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jcoop11

American Refugee Committee: Make Your Gift Now - 0 views

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    Another organization targeting individuals to give money to those in need. The biggest problem with these organizations is their integrity. Many times, a majority of the money a person donates will go to the organization an dnot the needy. How can we refine the system?
Chelcie

Ethical Corporation: Blog - Can big companies rise to the sustainability challenge of t... - 0 views

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    This article is about how grocery stores can really be "green". Some stores "have not properly adopted organic principles and subverted the movement as it has gone mainstream."
jcoop11

MSF-USA- About Us - 0 views

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    This is probably one of the most famous health help organizations world wide. Personally I have been interested in Doctors without Borders for several years. This organization illustrates what has been done so far to help with the glabal healthcare.
Aaron Scott

Playpumps International and the PlayPump water system. Kids play. Water Pumps! :: PlayP... - 0 views

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    Here is the website to the organization that is putting in the merrygoround/waterpumps that I talked a little about today in class.
Amanda Stueve

Partners In Health: Haiti / Zanmi Lasante - 0 views

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    This is the organization I (will have) talked about in my presentation. Specifically, this is the first project for Partners In Health, Zanmi Lasante, which treats all kinds of illnesses for the people of Haiti, but sees a lot of TB and HIV/AIDS.
Lynn Dee

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: How Much E-W... - 0 views

  • Computer hardware can include plastics made with dioxin
  • When these materials get into the water supply, they can lead to birth defects and worse.
    • Lynn Dee
       
      We could just be causing new problems
  • A few years ago, the question would end there: we would have to decide whether we want portable electronics or zero harmful waste.
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  • bioplastics, which use plants to create a replacement for inorganic plastics, and organic polymer electronics,
    • Lynn Dee
       
      !!!!
Lynn Dee

XO-1 (laptop) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES Global, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat. Each company has donated two million dollars.[6]
    • Lynn Dee
       
      If more companies were generous like this, think of what we could accomplish without the restraint of money.
  • The laptops will be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”
  • ndia has rejected the initiative
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  • Human power is planned, allowing operation far from commercial sources of power.
  • All of the software on the laptop will be free and open source.[30]
Amie Mosier

Educating Language-Minority Children. - 0 views

  • CULTURE, LANGUAGE, AND DEVELOPMENT Differences in the ways groups think and act are more than a matter of using different words or performing different actions for the same purposes. Differences in cultures are more substantial than whether members of a community eat white bread, corn pone, or tortillas. The behavior of people varies, and the beliefs, values, and assumptions that underlie behavior differ as well. Culture influences both behavior and the psychological processes on which it rests. Culture forms a prism through which members of a group see the world and create shared meanings. And a group's culture is reflected by the group's language. Child development follows a pattern similar to that of culture. Major structural changes in children, such as language learning, arise from the interaction of biology and experience. Such changes are remarkably similar in kind and sequence among cultural groups. But the knowledge and skills--the cultural learning--the child acquires at various ages depend on the child's family and community. Learning a primary language is a developmental milestone. However, which language a child learns and the uses to which that language is put are determined by the culture. As the ideas from a child's social world are brought to bear through the guidance of the older members of the community, children come to share meanings with their elders. Classroom discourse presents children with the challenge of learning new rules for communication. The use of formal language, teacher control of verbal exchanges, question-and-answer formats, and references to increasingly abstract ideas characterize the classroom environment. To the extent that these new rules overlap with those that children have already learned, classroom communication is made easier. But children whose past experience with language is not congruent with the new rules will have to learn ways to make meaning before they can use language to learn in the classroom. When teachers and students come from different cultures or use different languages or dialects, teachers may be unaware of variations between their understanding of a context and their students'; between their expectations for behavior and the children's inclinations. When children and adults do not share common experiences and beliefs, adults are less able to help children encode their thoughts in language. TEACHING CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES Teachers facing the challenge of teaching children from different cultural communities are hard-pressed to decide what constitutes an appropriate curriculum. If children from some groups are hesitant to speak up in school, how can teachers organize expressive language experiences? If children from some groups are dependent on nonverbal cues for meaning, how can teachers stress word meaning? How can teachers test for mastery of the curriculum if children do not speak a standard language or use the same styles of communication? Cultural diversity makes it hard for teachers to assess each child's developmental status, find common educational experiences to promote growth, and measure the achievement of educational objectives. Given the complex interaction between culture and development, is it possible to design a developmentally appropriate curriculum? If that question implies that the same curriculum can be used for all children, the answer must be "no." However, the following developmental principles can provide a conceptual framework for teachers trying to bridge the gap between children's cultural backgrounds and school objectives.
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     And idea of why culture language and development are important.
Amie Mosier

