Humanitarian Field Guide

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Humanitarian Field Guide: Ideas, Inspiration, Methods and Tools Resources and Tools to Create Change in the World

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Copyright © 2014 Chris E. Stout All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-1500535070

What others have to say about the author …

He is “...one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature.” Hartwick College <> “(we) appreciate Dr. Chris Stout's outstanding service to the nation as a member of the Baldrige national quality program evaluation team for healthcare.” Ronald H. Brown, United States Secretary of Commerce <> “We are indeed grateful to you... (for) having been in the forefront of advocacy throughout the years, and to have helped to create and shape psychology.” Richard M. Suinn, PhD, APA President 1998-9, and Jack Wiggins, PhD, APA President 1992-3 <> “Chris is a true model for not only his young peers to emulate, but for all of us to admire.” Stephen Pfeiffer, PhD, Executive Director, AAP <> “More action, and less rhetoric, to improve the health and well-being of people is a fruitful approach to global peace. Chris should be commended for his systematically working toward his goals.” Dan Leviton, PhD, U. Of Maryland <> “(Chris) is results-oriented, has a positive mind, is generous and true. This guy is a star.” Dominique-Henri Freiche Paris <>

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“There is optimism and vulnerability that filter through Chris' world view and suffuse his work. His energy is respectful of others and hopeful for the world and we are all better for it.” Leigh W. Jerome, PhD Hawaii <> “From Forrest Gump (with a brain) to entrepreneur and global missionary.

Nice! God bless you and your work.” Drew Edwards, EdD <> “When I first met Chris, it was at the TED conference in Monterey. We had a brief discussion which has impacted my life ever since. One phrase, ‘do important things’ changed how I look at who I am, what I do in life, and how it effects others. From minor activities to large projects, I now view them in a different context. This adds depth and new textures to my actions which were previously unavailable to how I lived in the real world.” Ted Stout (not related), ROI <> “It is inspirational to see someone accomplish as much as Chris has, and then keep right on going.” Leslie Piotrowski, Lake County Health Department <> “Impressive and inspiring. Very fast with hard core heart and guts galore.

This is a man who is truly paying it forward and providing human-kind the resources for generative change across the globe.” Bill Denne, LCSW <> “Chris Stout is a remarkable man. He has the intellect of Bernard Baruch, the fearlessness of Evel Knievel and the affability of Bill Clinton.” Ralph Musicant, JD, Harvard Law v

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<> “Strong in the face of adversity, thoughtful, kind, conscientious, compassionate, intelligent and inspiring! What a world it would be if only we could say that Chris Stout's story is a norm.” Debbie Carvalko, Praeger Publishers <> “Dr. Stout a wonderful example of how creativity, discipline, fierce intelligence, and genuine caring can together move the world in extraordinary new directions.” D. R. Baerger, PhD, JD, Chicago <> “Dr. Stout's experiences have brought to him a level of understanding I can only hope to aspire to one day.” Andrew Garman, PsyD, MA, Rush University <> “Chris' story has brought tears to my eyes - tears of admiration, inspiration, and encouragement. It is not easy for any of us to take the initiative, to move outside of comfortable boundaries, to want to change the world and to do something active, risky and meaningful to make a difference. Chris seems well on his way to making his life a true contribution to the lives of others.”

Fields Wicker-Miurin, London <>

“I met Chris on a Flying Doctors mission to Vietnam. He is one of the most genuine and impressive people I've met. He walks the talk. A gem.” Nancy Beahm Koritz, Tokyo <> vi

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“I have known Chris for almost 20 years and I am still consistently amazed by his energy, sincerity, intellect and humility. He is an unparalleled dreamer and doer. There have been many times when I was inspired by his worldview and felt privileged simply to be in his company. There are not many people who can say that they left the world a better place than they found it, but Chris is certainly one of them.” Cam Helkowski, MA, Loyola University <> “Dr. Stout's vision is compassionate, creative and sizzling with energy. A truly inspirational leader!” Giovanni Caracci, MD, New York City <> “I have known Chris over two years for his contributions to the World Economic Forum. He has offered great input and insight to the forum on many health related issues. He has a passion for solving ‘huge human problems’ and he sees health as one of the primary ones. I am sure that in the future his talent and leadership will bring him to find even bigger answers for bigger problems.” Maurizio Travaglini Geneva

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Dedication Thank you for what you do in the world to make it a better place.

I hope this little book may be of some help. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CES

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments

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Foreword

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Chapter 1

Introduction

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The Field Guide: Your Ladder to Reach Higher

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Humanitarian Film Club

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LinkedIn Influencer Blogs

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Selected Essays from the Center for Global Initiatives Blog

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The Psychological Impact of Globalization

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Online Courses

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Virtual Library Resources

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Off To A Great Start

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Detailed Contents of Curated DropBox Materials

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Useful Links/Websites

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Web Resources

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Acknowledgments My thanks to Hanying Wang, MS, for all of her help and amazing skill that went into the creation of the manuscript. Thanks to all of those who have volunteered to create the Center. You all have helped to make the world a better place. Thanks, and keep it upâ&#x20AC;Ś

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Foreword Chris’ adventuresome life has taken him to a variety of exotic and often not-so-safe locals and it is through the work he has done in these venues that resulted not only in his Center for Global Initiatives, but also The New Humanitarians he’s written about. He has done well with many of the aspects I wrote about in Never Eat Alone but applied them in the milieu of humanitarian work. He and I share a kinship as Chris was a reviewer for the Abe awards that I founded, as a fellow Baldrige Award Reviewer, we were both “TEDizens” during the Richard Saul Wurman era, and having been elected as Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and serving as faculty in Davos.

While Chris is able to contribute to Davos talks and UN presentations, he is much more at home working in the field and with his students. He is known for bringing together people in crossdisciplinary projects world-wide—in healthcare, medical education, human rights, poverty, conflict, policy, sustainable development, and diplomacy.

– Keith Ferrazzi , Ferrazzi Greenlight

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Introduction

How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

“Change the world.” It always struck me that saying that sounded a lot like grandiose hubris, or at best, a dauntingly overwhelming task. The utter impossibility of it seemed certain until I realized that it can mean helping one person at a time. That is a theme you’ll see throughout this book and our websites and our work. I have added some of my Linkedin Influencer blogs/essays that I hope may be inspirational, also.

And, I have to say, I must give a big thank you to LinkedIn, and honestly, compared to the other 449 Influencers, I really feel that I am not worthy. But with every blog I post, I so much appreciate the support and opportunity. Forever in your debt LinkedIn… How to Use This Book The format of this book is inspired by Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen Appendices, not so much the diary aspect but rather the overwhelmingly large collection of information in the various appendices. Additionally, this book is an “analog” version, if you 5

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will, of the content and links found at the CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org website and the associated DropBox account.

Open-Sourced Humanitarian Interventionism It’s long been my goal to make life easier for those working in humanitarian and volunteer endeavors, as well as those in need of help. Indeed, in one way or another, we all need help in one form or another. So, just about everything you find herein and on the Center’s website, is free of charge, and a lot you could also find for yourself. What I’ve tried to do is speed up the search, vet what has been found, and then curate the results, making them as readily and easily available as I know how to. This is my dream of open-sourcing humanitarian work.

Current Content, For Pretty Close To Forever The reason for this “reverse engineering” is twofold. First, the amount of content and links on the Center’s website may not always be apparent to the novel user. This book allows for near complete exposure to the functional tools and content that await the online user. Second, this book will never be out-of-date, in that when new content becomes available via uploads to the DropBox account, you’ll be able to read that as well. All you have to do is email me and ask to be linked (I’m at DrChrisStout@gmail.com). I curate the content constantly. You can also request being added to our mailing list via my email address as well if you’d like to be kept up-to-date on events and other relevant content. We welcome your joining!

DropBox Contents Currently, the Overview Table of Contents includes the following. A detailed list is in Appendix I. I. Disaster Relief a. Guidelines b. Sphere II. Foreign Affairs/Global Health III. Fundraising 6

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a. About.com b. Affinity c. Applying d. Card Partner e. Causes-Facebook f. CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Examples g. Donors and Donations h. End of the Year Fundraising i. FirstGiving j. Getting Started k. Global Impact l. GoodSearch m. Grant Tools n. Guidestar o. Marketing p. Network For Good q. Organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Examples r. Small Groups Newsletter s. Social Actions Grant 2010 t. Social Media and Online Resources u. Sponsorship v. The Zen of Fundraising IV. Global Health a. Adler School of Professional Psychology b. Biotechnologies c. Blind Optimism d. Center for Strategic and International Studies e. Certification f. Curriculum g. Diseases h. Finances i. Global Health Forum j. IABMCP k. Medical Tourism l. Medicine m. Misc. and General Information n. Rx for Child Survival 7

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o. Social Determinants and Social Justice p. Students q. Trauma V. Humanitarianism a. 10 Tactics b. Another Day in Paradise c. Humanitarian Intervention d. Leading Without Power e. Misc. f. Saving Strangers g. White Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burden VI. International Psychology.

VII. Internship Training Ideas a. AAPIC b. ABTC c. Global Volunteers d. Misc.

VIII. Mental Health a. IASC b. Misc. c. Trauma IX. MENTOR a. 101â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s b. Becoming a 501(c)3 c. Can Entrepreneurs Save the World d. Certification in Nonprofit Management e. Guides and Training Manuals f. Information Activism g. Misc. and General Information h. Not Med School i. Planning for 2012 j. Tool Kit for Helping your Focus X. Misc. Readings a. How to Change the World b. Misc.

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i. Echoing Green b. Global Health Resource Center c. Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery d. Guerrilla Marketing Coach e. International Center for Health Leadership Development f. Maternal and Child Health Management Academy g. Misc. h. The GW Center for Global Health XII. Not For Profit a. Books b. Misc. c. Planning for 2012 d. Starting and Building a Nonprofit e. Volunteer Management XIII. Not For Profit For Dummies XIV. Nuts and Bolts a. Applications b. Attendance Certificate c. Curriculum d. Evaluations e. Misc. f. Standards, Goals and Criteria XV. Psychology and Medical Disaster Training a. Misc. b. Sphere XVI. Publicity and Social Networks a. Cause Marketing b. Getting Attention c. GuideStar d. Misc. e. Network for Good f. Newsletters g. Nonprofit Marketing Guide h. Publicity for Nonprofits i. TechSoup XVII. Social media 9

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XVIII. Tools a. Internet Tools b. Misc. c. TechSoup d. College Toolkit XIX. Volunteering and Board Management XX. Wiley Non Profit But Wait, Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Moreâ&#x20AC;Ś Additionally, other essays from my work as a LinkedIn Influencer, my Center for Global Initiatives blog and elsewhere are reprised herein. I hope these may be inspirational or perhaps thought provoking and also provide some help in your work.

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The Field Guide: Your Ladder to Reach Higher If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Teresa There seems to be a wonderful phenomenon afoot in what appears to be a significant up-tick in interest in volunteerism. Books like Allison Thompson’s The Third Wave highlight many people’s desire to help post catastrophe (e.g., 9/11, Sri Lankan Tsunamis, and Haitian earthquakes). Rock stars’ such as Bono and Peter Gabriel, along with film-stars like Mark Walberg and Sean Penn, also add to the media attention and thus perhaps fuel some volunteers’ motivations. I, too, have found that via many of my talks, expositions, and dealings with graduate students (psych, social work, public health), pre-med and med-students as well as midcareer and senior psychologists, that there is a wonderful level of interest in doing more for others.

I know from the work in my three volumes of The New Humanitarians (Praeger, 2009), that many individuals who I had met in Davos at the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum, or perhaps at a TED conference, or a Renaissance Weekend, or a Bolivian prison, or an abandoned hospital in Halong Bay, were not satisfied helping various causes by just writing checks of support or volunteering, these individuals preferred to actually start their own 11

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organizations—to enact their passionate humanitarian interests.

Now while these impressive individuals come from varied backgrounds—cashing out of start-ups, flush with equal amounts of cash and talent—to those with less money but a willingness to have skin in the game in order to make a difference—they all share the common denominator of changing the world. Not in a pretentious, abstract cliché, but really, honestly, changing the world.

I founded the Center for Global Initiatives (CGI), somewhat accidentally (as was publicly discussed at the 2011 Annual Convention of the APA). While I am nowhere close to the amazing people I interviewed for The New Humanitarians, I found that via an organization, mentorship, and some cool-tools (thank you Web 2.0), a lot can be leveraged and done to make real and significant differences in peoples’ lives. You’d be surprised.

The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to create selfsustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world. We believe in the “power of the small project,” wherein generally we do this by: • • • •

Serving as an incubator for new initiatives that creatively solve health care inequities throughout the world.

Acting as a collaborator with individuals and organizations in developing and launching projects that address the needs of medically impoverished populations.

Functioning as a facilitator in directing public and private resources towards programs aimed at improving health.

Working as an educator to provide new information and tools to empower others.

I was asked to help with projects in Bolivia, Cambodia, India, Tanzania, and Benin. And we did it! It wasn’t too difficult, but it also wasn’t obvious on how structure things state-side in order to be of help to those in need and to be able to have donors rightfully gain a tax-deduction for their support.

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Tyranny of the 501(c)(3) I had no idea how difficult it is to establish a not-for-profit, let alone the costs involved, the tax-reporting requirements (hey, I thought this was a tax-EXEMPT organization and we still have to file federal and state taxes, and they are not 1040 forms but 990s??

What’s a 990???). CGI is an all-volunteer organization, so once we hit our capacity-limit of five projects we could manage on-going, and others were still in need of out help, we decided to help others capacity!

I began to realize that it would be great if there was a website where you could find out about all the places on the internet that help you learn how to fundraise, connect to other not-for-profit organizations, or teach you how to set-up your own..?! These were the questions I found myself fielding on a weekly basis.

And most people do not want to have to create their own 501(c)(3), recruit a board of directors, host a website and build its content, fundraise, get a PayPal account, do audit-worthy financial reporting and tax-accounting, and spend all the months and thousands of dollars needed to get going. They just wanted to do the work!

Thus this Field Guide…!

In response to this demand, we developed a set of tools that are freely available to anyone for the surfing to come to our site and download medial libraries: • •

Spanish, English, and Multi-lingual medical dictionaries, translators, glossaries, and search engines.

Downloadable Medical Library that includes: A Book for Midwives, A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities, A Workers Guide to Health and Safety, Community Guide to Environmental Health, Helping Children Who Are Deaf, 13

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Helping Children Who Are Blind, HIV, Health and Your Community, Where There Is No Dentist, Where There Is No Doctor, Where Women Have No Doctor, and Women's Health Exchange Flight Discounts If you are volunteering on a CGI project or any other recognized international project or conference, you may qualify for discounted roundtrip airfare via our relationship with www.flyforgood.com, where airlines select routes around the world that are common for humanitarian travelers and discount them based upon season and availability and so some routes do not have discounted fares, just so you know. Additionally helpful benefits include: 1. Changes to airline tickets with reduced fees 50-75% lower than regular tickets.

2. Refundable fares with reduced penalties 50-75% lower than regular tickets.

3. Free stopovers to cities while traveling internationally at no cost (in case you need a break).

4. Add additional piece of luggage beyond the normal 2 piece rule.

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What in the World is Going on?

While there are a significant number of organizations working in global health and various other humanitarian efforts, there is a problem of those efforts being coordinated—or at lease aware of one another. For example, I was at a meeting at the College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently and it was noted that numerous departments and schools (e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, and others) were all involved in global health and/or international projects but at the time, none were aware of the other, let alone coordinated.

This is amplified in my area, Chicago. There are many programs, non-profits, universities, professional schools, graduate and undergraduate programs, foundations, service clubs (e.g., Rotary International), and other organizations all doing great work globally, but few connecting with each other.

I gave an invited talk at a local Rotary Club and randomly happened to talk to a member that’s just come back from a dental mission in the Amazon. I was just getting ready to go there in support of a Flying Doctors’ trip and it occurred to me that it was highly likely that those we were going to work with likely presumed that all of us well-intended Gringos we’re centrally coordinating these endeavors. Ha-ha.

This lack of coordination equates to wasting of valuable resources—donated time of professionals, donated medicines and materials, money, environmental impact, etc. Worst of all, there is the iatrogenic risk of harming those we may over-treat with medicines already prescribed.

Thankfully, there are nascent connections being formed. The three medical schools that have global health programs in Chicago (University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine) are now coordinating with one another. The 15

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Center for Global Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago has created a wonderfully helpful website where projects can be posted with descriptions and contact information. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at: http://globalhealth.uic.edu/types/projects and here is a screenshot:

Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention The Center for Global Initiatives is working in close partnership with The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in developing the Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention. We have developed a growing membership with other organizations, medical schools, and universities via formalized memoranda of understanding. As of this writing, it is just forming. If you are interested in your organization becoming a member, please be in 16

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touch with me and I’ll forward our information document. There are no fees or such in this new entity.

The Consortium is the first such entity of its kind devoted to bringing together multidisciplinary professionals as well as students to work collaboratively in an integrated and sustainable fashion. It will represent a collaborative of medical schools, graduate schools, schools of public health and other institutions of higher learning with non-governmental organizations and in-country partners.

Participants generally focus on the complex issues involved in community crises, healthcare inequities, humanitarian emergencies and/or relief situations. All activities will be grounded in science/evidence-based practice models and best practices in culturally diverse communities with public accountability and transparency.

The Consortium will reach across disciplines and international borders to bring together partners to provide education, training and research programs that cross-cut with primary care, behavioral healthcare, and public healthcare services within a contest of social justice that addresses health inequalities. We seek to eschew the many disconnects between separation of body/mind, physical/mental, individual/community, and offer a synthetic model of integration. The causal role of behavior in health is too often ignored, resulting in vicious spirals of illness. We see ourselves as being members of a global community of hope, focusing on inherent strengths, and augmenting recovery and resilience. The Goals include: • Advance the education and performance of local and international professionals and students in health-related fields to meet the challenges of health inequalities and humanitarian interventions; • Maintain a philosophy and approach as that of a collaborator and colleague; • Augment inherent strengths and resilience; • Improve preparedness for reacting to manmade and natural disasters and their aftermath; 17

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Strengthen collaboration as well as the sharing of experience and knowledge among various stakeholders in global health inequities (primary care, behavioral healthcare, and public health); Improve people's lives by decreasing premature death and disability with a special focus on the underserved, refugee and immigrant populations’ needs; Provide clinical services; Augment existing medical, psychological, and science education, research, and service capacity (including health education); Build capacity of local communities to improve health and healthcare access; Motivate the public and private sectors to drive consensus and action for the improvement of health globally and to influence relevant policy; Fold in issues of behavioral health, violence, and prevention as public health concerns; Integrate ALL the health sciences and services with policy and advocacy at both the governmental and nongovernmental levels in order to create subsequent funding methods and sources, capacity building, and sustainable development.

No preexisting organization needs to alter its offerings, curricula, courses or syllabi. Instead, membership in the Consortium allows for easier and more rapid access to potential collaborators to partner on grants, research, publishing, international training experiences or service opportunities. The Consortium will be both a proverbial (albeit virtual) think-tank offering unfettered communication with fellow Consortium colleagues who otherwise may have been unknown without participation in the Consortium.

In academic settings, members could serve as content experts, collaborators, coauthors, guest lecturers, dissertation readers, or visiting scholars. In applied settings members could serve as 18

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consultants, content experts, mentors, or project partners.

Membership or participation with the Consortium would not be restrictive in any way to a member’s activities; quite to the contrary, it should supplement, enhance and accelerate everyone’s work and reach. Our “space-holder” website currently is: http://consortiumforhumanitarianintervention.org

Last Piece(s) of Advice Through my research in The New Humanitarians, I learned that while most of the approaches of the organizations were different, they do share a number of commonalities. At the time they formed their entities, they were novel in their approach to dealing with the problems they address. They were not restricted with past ways of thinking or acting, nor should you be. They created innovative approaches to make something real and actionable from a concept 19

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and a vision, as can you. They developed practical approaches to solutions, some complex, some elegant, but are all robust and lasting, and replicable.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be a MacArthur Genius Award winner to make a real difference, and we can help. CGI is a ladder that can help you reach beyond where you could otherwise.

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Chapter 3

Humanitarian Film Club

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Elizabeth Andrew If you know me, then you know that I love movies. So please consider creating your own personal Film Club or share with friends, as it provides unique venue to view a film as a group and then follow with conversations and methods to address the issues.

The film serves as vehicle to learn about a specific humanitarian issue. The films include: City of God (street children and violence) Welcome to Sarajevo (journalist experiences) Blackhawk Down (military experiences) Savior (military/moral experiences) Shake Hands With The Devil (global injustice/trauma) And the Band Played On (public health and politics of AIDS) Motorcycle Diaries (politics and health) Blood Diamonds (conflict economics) Hotel Rwanda (the genocide) Indochine (Vietnam) Veronica Guerin (Irish conflict) Beyond Borders (humanitarian healthcare) Human Weapon (suicide bombers) 21

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Ghosts of Rwanda (the genocide) Lord of War (weapons dealing) Disease Warriors (global health) Beyond the Gates (Rwanda) The Last King of Scotland (the murders) To End All Wars (the humanity found in horror) The Killing Fields (Khmer Rougeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genocide in Cambodia) Gandhi (change via pacifism) Crash (racism) The life of David Gale (death penalty) I Witness (human rights) Gran Torino (racism, redemption) Triage (Rwanda, MD documentary) Blindsight (blind climbers, documentary by my dear friends, Sabriye and Paul) Traitor (portrait of the inner politics and structure of a terrorist group) Murderball (prejudice/so-called physical disabilities) Lyons for Lambs (what do you stand for?)

Invictis (South Africa, rugby as a tool) Pay It Forward (young altruism) The Blind Side (1:1humanitarianism/racism/classism)

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Collected Essays

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LinkedIn Influencer Blogs I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

Global Health is a Social Justice Issue: An Emerging Movement, Part I June 09, 2014

A quote that really captures the essence of my work and many others in the global health field is from The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who said “Of all the forms of

inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” For a person like him to make a point such as this says a lot. Sadder still is that it was said 50 years ago, and not much has changed.

While I am not an economist, a policy wonk or a political scientist it nevertheless seems to me that global health inequities are an amalgam of many fields beyond medicine and public health—certainly economics, politics, epidemiology, sociology, history, psychology, technology, ecology, biology, agriculture, conflict, ethics—the list could be endless. And while there is a think-tanky role for the intellectual crowd to discuss and debate in the ivy halls and academic venues of policy advising, criticism, and 24

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strategy, my approach to dealing with global health inequities has been almost exclusively in the field, rather than in academic jousting (albeit I do write about it here in LinkedIn and I have professionally published on it as well as well). I'm just saying that my perspective or vantage point may admittedly be different.

Additionally, there is some debate as to whether humanitarian interventionists should maintain “political” neutrality in a humanitarian conflict area or additionally take a more activistic stance. (I'll be addressing this in detail in an upcoming post while wearing my Che Guevara teeshirt.)

This is not a new idea. In their book The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health, Kawachi and Kennedy examine the issue of health vis-à-vis social and distributive justice considerations. This harkens back to Wilkinson’s Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality, that found that the societies that have the best population health are those that what the least income discrepancy between the rich and the poor, not just the wealthiest.

Interesting.

The wunderkind of making health projects work, Paul Farmer, MD, Partners in Health (PIH) founder, notes that “A first principle for the

emerging global health movement, in fact, might well be: ‘Don't emulate the mainstream aid industry.’ That said, aid is not bad in itself, and if managed appropriately it can achieve impressive results.” He would know as his work is a showcase for silk purse healthcare results from sow’s ears materials.

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for more funding, but as Easterly points out in one of my favorite books, The White Man’s Burden, there is not always a direct correlation between bang-and-buck. His calculus pegs Western foreign aid thus far to be around $2.3 trillion with pitifully little to show for it. But most importantly, in my opinion, is that Easterly doesn’t stop with just lobbing criticism, he goes on to note and then give illustrative examples of small, outcome-focused, sustainable projects that deliver.

Not to sound cliché with the proverbial “teach a person to fish…” anecdote or the metaphor of the boy tossing beached starfish back into the 25

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sea one at a time when there are hundreds littering the shore as a “wise” adult counsels him as to the absurdity of doing so and the wasting of his time as it will have no impact, and the child responds that it will to this one as he tosses it back, and this one…

Such are not fools’ errands. Small projects do make a difference.

Perhaps not at a statistically significant level suitable for peer reviewed journal publication, but to that person, or that family, or that clinic, or that community, you darn well better believe it makes a significant difference. Don't just take my word for it; another intellectual hero of mine, Karl Popper, noted long ago the value of piecemeal interventions.

