Very soon, President Obama soon be joined by new Cabinet members, including a new Secretary of State.  A new session of Congress also includes new faces, with more than 90 new members. As the Obama Administration and Congress set their international agendas, new bipartisan polling data released by the Better World Campaign shows that an overwhelming majority of American voters – 86 percent – believe it’s important for the U.S. to maintain an active role […]

The Center for Strategic and International Studies recently created a video featuring Malawi’s first female president, Joyce Banda, talking about the importance of women’s health and empowerment.   Blog and Video by Janet Fleischman and Julia Nagel When Joyce Banda unexpectedly ascended to the presidency of Malawi last April, after the death of President Mutharika, many in her country and around the world wondered what her impact would be as Malawi’s first female president.  Among

Around this time of year, a lot of people are already struggling to keep some of the resolutions they made just a few days earlier. But some resolutions are too important to break.  Fifteen years ago, Ted Turner made a bold commitment to donate $1 billion to help the United Nations tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.  In the time since, his donation — and the additional support and the resolution of partners like

It’s not every day someone is bold enough to give away one-third of their net worth to help make the world a better place. But when Ted Turner donated $1 billion 15 years ago to help the United Nations tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, it inspired a new wave of philanthropy. New York Times’ columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes in his latest column how Turner’s generous gift not only led to the creation

Follow our live Twitter coverage of a special session on technology, social media, and mass-participation on Thursday, January 24 at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Recent developments in mobile and social technology—combined with the emergence of mass participatory models in business, media and politics— are rapidly changing citizen expectation about empowerment, democracy, choice and engagement— not just in the North, but globally. What do world leaders think about this emerging trend? And what should they know about how people power

This morning, our global community joined in a conversation about people power and social good via Twitter at the World Economic Forum in Davos, quite literally changing the shape of the conversation. Here’s a quick rundown of some of our favorite posts. Before the session, we asked for examples of  #peoplepower at work for #social good…     During the panel, we heard from those at the session at Davos, and those following the conversation