Wings Of Luv Foundation - 0 views

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    the wings of love foundation is out to overcome hatred and seek peace between us. Much like many other peace organizations. But I found this one to be very neat.
Amie Mosier

Iraq Peace Team - 0 views

shared by Amie Mosier on 28 May 07 - Cached
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    another organization to help put peace back into iraq
jcoop11

Medical Director's Message - 0 views

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    Canadian Organization that needs individual donations to ehlp make a better tomorrow. It seems they are helping children who are suffering from major diseases and injuries. They are not just looking for overall betterment of the area, but instead, one child at a time.
jcoop11

Institute for OneWorld Health-How to Get Involved - 0 views

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    What seems to be the great thing about this organization, is that they want help in all areas. It isn't just money they want, they are offering volunteer opportunities, jobs, etc. They have goals for diseases and a way to achieve these goals.
jcoop11

US Doctors For Africa - 0 views

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    Another organization similar to Doctors without Borders, but has a centralized focus on Africa. Moving from planner to searcher solution.
Amanda Stueve

DEVELOPMENT: Keeping Civil Society on the Straight and Narrow - 0 views

  • Quite a large number of civil society organisations and NGOs have no organically-evolved mandate from the citizens,"
  • Mkaronda said complaints about NGO conduct may sometimes stem from public misunderstanding about the roles of these groups: "For example, the Zimbabwean community in South Africa expects us to mobilise resources to sort out shelter, feeding and legal (immigration) status. Yet our role is to highlight the crisis in Zimbabwe."
  • believes self-regulation may hold the key to improving matters: "It would be a good idea if NGOs and civil society groups came up with a code of conduct like the one which guides other professionals such as medical doctors and lawyers."
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  • These include working "in genuine partnership" with local organisations and communities; complying with governance, accounting and reporting obligations in countries of operation; and balancing expectations of NGOs with the salaries needed to attract competent staff, when deciding on remuneration.
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    Puts forth some ideas that could make NGO's more effective. One thing noted is that even NGO's have to pay their employees wages high enough to have a low turnover rate, or else they cannot be effective.
Aaron Scott

Poverty - The Global Relations of the Many Nations - 0 views

  • All over the world, countries are stricken with famine. Children and adults alike are forced to live in miserable circumstances without proper living conditions or enough food. This situation, known as poverty, is an economic condition brought about when people lack sufficient income to be able to provide health services, h
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    This site explores some social and historical causes of poverty, as well as other issues, in a number of countries including the US. It also has testimonies of those who have struggled with poverty and different organizations and ways to get involved to help the cause of the people around the world.
jcoop11

HEALTH- Handwashing Could Save a Million Lives a Year - 0 views

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    My searcher solution. Handwashing is something so simple, but can save millions from disease. We have to look into why the government and health organizations are not pushing this!
jcoop11

Architects Without Borders - 0 views

shared by jcoop11 on 25 May 07 - Cached
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    Possible way to provide healthcare facilities to areas in need. I wonder if it is realistic to create an organization whose sole purpose is building reflief clinics?
Aaron Scott

Project Concern International: Health and poverty solutions for children in need - Proj... - 0 views

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    This organization works to fight against poverty by providing health care and development to those communities and families that can't afford it. Interestingly, on its mission statement page, one of its operating principles listed is Accountability, which is what Easterly said was one of the things that seperated planners and searchers.
elligant35

Kansas Fact Sheet: KS agriculture income population food education employment farms top... - 0 views

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      This website is linked to USDA Economic Research. This page also list the amount of poverty for each Area in Kansas by grouping all the rural towns together and urban cities. It further details the graduation rate of person who live in poverty throughout Kansas. This site also lists the area in which farms are used to aid in the crisis of poverty throughout Kansas.
Lynn Dee

The Center for Clean Products - Welcome - 0 views

  • develop, evaluate, and promote cleaner products and cleaner technologies that minimize pollution at the source and contribute to long-term sustainable development.
    • Lynn Dee
       
      this site is dedicated to that mission of the organization and gives different examples of things that are being done and things that can be done.
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