I always thought the phrase “change the world” sounded like a lot of grandiose hubris or an overwhelmingly daunting task until I realized that it can mean helping one person at a time. And who can’t do that…? It seems socially just and maybe it’s also a good way to start a movement?

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Creative Destruction In Philanthropy?

May 13, 2014

In running a global health nonprofit, you find yourself spending a fair amount of time cogitating on the supply-side of humanitarian work— philanthropy. I've previously written on the topic herein in a post titled Philanthropy for the Rest of Us and spoke of The Giving Pledge which encourages the richest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

In my business-reading these days I see a lot of references to Schumpeter’s famously attributed philosophy of creative destruction. (I suspect this trends as more popular in times of recessions and other unpleasant economic upheavals, but I digress.) It got me to thinking, what if we applied this concept to philanthropic institutions?

Anyone who knows me also knows I'm a big fan-boy of William Easterly and one his books is one of my favorites, The White Man’s Burden. In this book he notes the all too common phenomena that well-intended albeit bureaucratic, mega-organizations like the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and even the United Nations, are now so large that much of the funds they have, they consume.

Hurry Sundown The same may be true for philanthropic foundations, with the added possibility that they could eventually run out of funds. But would that be a bad thing? The Gates Foundation has a self-imposed sunsetting over a 50year spend-down. (Well done you two.) The Aaron Diamond Foundation is another example of a limited-term foundation. It awarded over $200 million as it spent itself down between 1987 and 1996.

I was at a TED conference a long time ago and first heard Zoë Baird’s plans as the then new president of the Markle Foundation to increase the Foundation’s amount of spending. Indeed, US regulations require a minimum annual distribution of 5% of their endowment, but paradoxically this is treated like it is the maximum. Overhead can be as 27

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high as twenty percent, and I suspect that, too, may wind-up being maxed out.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal James Panero noted the perspective of Lewis Cullman, a fellow with the street cred of having donated hundreds of millions of dollars, which is strikingly similar to Easterly’s observation concerning large organizations. Cullman thinks private “foundations exist primarily for their own self-perpetuation.”

Evidence for this may lie in what happened during the recession. The Foundation Center surveyed over 1,000 foundations during that time and found an 8.4% drop in giving. Panero notes this was the worst drop (adjusted for inflation) ever recorded. The logic basic to philanthropy would be that during the times of most need; the most help would be given, not diminished. To Cullman, that is proof-positive that “foundation administrators are more concerned about the size of their nest-eggs than about their philanthropic mission.”

Open-Source Humanitarian Intervention When I started the Center for Global Initiatives I didn't want some pretentious name. I wanted something simple and new. Something honest and adaptive. I was thinking of “Study the Problem and Fix It” except the acronym didn’t work. That is difficult if you are a government agency or an ideologue. But if you just want to study the problem and fix it, you can.

Our Center has no bureaucrats, we're all volunteers. All monies go to the work. We run circles around other organizations that are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. We don't (and we won’t). They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

We work with whoever asks, but only if we can add something of benefit.

We do it for free. Our tools are here for those that can use them. Our resources are free. Our time is available. This is our idea of open-sourcing.

Everything, always free, all the time, always open.

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needs to be done for those next 20 years. Then they will rinse and repeatâ&#x20AC;Ś. Thank you Professor Schumpeter.

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Access to Healthcare is a US Problem, Too April 21, 2014

My last post was on World Health Day and in it I discussed what generally comes to mind when thinking about global health issues (i.e., poor health outcomes in resource limited areas, preventable diseases not being prevented, etc.).

But I closed noting that we may tend to think of healthcare issues to be more so an international problem, but that’s not really the case.

Long before my involvement in global health matters, I was involved in various flavors of failed healthcare reform dating back to the early 1990s and Hillary Clinton’s plans. Before that, as an undergrad, I minored in Medical Sociology. And while most of my day-jobs have somehow been in the applied side of medicine or healthcare service provision for near 30 years, I have worked to be an amateur wonk on the topic. So, in the spirit of opining about what’s what, I’ll now use this LinkedIn venue.

In my World Health Day piece, I noted the horrible numbers of preventable deaths in the developing world. But it’s striking to me in a jingoistic way that approximately 45,000 people die from preventable deaths in the United States annually. That’s a rate of about one every 12 minutes. How come? According to a study by Harvard Medical School it is due to not having health insurance and thus not getting adequate healthcare. That study was published in 2009 and it is no coincidence that that was about the time the growing public ground-swell for reform was (dare I say?) reaching a fever pitch.

This was preceded by the pretty unbiased and highly respected Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) publication Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance In America. As a former long-term Board of Health member, I already knew that the uninsured use the local hospital’s Emergency Department as their de facto primary care provider, if care was sought out at all. By the IOM’s math over a decade ago, it cost about $98.9 billion annually to provide 30

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care for the uninsured—including $35 billion that the hospitals and healthcare providers had to absorb as totally non-reimbursed care.

Looks like the need for humanitarian medical services can be way closer than generally thought.

Prior to the advent of the Affordable Care Act you may actually have insurance at a new employer, BUT your pre-existing medical condition may NOT be covered under your new employer's plan. Had you not changed jobs you'd still have been covered. Perfectly legal for the new insurer to deny you, but not right. Not right at all. There ought to be a law. Well now there is.

We're Number, er… 46…?

Pick a ranking, any ranking. I trust the IOM and they said the US healthcare system ranked last or near last in many of the areas canvassed out of the 17 countries evaluated. I'm a big Bloomberg fan, daily user, and subscriber. In their ranking analysis of countries having the most efficient healthcare, we were 46, right after Iran, and even further behind Libya and Cuba.

How come? According to an op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, “The reason is simple: While some Americans get superb care, tens of millions without insurance get marginal care. That’s one reason life expectancy is relatively low in America, and child mortality is twice as high as in some European countries. Now that’s a scandal.”

I know there will be many political spins when it comes to looking back 5 to 10 years from now as to how the Affordable Care Act has made whatever kind of difference. I know it will not be a panacea for all the ills we face, but I cannot for the life of me not believe that it will help save lives that otherwise would have been lost. As Mother Theresa once said, if you cannot save a hundred lives, then save just one….

(NOTE: Thanks to Gracie Wang for her research help in this piece!)

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World Health Day: Non-Sexy Approaches to Global Health April 07, 2014

What Do the Diseases of Poverty Look Like?

Many may think that in the developing world the biggest culprits for death and morbidity are the super-scary things like Ebola outbreaks, but the World Health Organization has estimated that the diseases associated with poverty result in about 45% of their â&#x20AC;&#x153;disease burden.â&#x20AC;?

These diseases of poverty are so called as it is poverty that is considered the etiological factor. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say that tropical diseases and malaria are trifles, but this is different. The diseases of poverty include blindness from malnutrition, this impacts about one-half million children annually. The diseases of poverty include death due to diarrhea, killing almost 2 million a year. There is a diabolical cyclical pattern that suggests that vector-borne illnesses can cause or exacerbate poverty.

The diseases of poverty are highly preventable.

Untreated Illness When minor illnesses go untreated, they can remit, but often lingering disabilities remain. For those less fortunate, chronic or major illness may result, or even death.

When one then includes deaths caused by measles, pneumonia, malaria, and for newborns the child mortality rate quickly spools up to a rate of one child every three seconds. Pause for a moment to take that in.

Deaths from untreated illnesses are highly preventable.

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United Nations found that there had been no improvement in the child mortality rate over a period of 16 years for 27 African countries while it had been decreased by 50% since 1970 elsewhere in the developing world.

So What’s Going On? In a well done study published in the Lancet over a decade ago entitled “How many child deaths can we prevent this year?” Gareth Jones and his colleagues opined that if simple, proven medical interventions were made available to these populations that the effect would result in a 63% reduction in child mortality.

This position seems to find additional support in a more recent World Health Organization report that concluded that this indeed was what was responsible for an 80% reduction in child deaths from 1975 to 2006.

Brazil, for example, has a public health system that provides free early treatment and free immunizations. They believe this is what’s resulted in a 60.5% decline in infant mortality and an increase in life expectancy of five years.

So What’s The Problem?

Well, healthcare can be a bit complex. Sometimes solutions can scale and sometimes they cannot. Sometimes they can generalize and sometimes they cannot. There are no silver or magic bullets. But a somewhat provocative of theory is starting to be discussed—that perhaps too much funding is being targeted on AIDS, TB, malaria, and the like—or at least a disproportional amount, and in those countries the result is an unintended diminution in the primary healthcare and/or public healthcare systems. So the argument goes that basic healthcare, or primary care, or public health are not “sexy” or attention grabbing enough for celebrities or foundations or granting agencies to notice. Thus, less funding, less care, higher morbidity and mortality.

As today is World Health Day, we may tend to think of health care issues to be more so an international problem. That really isn't the case. In my next LinkedIn posting will examine what’s going on in the United States.

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The State of Philanthropy: An Era of Active Volunteerism March 25, 2014

This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers analyze the state and future of their industry. Read all the posts here.

It will forever seem that the demand side of need in the world will forever outweigh the supply side.

But I am optimistic that progress is being made.

There seems to be a wonderful phenomenon afoot in what appears to be a significant uptick of interest in volunteerism. Books like Alison Thompson’s The Third Wave highlight many people’s desire to help those in need following a catastrophe (e.g., 9/11, Sri Lankan tsunamis, and Haitian earthquakes).

In a prior Influencer post, Philanthropy for the Rest of Us, I noted a parallel uptick in philanthropic support as well in Ted Turner’s amazing example of donating a billion dollars to the United Nations, as well as Warren Buffett figuring that Bill and Melinda Gates could be good stewards of his estate to make the world a better place via their foundation. This was followed by The Giving Pledge that encourages the richest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Rock stars (such as Bono fighting poverty in Africa with ONE and Peter Gabriel’s support of Witness), along with film-stars (like Mark Wahlberg and youth programs, Sean Penn's work in Haiti, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt’s combined efforts with Not On Our Watch), along with many others, add to the media attention and thus perhaps fuel some volunteers’ motivations.

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But role models and motivators need not be the super-rich or celebrities.

For example, you may also have heard of Taylor Conroy. He’s the guy that started (Pocket) Change Heroes and he has a very cool approach of enlisting his friends, and his friends’ friends, and, well, you get the picture... to make an amazing impact in building schools where they don't exist and are very much needed.

I, too, have found via many of my talks, expositions, and dealings with graduate, pre-med and med-students as well as mid-career and senior professionals from various backgrounds, that there is a wonderful level of interest in doing more for others.

I know from the work I did in writing The New Humanitarians, from many individuals whom I had met in Davos or perhaps at a TED conference (or a Renaissance Weekend, or in a Bolivian prison, or an abandoned hospital in Halong Bay) were not satisfied helping various causes by just writing checks of support or volunteering. These individuals preferred to actually start their own organizations—to enact their passionate humanitarian interests.

While these impressive individuals come from varied backgrounds— cashing out of start-ups, flush with equal amounts of cash and talent, to those with less money but a willingness to have skin in the game—all share the common denominator of changing the world. Not in a pretentious, abstract cliché manner, but really, honestly, changing the world. And not wanting to do it, they all have done it, and continue to make it a better place.

And, I am happy to say that the list goes on…

Tools If you are interested in reputable organizations to donate to, Charity Navigator and GuideStar are two great places to start.

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to you. Part the mission of the non-profit I founded, the Center for Global Initiatives, is to empower others. If you click on this link you will see a table we created that provides an up-to-date listing of many helpful organizations and their websites, and it also explains what they do, various relevant details, my opinion as to what my experience has been working with them, and other helpful notes and pieces of advice that I think you will find to be a helpful time saver. The free and downloadable spreadsheet provides information and links concerning:        

Charity Databases Donors and Donations Fundraising Grants Raising Awareness Resources and Tools Volunteer Programs And other Important Websites that may be of use.

Accelerants Generally the biggest limiting factor for someone wanting to volunteer on an international project is the generally prohibitive cost of airfare. So, our Center joined forces with Fly For Good which functions as a humanitarian travel service of sorts. Their database selects routes around the world that are common for humanitarian travelers and discount them based upon season and availability.

Our Center also provides access to a vast DropBox library depicted in this SlideShare talk. Please be in touch if you’d like links to any of those files:

The fact that you have read this far is support for my thesis that there are many of us who want to provide help to others in need the best ways we can. Our center is looking to help the helpers with our tools, links, and materials—always free, all the time.

We wish you the best in your work to expand the capacity on the supplyside.

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Is Illness A Cause Of War? February 24, 2014

The negative relationship of violence on health is clear: wars and violence kill and injure combatants and civilians, but they also destroy infrastructure and social structures, in both cases with adverse effects on the population’s general health. The International Rescue Committee has found that in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, war and ill health were tightly entwined. Of 1.7 million excess deaths, only 200,000 were attributable to acts of violence, the remaining 1.5 million deaths were the result of infectious disease and malnutrition.

Medical facilities are often singled out for attack in “new wars” because they provide valuable loot, easy victims, and a way to demoralize civilian populations. War also causes exceptional mobility, and armies, peacekeepers, and refugees act as vectors for the transmission of disease. In fact, the spread of HIV/AIDS by UN peacekeepers lead to Resolution 1308, which urges member states to screen their soldiers voluntarily. The late ambassador Richard Holbrooke thanked Security Council members for the “unprecedented resolution on a health issue–the first in the history of the Security Council.”

There is also evidence of the reverse effect, that of health on war.

Health on war..?

Perhaps less obvious to most of us is the reciprocal nature of this as well as Jordan Kassalow originally noted over a decade ago. That is, there is evidence of the reverse effect—that of health (or lack thereof) on war. Combatants in new wars are often the socially excluded.

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The creation of so-called “Soviet-Roulette” (where one has all but one chamber of a revolver loaded prior to spinning it and placing it to one’s own head) was rumored to have been created as a morbid pastime for the alienated and disenfranchised Soviet soldiers suffering from depression and hopelessness languishing in combat zones and war fronts.

Poor health shortens people’s time horizons, making them more likely to engage in risky behavior; conversely, strong democracies and strong communities with broad support from healthy populations are less likely to engage in conflict.

When I worked in South Africa, they noted their top three public health problems as: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and violence. They included violence because it is a factor of public wellbeing and health. I also find it curious to note that the three factors that lead to state-failures, such as wars, genocides, or disruptive regimen changes are 1) lack of democracy, 2) lack of economic openness, and 3) a rising infant mortality rate. In other words, societies that don't listen to their people, close themselves off from the world, and don't care for their most vulnerable, tend to fail, producing war and chaos.

The complexity of multiple causality between terrorist acts; random and targeted violence; state sponsored torture; corruption; drug, weapon, and human trafficking, as well as mass migration/refugee actions seem to thrive the petri dish of failed states. Kassalow has wisely advised: “Responding to these health and political risks requires the addition of new tools to an integrated foreign policy.

These new tools include debt relief, improved global disease surveillance systems, investment in health education and information technology, workforce training, immunization and other methods of disease prevention, building and equipping facilities for prevention and treatment, and increasing access to affordable treatment and care.” To prevent war we might look more closely at the means to bring health and social stability to poor countries. The results could be exponential.

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52 Ways to Change the World January 14, 2014

This time of year it is hard to avoid the barrage of postings about New Year’s Resolutions.

Most of these are focused on ourselves. And don't get me wrong, there is plenty for me to do to improve myself, but I got to thinking, what if we changed our perspective from that of ourselves to thinking about others?

What if each one of us decided to resolve that in the next year (or years) we'd commit ourselves to making a change… in the world?

I suspect we'd experience a nice side-effect of becoming a better person anyway. I think that many people don't realize how to go about doing important things in the world. But small changes accumulate and can make large differences.

An epiphany is an epiphany. Don't underestimate the power of an individual with a cause, a commitment, a passion, or an idea.

OK, so where do you start? That’s what I wondered, so I developed a card deck of “52 Ways to Change the World.”

The goal of this deck is to stimulate thought, to inform, and maybe even to inspire action. It is likely that you are the kind of person who would be interested in changing the world simply by the fact that you are reading this.

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number will only grow, but this gives you a place to start. If you'd like a deck, just click here. They are set up to be duplex printed like a real deck of cards, but of course, the labor to do that is up to you, this is the content. Make up a few decks and give them to friends and see what happens.

At The Center for Global Initiatives we believe in the power of the small project. We provide you with the tools and help so you can change the world. We maximize technology and tools in order to augment brains.

We invented not only this Card Deck but also the concept of DIY Humanitarianism and we work as a contributory conduit made up of entirely of pro bono volunteers, with a shared vision of making a true difference in the world. It is our mission to develop and execute smart ways of doing good. Now, go be a threat to the status-quo.

Be in touch if I may be of help.

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Size Matters, Less Does More November 19, 2013

This post is part of a series in which Influencers describe the books that changed them.

I love books. And in spite of enjoying a good story, I'm more so a fan of nonfiction for some reason.

As a 10-year-old boy growing up in Dallas, I stumbled upon R. Buckminster Fuller’s Nine Chains to the Moon one day at the GreenStamp store with my grandmother. This 1938 book was Bucky’s perspective on technological history. He proposed his vision of future prosperity driven by what he called “ephemeralization,” or the process of doing more with less. Although I only comprehended about 1/1000th of it then (and maybe 1/100th of it now) I went on to read almost everything written by or about Bucky Fuller, his work and his ideas. I had the naïve gumption to write him about an idea I had and he had the kindness to write me back—and recommend I read Critical Path—which, of course, I did. Many years later, I was honored to be invited to write his encyclopedic biographical entry.

But Fuller’s books did not change my life.

Also around that same time, I found and fell in love with Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. I think I found it in a head-shop as I’d moved on from Green-Stamp stores for my literary needs. As a tween I’d leaf through the gigantic newspaper pages and imagine equipping my future via this groovy access to tools as it were. It was THE one-stop source for DIY anything with a whiff of counterculture to make it fun. And in spite of owning almost every 41

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subsequent iteration of the Catalog, it was not that book that did it for me either.

The role Bucky’s and Brand’s works served was perhaps as a kindling or priming for what really brought things together for me.

As an adult embarking on developing my then nascent non-profit center I came upon economist William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden, and then everything. Came. Together.

The book's title refers to the famous Rudyard Kipling poem, but it takes a far more nuanced view of the work of aid organizations than its name suggests.

Easterly’s thesis is pretty simple: Big organizations create big plans that draw big donors or big attention to do big things. The problem is they tend to be equally big flops and big fizzles. Additionally, such large organizations have their concomitantly large internal operational costs, and as a result fewer dollars or Euros make it to the end-recipient. There seems to be a general absence of meaningful results in spite of the billions spent by these large nonprofit organizations. But, big projects are sexy projects, outcomes be damned.

Easterly’s book had kept presenting itself to me—just like Bucky Fuller’s did in the Green-Stamp shop or Brand’s in the head-shop years prior. I stumbled upon reviews of it by people I knew and who’s opinion I respected, like Virginia Postrel who noted Easterly’s view of the traditional "Planner" method versus the "Searcher" approach to humanitarian aid. Postrel explained, “Searchers treat problem-solving as an incremental discovery process, relying on competition and feedback to figure out what works.”

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poverty is a complicated tangle of political, social, historical, institutional and technological factors.

She opines, “Planners trust outside experts. Searchers emphasize homegrown solutions.”

To me, Easterly was channeling a synthetic integration of seemingly disparate factors that actually are connected (a la Bucky Fuller), with the DIY, smaller scale solutions that smacked of Mr. Brand. It was similar to reading William A. Schambra’s review of Steven H. Goldberg’s Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets, as he notes that impactful change is the result of small organizations’ “intimate understanding of local conditions and needs—that may, in aggregate, do the most good.” But Easterly’s book really inspired me as being a much better fit in my role as a proud new director of an über-small non-profit, and previously feeling envious of the Big-Boys and their budgets. I felt I could act like some guerrilla humanitarian— working collaboratively with those in need.

It would seem many bureaucrats have pitifully short term memories when it comes to assessing outcomes at all, or less-than-expected results are often explained away by so-called intervening and uncontrolled contaminating variables (such as conflict and warring situations or catastrophic climatic events) that mitigated the hopedfor effect. Such events unfortunately do not likewise mitigate monies spent.

Hey, don’t get me wrong, I am all for more funding, but as Easterly points out, there is not always a direct or positive correlation between bang-and-buck. His calculus pegs Western foreign aid thus far to be around $2.3 trillion with pitifully little to show for it. The emperor has no clothes.

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scale) but concrete examples of what was working (small-scale). And that seemed like something we could do, and subsequently we have done.

Easterly’s book served as the necessary catalytic inspiration we needed, and I think it does likewise for other’s working in the nonprofit, NGO, humanitarian space. On our website’s splash page we write about our philosophy of the power of the small project based on Easterly’s thesis. Indeed, Mother Theresa once said if you cannot feed one-hundred, then feed one. While the problems many of us work with seem large, having a big impact on even a few is critical, and it has become our organization’s reason for being.

There is indeed great power in the small project. Just ask anyone it has helped.

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The Infinite Library Project: A Humanitarian Tool Kit for Everyone September 23, 2013

There seems to be a wonderful phenomenon afoot in what appears to be a significant up-tick in interest in volunteerism. Books like Allison Thompson’s

The Third Wave highlight many people’s desire to help post-catastrophe (e.g., 9/11, Sri Lankan Tsunamis, and Haitian earthquakes). Rock-stars such as Bono and Peter Gabriel, along with film-stars like Mark Wahlberg and Sean Penn, also add to the media attention and thus perhaps fuel some volunteers’ motivations. I, too, have found that via many of my talks, expositions, and dealings with graduate students of various stripes—psych, social work, public health—pre-med and med-students, as well as mid-career and senior physicians, nurses, dentists and other healthcare professionals, and folks from all walks of life and regions, that there is a wonderful level of interest in doing more for others.

I know from the work in my three volumes of The New Humanitarians, that many individuals who I had met at Davos or perhaps at TED, in a Bolivian prison or an abandoned hospital in Halong Bay, were not satisfied helping various causes by just writing checks of support or volunteering, these individuals preferred to actually start their own organizations—to enact their passionate humanitarian interests.

Now while these impressive individuals come from varied backgrounds— cashing out of start-ups, flush with equal amounts of cash and talent—to those with less money but a willingness to have skin in the game in order to make a difference—they all share the common denominator of changing the world. Not as in a pretentious, abstract cliché, but really, honestly, changing the world.

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cool-tools (thank you Web 2.0), a lot can be leveraged and done to make real and significant differences in peoples’ lives. You'd be surprised.

It’s like Johnny Appleseed teaching folks to fish…

CGI is an all-volunteer organization and we have our hands full with a wonderful group of in-country collaborators and partners with our current projects and we are unable to take on any new projects and still keep our day jobs. However, we found that what we had learned in doing our work (a great deal of which was by trial-and-error, BTW) was of use and an accelerant to other non-profits, regardless of their activity or venue.

It became clear to us that what we could do in addition to maintaining our current working relationships, is to serve as a resource, or a clearinghouse, or a library, or a one-stop portal (or all the above) to share what we've learned and resources we use, with others—for free. We can therefore help others do their work which was the whole idea for CGI in the first place. Now we're working to spread the news.

The Infinite Library While I’m a sucker for sexy project names, we thought that Infinite Library may actually be a decent description of our vision for this next evolution of our Center and work. Herein we use both a DropBox depot and our own website to host links and curate various materials that are hoped to be a helpful time saver and step saver. So this is the virtual Library with infinite capacity to keep track of the implements in our humanitarian tool box.

Through my research in The New Humanitarians, I learned that while most of the approaches of the organizations were different, they do share a number of commonalities. At the time they formed their entities, they were novel in their approach to dealing with the problems they address.

They were not restricted with past ways of thinking or acting, nor should you be.

They created innovative approaches to make something real and actionable from a concept and a vision, as can you. They developed practical approaches to solutions, some complex, some elegant, but are all robust and lasting, and replicable.

You don’t have to be a MacArthur “Genius” to make a real difference, and we can help. Perhaps the best tool is simply a ladder that can help you reach beyond where you could otherwise.

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Philanthropy for the Rest of Us: Changing the World for 73-cents a Life September 02, 2013

Ted Turner set an amazing example when he gave a Billion (with a capital B) to the United Nations. In 2010 Warren Buffett figured that Bill and Melinda Gates could be good stewards of his (sizable) estate in order to make the world a better place via their foundation. Next The Giving Pledge came into being — a campaign to encourage the richest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Amazing. And thank goodness.

I wish I could join this club. I wish you could, too.

But wait…

You may also have heard of Taylor Conroy. He’s the guy that started “Pocket Change Heroes” and he has done a very cool job of enlisting his friends, and his friends’ friends, and his friends’ friends’ friends, and, well, you get the picture... to make an amazing impact in building schools where they don’t exist and are very much needed.

