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Commerce équitable. Tourisme responsable. Remnants of the Biosphere. [Editor's Note: The photographer has gotten in touch with me again, on January 13, 2010, requesting that these images be taken down due to the unexpectedly specific terms of a usage agreement originally signed with Biosphere 2.

Remnants of the Biosphere

The images have thus also been taken down from Sheldon's own site. With any luck, however, these images will reappear in public sooner than later; for now, I have to honor the request of the photographer. The text of this post and the entirety of the often quite animated comments thread will remain. Apologies for this turn of events!] Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert.

"The structure was billed as the first large habitat for humans that would live and breathe on its own, as cut off from the earth as a spaceship," the New York Times wrote back in 1992, but the project was a near-instant failure.

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8 Ways Tech-Based Foundations Are Changing Philanthropy. Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Not so long ago, most major U.S. foundations fit the image of the giant East Coast institution, rooted in fortunes made by titans of the manufacturing and extractive industries. For decades, the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations carried out sweeping programs on a scale that rivaled those of governments. Many public reforms and institutions were buoyed by their efforts, including public broadcasting, public libraries, and the Green Revolution. Here are eight ways in which the new tech philanthropies are making their mark: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Le Financement de projet. CSI info 9 Chapitre 8 Financement de projet et collecte de fonds Indications pour démarrer la collecte de fonds pour des projets et des ONG Ce chapitre sera utile aux organisations et leurs projets dans le cadre de leur collecte de fonds.

le Financement de projet

(Certaines parties de ce chapitre sont adaptées de Norton, 1996.) La collecte de fonds est une activité essentielle pour les ONG – même les plus petits projets ont besoin d’argent. Elément clé de la collecte de fonds - oser demander de l’argent. Avant de commencer une collecte de fonds, réfléchissez et réfléchissez encore pour savoir si votre organisation ou votre projet sont prêts, et aptes à dépenser de l’argent et consacrer du temps à un programme de collecte.

International Year of Microcredit 2005. “L’Année Internationale du Microcrédit 2005 souligne l’importance de la microfinance comme partie intégrante de notre effort collectif visant à atteindre les Objectifs de Développement du Millénaire.

International Year of Microcredit 2005

L’accès durable au microfinancement contribue à atténuer la pauvreté en générant des revenus, en créant des emplois, en donnant la possibilité aux enfants d’aller à l’école, en permettant aux familles d’obtenir des soins médicaux et en donnant les moyens aux populations de faire les choix qui répondent le mieux à leurs besoins. Le grand défi qui se dresse devant nous est d’aborder les contraintes qui font obstacle à la pleine participation des populations au secteur financier. Ensemble, nous pouvons et devons construire des secteurs financiers intégrants qui aident les populations à améliorer leurs conditions d’existence”. -- Secrétaire Général Kofi Annan, 29 décembre 2003. Grameen Bank and `microcredit' The `wonderful story' that never happened. Mohammad Yunus accepts the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Grameen Bank and `microcredit' The `wonderful story' that never happened

Far from being a panacea for fighting rural poverty, microcredit can impose additional burdens on the rural poor, without markedly improving their socio-economic condition, write Patrick Bond and Khorshed Alam. October 21, 2010 -- Pambazuka News -- For years, the example of microcredit in Bangladesh has been touted as a model of how the rural poor can lift themselves out of poverty. This widely held perception was boosted in 2006 when Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the microfinance institution he set up, jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize. In South Asia in particular, and the world in general, microcredit has become a gospel of sorts, with Yunus as its prophet. Consider this outlandish claim, made by Yunus as he got started in the late 1970s: "Poverty will be eradicated in a generation.

How I Did It: EBay’s Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change. The Idea: Omidyar was inspired by eBay’s social impact to create a hybrid model for his philanthropic Omidyar Network: a combination of nonprofit and for-profit.

How I Did It: EBay’s Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change

My journey as a philanthropist began in September 1998, on the day eBay went public. I’d spent two weeks helping with the pre-IPO road show, and we’d arrived at the New York office of Goldman Sachs. I was exhausted. The actual moment was pretty anticlimactic. 100 Best Companies to Work For 2010: Full list - from FORTUNE.

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