’t what it is, then it’s hard to treat. So it’s only ...
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• "Disrupting" High School Failure

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 417
  Can you legislate graduation rates?  Today, the Washington Post editorial board called on the state of Maryland to raise the compulsory age for school attendance, essentially using state law to require students to stay in Maryland high schools until the age of 18 (it is 16 now).  The move, following on the heels of ...
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• ATCA receives a one year grant of $ 281.248 from IDRC (Gates Foundation funding)

  
  Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA — Authority: 118
  The details are on the IDRCs website . This grant awarded on September 22 complements the $50K awarded earlier this year by the Norwegian Cancer Society. Here for a list of the Board members of ATCA. Regional projects — Sub-Saharan Africa   ...
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