Thanks Taylor. And thanks Taylor’s friends. You all rock.

I have learned firsthand that there are a lot of innovative ways to change the world and a tip-of-the-hat to all of them, too.

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food and meds, and help an orphaned little boy be accepted by his peers and adapt to his environment, and we've been able to do a few other things.

In my work I have seen a lot of malaria, and as is the case with most infectious diseases, it is an incredibly ugly way to die. It can be a preventable death â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when intervention comes. While nets are great to prevent it, what if your family could not afford one (or three) and you contracted malaria, then what?

Well, we found out that the cost for a complete treatment protocol was 73 cents (in US dollars, er, cents). We also learned that 28% of those treated were children under the age of five. They not only got their life back, but also their future.

I think all of this is pretty cool and it seems like there are a lot of innovative ways to change the world. For billionaires â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and for the rest of us.

One of the cool things about the web is that it is an organic, selforganizing thing that also has an abundance of tools (many of which are free) and it affords ease in communicating with just about anyone in the world.

I bet you may know of some other sites or people doing work in a similar vein, if so please do post and comment about them here in the Comments and/or email me and I'll also post them in our blog.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really amplify what Linkedin can do to change the world.

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Class of 2013: Inoculation for the Pox of the Untils May 21, 2013

I've actually had the honor and terror of speaking at three commencements so far, and it never gets easier.

I seem to run out of epiphanies worth sharing and by I now feel like all my wisdom, what little of it there was to begin with, had already been rung out.

Yet I persevere.

I always am on the lookout for helpful little life-hacks or some Little Prince-like heuristics to pass along to the next generation as it were.

In a prior Influencer blog, I referred to feeling like an “Accidental Humanitarian,” as I felt that much of what my charitable organization had accomplished was actually not the result of a perfectly conceptualized and executed plan, but rather moving in a certain direction and being open to mid-course alterations as situations demanded.

As a result, I think it is indeed important to plan a direction, but it is also just as important to be flexible and open to opportunities that may come along while moving in that direction.

It’s also pretty helpful to be able to improvise as things inevitably will change—what I like to call “opportunistic adaptation.”

While that is all well and good there is a risk to be wary of as it is one of the most infectious and insidious of all diseases—the pox of the untils. I must admit still periodically suffer from a flare-up.

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It’s the temptation to wait, to wait until “something else happens first” instead of acting.

We may wait until we can pay off our student loans, or until we get a job, or until we lose 15 pounds. Or until we get married, or until we get divorced. Or until we start a family, or until the kids are out of the house.

Its evil twin is the plague of once I. Symptoms manifest as once I pay off my student loans, once I have kids, once I retire…

And then, all of a sudden, after 30 some-odd years, we keep waiting until we run out of “untils.”

Then it is too late.

It was long believed that no human could run a mile in less than four minutes. It wasn't for a lack of trying. Some more unconventional trainers unleashed wild (and fast, and hungry) animals to chase a runner to see if that sufficiently motivated him to shave a few seconds off his best time.

Many very competent experts in exercise physiology proclaimed (in peer reviewed journals BTW), without a shadow of a doubt, that the human body could not run a sub-four minute mile.

Then Roger Banister came along and shattered this falsely held belief along with the formerly held scientific orthodoxy.

But even more interesting to me, is that within one year after he did, so did 10 others! For at least 2000 years people thought it could not be done.

And it couldn’t.

Once it was, others saw the possibility and then realized it for themselves.

The moral of these stories is that we need to not wait until and we need to challenge so-called limitations—those others put upon us and those we put on ourselves. Don’t wait. Don’t put it off. Give it a go. For whatever your “it” is.

Doing so is the best inoculation you can have.

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My Best Mistake: Becoming an Accidental Humanitarian April 23, 2013

While I did have the benefit of benign neglect concerning high school career counseling, and as my mother came to realize the chances of my becoming an astronaut were slim, I was pretty much left to my own devices when it came to my career direction.

Dammit, only myself to blame?

Lacking a rudder but having plenty of wind is how I have defined my credibility as being an authority on the topic of career snafus.

I suppose my first mistake was to have no direction. Then it was to have the wrong direction. Then it was to have another direction, and then another, and another — you get the picture. I imagined my role in my career direction as acting like a nearsighted Mr. Magoo stepping off one gig or university program or internship and falling onto another (thankfully without missing a step a la my role model).

After undergraduate majors of math, then engineering, then science, then technology, then architecture, and finally psychology I entered graduate school concretely convinced that I would get my doctorate and establish an outpatient practice with adult patients. Of course I wound up treating children in inpatient settings. Then I did more and more administrative work, so back to school for an MBA. Dr. Magoo now reprised.

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searching for a major, all of my past dabbling — including mountaineering and travel — have all conspired into my creating what I love: Running a non-profit organization.

I didn’t — and I’d speculate I couldn’t — have planned it. Working in the "humanitarian space" was the result of organic happenstance. But when I dissect this quirky journey in hindsight I believe I can distill some tidbits that may be of help. Here they are: 1. It’s OK to change your major, maybe even a lot.

2. Be opportunistic, open, and agile. It’s not cheating to have coffee with a recruiter. Did I mention being opportunistic?

3. Have a plan. Go in a direction. Have a Plan B also. And do I have to say it in this venue to be ready and able to pivot? Thanks Reid.

Thanks Ben. You two nailed that.

4. Generally say yes. I admit that I am just a boy who can’t say “no” most of the time. And while that may have been my neurosis flaring up, I fretted that if I said no a lot, invitations would evaporate. Keep in mind others may advise you to be laser-like in your focus and thus say no to distractions, and for some that’s fine. Perhaps you may want to experiment…

5. Be nice and do good. It’s not really that hard to do something good. Like my mom used to say, it’s just as easy to be nice as it is to be mean—maybe it’s even easier.

6. Being a polymath may be a nice side-effect, but it’s a sh*tty goal.

7. Learn from your heroes. As a precocious undergraduate I had the gumption to write my hero, R. Buckminster Fuller about some lame-brain concept I’d concocted in an independent study course.

I was touched that he took the time to write me back (and set me straight). In more recent times, my newer heroes are those interviewed in my books The New Humanitarians because I wanted to learn how it was they did what they did so I could try to be like the cool kids finally.

Bottom line, you need a direction, but it is also A-OK to vary from it or altogether go in a different one. The more skills you have the better (and fun). As the great Zen philosopher Yogi Berra advised, when you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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Global Health Inequities: Don’ts and Do’s March 17, 2013

I know it’s not April Forth yet, but nevertheless, I have been thinking about the legacy of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as I often quote an excerpt from his Nobel acceptance speech “…Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane…” in talks and papers.

(And by jiminy I just did it again in prepping for an upcoming presentation I am going to do for World Health Day, following, gulp, yes, a Noble laureate—Jody Williams! I-Am-Not-Worthy. But I digress...)

It is sad that a person of King’s stature had to make this point; sadder still is that it was said 50 some-odd years ago, and not much has changed.

I am not an economist nor a policy wonk or a political scientist. I am trained as a clinical psychologist, experienced as a health system administrator, matured as a result of numerous start-ups, and passionate about the work of my nascent not-for-profit center that focuses on global health inequity projects and training.

Sometimes evangelists and proselytizers turn many folks off, me included.

I think it’s because what they are selling actually seems fraudulent, insincere, hollow, self-serving…and that our approach to dealing with health inequities has been mostly in the field.

That means we temporarily have skin in the game.

We go to wherever ”there” is (AFTER having been invited) and see what’s really going on/wrong. It also means that I get to go home at some point (nice). And that also means the folk I worked with are already home (maybe not so “nice”).

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economics and the role they play in global health. I know and have written elsewhere that BIG institutions with their moribund apparatus (e.g., various WHO Commissions) tend to not get a lot done vis-a-vis the massive amount of resources devoted. I’m not going to take pot-shots or carpet bomb these institutions, but rather I’d prefer to offer one of my most favored and influential books, William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden, as a potent antidote to the bigger-is-always-better presumption.

Easterly’s thesis is pretty simple, big organizations create big plans that draw big donors or big attention to do big things. The problem is they tend to be equally big flops. Additionally, such large organizations have concomitantly large internal operational costs, and it often seems that very few dollars or Euros ever make it to the end-recipient.

The poster-boy for making health projects work is Paul Farmer, the Partners in Health (PIH) founder, who notes that “A first principle for the emerging global health movement, in fact, might well be: ‘Don't emulate the mainstream aid industry.’ That said, aid is not bad in itself, and if managed appropriately it can achieve impressive results.”

He would know, as his work is a showcase for silk purse healthcare results produced from sow’s ears materials.

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for more funding, but as Easterly points out, there is not always a direct correlation between bang-and-buck. His calculus pegs Western foreign aid thus far to be around $2.3 trillion--with pitifully little to show for it. But most importantly, in my opinion, is that Easterly doesn't stop with just lobbing criticism, he goes on to note and then give illustrative examples of small, outcome-focused, sustainable projects that deliver.

Small projects do make a difference.

This difference may not result in a statistically significant level suitable for peer reviewed journal publication, but to the person, family, clinic, or community affected, the difference can be profound.

I suspect many of you reading this know exactly what he’s talking about and have seen it firsthand.

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The Best Way You Can Really Affect Change March 10, 2013

Everyone is busy. Everyone is distracted. Many are cynical.

But in an off moment, unlikely or untimely, you suddenly find yourself connected to humanity in a way that shocks you—maybe it came through a speech you just reread by Dr. King or from the story of the Grinch or a bumper sticker or maybe even just an email…?

And this connection may hold you in such a way that any previous version of yourself seems flimsy.

I have no right to say anything about anything other than being a change maker. At the Center for Global Initiatives we’re not ministers or gurus; we’re not philosophers or politicians. But we have simply found something to be true.

That truth is simple: Every single one of us has a chance to do something bigger than any coach or financial consultant or personal fitness’ trainer ever told us. And by waking up to this potential, and acting on it, amazing things happen---to other people and to ourselves. This has everything to do with making a difference.

When we look at a statue of someone great, we think they've got something we don’t. We are trained to think that only a tiny percentage of us will cure any diseases or slay any dragons, but every single one of us, every-single-one-of-us, is called to be a hero in our ordinary lives. As someone once said, we don’t build statues to worship the exceptional life, we build them to remind ourselves what is possible in our own.

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something inside that is making a noise. Underneath all of the layers…the me-first layer and the get-out-of-my-way layer and the keep-your-hands-offmy-stuff layer…a halfway decent person is in there, waiting to be heard.

That person isn't angry, he/she just wants out.

The Center has a pretty good track record. We are one of the 2011 and 2012 TOP RATED organizations as determined by GreatNonprofits.org.

We started a school in Tanzania.

Our malaria treatment campaign helped saved lives at the cost of 73-centseach. Yup, seventy-three-CENTS. This is not a marketing campaign; it’s a rallying cry for your involvement with whatever cause is important to YOU..

We send email messages each month to those requesting to be on our list and we then GIVE them something rather than asking for something.

We like our model.

We’re a 100% volunteer organization. Every penny goes to the work. We can achieve these results because none of us are paid—and we can still “kick-arse”.

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The Power of the Small Project March 01, 2013

When I read William A. Schambra’s review of Steven H. Goldberg’s Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets, Goldberg notes the general absence of meaningful results in spite of the billions spent by government and nonprofit organizations. Big projects are sexy projects, outcomes be damned. It reminded me of another book that is a variation on this theme, William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden. Easterly’s thesis is pretty simple, big organizations create big plans that draw big donors or big attention to do big things. The problem is they tend to be equally big flops and fizzles. Additionally, such large organizations have their concomitantly large internal operational cost-needs that it often seems that few dollars or Euros ever make it to the end-recipient.

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results are often explained away by so-called intervening and uncontrolled contaminating variables (such as conflict and warring situations or catastrophic climatic events) that mitigated the hoped for effect. Such unfortunately do not likewise mitigate monies spent.

The wunderkind of making health projects work, Paul Farmer, Partners in Health founder has said, “A first principle for the emerging global health movement, in fact, might well be: ‘Don't emulate the mainstream aid industry.’ That said, aid is not bad in itself, and if managed appropriately it can achieve impressive results.” He would know as his work is a showcase for silk purse healthcare results from sow’s ears materials.

While I am all for more funding, but as Easterly points out, there is not always a direct or positive correlation between bang-and-buck.

His calculus pegs Western foreign aid thus far to be around $2.3 trillion with pitifully little to show for it.

What I have learned is that “New Humanitarian” organizations tend to focus on small scale projects, and these small projects do make a difference—perhaps not always at a “statistically significant level” suitable for peer reviewed journal publication, but quite significantly to that person, or that family, or that clinic, or that community.

This issue of outcomes is a tricky one. While I and many others whole heartedly support empirical, outcome-based approaches, there is also a caution that should go along with such accountability concepts. Indeed, it is reasonable for funding sources to establish effectiveness expectations for the projects they support, the metrics should be gauged to most accurately measure what is supposed to be measured, contaminating/contributing variables must be identified and considered, and the timeline should be adequate to allow for accurate measurement of effect as Laurie Garrett has often pointed out.

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board members. This means that it can take a while to see what impact a project has on life expectancy or live births or Disability Adjusted Life Years or whatever. Such metrics simply cannot always be accurately measured in 18 months’ time post-intervention. And it’s OK to help one person at a time. When I read William A. Schambra’s review of Steven H. Goldberg’s Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets, Goldberg notes the general absence of meaningful results in spite of the billions spent by government and nonprofit organizations. Big projects are sexy projects, outcomes be damned. It reminded me of another book that is a variation on this theme, William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden. Easterly’s thesis is pretty simple, big organizations create big plans that draw big donors or big attention to do big things. The problem is they tend to be equally big flops and fizzles. Additionally, such large organizations have their concomitantly large internal operational cost-needs that it often seems that few dollars or Euros ever make it to the end-recipient.

Making matters even worse, is that there is little accountability in such bureaucratic mega-organizations like the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, or even the United Nations. Nevertheless, there is something compelling in the vision or fantasy of really making a dent. And when one hears of large funding it spurs hope that this time it can be different. Donors like such heroics as well. Their perspective is that fast, clean solutions trump longer term messier ones every time.

But that’s only true if they work.

It would seem many bureaucrats have pitifully short term memories when it comes to assessing outcomes at all, or less-than-expected results are often explained away by so-called intervening and uncontrolled contaminating variables (such as conflict and warring situations or catastrophic climatic events) that mitigated the hoped for effect. Such unfortunately do not likewise mitigate monies spent.

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emerging global health movement, in fact, might well be: ‘Don't emulate the mainstream aid industry.’ That said, aid is not bad in itself, and if managed appropriately it can achieve impressive results.” He would know as his work is a showcase for silk purse healthcare results from sow’s ears materials.

While I am all for more funding, but as Easterly points out, there is not always a direct or positive correlation between bang-and-buck.

His calculus pegs Western foreign aid thus far to be around $2.3 trillion with pitifully little to show for it.

What I have learned is that “New Humanitarian” organizations tend to focus on small scale projects, and these small projects do make a difference—perhaps not always at a “statistically significant level” suitable for peer reviewed journal publication, but quite significantly to that person, or that family, or that clinic, or that community.

This issue of outcomes is a tricky one. While I and many others whole heartedly support empirical, outcome-based approaches, there is also a caution that should go along with such accountability concepts. Indeed, it is reasonable for funding sources to establish effectiveness expectations for the projects they support, the metrics should be gauged to most accurately measure what is supposed to be measured, contaminating/contributing variables must be identified and considered, and the timeline should be adequate to allow for accurate measurement of effect as Laurie Garrett has often pointed out.

Outcomes should always be additionally judged by those worked with, and communicated to all involved – recipients, donors, and board members. This means that it can take a while to see what impact a project has on life expectancy or live births or Disability Adjusted Life Years or whatever. Such metrics simply cannot always be accurately measured in 18 months’ time post-intervention. And it’s OK to help one person at a time.

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The Problem with Charitable Giving February 24, 2013

In a WSJ article Pablo Eisenberg drew back the proverbial curtain on philanthropic foundations. Therein he began, “It’s hard to overstate the crisis facing charitable giving today…much of current philanthropic giving…neither meets the needs of our charitable organizations nor addresses some of our most urgent public needs.

Foundation practices today are too bureaucratic, inflexible and cautious, and too focused on short term-objectives. Too often, the process and procedures in grant making are more tailored to the needs of foundations and their trustees than to the requirements of nonprofits.”

Amen brother!

But wait, there’s more!

It seems that most folks and foundations like to give to their alma maters, the arts and other large established organizations. OK, I get that. But then what happens is that less than 3 to 5% goes to us smaller, sports-team-less, non-gala, or star-filled organizations that work with “…the poor, people of color, women and children at risk…And individual wealthy donors apparently are even stingier in their giving to poor and disadvantaged populations” according to Pablo’s research.

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followed by equally Byzantine assessments and follow-ups. For health and education organizations like ours, our outcomes are not measured immediately but often as a proxy or best over years’ time (see our 5 December Blog for more on our outcomes and metrics).

Reasonable are fine, good, and welcomes, but burdensome reporting is wasteful, distracting, and actually not very helpful to anyone.

To me and Pablo, there is a certain irony if not disingenuous vibe that “…while foundations seem increasingly obsessed with evaluations of grantees, only a handful of them have ever undergone an independent evaluation of their own performance.”

We support the idea to have foundations work to simplify their requirements for applications and reporting requirements. Let’s focus on the work so we can get the outcomes going that we can then transparently share with the world.

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Chapter 5

Selected Essays from the Center for Global Initiatives Blog The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde

Radical Humanitarianism When I started the Center for Global Initiatives I didn’t want some pretentious name. I wanted something simple and new.

Something honest and adaptive. I was thinking of “Study the Problem And Fix It” except the acronym didn’t work, but I suppose “CGI” may not either.

We work with whoever asks, but ONLY if we can add something of benefit.

We ask outside evaluators and direct recipients to assess how we are doing, and how to modify our strategies. And then do it again. A true iterative process, externally and internally assessed.

Nobody does that much. And in the end we’d not only have made a difference, we’ll have a body of knowledge about how to better help.

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does.

We need to design “delivery systems” that really work, test them, have them verified by outsiders and insiders, and once we know they work, replicate them in customized ways for others.

It’s difficult if you are a government agency or an ideologue.

But if you just want to study the problem and fix it, you can. And this would be entirely private, donor funding but with public accountability and transparency – of our successes AND our failures. People can learn from both. No bureaucrats. Everyone is a volunteer. All monies go to the work. Everybody is out working. We run around other organizations that are thirty, forty, fifty years old.

They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. We don’t (and we won’t). They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they’re now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

We want to develop new ways to think about this stuff without the posturing and pontificating. Few try and test or try to do field research. Few dare to really solve problems—because the solution might contradict their philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Trust me. When you’re my age, you’ll know it is true.

I think answers probably lie in a range of solutions.

It’s going to be very difficult for CGI. It already is. It’s been uphill all the way. We’ll be opposed, subrogated, denigrated. We’ve already experienced corruption, politics, bribery, (and even dysentery).

Heck, we may even be called bad names. The “establishment” will probably not like us. The old guard may sneer.

But, regardless of our nascent and “part-time” status, we’re already known. The more successes get publicized, a new risk manifests—getting lionized. That will be the most dangerous time of all.

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I plan to run the Center for twenty years, and my final job will be to disband it, before it becomes another tired old humanitarian organization spouting outmoded wisdom, wasting resources, and doing more harm than good.

By then I hope to have planted enough apple seeds so that a fleet of folks smarter than me will do what really needs to be done for those next 20 years. Then they will rinse and repeatâ&#x20AC;Ś. - Chris

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73 Cents-a-life I have seen a lot of malaria, and I have known people in the developing world die of it. As with most infectious diseases, it is an incredibly ugly way to die. Sadly, it can be a preventable deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; when intervention comes.

So, it is with great delight that I can tell you that our Tanzanian partners at Humuma and Kibosho Hospitals and Fr. Aloyce Urio recently let me know the results of our latest fundraising efforts as applied to treating those with malaria.

Your donations directly saved 4100 people from dying of malaria.

That calculates out to 73 cents-a-life.

28% of those were infected children under the age of five. You gave them their future back as well.

Remember, 100% of all donations go to the workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;buying meds, food, whatever is needed. No one takes a cut as we are a 100% allvolunteer-all-the-time-organization, so you know that all of what you donate goes where it is supposed to.

Thank you.

Next we are focusing on expectant mothers, newborns and children under age five, as they act as proxies for the status of health/illness in an area. More on this work will be coming to our blogs in the upcoming months. (I can send you photos now, if you like, just shoot me an email.)

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Some things are changing at CGI We’re focusing more on being a resource for other global NGOs and non-profits. We have been working hard to expand our FREE offerings of:  Books and articles (over 700 via DropBox)  Courses (links to over 80)  Consultation and collaboration  Contact with individuals from 103 countries in the past year  Humanitarian tips and tools via Linked Influencer Blogs What’s staying the same: 

Our deep commitment and partnership in the Moshi Region of Tanzania and expanding our collaboration there.

We hope to help more with the unmet educational needs of the children in our orphanage and in the area, and to continue to support medical and food relief. Our malaria treatment campaign called “73-cents a Life” which has been a continuing inspiration and model of elegant innovation.

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Every program we sponsor is locally led and managed by those that live where the work is being done.

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We are green (and save green). Our program operations utilize robust pro bono enterprise information management, commerce, and media systems. We maintain few paper files and have eliminated the need for staff to complete administrative tasks. There is near-zero production of paper/waste.

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Fundraising with no expenses. While most nonprofits spend money to make money, CGI’s fundraising efforts incur no monetary costs. We do not hold any fundraising events, nor do we solicit donations through postal mail or print media. All donation receipts are sent to donors electronically.

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Nobody else…

CGI is unique in many ways, but perhaps most noteworthy are:  We are a 100% volunteer organization; all donations go to the work. We think we serve as a pretty damn good example of what can be done by a group of committed (and cool) volunteers, for “free.”  We only go/work were we are invited. Nice measure of street cred.  We have one of the most incredible compilation of website resources in our free Medical Libraries, files, and our free Tools and free courses and discounted education programs.

Use them. Share them!  

Our website had been visited by folks from 91 different countries!

We are quite proud of our outcomes.

In Tanzania:  Approximately 20,000 orphaned children and poverty stricken adults have received medical services and food.  Over 100 orphaned children have been educated in the kindergarten CGI co-founded. Those who were first attendees are now grown and are employed by the government. They are also supporting their families and other orphans in the program.  The treatment of more than 50 people for Malaria, who would have died otherwise.  The post-kindergarten education of more than 100 orphaned children.  Buying 1250kgs of maize, which fed 70 orphaned children during a period of famine.  Paying the hospital bill for a child who had a leg injury and needed surgery, and other children in need of operations but did not have funds.

We cannot do what we do without you!

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Chapter 6

The Psychological Impact of Globalization Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

WASHINGTONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The following "Five Questions for â&#x20AC;Ś" feature was produced by the American Psychological Association.

APA. What role does psychology play in public and global health issues?

Dr. Stout: Without mental health, there is no health. Many public health factors, such as violence, substance abuse and obesity, are behavioral. Mental health is on par with physical health in determining the person's quality of life, productivity and mortality rates; yet, there is a perplexing disconnection between behavioral health and primary care. In addition, people's psychosocial wellbeing is greatly affected by poverty and unemployment, which we know are barriers to creating social development. If it's not addressed, risk of trauma is heightened from conflict, war and terrorism.

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There has been increasing recognition within the United Nations system of the negative social and economic impact of impaired mental health and mental illness. The secretary general's report to the 48th General Assembly made recommendations based on research findings that served as a basis for courses of action for governments to consider. For example, it was recommended governments implement national strategies for dealing with severe dysfunctional conditions such as post-traumatic stress.

APA. What are the psychological aspects of behavior that contribute to conflict and war?

Dr. Stout: A lot of psychological research, in and of itself, is focused on avoiding conflict. When we consider what leads to wars, psychology is at the forefront â&#x20AC;&#x201C; be it obedience to authority or simple passivity. Another well-supported theory is that of circumstance. This idea holds that war is less the result of malevolent dictators or the actions of inhumane ethnic or religious zealots, but rather disproportionate and unfair socio-economic circumstances, a generally dangerous or unsafe environment, and real or perceived risk of physical harm or loss to one's self, family, property or community.

History has shown us that as the population swelled and communities began to form, wars became more frequent and more intense.

APA. How does illness impact conflict and what can be done to combat these effects?

