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Welcome to GES 2010

April 14-18 at Northwestern University

Announcements

Lahza – The Power of Participatory Photography
Nov 6, 2009

Josh Nesbit & FrontlineSMS:Medic – Alumni Spotlight
Nov 5, 2009

Global Engagement Summit: Our Greatest Strength is Also Our Greatest Weakness
Nov 4, 2009

“Hibakusha”: The Power of Survivors
Nov 4, 2009

Our Newest Media

Get Informed

Learn about what matters to GES and a small selection of websites and organizations that inspire us.
Change.org
Change.org raises awareness about important causes and empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits.

SocialEdge.org
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

SSIReview.org
Strategies, tools, and ideas for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses.

ForeignPolicy.com
Equal parts scout and translator, FP draws on the world’s leading journalists, thinkers, and professionals to analyze the most significant international trends and events of our times, without regard to ideology or political bias.

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GES Alumni & Facilitator Blogs

 
GES Alumni and Facilitators do great things. An introductory collection of their recent blog posts is below. Want your blog included in our collection? Email our Alumni Team.
from Britt Bravo
Come On, U.S., Give the Kids Their Rights
November 20, 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). According to UNICEF, "The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding internati...

Fund raising phone apps: Update from Europe and the US on what works, what doesn't.
I wrote about raising money on mobile phones in my June 19, 2009 blog, and noted the cost barriers that keep most NPO's away from this technology, but apps for iPhones and other smart phones getting c...

FrontlineSMS:Medic at PopTech
Pop!Tech has published the presentations from this year's Social Innovation Fellows, and I thought I'd share the 5-minute talk on FrontlineSMS:Medic and the Hope Phones campaign. The fellowship progra...

Socratic Leadership
My friend and former Do Good Well blogger, Nathaniel Whittemore, has added a great post over at Change.org, “How Your Leader’s Expertise Can Become your Company’s Biggest Weakness.&#...

from Nathaniel Whittemore
Unofficial Results for America's Giving Challenge
Sponsored by Causes, Parade Magazine, the Case Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the second annual America's Giving Challenge has come to an end. According to the unofficial results, the Ov...

from Eileen
Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships: What Makes Them Work
  It has become common practice for nonprofits and corporations to partner in a variety of ways. One could involve a corporation sponsoring a nonprofit event. Another kind of partnership could in...