Dr. Stout: The link from war to poor health is clear: Wars kill and injure soldiers and civilians, but they also destroy infrastructure and social structures. Both cases produce adverse effects on the population's general health. In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, war and ill health are tightly entwined. Of the 70

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1.7 million preventable deaths between August 1998 and May 2000, only 200,000 were attributable to acts of violence. Wherever the war worsened, infectious disease and malnutrition followed.

What's less obvious is that there's also evidence of the reverse effect of health on war. Combatants in today's wars are often the socially excluded, even if they only act as proxies for more socially advantaged groups. Poor health shortens people's lifespan, making them more likely to engage in risky behavior. Conversely, strong democracies with broad support from healthy populations are less likely to engage in conflict. To prevent war, we might look more closely at the means to bring health and social stability to poor countries.

APA. How does a lack of proper health care affect the economy?

Dr. Stout: Research shows us a distinct relationship between health and economics. At the microeconomic level, improved health status is associated with economic growth. The most direct mechanism that explains this effect is the fact that improved health increases productivity and reduces worker absenteeism.

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collaborating with a clinic in India where there is a stigma for women seeking help for emotional problemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially if it is via a male provider. They adopted an approach that female primary care doctors would gain counseling training, so when women sought care for a culturally â&#x20AC;&#x153;approved illness,â&#x20AC;? following the physical exam, counseling could begin on the actual psychological issues present.

One first has to understand the needs, the culture, and the limitations in order to address possible solutions that can be tried and evaluated.

I believe psychology is one of the most culturally mindful health care professions. Our undergraduate and graduate training incorporates a cultural competence and literacy in all that we do.

This is particularly important in these more globalized times and we find ourselves working in different cultures and with immigrant or refugee populations.

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SECTION III

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Chapter 7

Online Courses Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

Certificate in Nonprofit Management Courses are offered by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s for an Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management (CNM).

The certificate program is comprised of six noncredit intensive fiveweek courses. Courses include presentations and resource materials, readings, discussions, assignments and hands-on “studio” exercises – all delivered completely online.

CNM is not a self-paced program. Senior nonprofit professionals facilitate every class.

Certificate in Nonprofit Management courses include:  Financial Management;  Fundraising Management;  Marketing Management;  Nonprofit Governance Operations Management and Strategic Management.

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“We welcome friends of CGI to learn more about our program,” reports Kate Pravera, Ph.D., CNM Founder and Director, "through 21st century technology we can link practitioners around the world in a virtual hands-on learning experience.” CNM has enrolled practitioners from all 50 states in the U.S. as well as 53 countries.

Offered by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the 100% online Certificate in Nonprofit Management is the longest running online nonprofit management program in the country. Since 2000, students from across the country and around the world have come together in a stimulating e-classroom to learn the principles of managing an effective nonprofit organization.

The Certificate in Nonprofit Management is ideal for aspiring, new and experienced nonprofit managers; members of nonprofit boards of director, career changers, and others interested building skills in nonprofit management. For more information, visit http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/programs/profed/online

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CourseWorks: Online Certificate and Diploma Programs The Center is pleased to offer 19 Certifications and a Diploma Program that provide all the content and librariesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; collections free of charge as an educational resource to anyone with a need or interest working in resource-limited settings anywhere in the world.

There is also an option of obtaining a Certification or Diploma if you are interested in doing so as well.

Our curricula are based on a compilation of online lectures relating to global health and related areas. CGI is most indebted to and with big thanks for our good friend Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder of Unite for Sight, and profiled in Dr. Stoutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book The New Humanitarians, Vol. 1, for making much of the content used herein available on their site and is open access, meaning that you may freely read, download, distribute, and use the material, as long as all of the work is properly cited. You rock Jen! Global Initiative Diploma Program The Center has developed a large and ever growing library collection of documents stored in DropBox that anyone can freely access upon request.

If you wish to apply for a Global Initiative Diploma, these resources may serve as a basis of readings to get you started in a 1:1 tutorial process with Dr. Chris Stout.

The Diploma Program is delivered in a Montessori-style of training and education. That is, we employ an educational approach that helps students develop problem solving, critical thinking and time-management skills while the student defines what it is he/she needs to learn more about in order to do the work they desire to accomplish. This mentored program typically takes between 6 and twelve months and tuition is $500. Email chris@centerforglobalinitiatives.org to request an application.

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Certificate Programs The Certificate Programs are designed to provide students, educators, physicians, public health professionals, psychologists, and other individuals with a comprehensive understanding about the complexities and realities of conducting global work.

Benefits of the Certificate Programs Scholars who complete the requirements for a certification will receive a Certificate in the area of study and a transcript. Students will learn how to apply knowledge and skills to current or future work in global health and international issues. The Center will provide letters of recommendation upon request for students completing any Certificate Program. For students interested in individual mentoring and guidance, such is available in the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diploma Program.

Custom Certification Upon request and subsequent review by the Center Faculty, a Scholar may request the development of a Certification specifically tailored to their needs that is not currently available as a Certification option. In such instances, the Scholar should contact the Center (chris@centerforglobalinitiatives.org) with a Letter of Request that articulates the need and justification for the specialized Certification and a listing of the courses that would be taken to adequately fulfill the Certification (typically 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 courses). If the request is approved, all other general aspects of the Program apply.

There are no additional or special fees involved.

Grading System Following enrollment, students gain access to the online submission system where they will submit 1-paragraph responses about each module of the online courses taken. Each response is then evaluated by a faculty member of the Center. The Scholar receives an evaluation of Honors, Pass, Low Pass, or Fail on their transcript.

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Honors: Responses are of excellent quality, demonstrating critical analysis and a comprehensive understanding about the course material.

Pass: Responses provide summaries that are of good quality, but there is little additional thought or analysis.

Low Pass: Responses provide summaries that are of mediocre quality and demonstrate minimal effort.

Fail: Responses are of poor quality and demonstrate a lack of effort or lack of understanding and no credit is given. If the student wishes to gain credit for a failed course, they must retake it and gain a score better than Fail.

Eligibility, Enrollment, and Cost Enrollment in any of our Certificate Programs is available to any student, individual or professional who is interested in global health and related concerns. There is no enrollment fee, matriculation fee, transcript fee, or graduation fee. The only cost is $25 for each course taken, due at the time of enrollment. For example, if you enroll in a program with five required courses, the total fee is $125.

You may enroll in one or more of the Certificate Programs listed below by emailing us at chris@centerforglobalinitiatives.org and letting us know which Certificate Program(s) you are interested in.

After you enroll, we will provide you with access to the Certificate Program online submission system where you will submit 1paragraph responses about each module of the required online certificate courses you complete. Each response will be read and evaluated by one of our faculty and upon successful completion of all the required courses, you will be granted your Certification. After you enroll, there is no deadline for completion, and you may work on the coursework at your own pace, however we do strongly encourage you to submit your completed coursework at your earliest convenience. http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/courseWorks.cfm 78

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MENTOR: Methods, Experiences, Networking & Training, Organizing & Research Where do you want to go?

What do you want to do?

We can help make it happen.

We have a very special and unique new program that provides individualized mentorship for people wanting to learn how to conduct their own project(s). We help you to gain funding, and provide skills training along with the contacts and tools to actualize your plans. In some instances, undergraduate and graduate credits are able to also be provided.

Training and Doing The Center also offers various training opportunities. The newest is MENTOR. This is a unique, new program that provides individualized mentorship for people wanting to learn to conduct their own project(s). Upon acceptance into the MENTOR Program, we help awardees gain project funding; we provide skills training along with the contacts and tools to actualize their plans. In some instances, undergraduate and graduate credits or Continuing Education Units for some licensed healthcare professionals may also be provided. Our motto for this is "Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? We can help make it happen."

University Model and Fear and Loathing with the IRS If you have ever worked at a university and won a grant, you quickly learned that the University received 25% to 55% of the funds. The reason is that there is a mutual need between faculty and research universities. Professors need a non-profit setting to receive funding. Grantors do NOT fund individuals; they fund institutions that have been properly vetted and deemed legitimate entities capable of managing funds for the work to be done by the professor.

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I now understand why there are not more 501(c)(3), not-forprofit organizations—I never realized how time consuming and expensive the process is. In Illinois, we first had to become incorporated. This process took about three months, cost $750 in fees to the State of Illinois, plus legal fees. Then, we had to complete a daunting IRS application form called the Form 1023 (look it up online, it’s a doozie). In it we had to forecast three years forward of budgets, provide a myriad of spreadsheets, and other various portions of the application. That took a massive amount of my time and our attorneys. Afterwards, we had to apply for tax-exempt status in the State. Fortunately, we were successful, but in total it took about 14 months, almost $1000 is application fees, and almost $6000 in attorneys’ fees. Then, we had to file our state and federal tax returns on Form 990 form (and all of its supporting forms and documents) and Form AG 990-IL (note “AG” stands for Attorney General, so it maximizes one’s anxieties in completing it as well).

The federal form notes that it takes about 24 person-hours to complete, and I can attest that it did. And that was for our first year with non-complex financial activities, and not a great deal of money.

I do not look forward to next year’s tax time…

But the point is, after going through all this, I fully understand why more people interested in doing their own projects do not follow through. These hurdles prevent many from putting their plans into action. While I do fully understand why they exist to serve as very rigorous protections and assurances, they nevertheless are difficult, costly, and time consuming.

As it has always been CGI’s philosophy to not “own” projects but to support, augment, and incubate them, its sensible to meld with the University Model. For example, a colleague may have the desire to retire early and in some of his free time, create music education projects for needy children in developing countries.

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the work. An additional problem is that while he already has donors who want to contribute both funds and instruments to support his work, they also want to be able to gain a tax-deduction for their contribution. Yet, they cannot donate AND gain the tax deduction as my colleague is “just” an individual. So, no donations, no project, no children being given instruments and educated on how to use them, and thus no music, and no benefit to these children.

But, the CGI (University) Model allows my colleague to develop his project within the structure of CGI, a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization as one of its projects. We also provide him with the tools and infrastructure he needs for organizing his project. We connect him with contacts in the geographic regions he plans on working in. We conduct research for him in order to operationalize the project. CGI helps structure a budget, purchase airfare and hotel stay for his site scouting in South America, and help design his fund-raising and awareness efforts. We also provide him with a website for his project along with the ability to process credit card donations or mailed in checks. The purchases he needs to make will be tax-free, and all donations will be tax-deductible for the contributors. We even do the yearend tax reporting, filing, and auditing. Our business model then is like that of a University–25% of the donations go to support these projects and the Center. It costs him nothing—financially, time-wise, or hassle-wise. The Center can be involved and support more projects, as talented individuals get to accomplish their dream project(s)— much sooner than if they built their own 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization. http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/diy.cfm

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Virtual Library Resources

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

The Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website provided the following topical links: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/library.cfm Virtual Multilingual Medical Library Spanish, English, and Multi-lingual medical dictionaries, translators, glossaries, and search engines.

HighWire This is a division of the Stanford University Libraries; HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with its 1239 journals and 5,685,221 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,896,499 articles free. With their partner publishers they produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.

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Public Library of Science PLoS Medicine is a peer-reviewed, international, open-access journal that publishes original research and analysis relevant to human health. There is no cost for access.

Medical Library Hesperian cannot provide these resources without the support of our donors and partners like you. You, too, can help provide health information for all and ensure we can continue to make resources like these available, wherever and whenever they are needed, by supporting Hesperian's work. http:/www.hesperian.org/involved_donate.php The following books are available as downloadable PDF files in compressed ZIP format. The chapters in each book are saved as individual PDF files. Simply click on the link and download the file.

High speed internet is recommended. Here is the link: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/medicalLibrary.cfm A Book for Midwives Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, California, USA Midwives need accurate information to help them protect the health and well-being of women, babies, and families. They need strategies to fight poverty and the unequal treatment of women, and for working together and with other health workers towards health for all. We revised A Book for Midwives with these needs in mind.

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important whether or not she is having a baby, and because a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health when she is not pregnant affects how healthy and safe her pregnancies and births will be.

A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities Jane Maxwell, Julia Watts Belser, and Darlena David Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, California, USA Women with disabilities need good health. Good health is more than the absence of disease. When a disabled woman has good health it means she experiences well-beingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of her body, mind, and spirit. Women with disabilities can take charge of their own health when they have information that affirms their own experience of their bodies and health needs. They can also use this information to change the way people think about disability. As women with disabilities take charge of their lives, they will gain respect and support in their communities. While disability itself may not be a health problem, many times the health problems of women with disabilities go untreated. This can mean that a simple health problem in a woman with disability, if left untreated, can become a life-threatening problem. We must remove the barriers that keep disabled women from achieving good health.

A Workers Guide to Health and Safety Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, California, USA This book covers health and safety issues in work places around the world.

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Cholera Prevention Safe Handling of Healthcare Waste Water for Life, Community Water Security Pesticides are Poison Sanitation and cleanliness for a healthy environment

Helping Children Who Are Deaf Family and community support for children who do not hear well

By Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein, and Darlena David Illustrated by Heidi Broner Deafness is a community issue. This book was written primarily for parents and other caregivers of young children who are deaf or cannot hear well. But it is not their task alone to deal with the needs of their children — it is the whole community’s responsibility. Both deaf and hearing people can accept and welcome children who are deaf, and give them the care and attention they deserve.

Communities can organize ways for deaf children to learn a language and for everyone to learn to communicate with deaf children. They can begin to address the causes of deafness, and help children who are deaf grow up to be active members of the community.

Around the world, many children lose their hearing because of illness and untreated ear infections. This means that most deafness is preventable. To reduce and prevent deafness, we must change the conditions of poverty that oppress so many people around the world. All communities need basic sanitation, good food, clean water, safe housing, and health care. And everyone benefits from better education and more community participation. When we reach out to our friends and neighbors, the bonds we create help us build stronger communities and a more just world. When we make our communities places where deaf children can thrive, we improve life for everyone.

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Family and community support for children with vision problems Written by Sandy Niemann and Namita Jacob The Hesperian Foundation Berkeley, California, USA Illustrated by Heidi Broner When using this book, try to read Chapters 1 through 4 first. These chapters have important background information on how to help your child learn. Then turn to Chapters 5 through 8, and Chapters 10 and 11, to find examples of activities to help your child learn new skills. The remainder of this book contains information to help caregivers support one another, to help parents learn from one another and work together, and to increase your knowledge of blindness and vision problems.

HIV, Health and Your Community A Guide for Action Reuben Granich,M.D.,M.P.H. Jonathan Mermin,M.D.,M.P.H. Illustrations by Mona Sfeir With contributions by Suzan Goodman, M.D. THE HESPERIAN FOUNDATION Berkeley, California, USA The book is meant for people who are searching for answers to questions about HIV prevention, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Each chapter begins with a fictional story; where useful, boxes with text or illustrations have been added to highlight key points. At the end of each chapter we answer questions raised by the story, hoping at the same time to answer some of the readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questions. The appendix discusses common diseases suffered by people with HIV and treatments for them. It is intended for the doctor or nurse who is involved in caring for people with HIV disease, and unlike the other chapters requires some basic medical knowledge. HIV health care is always changing, and some of the recommendations in the chapter may be outdated. Adaptations to individual situations are encouraged. Finally, we have included a 86

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glossary of words often used in discussions about HIV. Where There Is No Dentist

by Murray Dickson updated and expanded with information about HIV/AIDS by Richard Bebermeyer, Martin Hobdell and Gene Stevenson Introduction by David Werner, author of Where There Is No Doctor INTRODUCTION by David Werner A healthy tooth is a living part of the body. It is connected by ‘lifelines’ of blood and nerve to a person’s heart and brain. To separate the tooth from the body, or even to interrupt those ‘life-lines’, means death to the tooth. It also means pain and injury to the body, to the person. Let us look at it another way. The health of the teeth and gums is related to the health of the whole person, just as the well-being of a person relates to the health of the entire community.

Because of this, the usual separation between dentistry and general health care is neither reasonable nor healthy. Basic care of the teeth and gums— both preventive and curative—should be part of the ‘know-how’ of all primary health care workers. Ideally, perhaps, Where There Is No Dentist should be a part of Where There Is No Doctor. Think of it as a companion volume, both to Where There Is No Doctor and Helping Health Workers Learn. Murray Dickson has taken care to write this book in a way that will help the readers see dental care as part of community health and development. The approach is what we call ‘people centered.’ Where There Is No Dentist is a book about what people can do for themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth. It is written for: village and neighborhood health workers who want to learn more about dental care as part of a complete community-based approach to health; school teachers, mothers, fathers, and anyone concerned with encouraging dental health in their children and their community; and those dentists and dental technicians who are looking for ways to share their skills, to help people become more self-reliant at lower 87

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cost. Just as with the rest of health care, there is a strong need to ‘deprofessionalize’ dentistry—to provide ordinary people and community workers with more skills to prevent and cure problems in the mouth. After all, early care is what makes the dentist’s work unnecessary—and this is the care that each person gives to his or her own teeth, or what a mother does to protect her children’s teeth.

Where There Is No Doctor A village health care handbook / by David Werner; with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell-Rev. ed.

This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are doctors, people can and should take the lead in their own health care. So this book is for everyone who cares. It has been written in the belief that: 1. Health care is not only everyone’s right, but everyone’s responsibility.

2. Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program or activity.

3. Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and treat most common health problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper, and often better than can doctors.

4. Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but should be freely shared by everyone.

5. People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a lot. And they are just as smart.

6. Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.

Clearly, a part of informed self-care is knowing one’s own limits.

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also suggests what to do in the meantimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even for very serious problems. This book has been written in fairly basic English, so that persons without much formal education (or whose first language is not English) can understand it. The language used is simple but, I hope, not childish. A few more difficult words have been used where they are appropriate or fit well. Usually they are used in ways that their meanings can be easily guessed. This way, those who read this book have a chance to increase their language skills as well as their medical skills. Important words the reader may not understand are explained in a word list or vocabulary at the end of the book.

The first time a word listed in the vocabulary is mentioned in a chapter it is usually written in italics. Where There Is No Doctor was first written in Spanish for farm people in the mountains of Mexico where, 27 years ago, the author helped form a health care network now run by the villagers themselves. Where There Is No Doctor has been translated into more than 50 languages and is used by village health workers in over 100 countries.

Where Women Have No Doctor A health guide for women A. August Burns Ronnie Lovich Jane Maxwell Katharine Shapiro Editor: Sandy Niemann Assistant editor: Elena Metcalf Hesperian Foundation Berkeley, California, USA This book combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination, and cultural beliefs limit womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and access to care. An essential resource on the problems that affect women or that affect women differently from men. 584 pages.

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Women's Health Exchange A resource for education and training Hesperian Foundation Berkeley, California, USA 12 issues covering women's health topics. Learning activities and creative solutions are included

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Off To A Great Start Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am so happy that you have this book! Congratulations as you now have a great Tool Kit that has been built from what I have found and learned while doing international work and starting a non-profit humanitarian organization.

If you like what you’re reading, then please check out my other books at http://tinyurl.com/StoutOnAmazon Please do keep in touch via any and all social media:  Linkedin Influencer blogs and add your own comments at: http://www.linkedin.com/influencer/3055695  Key site for most all of the resources noted herein: Http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org 91

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 Global Health Courses, Certifications, Diploma Program and Library at: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/CourseWorks.cfm  Past presentations, videos and documents: http://www.slideshare.net/drchrisstout1  Professionally connect @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/drchrisstout/  Friend @ https://www.facebook.com/#!/drchrisstout  Follow @ http://pinterest.com/drchrisstout/center-forglobal-initiatives/  Follow @ https://twitter.com/drchrisstout  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/drchirsstout/videos YouTube Videos:  Health is a Human Right: http://youtu.be/cWyz8CEfy9o  Impossible Things: http://youtu.be/QT9sxuM9Keo  Global Health Work: http://youtu.be/Gm1Nx18cGVE  Tanzania Project: http://youtu.be/sClooC19K-Y We provide consulting/coaching services to individuals and organizations (both for-profit and non-profit) as well as courses, workshops and seminars.

And of course, please always feel free to contact me personally at: http://DrChrisStout.com

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and has a diverse background in various domains. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives which was ranked as a Top Healthcare Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits.org. His entrepreneurial experience is demonstrated in multiple start-ups that include the areas of financial management, healthcare centers, engineering, two dotcoms, real estate, and executive coaching (with a top-tier client list that includes Oracle). He is now is an angel investor and serves on a number of advisory boards. He also is a Clinical Full Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; an Advisory Board Member to the College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health; a Fellow in the School of Public Health Leadership Institute, and is a Core Faculty at the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He also holds an academic appointment in Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Global Health and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Mental Health Services and Policy Program, and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University. He served as a Non-Governmental Organization Special Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce to the Board of Examiners for the Baldrige National Quality Award. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, and numerous other organizations.

He holds the distinction of being one of only 100 worldwide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow 2000 – joining the ranks of Tony Blair, Jody Foster, Bill Gates, R. J. Rowling, and Lance Armstrong, and he was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos. He was invited by the Club de Madrid and Safe-Democracy to serve on the Madrid11 Countering Terrorism Task Force. He is the founder of GordianKnot, LLC, an executive leadership consultancy and he currently runs the Department of Research and Data Analytics for a 93

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national sports and rehabilitation medicine organization with $500M in annual revenues.

Dr. Stout is a Fellow in three Divisions of the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He was appointed as a Special (Citizen) Ambassador and Delegation Leader to South Africa and Eastern Europe by the Eisenhower Foundation. He serves as Acquisitions Editor for the Journal of Disability Medicine, and is the Series Editor of Contemporary Psychology (Praeger) and “Getting Started” (Wiley & Sons). He produced the critically acclaimed four volume set The Psychology of Terrorism and more recently, the highly praised and award–winning three volume set, The New Humanitarians, and is an Amazon.com Best Selling Author (reaching a #5 ranking). Additionally, he has published or presented over 300 papers and 30 books/manuals on various topics in psychology, including the popular Evidence-Based Practice (Wiley & Sons, 2005, with R. Hayes). His works have been translated into 8 languages. He has lectured across the nation (including being invited to share the dais with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Jody Williams on World Health Day, 2013) and internationally in over 20 countries, and visited 6 continents and over 85 countries. He was noted as being “one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature” in a study by Hartwick College. He is the 2004 winner of the American Psychological Association’s International Humanitarian Award, the 2006 recipient of the Illinois Psychological Association’s Humanitarian Award, the 2008 recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s Humanitarian Award, and the 2009 winner of APA’s Division on International Psychology’s Outstanding Psychologist Award. He is an inaugural Inductee into his high school’s, Purdue University’s, and the American Motorcyclist Association’s Hall of Fame. He is one of only 450 LinkedIn Influencers and blogs on global health, medicine, and humanitarian activism.

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and Senior VP of an integrated behavioral healthcare system during a 15 year tenure. He served as Illinois’ first Chief of Psychological Services for the Department of Human Services/Division of Mental Health–having made him the highest ranking psychologist in the State of Illinois and a committed reformer of psychology within the governmental setting. He also served as Chief Clinical Information Officer for the State’s Division of Mental Health in 2004–a Cabinetlevel position. He is the first psychologist to have an invited appointment to the Lake County Board of Health. The breadth of his work ranges from having served as a judge for Dean Kamen’s FIRST Robotics competitions, to serving on the Young Leaders Forum of the Chicago Community Trust. His humanitarian activities include going on international missions with the Flying Doctors of America to Vietnam, Rwanda, Peru, and the Amazon; War Child in Russia; having worked with the Kovler Center (for Refugee Survivors of Torture), Amnesty International, RWJ Foundation, the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He also was a delegate at the State of the World Forum in Belfast. He is a signatory to the UN’s 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He is the inventor of the “52 Ways to Change the World” card deck.

He is listed in Fast Co.’s Global Fast 50 nominees and in TED Conferences Founder Richard Saul Wurman’s “Who’s Really Who, 1000: The Most Creative Individuals in America.” Via his philanthropic work Chris has founded a kindergarten for AIDS orphaned children in Tanzania and he’s endowed a scholarship at Purdue’s School of Engineering and Technology for students conducting research, service or international projects. He has won awards for public service announcements he’s written and produced as well as for his photography—one was displayed in the Smithsonian.

Dr. Stout was educated at Purdue, The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and Forest Institute, gaining over twenty-four awards and four scholarships; including, the Purdue Distinguished Academic Performance Award, the Purdue Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award, and Valedictorian of his doctoral class. He obtained post-doctoral 95

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experience at Harvard Medical School as a Fellow in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics. He has received four additional doctorates (honoris causa) in Philosophy, Humane Letters, Humanities, and from Purdue School of Engineering, a Doctor of Technology. He was awarded “Distinguished Alumni of the Year from Purdue University” in 1991, Federal Advocacy awards from AAP (1997) and APA (1998), APA’s Heiser Award (1999), and IPA’s Distinguished Psychologist of the Year (1999) in addition to over 30 other post-doctoral awards.

He has been interviewed on many radio, cable, local, and national television programs (e.g., CNBC, CNN, WGN, NBC, PBS, NPR, Medical Rounds, Chicago Tonight, CL-TV, Oprah, Eye On Harvard, Christina, Bertise Berry, et al), and by numerous publications (Time, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Women’s Day, Modern Healthcare, Associated Press, Child Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Windy City Sports, NorthShore Magazine, Monitor on Psychology, ...). He coined the term “Emmortality” and numerous registered service-marks. He was an American Delegate and presenter at the 1st International Conference on Unconventional Computing. A unique and distinct honor was his being named one of ten Volunteers of the Year by Pioneer Press in 1999, for his global efforts, and both the Senate and House similarly recognized his work by proclamation of “Dr. Chris E. Stout Week.”

His current interests are in the multidisciplinary aspects of global psychology and healthcare, complex systems, evidence-based practice, and battling mediocrity. He’s an avid endurance- and adventure-sportsman as an ultra-marathon runner, certified diver (Blue Hole, Great Barrier Reef, narco- and shark-dives), and an devoted (albeit amateur) alpinist, having thus far summited 3 of the world’s 7 Summits as well as Mt. Whitney (tallest in 49 states), Mt. Rainier, Yosemite’s Half-Dome, Pikes Peak (with his daughter) and founded Summits For Others. He also shows concourswinning vintage BMW motorcycles and Porsches as well as builds custom café racers, but his greatest joy comes from being with his 96

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best friend and wife, Dr. Karen Beckstrand and their two children, Grayson and Annika.

APA International Humanitarian Award Winner

Citation: "For his tireless pioneering of crossdisciplinary projects world-wide, in healthcare, medical education and sciences, human rights, poverty, conflict, policy, sustainable development, diplomacy, and terrorism, all of which result in a tapestry with psychology serving as the integrating thread, we honor Dr. Chris Edward Stout. He is a rare individual who takes risks, stimulates new ideas, and enlarges possibilities in areas of great need but few resources. He is able to masterfully navigate between the domains of policy development while also rolling-up his sleeves to provide in-thetrenches care. His drive and vigor are disguised by his quick humor and ever-present kindness. He is provocative in his ideas and evocative in spirit. His creative solutions and inclusiveness crosses conceptual boundaries as well physical borders. No one is more deserving of this highest recognition than our esteemed colleague, Dr. Chris Edward Stout, whose work and impact spans the globe."

International Psychologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rock Star

Monitor on Psychology, December 2007, Vol 38, No. 11, page 41

It's the rare psychologist who gets to trade intellectual bon mots with international luminaries such as Bono, Al Gore, Tony Blair, both Clintons and Steve Jobs. But, after Chris E. Stout, PsyD, was named one of the World Economic Forum's 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow in 2000--a group of world leaders under age 40 who have demonstrated socially responsible leadershipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for three years running.

"You never really know why you get invited," jokes Stout. "My impression was that it was a mistake."

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But there's no mistaking Stout's passion for integrating psychology with public health around the world. Since the early '90s, Stout has been bringing health and psychological assistance to children and families in countries such as Vietnam, Rwanda and Peru. Building on his former work as a child psychologist, his involvement in global health projects, the time he spent at the United Nations as part of APA's nongovernmental organization and the connections he made in Davos, Stout founded the Center for Global Initiatives in 2004 to train health-care professionals and students to create sustainable programs.

"We develop projects that can be handed off to locals," says Stout.

The center's projects have included establishing a kindergarten in Tanzania for children orphaned by AIDS and providing health care to families living in Bolivian prisons.

Most recently, Stout brought a group of nurses, physicians and other health professionals to the center to design a project to train groups of Cambodian villagers in basic emergency medicine and first aid that can be used to stabilize injured people until they can get to a hospital.

Stout has further plans for the Bolivian prisons, where inmates' children live and go to school when there's no one else on the outside to care for them. The teachers there have no resources, so Stout is assembling child-friendly psychological and resiliency materials, children's books and parenting information. He plans to use center funds to send interested psychology grad students to the prisons to train the teachers to incorporate the materials.

Not as glamorous as Davos, but exactly where Stout wants to be. http://DrChrisStout.com

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Detailed Contents of Curated DropBox Materials I. Disaster Relief a. Guidelines i. Guideline in Disasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aftermath: A magazine article outlining the essential guidelines that need to be followed after a natural disaster. ii. Guidelines for International Training: An article on international training specifically regarding mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma exposed populations in clinical and community settings. This article gives good guidelines as well, and has some informational appendices (The Guidelines, Contextual Challenges in Societies, and Monitoring and Evaluation). b. Sphere i. ACT International Emergency Assessment Checklist: Provides a lot of different templates that you may need. There is a table of contents within the article for easier navigation through the information. ii. Documents Database: A Guide to the Sphere Document Database. The website that is provided in the document allows one to explore 99

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the different translations of the Sphere Handbook, as well as different documents and reports provided by Sphere users. iii. Framework for Decision Making Regarding Baraks: Guidelines regarding the outline of Sphere’s regulations when dealing with Baraks in disaster relief situations. Includes a “Tool Kit” on how to be up to date with Sphere’s regulations. iv. Handbook for Community Counselors Trainer: Handbook on Disaster Psychosocial Response.

This does not give step by step instructions, but instead gives an overview to Disasters and how to approach this situation. The other parts of the Handbook are given in the Modules listed below. v. Minimum Standards: An overview of what Sphere is, and what it does. Also gives the information listed on the website in case one would like to check out the website on their own. vi. Module 1: An Introduction to Sphere. vii. Module 2: The Humanitarian Charter. viii. Module 3: Sphere and the Project Cycle. ix. Module 4: Sphere and disaster preparedness. x. Sphere Module 1: This gives the same slides as Module 1, but in color and in bigger text. xi. Sphere Training Package: This lists all the Module’s information together, but without the slides on what to train. Gives more of a “how to” guide on conducting the trainings. xii. The Sphere Project: A Handbook that is written more like a book, with chapters and descriptions on the Humanitarianism Charter. xiii. What is Sphere: Description of what Sphere is, and what they do. Also give information on when and how to use the information given in the Handbooks.

II. Foreign Affairs/Global Health i. Bate Article: An article outlining the struggling in getting funding for global health issues that are not high profile.

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ii. Bate2: A short article describing how ineffective governments can be in stopping or helping those who are infected with HIV or Malaria. iii. CGH Modular Curriculum: Center for Global Health’s Framework for an Interdisciplinary Modular Curriculum on Global Health. Includes 6 Modules. Each Module gives an outline of the articles to read pertaining to the information, a time limit on how long it should take to relay the information and a brief overview of the topic. iv. Challenge of Global Health: An article describing the struggle of getting funding for non-highprofile global health organizations. There is a lot more funding available now than ever before, but the money is mostly going to high-profile diseases. v. DeWaal: This is a rebuttal article against Garrett’s Challenge of Global Health Article. DeWaal states that she raises important questions, but gives no alternatives to the situation. vi. DeWaal2: DeWaal examines where international efforts should be placed next when trying to help global health issues. vii. Farmer Article: Discusses how the global gap came to be and why it still exists today. viii. Garrett: An article that sheds light on different country’s leaders and the politics that are involved in Global Health. ix. Sachs Article: A reply article against Garrett’s “attack” on aid.

III. Fundraising a. About.com i. Fundraising Fundamentals: Gives a general outline for what you will need to do to get your nonprofit off the ground. ii. How to Build a Gift Chart: A brief statement about what a gift chart actually is, and how to best create one. b. Affinity 101

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i. ACN Affinity Program Overview: ACN is a helpful tool for nonprofits to help with your fundraising accounts and services. This PDF gives a great outline for what ACN is and how it can help your program. ii. Affinity Program for Nonprofits: This is an email exchange about the program, with some helpful links. Attached is the ACN Affinity Program Overview as well. c. Applying i. Annual Giving Strategy: Strategy #1; a step by step guide on how to properly receive funding from others. ii. ATI Foundation: A sample email/letter asking if funding is still available from a company. iii. Benevon Model: A flow chart on how to create sustainable funding for nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;profits. d. Card Partner i. 2010 Form 1: Shows all of the places you will be able to use your Card Partner. ii. 2010 Form 2: A flyer showing the perks of Card Partner. iii. Application Form: Application Form specifically for Center for Global Initiatives. iv. Flyer1: Flyer specifically for Center for Global Initiatives. v. Flyer2: Flyer specifically for Center for Global Initiatives. vi. Flyer3: Flyer specifically for Center for Global Initiatives. vii. Press Release: Gives important information regarding the perks to using the card for your donors and also what it does to help your organization. This was sent out as a press release. viii. Reward Yourself Flyer: An example flyer made by CGI to promote the use of Card Partner. This flyer outlines specifically how the help from donors would benefit the Center, and where the money would go.

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ix. Reward Yourself Flyer-PDF: Same as above, but in a PDF format. x. Viral Email: An email that can be sent out to your donors describing Card Partner, and how it can benefit your organization. xi. Website Study: A Slideshow designed by Card Partner that explains everything about the card and the company. xii. Wiring Instruction Form: This needs to be filled out in order to start receiving money from Card Partner. e. Causes-Facebook i. Dec 09 Content: An email sent out to donors about what CGI does, and how to get people involved in the cause. ii. Facebook Causes: Gives seven examples of what can be done with Facebook Causes like how to; start a discussion, post a link, take an invite pledge, create a birthday wish, send a welcome note, create a media board and how to shop for a cause. iii. Fundraising Projects-Best Practices-Creation: Helps by giving useful tips on how viewers can be more intrigued and your Causes page can be more noticed by guests. iv. Fundraising Projects-Best Practices-Promotion: Tips on promoting your projects to people who are more likely to donate money to your organization. f. CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Examples i. 73 cents: CGI calculated how many people had been helped by the donations that were given, and the lives that were saved by malaria vaccination, or malaria medication. This came out to 73 cents a life, and is a very useful tool to show your donors how much their contribution helps others. ii. All Taglines: An Excel Spreadsheet listing many different organizations, and what kind of work they do.

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iii. Ambassador: A letter from CGI regarding help from CGI to start up your own organization, and get your website off the ground. All donations from your website will go through PayPal. iv. AMD Grant Application: CGI has outlined, and narrated why and how the organization will help others through the five programs. This application document can help your organization learn how to properly write up a grant application. v. Annual Giving Strategy: Outlines four specific steps for operational support; budget, financial analysis, fundraising/marketing materials, potential donor lists. vi. AonDonor: A handout/email that is given to our mailing list/donors allowing them to choose which part of CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organization to donate money to. The handout is given in lieu of a fundraising climb Dr. Stout participated in. vii. AonDonor-PDF: Same as above, but in a PDF format. viii. AonDonor2: This is a handout providing information about the different areas of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life that have been effected by the work CGI does. ix. CGI Chris letter: A letter that was written when CGI was first created, letting others know about the launch of the new organization. This can give your organization hints about how, and what to write to help others know about your new organization. x. Dale-letter: Correspondence from CGI regarding work that has been done over several months. xi. Email-Request: Email that was sent out to email list about the new books that had been published, and a request for donations. xii. Funding Opportunities: A thorough outline about CGI including; Background, philosophy, and sound bites; funding opportunities and ideas and people; Projects.

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xiii. Holiday Appeal 2011: An email sent to donors and friends of the organization, thanking them for all their help and donations. If you read through this email, you can pick up some tips that were taken from our End of the Year Fundraising. xiv. Holiday Appeal 2010: An email sent to donors and friends of the organization, thanking them for all their help and donations. If you read through this email, you can pick up some tips that were taken from our End of the Year Fundraising. xv. Letter for Kenya: Correspondence about issues in Kenya. xvi. Letter Target Wal-Mart: A formal letter asking for specific items for donations from Target. This letter could be used for any kind of specific item from other stores as well. xvii. Letter-2: A draft of a letter, asking for donations and giving information regarding how the Center is doing. xviii. LetterBrenda: An email that had a video link attached about Global Health Consortium. The letter is general in asking for help with manpower, etc. xix. M-L Institutional Gifting-PDF: Donor Development from Merrill Lynch Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Management. Its intention is to help better manage, organize and obtain planned gifts. xx. M-L model: A flyer and very brief explanation of CGI as well as a description of the help CGI has received from Merrill Lynchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institutional Gifting. xxi. M-L Institutional Gifting: This is the same file as the M-L Institutional Gifting, but in WORD format instead of Adobe. xxii. Planned Giving: A letter/email sent to those on CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mailing list regarding many different options of planned gifting. Some of these ideas 105

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were taken from the M-L Institutional Gifting program. xxiii. Praeger Donation Letter: A letter requesting an increase in donations from an existing donor. xxiv. Questionnaire: A general questionnaire given in order to assess if the Center was portraying the correct information to the public. xxv. Ralph Response: An email correspondence when the Center was first brought together. xxvi. Rockefeller Info: An overview of the Rockefeller Foundation. It describes the general population in which the foundation typically gives, as well as the Grant that is available. xxvii. Rockefeller LOI: The questionnaire that the Rockefeller foundation requires to be filled out.

Asks general questions about your organization, and what you plan to do with the donation if you receive the grant. xxviii. s4o: Correspondence about links that are impertinent to the Center, as well a generalized letter that will be sent out to others in the future regarding information about CGI. xxix. Skoll Foundation: Outlines the Skoll Foundation, the mission statement and some general information about the grant that is linked to this foundation. xxx. Sosbuzz: Sosbuzz is a search engine to buy products and services. The site donates a percentage of proceeds to a charity. This PDF also gives brief information about the site itself. g. Donors and Donations i. A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships: A study was done by Network for Good on the Donor Relationship in the Online world. The study is not just looking at the growth of online giving, but the donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online giving experience. ii. Ann Lurie Info: This document outlines information about a specific donor: Ann Lurie. iii. Any Social Issue: A three step guide for people looking to donate. This gives a general, basic idea 106

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Bill Rose: General information regarding a funder, Bill Rose.

Center for Global Initiatives- Funding Sources 2: Descriptions of possible donors including their contact information, area of interest, logistics, connections and their grant proposal process.

Center for Global Initiatives- Funding Sources 3: Descriptions of possible donors including their contact information, area of interest, logistics, connections and their grant proposal process.

Checklist for an A+ Donation Form and Tools: List of 17 helpful tasks to remember when dealing with donations, and forms.

Chi Donors Grant App: Chicago Area Grant Report; gives instructions to completing the grant application, as well as a form/application to fill out for the grant.

Defining Charity Upward: An article written by Mark Redmond about why wealthy donors give to already well-endowed universities and not to nonprofits that need the help more.

Details For Donors: A CGI example of what a cover letter for donors looks like.

Donor Flyer2: A CGI example of a flyer that is given to donors including impertinent information about the organization, as well as how their donations can help those in need.

Donor Flyer 2-PDF: Same as above, but in Adobe Reader PDF format.

Donor Flyer Draft Content: This is the second draft of the Donor Flyer2. You can see the differences made between this one (the second draft) and the one that was actually distributed.

Donor Flyer Draft Content-PDF: Same as above, but in Adobe Reader PDF format.

Donor Flyer: The original/first draft of the Donor Flyer.

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xvi. Donor Letter Final May 08 Oz: An email including the donor letter to each specific donor, as well as the donor flyer. xvii. Donor Letter 21 Apr 08: This includes some of the correspondence regarding changes that should be made to the donor letter. You can see the differences made between this original and what was actually sent out to the donors. xviii. Donor Starters Brochure-revised: A completely revised version of the Donor Flyer, including marks that were made on top of the revised material. xix. Donor-Flyer: A CGI example of a flyer that is given to donors including impertinent information about the organization, as well as how their donations can help those in need. xx. Donor-Letter: An email including the donor letter to each specific donor, as well as the donor flyer. xxi. Five Things You Should Never Say to an Online Donor: This article addresses the fact that there is a crucial moment between being a supporter of your cause and a donor. The article outlines five different areas of special interest to avoid. xxii. Four Questions to Always Answer for Your Donors: Donors always want to know the four main questions; why me, why now, what for, and who says. xxiii. Funding Sources 10 08: Descriptions of possible donors including their contact information, area of interest, logistics, connections and their grant proposal process. xxiv. Funding Sources 4: Descriptions of possible donors including their contact information, area of interest, logistics, connections and their grant proposal process. xxv. Fund-raisers: Gives important information about finding and utilizing a professional fundraiser. xxvi. Giving Tips for Chris Stout: Eleven brief tips on giving effectively your way.

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xxvii. Major Gift Fundraising, Facts and Opinions: Information on developing a major gifts program at nonprofits answering four major questions; where do major gifts come from, why do people give major gifts, who should be asked for a major gift, and who is supposed to do the asking? xxviii. Making the Hard Sell: This article discusses the importance of keeping your emotions in check when trying to ask for funds for your organization. xxix. One Extra Click and 15 Reasons Why People Donate: A message from GoodSearch giving a brief explanation of why this program can be good for your cause. xxx. Three Step Guide to Giving 2: A three step guide for people looking to donate. This gives a general, basic idea for things that need to be considered and kept in mind when thinking about donating to an organization. xxxi. Ways to Thanks Your Donors: This article gives 9 very helpful tips on how to keep your donors engaged by using new and creative ways to say thank you. h. End of the Year Fundraising i. 10 Resolutions to Make: Being a not for profit organization is a lot of work and can get taxing leading you to skip out on some important details. This article helps to outline what is important and show you what you might be slacking on when it comes to your organization. ii. 25 Steps to Fall and Holiday Fundraising Success: Includes 25 steps to improve your organization with four broad topics of; craft your fundraising campaign, work your website, enhance your emails, make your messaging sing and troubleshoot your marketing. iii. 25 Steps Holiday Fundraising Guide: Same article/slides as above, but in a larger font size. iv. December Giving: December is the biggest month for online fundraising. This article is an 109

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annotated conversation about how to better your donation income over the month of December. v. Five Things You Can Still Do to Boost Your December Income: Outlines five important and simple ways to really boost your income that can be completed in less than 24 hours. vi. How to Make the Most of Year-End Online Giving: A very helpful and insightful slide show of the breakdown of online giving. The slides also go into which day of December, and which HOUR in December is best to ask for online donations. vii. How to Raise A Lot More Money Now: 50 creative ways to get out of your funk of fundraising, and how to get a new perspective on how to raise donations for your cause. viii. Plan Your December Fundraising in July: Even though the majority of donations happen in December, your need to start having a good rapport with your donors before then. Here are five great tips on how to start gain momentum for December. ix. Plan Your Year End Campaign in 7 Steps: Here is an article to help you if you are struggling to meet your final year end fundraising goals. x. The Fundraising Methods That Worked Best in 2010: This article takes a look at some statistics from 2010, and applies them to what would work best in 2011. These tips are help, regardless of the year. xi. Top 10 Ways to use Reviews This Giving Season: 10 helpful tips on getting noticed by your supporters through the use of reviews. Gives advice for online use, as well as a few tips on getting personal with your followers. xii. Top 10 Year-End Fundraising Strategies: This article gives 10 easy to do steps to raise your donation amount to your goal. Also includes helpful statistics that can better help you understand why these steps are useful. i. FirstGiving 110

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i. Challenge Yourself: A great way to raise funds!

Mountaineering helps to gain awareness and also helps by getting your voice heard by others. ii. FirstGiving Content: A CGI example of what to send out to your donors including information about your cause and why it is important to donate. iii. FirstGiving Emails July 2010: A mailing list for people who wanted to be involved in CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Giving. j. Getting Started i. 2011 Nonprofit Comm. Trends: A good description of statistics and trends of nonprofits. The author of the article gives three suggestions at the end for how nonprofits should address these and other 2011 trends. ii. Best Methods 2010: Outlines the top ten methods of fundraising in 2010; telephone, payroll, planned gifts, online, corporate gifts, major gifts, direct mail/email, foundation grants, special events and board giving. Includes why they worked, and which ones did the best. This article also lets the reader know what did not work and why. iii. Book That Changed My Life: 129 recommendations from nonprofits leaders from across the world. iv. Creating Sustainable Funding for Nonprofits: A flow chart from Benevon about creating sustainable funding for nonprofit organizations. v. Creating Sustainable Funding in Economically Challenging Times: Transcript of Creating sustainable funding in economically challenging times, during Nonprofit 911 in May 2009. Speaker is Terry Axelrod. vi. Developing a Winning Fundraising Plan: Classic fundraising tools for the non-profit behavioral health and social service field. Gives case studies and outlines the important areas in which they developed great fundraising techniques.

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vii. Dive into Development Planning: A very step-by step guide to development planning. Gives a glossary of terms that are need to know, gives reasons why you need a development plan etc. viii. Elevator Pitch: A laid out plan on how to develop a small description of your organization including your target audience, topic, message component development, etc. ix. Fundraising Fundamentals: An easy guide for the fundraiser beginner including where to start, where money actually comes from, ongoing vs episodic funding, and two specific types of fundraising. x. Fundraising Ideas: A listing of 36 ideas for fundraising in bullet-point form. xi. Getting Attention: This article is about your lastchance marketing checklist-how to finish the year strong. xii. Getting the Most Out of Your Professional Fundraising: You may choose to bring on a professional fundraiser for your organization.

Here are some tips to help you with keeping a professional fundraiser, and how to make the most out of them. xiii. Marketing Plan Template: This was intended for a two-year organizational marketing plan. Give nine major steps; goals, objectives, target audience, best strategies, tactics, roles and responsibilities, step-by-step work plan, budget and evaluation. xiv. Social Impact Research: 2009, 990 Tax Form. xv. Step-by-Step Fundraising Brainstorm Plan: Includes the step-by-step plan, with 1-6 steps. Some of the steps are out of order, so make sure to look at the entire article. xvi. Tagline Report: Your organization doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need just a good name, but a good tagline as well. Go through the database to see other organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taglines, and how to create a great one for your own organization.

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xvii. Update on Google Checkout for Grantees: A description and update on Google checkout. xviii. Winning Fundraising Plan: A fundraising case study that is broken down step by step on what works and what needs to be included when doing this for your own organization. k. Global Impact i. Letter: A letter from CGI to Global Impact requesting to be a part of their list. ii. Letter of Interest page 2: Same letter to Global Impact, but the second page of the letter. iii. Letter of Interest: The full Letter of Interest. iv. Membership Criteria Apr 2009: Outlines the membership criteria for being on the Global Impact list. v. Model Collateral: Gives examples of great candidates that are on the Global Impact list. l. GoodSearch i. 2011 Proceeds: Shows the amount the CGI had raised just by using Good Search in one year. ii. 2012 Campaign Guide: A campaign guide to increasing membership and activity. iii. GoodSearch e-letter: A letter written for CGI’s mailing list, informing them about CGI’s involvement with GoodSearch. iv. GoodSearch Message: Sweet and simple message describing how to use and why you should use GoodSearch. v. GoodSearch2: A letter written for CGI’s mailing list, informing them about CGI’s involvement with GoodSearch. vi. One Extra Click and 15 Reasons Why People Donate: Gives updated information about different stores and organizations that have teamed up with GoodSearch. vii. Password Issue: A screen shot of the webpage that allows your organization to change its password. viii. Raise Money With GoodSearch: A PowerPoint/slide show about every important information related to GoodSearch.

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m. Grant Tools i. Alfano-AI069146-01: A website link for a Sample RO1 Application and Summary Statements. ii. Alfano-AI069146-01-SS: A sample of a summary statement. iii. Baxter Grant: Gives information about the Baxter Grant including the missions, priorities, application requirements and review process. iv. Budget Justification_UM061909: University of Michigan’s Personnel, fringe benefits, equipment, travel, supplies etc. v. Budget Justification 062409: A listing of the personnel, costs etc. of the Study of the dose response resulting from variation of antigen and variation of nanoemulsion concentrations. vi. Budget Template 2009: Breakdown of the budget that will be needed for the University of Michigan’s Grant. vii. CV Grant Advice: Recommendations for grant applications and grant writing. viii. Drusano-AI079729-01: A website link for a Sample RO1 Application and Summary Statements. ix. Drusano-AI079729-01-SS: A sample of a summary statement. x. Finding Fund Raisers: In order to raise money for your organization you may need to bring on a professional grant writer. This article gives good advice for finding one, pay rates, etc. xi. Funds and Grants: xii. Grant Tips: Information with basic information which may be useful for future interns. xiii. Hiring Grant Writers: This is the same document as Finding Fund Raisers, but in a WORD format. xiv. Indiegogo: The world’s leading international funding platform. Gives a description and summary of what the organization does. xv. Using Systems Science: This is a grant application for a research project to protect and improve population health. n. Guidestar 114

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i. Do-It Yourself Fundraising: A beginners (brief) guide to getting your fundraising off the ground including four main steps; research, engage, ask, love. ii. Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Strengthen your Organization Through Legacy Giving: This describes what legacy giving is, why more people are beginning to do it more, and breaking the terminology down for wording that more easily understandable. iii. Fundraising Campaign in a Box: There are times throughout the year when you need to lead your members through a series of actions. Whether it’s communication-list building, hitting a fundraising target to support a new program or structure, or gathering support for a community initiative, you’ll get the most bang for your buck by conducting a campaign. o. Marketing i. Guide for Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom: 127 Nonprofit marketers share lessons learned. ii. Ten Ways to Monetize Your Network: This includes statements about; selling your own ads, using ads as fixed background images, working with affiliate programs, charging a network membership fee, charging group membership fees, asking for donations, selling merchandise, applying for grants, and future options. iii. The 123 Marketing Tree: Market your mission with confidence with the WHO, WHAT, and HOW. p. Network For Good i. 4 Steps to Stronger Appeals: Hero focused appealseveryone wants to feel like an ad relates specifically to them. This article gives you helpful suggestions on how to do just that. ii. 5 Events Tips: Promoting EventsNow powered by givezooks!; telling you how to sell more tickets, receive more donations, save time and reduce costs.

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iii. 5 Tips for Making Your Next Fundraising Even a Great Success: The five chapters include; the vision thing, the main event, taking care of business, that’s the ticket, and what’s next. iv. 6-Minute Guide to Winning Fundraising Campaigns: Starts out by suggesting ideas of a donate button for your website, then goes on to list and explain 6 steps on how to create and facilitate an online fundraising campaign. v. 12 Winning Strategies to Survive and Thrive in a Down Economy: Give the four basic rules on what to do to keep your organization thriving. Each step is further broken down into separate categories that will help you to better understand how to keep your organization up and running. vi. Big Impact Small Places: 9 ways to write better email subject lines, headlines, tweets and Facebook updates. vii. Four Principles for Making your Newsletter a Powerful Fund Tool: The four principles are; it’s about your donor, you need your donor, use the power of story and use headlines to keep readers reading. viii. Four Questions to Answer in every Appeal: The four important questions you need to ask every time are; why me, why now, what for and who says? ix. Homer Simpsons for Nonprofits: The truth about what people really think and what it means for promoting your cause. x. Homer Simpson for Nonprofits 2: This is the same as above, but in a larger font size for easier reading. xi. How Technology is Making Fundraising Good to Go: You can fundraise all day and still not get as many donations as you might online. This article is partnered with 6degrees.org and gives information on why online fundraising is important. xii. How to Increase Attendance and Fundraising Results for your Next Event: The five areas include; plan your event, secure corporate sponsors, promote 116

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your event, sell tickets/collect donations and assess what worked (and what didn’t). xiii. How to raise A Lot More Money Now: This article gives 50 brief and innovative ideas on how to creatively raise funds from 11 top experts. xiv. Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth it: Analytics and measurement techniques. xv. Mobile Study: Sheds light on donations that can be made from someone’s phone. xvi. Network for Good Online Giving Day: Breaks down why people give online. xvii. Network for Good Checklist: A Checklist of 17 ways to have an A+ donation forma and tools. xviii. Network for Good Digital Giving Index: Insights and trends on charitable engagement. xix. Nonprofit 911: 5 911 tips; when one isn’t such a lonely number, are you a New Mexico nonprofit, the experts are in, keys to a results driven marketing plan and win $50 for your favorite charity. xx. Nonprofit Email Marketing Guide: 7 steps to better email fundraising and communications. xxi. Reducing Social Distance to Boost Giving: Why people care more about some victims than others. xxii. Slides Givezooks Events: How to increase attendance and fundraising results for your next event. xxiii. Text to Give: The mobile frontier-successful strategies from text-to-give and beyond. xxiv. The Art of the Online Ask-How to Appeal for Online Donations: In this issue of nonprofit marketing and fundraising tips; win $50 for our favorite charity, the art of the online ask, and branding and Google and panels, on my! q. Organization’s Examples i. EKYA Open House Presentation: Ekya is a nonprofit organization that is focused on the eradication of poverty and the promotion of literacy both locally and abroad. This is a PowerPoint about an information meeting.

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ii. Email Model- Top 10 Reasons: This is a generalized email message sent out to give a brief explanation as to what We, the World is. iii. Freedom From Hunger Pamphlet: The pamphlet allows you to choose from 3 different outcomes, and how you want your donations to be spent. iv. Fundraising Letter SAFE: A letter that was sent out inviting people to participate in their Recognition and Fundraising Dinner Party. v. Giveback.org Turns Anyone into a Philanthropist: Currently they have a contest called “100 days of giving”. vi. Giving USA Foundation: Giving in worst economic climate since Great Depression exceeds $300 billion for second year in a row. vii. Go Vertical Challenge Content: A letter sent out asking for donations due to a vertical challenge to climb the Sears Tower. viii. Handout: A handout given at a talk for the Center for Global Initiatives regarding the projects that are underway. ix. ICEHA Email Request: A generalized letter/email sent out from ICEHA asking for donations. x. Music: A fundraising idea regarding the sale of jewelry. xi. Not for Profit Guide to Profitable Corporate Fundraising: Gives an explanation as to what corporate fundraising is, and how to go about it. xii. Paul Chadha: A list of potential donors. xiii. PBB Write-up: Psychology Beyond Borders and the criteria for programs. xiv. Prelaunch Membership Letter 2011: A generalized letter about the organization and a CommonWay Membership Registration. xv. PsySR Fundraising Ideas: Listing of PsySR’s goals and ideas. xvi. STTR: Gives information about a potential funding opportunity their organization found. r. Small Groups Newsletter 118

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i. March 2008 Fundraising Newsletter: “Creating and using fundraising flyers.” ii. Small Group Newsletter April 2009: “Do an easy thousand fundraiser; 6 easy steps for small nonprofits to raise $1,000 in under three weeks”. iii. Small Group Newsletter June 2008: “Why nonprofits don’t raise more funds”. iv. Small Group Newsletter May 2009: “Is your fundraising event raising enough dough-for the effort?” v. Small Group Newsletter November 2007: “Saving for a rainy day”. vi. Small Group Newsletter November 2008: “Thanking donors: the stick letter”. s. Social Actions Grant 2010 i. Social Action Grant Proposal 2010: Outlines what is needed in order to apply for the grant, and gives important information revolving the grant. t. Social Media and Online Resources i. 5 Key Metrics to Improve Your Email Campaigns: Sheds light on the open rate and click rate of emails that are sent out to your email list of followers. ii. 5 Ways to Raise Funds w Social Media: A presentation transcript of five areas/ideas on how to raise funds using social media. iii. 5 Ways to Raise Funds w Social Media-PDF: A more in depth look at the above presentation transcript. Gives the actual presentation slides. iv. 5 Ways to Raise Funds w Social Media: Same as above but in power point instead of Adobe PDF format. v. 7 Steps to better Email Fundraising and Communications: The steps include; get a good email service provider, get your mailing list into shape, figure out what your readers want, compose email works of beauty, make your micro content even better, design your email messages, and track your results and improve your program.

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vi. 8 Online Fundraising Changes You Must Make in 2010: The changes include; OMG its 2010-where are you, the tale of the broken magic button, the cure for nonprofit narcissism, need is not enough, exiting center stage, where’s my suitcase, be generous and lazy, and paging miss manners. vii. 8 Online Fundraising Changes: The same as above, but in smaller font size. viii. 9 Ways to better Write Email Subjects Lines: The tips include; make the short version work, highlight everything and you highlight nothing, include your response words, emphasize the personal value of your content, write visually, sometimes clever or coy works…except when it doesn’t, be direct and timely-but don’t get too pushy, avoid ALL CAPS and *Crazy* punctuation, and test and track. ix. 14 Tips of Making Your Nonprofit Email More Effective: A social media researcher had 9.5 billion email sets from MallChimp, ran three focus groups, and did a survey to come to his conclusions about the best email marketing practices. x. Amazon Book Sales: Information on how to sell book in bulk on Amazon. xi. An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns: Information on if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks. xii. Creating an Online Fundraising and Marketing Strategies Slides: Includes four sections; setting the stage, strategy review, discussion of current tactics, and tools to measure success. xiii. Creating an Online Fundraising and Marketing Strategy to Thrive in Tough Times: This is the transcript that goes along with the above slides. xiv. Examples of the Good and the Bad in Online Fund Appeals: If you look at your online fundraising campaign and can no longer see yourself in it, it cannot be good.

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xv. Five Things We’re Forgetting When We Take Our Fundraising Online: The same basic principles of what you were doing before online was so big need to be remembered when working in online fundraising. xvi. Five Things You Should Never Say to an Online Donor: Includes this list, and a description of the ‘should nots’; I’m not trustworthy, I take you for granted, I have no idea how much you should give, what’s you name again, and nothing at all. xvii. Google Checkout: Gives a description and a how to regarding Google Checkout for Non-Profits. xviii. Google Grants: This is a Google Grant 101-has information about what it is, and how to obtain it. xix. Ground Spring Handbook: Making the most of the web and email to make more money online including eight chapters on the subject. xx. Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It: Analytics and measurement techniques. xxi. Is Your Online Donation Page Ready for 2011: 8 must have tips to make your donation page ready for 2011. xxii. Make the Most of Your Personal Fundraising Page: Has a section on ‘What we have learned” and research on what makes a page a successful fundraiser. xxiii. Online Donors, Why they Leave and How to Win Them Back: This article gives info on two main ideas that we need to shift our attention to. xxiv. Online Fundraising Campaign in a Box: Includes Q and A regarding Network for Good’s campaign planning tool. xxv. Online Fundraising Handbook: Making the most of the web and email to raise more money online. xxvi. Online Giving Study 2010: A call to reinvent donor relationships. xxvii. Online Fundraising Checklist Winter 2010: Includes 6 checklists; website homepage, donation form 121

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and tools, online outreach writing, building an email list, email, and thanking donors. xxviii. The Online Fundraisers Checklist: Same as above but in smaller font. xxix. The Third Best Webinar Ever: An intro to crowdrise and its potential for you and your supporters. xxx. What You Are Not Doing Can Hurt You: Do these statements sound familiar? “I don’t have enough resources to do online fundraising and marketing”, and “I’m not sure I can afford to invest in online fundraising”. u. Sponsorship i. Climbing for Causes: Gives pertinent information on what CARE is and how they go about organizing climbs for fundraising. ii. How to Pay for an Expedition: A two page article from WorldWise on funding your dream. Gives different ideas on how to go about this. iii. Time and Money: Budgeting is a necessary evil for all expeditions. You are usually short on both time and money-so you must make the most of what you have. iv. Write a Corporate Sponsorship Proposal: Gives information on how to write a corporate sponsorship proposal. v. The Zen of Fundraising i. Fundraising is About Needs: This gives three short excerpts on fundraising is about needs, harness the simple power of emotion, and offer a clear, direct proposition. ii. Learn Twelve Keys to World Class Donor Service: This gives two short excerpts on the twelve keys to world class donor service, and measure fundraising performance fully. iii. Operate an Effective Thank You Policy and Always Say Thank You Properly: This gives three short excerpts on operate an effective thank you policy and always say thank you, learn three keys to a secure the all-important second gift, and define and offer appropriate donor service.

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iv. Ten Best Books to Keep By You: This gives three short excerpts on ten best books to keep by you, sites to see, and experience fundraising.

IV. Global Health a. Adler School of Professional Psychology i. Adler Intl Course: A syllabus created for a course at the Adler School of Professional Psychology taught by Dr. Stout. ii. Adler Proposal: A letter to the Adler team regarding a submission for a consultative proposal. iii. ASPP-Course 671 syllabus: The syllabus for course 671, Structural and Sociocultural Bases of Health and Dysfunction. iv. ASPP-Course 671 syllabus-Master: The syllabus for course 671, Structural and Sociocultural Bases of Health and Dysfunction. b. Biotechnologies i. Joint Center for Bioethics: Title and general information regarding two studies done by the Joint Centre for Bioethics. ii. News Release: Experts rank top 10 biotechnologies for improving global health within 5-10 years. iii. Top 10 Biotechnologies Commentary: A commentary on the top ten biotechnologies for improving health in developing countries. iv. Top 10 Biotechnologies: The article in which the commentary above is about. Includes ten chapters; molecular diagnostics, recombinant vaccines, vaccine and drug delivery, bioremediation, sequencing pathogen genomes, female-controlled protection against sexually transmitted infections, bioformatics, enriched GM crops, recombinant drugs, and combinatorial chemistry. c. Blind Optimism i. Blind Optimism, Executive Summary: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries.

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ii. Blind Optimism: Same as above, but in a different format. d. Center for Strategic and International Studies i. Lessons from Kenya: This paper finds that the APHIA (the AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance program) programs in Kenya hold some important lessons that should help inform Global Health Initiative implementation. ii. On the Ground with GH: IN December 2010, the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies organized a trip to Kenya to examine progress in implementing the US governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Health Initiative. e. Certification i. Cert Core Competencies Final 2.16.07: Certification in Global Health and its core competencies. ii. GH Core Competencies Atta: Same as above. iii. Global Health Application: This application is for the Graduate and Capstone Certificates in Global Health iv. Model Email for Certification: Email regarding the Guerrilla Marketing Coach Certificate Program. v. Model Email: Online program for financial planners conducted by Boston University. vi. Model-LGBT Postgraduate Training Program: Clinical Practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and their families. vii. Tasks 09: A proposal to begin a 12 month long curriculum that leads to a certificate in global health. viii. Time Extended Call for Applications for Sponsorship: Dialogue, deliberation and public engagement certificate program. f. Curriculum i. CGH Modular Curriculum: Framework for an interdisciplinary modular curriculum on global health.

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ii. Developing Global Health Curricula in US Med Schools: Includes 9 sections; a brief history of international health, a brief literature review of global health medical education, forms of global health medical education, models of global health medical education at US medical schools, components of a curriculum in global health, career counseling for medical students interested in global health, membership/extracurricular organizations for medical students, and resources. iii. Dream Builder Tool Kit Ebook: In order to build your dream, you need to assess your Point A, then answer three questions; career, health, relationships. iv. Global Health Advocacy Manual: An introduction to advocacy and mobilization. v. GWU MBA Brochure: Whether your role in healthcare focuses on individual, team, or organizational effectiveness, you must possess the necessary business skills to advance. vi. Humanitarian Course Guide 2008-2009: A list of courses and the professors whom taught the course at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. g. Diseases i. Digital Disease Detection: Harnessing the web for public health surveillance. ii. Malaria in Children: The past decade has seen an unprecedented surge in political commitment and international funding for malaria control. iii. Malariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Toll: An opinion article in the Wall Street Journal regarding Malariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effects. iv. Polio Immunization Policy: Polio immunization policy in the post-certification era: criteria for policy development. v. The Burden of Non Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries: By 2020, it is predicted that these diseases will be causing seven out of every 10 deaths in developing countries. Many of the non-communicable diseases can be prevented by tackling associated risk factors.

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vi. The Last mile: The problem with so many unnecessary deaths is because the vaccinations and medications cannot be transported out to the areas that need it most. vii. The Poultry Industry’s Central Role in the Bird Flu Crisis: Backyard or free-range poultry are not fueling the current wave of bird flu outbreaks stalking large parts of the world. h. Finances i. Financing Global Public Goods for Health: A list of 38 different key points on financing global public goods for health given at the Wilton Park Conference. ii. More Money Than Sense: An article surrounding the fact that a lack of money can no longer be blamed for the poor world’s health problems. i. Global Health Forum i. Global Health Forum 1: Creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccinations-a challenge for public-private partnership. ii. Global Health Forum 2: Intellectual property rights and global health-challenges for access and R&D. j. IABMCP i. IABMCP Diplomate Application Short: International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy’s application for academic diplomate status. ii. IABMCP Student Application: International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy’s application for student membership. k. Medical Tourism i. Medical Tourism as Medical Harm to the Third World: An editorial regarding if medical tourism done by clinical professionals from rich countries is beneficial. ii. Medical Tourism Can Do Harm: It is inappropriate arrogance to assume that anything that a Western doctor has to offer his less developed neighbor is progress.

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iii. Scrutinizing Global Short Term Medical Outreach: While in Honduras on a medical outreach trip, the author gained more knowledge from the people there than what he gave them. iv. Short Term Medical Missions: This paper analyzes two case studies of short-term medical missions to Latin America. l. Medicine i. Behavioral Health Care: Examples of unacceptable and acceptable abbreviations for the medication administration record. ii. Do Medications Really Expire: An article from Psychopharmacology Today that is well researched and well written. iii. Duffle Bag Medicine: As Americans, we come into a country and dispense medications without the client’s knowing our credentials or information. iv. Global Medic Force: Within any indigenous community, in any conflict zone, basic quality primary healthcare is one of the most fundamental and critical building blocks of all “hearts and minds” initiatives. v. Scientists and Thinkers Article: Three short articles

by Nancy Brinker, Harold McGee, and Peter Pronovost. vi. The Checklist: If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it. vii. Unacceptable Abbreviations, Symbols, Acronyms, and Dose Designations: An extension of the “Behavioral Healthcare” article giving examples of unacceptable and acceptable abbreviations, as well as why it is not appropriate to use. viii. WFR Cheat Sheet: And informational sheet on the Wilderness First Responder Cheat Sheet. m. Misc. and General Information i. A Global Agenda: A summary of where and when the G8 summits have been held.

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ii. Best Practices: A list of 31 articles, their authors and their journals regarding best practices. iii. Best Practices-PDF: PDF version of the above. iv. Bridging Boundaries Between GH and Policy Makers: Summary and key messages from a research symposium held during the global health conference. v. Emergency Multilingual Phrasebook: Key phrases in many different languages that can help you in a tight pinch. vi. Getting Prepared to Go Overseas: Discusses motivations, tolerance and desired outcomes for international medical experiences, present a preparation schedule, anticipate stress points and how to deal with them, and list resources for additional information. vii. GHEC Residency Guidebook: Developing residency training in global health-including 8 chapters. viii. Global Health: A print out of what global health in from Wikipedia.com. ix. Globalized Clinical Trials and Informed Consent: Article from the New England Journal of Medicine regarding trials and informed consent. x. Investing in Health: An article on how improved health has been recognized not only as an end in itself, but as an essential means of achieving broader social and economic development goals. xi. Letters: Monitoring global health through three topics; problems are primarily national, WHO has mandate and expertise, and bottom up approaches are more successful. xii. Peace Conflict Flyers: Flyer on the 2008 summer institute on peace and conflict studies schedule of events and activities. xiii. Tools to Evaluate Global Health via GiveWell: Table of Contents include; global health, economic empowerment, water/sanitation, education, other international aid. xiv. Volunteering Overseas: Lessons from surgical brigades.

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xv. What are the International Health Regulations: Describes what the health regulations are and what the 2005 revision holds. xvi. Why Global Health: Explains why global health affects all of us; travel and migration, urbanization, inadequate public health infrastructure, globalization of trade, and aging and chronic diseases. n. Rx for Child Survival i. Completing the Onsite Logistics: Whether you have a small event or an all-day festival, there are simple things that help traffic move smoothly, reduce overcrowding and lines, create a safe and secure environment, and help the festival end on a high note for all. ii. Get Involved: If your growing awareness of global health issues makes you want to roll up your sleeves and start making a difference, there are many active ways you can get things done. Here are a few suggestions. iii. Getting your Money’s Worth: The purpose of this article is to show how a country’s average life expectancy and infant mortality rate relate to its per-capita healthcare expenditure. iv. Girls Scouts USA: Girl Scouts have assembled a number of activities to engage young people in health issues locally and globally. v. Growing Up Healthy: The purpose of this article is to learn about factors that significantly affect a child’s health. vi. How a Country’s Healthcare Investments Affects Life Expectancy: An article regarding numerous countries and facts about their life expectancy. vii. How Hard Can it be to Carry Water: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that water is heavy and that carrying it long distances is challenging. viii. International Festival: As you plan your festival, consider using the three following themes; local 129

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health is global health, success is possible, you can make a difference. ix. Investing Your Money Wisely Activity Sheet: An activity sheet to help you figure out what healthcare options for a specific public health program. x. Investing Your Money Wisely: The purpose of this article is to identify the most cost-effective, beneficial public health measures. xi. Is the Water Clean Yet: The purpose of this article is to find out how to build a filter system that will clean dirty water. xii. Participation Patch: This article outlines the requirements for earning the participation patch. xiii. Rx for Survival: This article does not include links, but lists program videos for the Rx for survival. xiv. Unfair Race: The purpose of this article is to examine how the social and economic conditions in a country can affect the health of its people. o. Social Determinants and Social Justice i. Health Equity and Social Justice: This paper examines how the empirical identification of social inequalities in health relates to a normative judgment about health inequities and puts forward an approach which embeds the pursuit of health equity within the general pursuit of social justice. ii. Marmot-Social Determinants of Health Inequalities: There should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among countries and 20 years or more within countries is not inevitable. iii. The Tactics of Hope: This book seeks to encourage individuals to claim their power and take action to address the environmental and social challenges that concern them. p. Students i. Framework Program for GH and CASE: The objective is to interest and retain undergraduate, graduate and professional students in international health related careers by expanding 130

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Global Health Ethics for Students: A review of major ethical issues is presented, how they pertain to student, and a framework is outlined to help guide students in their work.

Global Health Learning Modules: This includes links to many different modules on global health learning, specifically for students.

Med Students Electives HIV: This article is an editorial on how students that go overseas are typically unprepared, ill-advised and at risk.

Medical Student Global Health Experience: This paper outlines potential benefits and risks of GHEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and delineates recommendations to some of the current issues.

Medical Students Go Beyond Books: An editorial on how medical students need to start experiencing actual medicine instead of just reading about it in science books.

Student Spend Summer in Service: An article describing how important it is for students to begin spending their free summers in service instead of taking a break.

Students for Global Health Equity: An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems.

UIC-Summer Medical Student Fellowship: This an article that offers a program specifically designed for first year UIC medical students.

When to Say No: Students going on electives abroad need clinical guidelines.

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health and psychosocial interventions for traumaexposed populations in the international arena. iii. Mastery Certificate Application: Program Application for the Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery. iv. Mastery Certificate Brochure: A mission statement, program overview, and information about the application for Mastery in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery. v. RAND-Trauma + Primary Care: A paper on the ISTSS/RAND guidelines on mental health training of primary healthcare providers for trauma-exposed populations in conflict affected countries.

V. Humanitarianism a. 10 Tactics i. Amplify Personal Stories: This tactic is useful when people affected by the issue are not being consulted, and as a way to give an issue depth that resonates with the target audience. ii. How to use Complex Data: This tactic is good to use when you need to present and share complex or hard-to-access information with the people who need it most. iii. Information Activism Top Ten: This is a breakdown of each tactic that is included in this folder. iv. Investigate and Expose: This tactic is useful when you are able to collaborate with others to identify, share and act on evidence that is being concealed from the public or ignored by those who need to act. v. Just Add Humor: This tactic is good for reaching out to diverse audiences and for encouraging people to spread your messages. vi. Let People Ask the Questions: This tactic is good for getting vital information to people when popular information sources are incomplete or misleading, or when other forms of direct communication are difficult.

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vii. Manage Your Contacts: This tactic is good for understanding you connections and relationships so you can make the most of your networks. viii. Mobilize People: This tactic is good to use when you want to support people to come together, online and in person, around a cause. ix. Use Collective Intelligence: This tactic is good for creating or gathering information, reporting on public events such as elections or protests and responding to disasters or outbreaks. x. Visualize Your Message: This tactic is good for communicating creatively across different languages and literacies, and for capturing people’s attention. xi. Witness and Record: This tactic is good for ensuring that people have the power to capture rights abuses as they happen. b. Another Day in Paradise i. Afterward: Afterward to the book Another Day in Paradise. ii. Contents: Contents of the book, including the breakdown of the different parts and their individual chapters. iii. Copyright Information: Another Day in Paradise’s Copyright Information. iv. Forward: The book’s Forward, written by John le Carre. v. Fragile Peace: A chapter from the book’s Part Three. vi. My Testimony, Bosnia: A testimony regarding Maria Blacque-Belair’s account of her time spent in Bosnia. vii. The House of Prayer and Peace: Written by Theresa Baldini, about Sudan. c. Humanitarian Intervention i. A Liberal Case for Humanitarianism Intervention: In this chapter Fernando Teson argues that humanitarian intervention is morally justified in appropriate cases.

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ii. Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, legal, and political dilemmas including four different parts.

This is merely the table of contents. iii. Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: The diplomatic and public debates over intervention to protect victims of humanitarian emergencies have moved ahead considerably in the last decade or so. iv. The Humanitarian Intervention Debate: A chapter written by J. L. Holzgrefe. d. Leading Without Power i. A Context for Service: The third chapter of the book, Leading Without Power. ii. Copyright Information: Copyright information of the book Leading Without Power. iii. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Movement: The second chapter of the book, Leading Without Power. e. Misc. i. 61 Supplementary Notes: PowerPoint slide-based teaching manual of Why is The Third World the Third World? ii. Building a Performance Measurement System: A 5 step process on using data to accelerate social impact. iii. Change Quarterly: The feature story is about 5 myths that executive directors believe. This PDF shows the entire issue. iv. Harmonisation: This article is about the center piece in the development effectiveness jigsaw written by Stefan Meyer. v. Humanitarian Information Centres and Partners: In consideration of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Lebanon and in the interests of providing immediate information management products and services, OCHA established Humanitarian Information Centre to respond to immediate information needs. vi. Trial and Error: A magazine article about a new breed of development economics and how they 134

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are using the tools of hard science to put poverty programs under a microscope. f. Saving Strangers i. Global Bystander: A chapter revolving around the international society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. ii. Humanitarian Intervention and International Society: The first chapter in the book of Saving Strangers. iii. Introduction: This introduction to the book Saving Strangers iv. Limits of Human Intervention: The eighth chapter in the book Saving Strangers regarding Bosnia and Kosovo. v. Saving Strangers: The cover and Contents of the book Saving Strangers. g. White Man’s Burden i. Feed the World: An article about how to feed the world, but not by throwing money at the problem, written by one of the authors of The White Man’s Burden. ii. Notes: Notes from the chapters included in this folder from the book. iii. Planners versus Searchers: The first chapter in the book, including written notes from Dr. Stout. iv. Snapshot, Chemist to the Poor: A small excerpt regarding Ugandan’s malnutrition. v. Snapshot, Ghana Finds its Swarthmore: A small excerpt based on a session on an interview with Patrick Awuah. vi. Snapshot, Professor Kingsfield Goes to India: A small excerpt on India. vii. Snapshot, Prostitutes for Prevention: A small excerpt on the red-light district of Calcutta, India. viii. The Future of Western Assistance: The eleventh chapter of the book saying that there is still hope that western assistance can help poor people in the rest with some of their most desperate problems. ix. The Healers Triumph and Tragedy: The seventh chapter of the book including sections such as; 135

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paradox of evil and the white manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burden, health triumphs, the coming storm, not following your own advice, day of judgment, the kitty Genovese effect, orphans in the storm, treating the sick, path of least resistance, trade-offs, dysfunctional health systems, feedback and idealism again, and heroes.

VI. International Psychology i. A Model for Brief Mental health Volunteer Work in Developing Countries: An article/study stating that they believe that much needed mental health service can be provided to developing countries using a model of brief, repeated consultation trips with the use of a translator. ii. Continuity and Change in the Development of Psychology Around the World: An article by Mark Rosenzweig regarding taking stock of psychologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s present resources and state of development for planning for further development. iii. Handbook: This is the cover and Table of Contents for the Handbook of International Psychology. iv. Intentional Strategies for Psychology Training: An article written by Mark McMinn and Vitaliy Voytenko about three investment strategies for training students from developing countries. v. International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences: The Table of Contents for the International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences. vi. International Psychology, a Synthesis: Chapter 29 of the Handbook of International Psychology written by Michael Steven Danny Wedding. vii. International Psychology, an Overview: Chapter one from the Handbook of International Psychology written by Michael Stevens and Danny Wedding. viii. Investing in the Wealth: Intentional strategies for psychology training in developing countries. ix. Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists: Includes four principles; respect for 136

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the dignity of persons and people, competent caring for the well-being of persons and people, integrity, and professional and scientific responsibilities to society.

VII. Internship Training Ideas a. AAPIC i. AAPIC-2007-08: Instructions for the APPIC application for psychology internship, including the actual application. ii. AAPIC-2007-08 Part 2: Part 2 includes academic programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s verification of internship eligibility and readiness. b. ABTC i. ABTC Brochure March 5th: Information and schedule for the Advanced Bioterrorism Triage Course. ii. ABTC Brochure May 9th: The registration form. c. Global Volunteers i. Global Volunteers Email: A generalized informational email for global volunteers. ii. Global Volunteers Service App: Information on how to apply and also includes the application and agreement form. iii. Global Volunteers Service Program Disclaimer: Volunteer agreement and disclaimer form. d. Misc. i. Arrangement of the Cooperative Project: Suggested timetable for the cooperative program between school of social development and public policy, Fudan University, China, and The Chigo School of Professional Psychology. ii. CE and Cert Idea: Information on how and why to become a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. iii. China Information: Information from the Center for International Studies and the Business Psychology that are offering a 3 credit summer course, Business Psychology in China. iv. Description for AFCN Post-Doc Position: Description for the post-doctoral clinical psychology resident position.

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v. Fact Sheet New Graduates in Psychology: Information on how to gain licensure for new graduate students. vi. FAQ teleclass: Most frequently asked questions about ‘find your prescription’ coaching course on the telephone. vii. FQHC-RHC List 12-4-07: An excel sheet for currently active FQHC’s & RHC’s in the Chicago area. viii. Internships: A letter to the editor about where are the internships. ix. Model Pitch and Curriculum: Now you can instantly brand your business with the best-selling marketing series in history and get the competitive edge you need more than ever in today’s very cluttered marketplace with the internationally acclaimed Guerrilla Marketing coach Certification Program. x. Model-Ideas: Internship opportunity through the association for trauma outreach and prevention. xi. Spr08 Mental Naperville: A flyer for two mental and behavioral health educational opportunities; multi-disciplinary certificate program in child and adolescent mental health, and multi-disciplinary certificate program in mental health and aging. xii. The Harvard Academy Scholars Program: Information regarding what the Harvard Academy Scholars Program is, and when and how to apply. xiii. Tuition: Tuition rates for Chicago’s graduate schools for psychology. xiv. You Can Earn CEUs: CEU’s and CPDU’s regarding children and adolescent mental health.

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common functions, core mental health and psychosocial supports, and social considerations in sectors. b. Misc. i. Building Blocks in Practice: Handbook from Alliance about supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries including all the chapters of the book. ii. Mental Health in Emergencies: Mental and social aspects of health of populations exposed to extreme stressors. iii. Mental Health, Social Functioning and Disability in Postwar Afghanistan: A study done regarding the mental health of those involved in the war and those whom lived in Afghanistan during the war. iv. STOUT: An article written by Dr. Stout about Psychology, Social Justice and Global Works. v. The National Alliance for Multicultural Mental Health: A program of immigration and refugee services of America-lessons from the field. c. Trauma i. Complex Trauma, Complex Reactions: This article examines the criteria contained in the diagnostic conceptualization of complex PTSD. It reviews newly available assessment tools and outlines a sequenced treatment based on accumulated clinical observation and emerging empirical substantiation. ii. Guidelines for International Training in Mental Health: To develop consensus-based guidelines for training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma-exposed populations in the international arena. iii. ISTSS, RAND Guidelines on Mental Health Training: A working paper on the training of primary healthcare providers for trauma-exposed populations in conflict affected countries. iv. Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health: A full handbook from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

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IX. MENTOR a. 101â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s i. Aid Workers Network 101: A general overview of what aidworkers.net really is, including some examples from the website. ii. Rootcause: General information about what rootcasue.org is, and really what they are all about. b. Becoming a 501(c)3 i. DIY Humanitarianism: A letter from the Center for Global Initiatives on how to become a 501(c)3. ii. Pitch Email: Email correspondence between two individuals discussing how CGI became a 501(c)3. c. Can Entrepreneurs Save the World i. Making Social Ventures Work: Five guidelines can help you build profitable, socially beneficial new businesses in the face of daunting uncertainty. ii. The High Intensity Entrepreneur: World-class entrepreneurs have reached critical mass in some surprising places-and their number is growing quickly. There innovators just might revive the global economy. d. Certification in Nonprofit Management i. Ideas for Marketing: International institute for social entrepreneurs, Kerala, India-Call for applications for IISE 2011 Program. ii. Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management: Bullet point information regarding the online certification including links and a complete list of classes. iii. Social Media: A magazine article on making social media work for your private practice. e. Guides and Training Manuals i. Building a Performance Measurement System: A 6 step handbook including; planning to measure, choosing what to measure, determining how to measure, preparing to use your data, putting your performance measurement system into action.

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ii. Empowering Young Women Manual: An easy to follow resource manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate workshops. iii. Telehealthcare Toolkit: For commissioning and evaluative measures for the West Midland. f. Information Activism i. Information Activism Top Ten Tactics 101: An informational sheet about the website including direct information from the website itself. Also includes a breakdown of each tactic. ii. Tactics Card 1: This tactic is good to use when you want to support people to come together, online and in person, around a cause. iii. Tactics Card 2: This tactic is good for ensuring that people have the power to capture rights abuses as they happen. iv. Tactics Card 3: The tactic is good for communicating creatively across different languages and literacies, and for capturing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention. v. Tactics Card 4: This tactic is useful when people affected by the issue are not being consulted, and as a way to give an issue depth that resonates with the target audience. vi. Tactics Card 5: This tactic is good for reaching out to diverse audiences and for encouraging people to spread your messages. vii. Tactics Card 6: This tactic is good for understanding your connections and relationships so you can make the most of your networks. viii. Tactics Card 7: This tactic is good to use when you need to present and share complex or hardto-access information with the people who need it most. ix. Tactics Card 8: This tactic is good for creating or gathering information, reporting on public events such as elections or protests and responding to disasters or outbreaks.

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x. Tactics Card 9: This tactic is good for getting vital information to people when popular information sources are incomplete or misleading, or when other forms of direct communication are difficult. xi. Tactics Card 10: This tactic is useful when you are able to collaborate with others to identify, share, and act on evidence that is being concealed from the public or ignored by those who need to act. g. Misc. and General Information i. Bury My Heart: You can conceivably change your choice of top values at any time. This gives you the opportunity to reevaluate your organizations top values. ii. Detailed Schedule Final CES Version: A letter that has been revised including the written revisions. iii. Global Health Information: An interview with Dr. Stout and APA-in question answer format. iv. Table of Contents h. Not Med School i. Not Med School Handout: Certificate programs given through the Center for Global Initiatives. ii. Not Med School Ideas: Same as above, but also including some ideas that could potentially be certificate programs. iii. Not Med School: Same as above, but also including some ideas that could potentially be certificate programs. i. Planning for 2012 i. Business Leads: Shows how you can use Guidestar to overcome the challenges of finding the right nonprofit data. ii. New Business Development: This paper pinpoints the key elements your sales force needs to know to develop new business and revenue-generating relationships within the nonprofit sector. iii. Prospecting in Not for Profit: This report identifies several challenges nonprofits are looking to overcome to help you can sell to nonprofits more 142

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effectively and derive additional revenue streams from the nonprofit sector. j. Tool Kit for Helping your Focus i. Humanitarian Tool Kit: A Tool Box developed by the Center for Global Initiatives with a set of tools that are freely available to anyone for the surfing to come to the website and download medial libraries. ii. Tool 1-Problem Definition: Gives an activity sheet on specific problems and how to fix them. First step is to identify the problem. iii. Tool 2-Root Cause Analysis: After identifying the problem, you will need to find the root cause of the problem. iv. Tool 3-Goal Setting: Applicants like to know specific goals, this tool gives four questions to answer pertaining to your organization. v. Tool4-Intervention: Gives an activity of a flowchart/diagram to help you find a logical flow from one step to the next. vi. Tool 5-Innovation Matrix: Helps you to find other organizations that are like yours and find what works and what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for them. vii. Tool 6-Opposing Viewpoints: It is a good idea to keep in mind your criticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opposing ideas. This tool gives three great exercises to learn more about potential opposing viewpoints. viii. Tool 7-Environmental Scan: You need to keep in mind the current environment in which you are building your organization. ix. Tool 8-Financial Planning: A tool to help calculate your organizations finances. x. Tool 9-Tapping Into Your Inner Change Agent: When you are starting a new project it is important to recognize that you are the critical element in the story. xi. Tool 10-Making the Pitch: Information on how to communicate their idea effectively. xii. Tool Kit Combo: This is the entire toolkit combined as one.

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X. Misc. Readings a. How to Change the World i. Are They Possessed: Possessed by an idea-Chapter 10 of How to Change the World. ii. Blueprint Copying: Chapter 20 iii. Conclusion: Chapter 21 iv. Copyright Information v. Four Practices of Innovative Organizations: Chapter 16 vi. If the World is to Be Put in Order: Chapter 11 vii. In Search of Social Excellence: Chapter 12 viii. Morality Must March with Capacity: Chapter 19 ix. Resource Guide x. Restless People: Introduction xi. Six Qualities of Successful Social Entrepreneurs: Chapter 18 xii. The Role of the Social Entrepreneur: Chapter 8 b. Misc. i. Global Health Film Club: The film club provides unique venue to view a film as a group and then follow with conversation and methods to address the issues. The film serves as a vehicle to learn about a specific humanitarian issue. ii. Side-Stepping the Barriers to Effective Practice of Interdisciplinary: A new mechanism for knowledge production and re-integration in the age of information. iii. The Book That Changed My Life: 129 Recommendations from nonprofit leaders around the world.

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i. Echoing Green 1. 2006 Fellows: The 2006 Echoing Green Fellowship winners.

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submission policies, application tips, and common mistakes.

3. 2009 Application Coaching Guide: This is a coaching toolkit that will allow the applicant to develop and fine-tune your application, just as past fellows have.

4. Application Process: Outlines the actual application process for Echoing Green Fellowship.

5. Application Tips: This information provided will prove immensely helpful in ensuring that your application receives maximum consideration.

6. Applying for Fellowship: Gives details on how to actually apply for the echoing green fellowship.

7. Common Mistakes: Outlines mistakes others have made that ultimately disqualify them for the fellowship.

8. Complete the Tools Underlined: Case examples of what not to do.

9. Complete the Tools: Same as above, but not underlined.

10. Genocide Intervention Network: An interview with Mark Hanis.

11. Pre Application Questionnaire: A pre application questionnaire in order to see if you and your organization would qualify.

12. Revise and Submit your Application: You should be going through two revision cycles before turning in your application.

13. Selection Criteria: Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible for an echoing green fellowship.

14. Social Fellowships: Gives a description as to what a echoing green social fellowship is. ii. A Prescription for Change: How pediatrician Cheryl Dorsey became a social entrepreneur.

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iii. Athealthce, Stuff for Sale: Courses that are for sale. iv. Chicago Colleges, Chi-City: Gives a website that lists all of Chicago’s college campuses. v. Global Health Consortium Logo: A logo of the Global Health Consortium. vi. Info on Global Health Consortium: General information on what the Global Health Consortium is. vii. Innovation Matrix Instructions and Examples: General information on echoing green’s innovations instructions, and examples of how to go about doing it. viii. Innovation Matrix: A blank innovation matrix you can use for your own organization. ix. International Conference Global Health: Nomination form for the International Conference. x. International Trauma Studies Program: Gives information about the trauma studies program, how to apply, what the fees are, and what the courses are. xi. Jonathan Mann Award for Global Initiatives: The Global Health council welcomes nominations of people whose work epitomizes Jonathan Mann’s life. xii. Mission for Center for Global Initiatives: Gives the mission statement, as well as the course information. xiii. PHPTG News: Public Health training and Practice Group is accepting applications for Year 16 of the Institute. xiv. Public Health training and Practice Group: Public health training and practice group department wins best practice training competition. xv. The International Trauma Studies Program Application: Application form for 2007-2008. xvi. UW Madison Global Health Institute Application: Certificate in global health 2012-2013 application form.

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xvii. World of Children Application: Nomination application. b. Global Health Resource Center i. About Us: General information about GHRC; giving the mission statement, the definition of health and the vision. ii. Certificate Programs: A list of UW certificate programs related to global health services. iii. Employment: University of Washington employment webpages. iv. Funding: Funding awards for both faculty and students. v. Global Health Courses: This is a selected list of the UW health sciences offerings in international health. vi. Humanitarian Emergencies and Relief: Through partnerships, the Lindenberg Center is working to expand teaching, research, and service opportunities in the areas of humanitarian action, international development, and global citizenship. vii. International: Information on GHRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international organizations. viii. Travel: Passport, documents and visa information. ix. USA: Information on GHRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national organizations. x. Visiting Scholars and International Students: Includes information about academic programs, visa services, health and insurance, housing, English language programs, social support and Seattle support. c. Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery i. General Information: Includes the mission statement, program overview, and application. ii. Masters Certificate Program Email: This program offers a transformative training experience to create a network of global leaders in mental health recovery. iii. Program and Website Info: Gives the purpose, rationale, delivery approach, international 147

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faculty, designation, admissions criteria, cost, and learning environment. iv. Program Application July: Program application for 2007. v. Program Application June: Program application for 2006. d. Guerrilla Marketing Coach i. Certification Program: Now you can instantly brand your business with the best-selling marketing series in history and get the competitive edge you need more than ever in today’s very cluttered marketplace with the internationally acclaimed Guerrilla Marketing Coach Certification program. ii. GM Coach Certification: A “hold your spot” for the Guerrilla Marketing Coach Certification Program. e. International Center for Health Leadership Development i. Community Focused Health Collaboration: Learn to leverage partnerships to increase your fundraising potential influence policy, and strengthen your organizational capacity. ii. Handout: Providing skills for bridge-building leaders. iii. ICHLD Overview: ICHLD conducts health leadership development activities that help build relationships between communities and institutions. iv. Leadership Program: Overview of a year-long leadership program by the international center for health leadership development. f. Maternal and Child Health Management Academy i. Application for Maternal and Child Health Management Academy: Fellow Application Form. ii. Eligibility and Responsibilities: Eligibility requirements, fellow responsibility for the maternal and child health management academy. iii. Email from Rani Mishra: The MCH is a new, yearlong program being offered by the PHTPG to MCH professional who want an opportunity to 148

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learn management strategies and techniques, along with skills in the use of a program planning to strengthen the maternal and child health programs in their agencies in an efficient and effective manner. iv. Pamphlet: Pamphlet with general, brief information about the Maternal and Child Health Management Academy g. Misc. i. ACRON Business Plan: ACRON is a network of over 20 organizations with significant international conflict resolution and peacebuilding experience. ii. CDFA: Explains why you should become a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. iii. Global Health Doc: The Institute for Global Health is committed to improving health and increasing access to effective and affordable health services in all countries. iv. Grassroots Community Health Leadership Program: Application information for Grassroots Community Health Leadership Program. v. Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma: A multidisciplinary program that has been pioneering the health and mental health care of traumatized refuges and civilians in areas of conflict/postconflict and natural disasters for over two decades. vi. Network for Good: Online fundraising guides and eBooks. vii. The International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy INC: Offers Diplomate Status in four areas; behavioral medicine, professional psychotherapy, professional counseling, and chemical dependency counseling. viii. The International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance Pamphlet: Offers information on the general approach, faculty, participant qualifications, fees, scholarships, weekly schedule, 149

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course format, overall course objectives, syndicate work, weekly case studies and diploma and certification of attendance. ix. The National Institute of Sports Professionals: Information on how to make your NIS credential work for you. h. The GW Center for Global Health i. Center for Global Health, NYU School of Medicine: From tuberculosis to terrorism-health is a matter of global concern. ii. Mission and Objectives: Gives general information on the Center for Global Health. iii. Research Training and Other Activities: Center staff is providing technical support or implementing projects in the following areas: health communications, HIV/AIDS, access to care in immigrant and minority populations, reproductive health, professional training and capacity-building, special projects and internships, Public health mission to Haiti, and global health seminar series.

XII. Not For Profit a. Books i. Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations: This book set out to develop a definition of nonprofit organizational capacity as well as an easy-to-use tool for assessing it. ii. Skilled Helping Around the World Book: Includes the title page and copyright information. b. Misc. i. Doing Good by Doing Well: Nonprofit organizations should consider creating wealth rather than merely redistributing it. ii. Good Governance and Ethical Practice: The panel on the Nonprofit Sector has been dedicated to finding ways to strengthen governance, transparency, and ethical standards within the charitable community since its creating in October 2004.

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iii. Making Social Ventures Work: Five guidelines can help you build profitable, socially beneficial new businesses in the face of daunting uncertainty. c. Planning for 2012 i. New Business Development in the Nonprofit Sector: This paper pinpoints the key elements your sales force needs to know to develop new business and revenue-generating relationships within the nonprofit sector. ii. Prospecting Within the Nonprofit Sector: This report identifies several challenges nonprofits are looking to overcome to help you can sell to nonprofits more effectively and derive additional revenue streams from the nonprofit sector. iii. Using Guidestar to Find Nonprofit Business Leads: This report concludes our Planning for 2012 series by showing how you can use Guidestar to overcome the challenges of finding the right nonprofit data. d. Starting and Building a Nonprofit i. Forms and Checklists ii. Section 1: Includes; choose a name for your nonprofit, should you incorporate, do you want tax-exempt status, and should you have voting members. iii. Section 2: Includes components of a strategic plan, decide who will participate, develop your mission statement, outline specific goals, objectives and activities, assess your resources, identify strategies, and edit and finalize your plan. iv. Section 3: Includes set up your budget, estimate income, estimate expenses, and assemble your budget. v. Section 4: Includes what makes a good board, the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duties and tasks, board policies and procedures, recruiting board members, hold effective board meetings, and the role of committees. vi. Section 5: Includes the golden rules of successful fundraising, your fundraising plan, define your 151

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fundraising targets and budgets, find prospective donors, define your fundraising campaign, fundraising tools, funding from grants, the law of fundraising, and working with professional fundraisers. vii. Section 6: Includes creating a website. viii. Section 7: Includes bookkeeping and accounting overview, tracking income and expenses, creating basic financial reports, audits, reviews, and compilations, and reporting requirements. ix. Title Page e. Volunteer Management i. 3 Things Survey: How to best manage volunteers and make their time at an organization a positive experience. ii. American Psychologist Excerpt: Includes the different prevention science, social science and the crafting of legislation, public support for prevention, speak no evil, inspection time for inspection time. iii. CHANGE 2011: Feature story in this magazine issue; boosting board collaboration. iv. Firing Volunteers: Gives a good FAQ about how to deal with a volunteer that is not appropriate for the job. v. Improve Your Job by Getting in the Spirit: A short article by Dr. Tom McDonald about how to improve your job by putting your soul first. vi. Keeping Your Board Engaged with Your Cause: A short article by Guidestar from 2010. vii. The Dark Side of Volunteer and Staff Relationships: A follow-up to an article by Guidestar about how finding volunteers can be like dating-this is the dark side of volunteers. viii. The Gift Acceptance Policy: What it is, and why your organization needs it.

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i. 2010 Application Handbook Echoing Green: Includes; before completing an application, submission policies, completing an application, application question and help text, quick application checklist, application tips, common mistakes. ii. SAS Application: Approval of sponsors of continuing education for psychologists application. b. Attendance Certificate i. APA Attendance: Yellowbrick certificate of attendance. ii. Attendance Certificate Dietitian: Yellowbrick certificate of attendance. iii. Attendance Certificate LCPC LCP: Yellowbrick certificate of attendance. iv. Attendance Certificate LMFT: Yellowbrick certificate of attendance. v. Attendance Certificate Social Work: Yellowbrick certificate of attendance. vi. CEU Logs: Blank list for participants who came to the programs. vii. Copy of Seminar Attendance: Blank list for participants who came to the programs. c. Curriculum i. CGH Modular Curriculum: Framework for an interdisciplinary modular curriculum on global health. d. Evaluations i. Binge Presentation Evaluation: Workshop Evaluation. ii. Evaluation Form: Workshop Evaluation. e. Misc. i. Funding ops 26-28: An issue for International Psychology Bulletin. ii. Health Service and Outcomes Research: The twoyear, part-time, master of a science degree program will offer a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary training of both medical doctors and pre and post-doctoral diplomats to fulfill the 153

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need in the important field of health services and outcomes research. iii. Model Community Health Leadership: An introduction of Dr. Linda Rae Murray. iv. Value of a Study Abroad Program for Graduate Students in Psychology: Many undergraduate students participate in study abroad programs, but it does not happen as often for graduate and doctoral students. f. Standards, Goals and Criteria i. CE-ToolKit: A lesson on writing behavioral learning objectives and assessments. ii. CGI CE Rules and Regulations: CGI certificate in global world health must meet the APA standards outlines in this document.

XV. Psychology and Medical Disaster Training a. Misc. i. Handbook for Disaster Psych Response ii. Humanitarian Charter Module 2 iii. RR Policy Checklist Emergency Assessment b. Sphere i. Briefing Module 1 ii. Disaster Preparedness Module 4 iii. Framework for Decision Making Mark PP iv. Handbook Standards in Disaster Response v. Introduction to Sphere Module 1 vi. Module 1 vii. Module 2 viii. Module 3 ix. Module 4 x. Sphere and the Project Cycle module 3 xi. Trainers Guide Part 1 XVI. Publicity and Social Networks a. Cause Marketing i. 1, 2, 3, Marketing ii. A Crash Cause marketing iii. Cause Marketing iv. Facebook or Twitter v. How Stopping Everything Increases Nonprofit Marketing Impact 154

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vi. Nonprofit Marketing Plan Template vii. Should We Send a Press Release About That viii. The Company, the Cause, the Community, and the World ix. Understanding Cause Marketing b. Getting Attention i. 2011 Guide to Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom ii. The Nonprofit Tagline Report c. Guidestar i. Secrets of the Charismatic Organization ii. Tips for Entering Your Nonprofit into the Social Media Environment d. Misc. i. Creating Effective Radio Interviews ii. Hit a Homerun in Media Interviews iii. Storytelling as Best Practice e. Network for Good i. 5 Elements of a Good Story ii. 5 Steps to Email Marketing iii. 6 Steps to Better Email Outreach iv. 9 Storytelling Tips for Nonprofits v. 10 Tips to Not Get Deleted vi. 11 Steps to Success With Social Networking vii. 14 Ways to Grow Your Email List viii. Email Subject Lines your Readers Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Resist ix. How to Compose Better Microcontent and Social Network Updates x. How to Tell a Story xi. Storytelling, the First Best Thing xii. Ten Things Your Home Page Must Have xiii. Your Email Microcontent f. Newsletters i. 2 Degrees Inside ii. 2 Degrees iii. Articles the Work in Nonprofit E-Newsletters iv. Downturn Fundraising and Marketing Series v. Fundraising for Small Groups Newsletter vi. What Good Nonprofit E-Newsletters Look Like g. Nonprofit Marketing Guide i. 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report 155

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ii. Do It Yourself Communication Audits h. Publicity for Nonprofits i. Appendices ii. How Will You Bring This Together-Writing a Publicity Plan iii. Identifying Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newsworthy iv. Press Release Distribution Services v. Publicity for Nonprofits i. TechSoup i. How to Deliver a Bad Presentation ii. How to Design a Bad Presentation XVII. Social media i. Building a Performance Measurement System: Step 15 include planning to measure, choosing what to measure, determining how to measure, preparing to use your data, and putting your performance measurement system into action. ii. Measure Everything: Is your Nonprofit Facebook page worth it? iii. Social Media Essentials: Put some strategy into your social media outreach.

XVIII. Tools a. Internet Tools i. CD 101 ii. Internet Resources iii. Internet Tools iv. Websites for Clintonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Giving b. Misc. i. DropBox ii. Empowering Young Women manual iii. Getting Ready to Travel iv. Humanitarian Tool Kit v. Humanitarian Tool Kit vi. Strategic Planning vii. TED Creative Commons XIX. College Toolkit a. Awareness Event i. Awareness: A flyer regarding new, innovative ideas on how to raise awareness about your cause on a college campus.

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ii. Free to…: A WORD document the simply says “FREE TO…” at the top of the page, allowing students to write down and express what some of their freedoms are. iii. Paper Chain: A “Not For Sale” folded handout regarding information about the program. iv. Receipt Handout: A folded handout with receipts for saving people’s lives. b. General Information i. College Toolkit: A PDF book about the organization Not For Sale. This book has eight chapters that go into detail how to get movements (particularly NFS) started on a college campus. ii. NFS College Curriculum: A book about the Not For Sale movement that was started. Gives in depth information regarding global topics of slavery. c. Official Documents i. NFS Letter of Affiliation: A letter of affiliation specifically for Not For Sale. This letter could be a starting point for your own letter of affiliation. ii. Sample Constitution: The Constitution used for NFS, but could be tweaked in order to mold to your own organization’s needs. d. Posters i. General Poster 3: A NFS poster; “Become Part of the Movement”. ii. General Poster 4: A NFS poster; “27 Million People are Enslaved Worldwide Today”. iii. Signup: Sample signup sheet for your organization. e. TechSoup i. TSSQualForm_US XX. Volunteering and Board Management i. Boards the Love Fundraising: As a nonprofit board member, you have four fundraising responsibilities. ii. Connect Contribute Collaborate Change: Online volunteering in action.

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iii. Five Fundraising Mistakes We Make With Our Boards: Asking for money, not building and keeping friends, cold or cool calls, too many calls at too low a dollar level, emergency fundraising, not long-term relationships, lack of training, structure, coaching and support. iv. Getting People to Ask for Money: You should be concerned with whether you can secure the consistent, imaginative support of board members, staff members, and other volunteers in planning campaigns and asking for money. v. Volunteer Card Proposal: Outlining what the volunteer card is, and why it is useful. vi. Your New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resolution: I resolve to tell more stories, to be less modest, to be more emotional, to show more images and use less text, to exercise more.

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Appendix II

Useful Links/Websites AACPDM American Academy For Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine www.aacpdm.org AAOS American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons www.aaos.org ACPOC Association Of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics www.acpoc.org AED Satellife Center For Health Information & Technology www.healthnet.org Africa Health Placements A Not-For-Profit Project Placing Doctors In Rural Hospitals In SubSaharan Africa www.ahp.org.za Alfred I. DuPont Hospital For Children 159

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A Division Of Nemours, One Of The Nation's Largest Pediatric Health Systems www.nemours.org Amedeo The Medical Literature Guide www.amedeo.com AO Surgery Reference Hundreds Of Surgical Procedures Explained Step-By-Step For Free www.aosurgery.org BioMedSearch A Free & Comprehensive Biomedical Literature Search Database www.biomedsearch.com Bounce Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, Change The World www.bouncebetransformed.org Clay For Earth Dedicated To Making Valuable Practical Solutions More Easily Accessible To The World www.clayforearth.org Clubfoot Arabia An Arabic Web-Site Designed By A Mother Of A Child Born With Bilateral Clubfeet Treated By The Ponseti Method, All Of Which Written In Arabic And Whose Information Has Been Approved By The Ponseti Committee In Saudi Arabia As Well As Dr. Ponseti & Dr. Morcuende www.clubfootarabia.com CRDF U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation www.crdf.org

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Easter Seal Society Helping People With Disabilities Gain Greater Independence www.easterseals.com eMedicine More Than 28,000 Multimedia Files & Articles On Over 6,500 Topics From Thousands Of Attributed Physicians. emedicine.medscape.com EPOS European Pediatric Orthopaedic Society www.epos.efort.org Foundation For Professional Development A South African Health Sector Educational & Development Organization www.foundation.co.za FreeBooks4Doctors Promoting Free Access To Medical Books www.freebooks4doctors.com Fundacion Hospital De Pediatria Garrahan El Mundo Puede Iluminarse Por Solidaridad www.fundaciongarrahan.org.ar Global HELP (Health Education using Low-cost Publications) Provides free health-care information. http://www.global-help.org Global Text Project A Non-Profit Project To Create Open, Freely Available, Electronic Textbooks globaltext.terry.uga.edu Healthline Online Medical Resource Featuring A Section On Rheumatoid 161

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Arthritis Issues, Symptoms, Illustrations, Treatment, & More www.healthline.com/channel/rheumatoid-arthritis.html Health Volunteers Overseas Improving Global Health Through Education www.hvousa.org Hesperian Organization Publishing For Community Health & Empowerment www.hesperian.org Hospital De Pediatria Garrahan S.A.M.I.C. www.garrahan.gov.ar Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre For Disabled Children Enabling Abilities www.hrdcnepal.org ICRC International Committee Of The Red Cross www.icrc.org Indian Cerebral Palsy An Extensive, Free Resource For Parents & Health Professionals Who Together Want To Understand More About Cerebral Palsy www.indiancerebralpalsy.com IVSL Iraqi Virtual Science Library www.ivsl.org Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publisher Of A Comprehensive Line Of Health-Science Books & New Media www.lww.com

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Lithuanian Clubfoot Club Russian Version Of The LCC www.kosolapost-ponseti.ru Medical Billing Project A comprehensive resource for medical billing and coding professions, current and future. http://medicalbillingandcodingcertification.net Medical Books From Elsevier Health Offering The Largest, Most Trusted Selection Of Print/Electronic Medical Books & References In The World, Including Texts On Anatomy, Nursing, Radiology, Veterinary, & More. www.us.elsevierhealth.com Medical Peace Work Free Online Courses, Textbooks, & Collections Of Teaching Resources For Medical Peace Education www.medicalpeacework.org Medical Procedures By Procedures Consult High-Quality Video, Step-By-Step Text & Illustrations For Top Medical Procedures www.proceduresconsult.com/medical-procedures/ MHE Research Foundation Dedicated To The Support Of Researchers, Physicians, & Families Dealing With Multiple Hereditary Exostoses Syndrome/Multiple Osteochondroma Syndrome www.mheresearchfoundation.org National Academies Press Advisors To The Nation On Science, Engineering, & Medicine www.nap.edu National Institutes Of Health U.S. Department Of Health & Human Services 163

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health.nih.gov Operation Walk Virginia Helping Those Who Suffer From Joint Disease Walk Again www.opwalkvirginia.org Pan Arab Journal Of Orthopaedics & Trauma Free Articles, Archived Issues, Useful Links, & More www.pajot.eg.net Ponseti International Association Promoting The Ponseti Method & Other Best Practices For Clubfoot Treatment www.ponseti.info POSNA The Pediatric Orthopaedic Society Of North America www.posna.org Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Helping The Developing World Walk Again www.pofsea.org Rare Bone Disease Patient Network Rare Bone Disease Patient Organizations Joining Together To Expand Bone-Related Awareness, Research, & Advocacy www.rarebonedisease.org ReSurge International Reconstructive Surgery For The World's Poor Since 1969' www.resurge.org SCHOT Sociedad Chilena de OrtopedĂ­a y TraumatologĂ­a www.schot.cl Seattle Children's Hospital 164

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One Of The Top Ten Children's Hospitals In The United States www.seattlechildrens.org SICOT International Society Of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology www.sicot.org SIGN Surgical Implant Generation Network www.sign-post.org SLAOTI Sociedad Latinoamericana de Ortopedia Y Traumatologia Infantil www.slaoti.org Snowdrop A Community For Helping Children Who Have Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Dyspraxia, & Many Other Developmental Disabilities www.snowdropcerebralpalsyandautism.com Steps Supporting Those Affected By Lower Limb Conditions www.steps-charity.org.uk Supercourse [New] A Repository Of Lectures On Global Health & Prevention Designed To Improve The Teaching Of Prevention www.pitt.edu TAG [The Arthrogryposis Group] A U.K.-Based Organization Offering Contact, Information, & Support To People With Arthrogryposis And Those Involved In Their Care www.tagonline.org.uk TALC Teaching-Aids At Low Cost 165

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www.talcuk.org Techniques In Orthopaedics Journal Of Orthopaedic Surgery In The Developing World www.techortho.com Tulane School Of Public Health & Tropical Medicine A Global Commitment To Public Health www.sph.tulane.edu UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization www.unesco.org Whirlwind Wheelchair International Wheelchairs For Production & Use In Developing Countries www.whirlwindwheelchair.org WHO World Health Organization www.who.int World Ortho Over 3,000 Pictures, Quizzes, Online Books, & Podcasts For Medical Students, Junior Doctors, Registrars, Paramedics, & Other Health Professionals www.worldortho.com World Orthopaedic Concern International An International Society For Orthopaedic Education & Care In Developing Countries www.worldorthopedicconcern.org

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Appendix III

Web Resources Charity Databases Name of Organization URL

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American Institute of Philanthropy www.charitywatch.org They describe themselves as the watchdog for charitable giving. Donors are able to come to this site and enter an organizations name into their database and see if it is reputable. Donors are also able to give organizations ratings. This the higher the rating, the more likely people will visit its site. $40 to become a member (as a donor), it was unclear how to become a member (as a charity).

No, but the site shows the user if your charity is.

We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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Charity Navigator http://www.charitynavigator.org/ Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,500 of America's largest charities.

No Yes Great site. A great place to be.

Give www.give.org This links you directly to the Better Business Bureau, and tells the user which charities have had complaints.

No No Good site!

Guidestar www.guidestar.org They gather and publicize information about nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits in their database can update their reports with information about its mission, program, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs for free. They combine the information that nonprofits supply with data from several other sources.

No No This is a great site. The nice thing about this site is that you are able to control a little of what users view about your organization.

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African Development Foundation http://adf.gov/funding.html The United States African Development Foundation is an independent Federal Government agency whose mission is to provide direct economic development assistance to marginalized populations in conflict and post-conflict areas in Africa.

This organization only works with small charitable businesses and community groups.

No it is free to apply for funding.

No We have not yet used this site. If your do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! USADF provides funding for the following types of groups; Agricultural cooperatives, community-based organizations, African intermediary organizations, and small and medium sized enterprises. The funding ranges between $50,000 and $250,000.

American Institute of Philanthropy www.charitywatch.org The describe themselves as the watchdog for charitable giving. Donors are able to visit this site to see if your organization is reputable or not.

Transaction Fee?

$40 in order to donate and browse the site, and it is also $40 dollars in order to input your organization

501(c)3 required?

Not required, but it does show the user if you are.

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Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Charity Navigator http://www.charitynavigator.org/ Much like American Institute of Philanthropy, this site will guide donors to reputable charities that they can trust.

However, they are no longer taking in anymore charities for their site, so new users will not be able to post their organizations.

Free for donors to browse.

They will let donors know if the charities are applicable We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

CitySoft http://www.citysoft.com/ Content- and constituent-relationshipmanagement software (electronic delivery only) $200 No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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Admin fee: $ 60 No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Give www.give.org This site links the user directly to the Better Business Bureau, and lets the donors know which charities have complaints.

Free for donors to browse.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Guidestar www.guidestar.org Guidestar gathers and publicizes information about nonprofit organizations, and is also a searchable database donors can utilize when trying to find a good charity.

No No for public, Yes for not for profits We're using them, and love them!

Nonprofits in their database can update their reports with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs for free. They combine the information that nonprofits supply with data from several other sources.

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Overseas Private Investment Corp http://www.opic.gov/ OPIC's mission is to solve critical world challenges by catalyzing markets in developing nations. OPIC accomplishes this mission by delivering finance innovations that help ambitious US businesses successfully enter, grow and compete in emerging markets.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! The potential money received from this site is not a donation, but a loan that can be on a long term paid back schedule. They also have 'political risk insurance' available for your organization.

PayPal

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https://merchant.paypal.com/cgibin/marketingweb?cmd=_rendercontent&content_ID=merchant/donations Well-known, online donation processing website.

2.2% + $.30 per transaction (for less than $100K in monthly volume) Different rates for over $100K monthly volume.

No, but discounted rates for 501(c)(3) status Works well. Like 'em! https://merchant.paypal.com/cms_content /US/en_US/files/merchant/paypal_nonprof it_datasheet.pdf

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https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ Earn a percentage of advertising revenue from products ("Qualifying Purchases )" purchased through "referral links" on your website:.

No fees, but earn up to 15% of purchase price.

No It's OK. Illinois passed a law requiring taxes to be taken out of internet transactions, so Amazon dropped all Illinois-based organizations.

Asks for tax information if you are required to file tax returns in the U.S.

BlackBaud

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http://www.blackbaud.com/ Starter fundraising package for nonprofits Admin fee: $30 Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Cell Phone Fund Raising http://www.phoneraiser.com/ "You send us Phones, we send you cash."

Collects every brand of inkjet cartridge and cell phone/PDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, working and nonworking, gives fundraiser a percentage of the money raised.

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We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! Shipping costs are free to the participant through the use of the provided prepaid shipping labels, which are mailed as soon as you register. Phoneraiser covers the cost of ground shipping only. / Phoneraiser does not accept accessories such as chargers, manuals, earpieces, etc. Boxes filled primarily with these items will be charged a $30 shipping fee.

ChipIn

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http://www.chipin.com/ "ChipIn is a Web-based service that simplifies the process of collecting money from groups of people." Set a fundraising goal through campaigns called "Chipins" None from Chipin, but uses PayPal, so fees associated with that service.

No Works well. Like 'em!

ChipIn widget, to promote your ChipIns on the social networking sites / Can create a web page or blog of your own, at yourname.chipin.com, completely free of charge ; PayPal info: https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

eBay Giving Works

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http://ebaygivingworks.com/ eBay Giving Works is the dedicated program that helps sellers list items on eBay to benefit nonprofits No No 174

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We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! eBay Giving Works listings stand out with a nonprofit icon. Nonprofit listings receive additional visibility through specialized search functionality. eBay Giving Works listings on average tend to sell more often with more bids and at higher final prices. As a Direct Seller, a nonprofit organization can list its own items for sale on eBay and collect 100% of the final sale price.

eTapistry

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http://www.etapestry.com/ Online donor and fundraising management.

Admin fee: $60 Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Exceed

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http://www.telosa.com/ Software for streamlining fundraising and donor management tasks.

Admin fee: $299 Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Flattr https://flattr.com/ With Flattr, supporting creators becomes a natural part of life. Paying for content does not only feel good, it makes the world a better place.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free to set up a Flattr account. We keep 10% of what you give, meaning 90% of what you flattr goes to creators. Payment providers apply a small fee when you withdraw money youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made from your account.

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We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! support most worldwide and local credit cards. And of course PayPal.

First Giving http://www.firstgiving.com/ Online fundraising website which provides tools to manage peer-to-peer fundraising, grassroots campaigns, and donor communications, as well as visibility into your data to determine which efforts are most successful.

7.5% (Firstgiving 5% fee + 2.5% for credit card processing).

No Works well. Like 'em. We'd love them is their fees weren't so high! Consider ChipIn first.

FundRazr http://fundrazr.com/ Online fundraising website that uses social media networks for personal, non-profit, or political cause campaigns. Campaigns usually contain stories for what the money is intended for.

4.9% + $0.30 USD* on every payment (inclusive of all PayPal transaction fees).

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When the Supporters and the Recipients are in different countries, Recipients pay an additional 1% on every payment.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

GiftWorks http://www.giftworksconnect.com/ Desktop fundraising and donor management solution.

Admin fee: $25 Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Global Giving http://www.globalgiving.org/ Global Giving is a charity fundraising website that gives social entrepreneurs and non-profits from anywhere is the world a chance to raise the money that they need to improve their communities.

There is no fee for applying, however, in order to remain on their website, your organization needs to raise $4,000 from donors for the website in one monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time.

Yes We tried to apply to the site, but we were unable to raise the amount of money.

If you apply to the site and are approved, you may qualify to receive funding from major companies such as Nike or Pepsi.

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GiveZooks http://www.givezooks.com/ givezooks! makes it easy for nonprofits to put their fundraising efforts online, promote them through social media channels and process donations.

In order to sign up as an organization, the pricing varies as a monthly fee. It is free to sign up as a volunteer to help other organizations fundraise.

Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/ GoFundMe allows you to raise money online for just about any campaign: idea, event, project or cause your family, friends & personal contacts might believe in.

Flat fee of 5% on all payments collected AND 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (PayPal fees) No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! "Raise an UNLIMITED amount of money on your online donation page. NO contracts and NO lengthy commitments. Cancel anytime."

Idealware http://www.idealware.org/ Idealware provides an authoritative online guide to the software that allows U.S. nonprofitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially small onesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to be 178

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more effective. By synthesizing vast amounts of original research into credible and approachable information, Idealware helps nonprofits make the most of their time and financial resources. And, our reach is expanding! Our reports have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

You will need to purchase this in order to use it.

Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

IndieGoGo http://www.indiegogo.com/ IndieGoGo offers anyone with an idea creative, cause-related, or entrepreneurial the tools to effectively build a campaign and raise money. Create a funding campaign, promote your idea, engage a fan base, and get funded. IndieGoGo provide all the tools necessary to build a campaign and share it with the world.

No cost to create a campaign. 4% fee on the money you raise when you meet your funding goal. 3rd party processing fees also.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Invested.In http://invested.in/ Website that allows you to start a fundraiser (like a campaign) to either raise 179

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Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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as much money as you can by a certain date or to raise a fixed amount of money using an existing social network presence.

3% fee to make withdrawal of funds raised.

Donors pay cost of cred. card processing fees, up to 5%.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Network For Good www.networkforgood.org Network for Good is a nonprofit organization committed to helping donors support their favorite charities online and to enabling charities to attract resources online thorough an integrated fundraising model.

3-5% donation processing costs.

Yes Great email newsletters. Great content.

Omidyar Network http://www.omidyar.com/ We fund and help scale both for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations around the world to catalyze broad, positive social impact.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! They consider themselves a philanthropic investment firm. Contact with questions at info@omidyar.com

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Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/ Working to provide healthcare to the poor at home and abroad. They believe that fighting disease means also fighting poverty. Through community partners, PIH works to improve access to food, shelter, clean water, sanitation, education and economic opportunities.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! Under the subtitle "What You Can Do" the user can begin a new project that will be posted on the PIH website where users can donate through the PIH website.

Planet Green http://www.planetgreenrecycle.com/ Planet Green sells wholesale high quality remanufactured inkjet cartridges. Raise funds just by recycling used ink cartridges and cell phones None No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Psychology Resources Around the World http://www.iupsys.net/index.php/praw Information on the organizations, structures, and resources for psychology in every country and region in the world. The 181

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"Country Information" menu provides information at the country level; other menus take you to compendia of information gathered across countries and internationally.

No Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Save the Children

Name of Organization URL Description Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rK LIXMGIpI4E/b.6241207/k.F4F5/Become_a_ Fundraiser.htm Give a good general overview and tips on how to better fundraise for your organization.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Technology Help www.techsoup.org/ TechSoup is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits and public libraries get the technology resources they need to operate at their full potential. Learning resources â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including articles, blogs, webinars, and forums led by expert hosts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are available for free to all users.

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expert hosts are available to all users. Once qualified with TechSoup, nonprofits and libraries can access 400+ technology products from more than 40 donor partners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. All donated and discounted products are available for a small admin fee that supports our work in the United States and around the world.

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Transaction Fee?

The Gift of a Future http://fundly.com/ The Fundly online fundraising platform is used by thousands of organizations big and small, along with individuals who need to raise money for a cause, because we provide easy fundraising tools, online donation processing, a donor management system, customer support, and much more.

The fundraisers that are using Fundly see more success in fundraising with more donation revenue every single day. If you need to fundraise for a cause, please note that our team of fundraising consultants, engineers, strategists, and marketers are all fully committed to your online fundraising success. We will continue to innovate and improve our fundraising platform, social fundraising tools, provide free fundraising ideas & tips, and support your cause to maximize your donations online. If you have any questions about the Fundly social fundraising platform, please refer to our contact page and submit an inquiry, and one of our online fundraising specialists will reach to you as soon as possible to address your questions.

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single campaign at a time 4.9% +3% credit card fees ; Professional - $99 per month (+add-ons), For Small Organizations who have a few ongoing campaigns and/or need to export the Donor data into a CRM / Email system 3.9% +3% credit card fees ; Enterprise - Custom Quote, For Large Organizations who have many simultaneous campaigns, need dedicated account support, and/or sophisticated systems integration 2.9% +3% credit card fees No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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Grants Name of Organization URL Description Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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Grant Station http://www.grantstation.com/ Web-based grant research and grant seeking tools. $259 Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

MAZON www.mazon.org Non-profit that is working to fight hunger for people of all faiths and backgrounds.

MAZON has awarded grants totaling more than $58 million to carefully-screened organizations representing the entire spectrum of the nation's anti-hunger network.

No Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! For information on submitting a proposal go to http://mazon.org/contact/faq and scroll down to MAZON's Grantmaking

NOZA https://www.nozasearch.com/ Web-based database of charitable giving for grant research.

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We have not yet used this site. If you notes send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Overseas Private Investment Corp http://www.opic.gov/ OPIC's mission is to solve critical world challenges by catalyzing markets in developing nations. OPIC accomplishes this mission by delivering finance innovations that help ambitious US businesses successfully enter, grow and compete in emerging markets.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! The potential money received from this site is not a donation, but a loan that can be on a long term paid back schedule. They also have 'political risk insurance' available for your organization.

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Important Websites to Know Name of Organization URL

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101 Useful Resources http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2008/03/ 10/resources-for-online-entrepreneurs/ Every day more and more entrepreneurs are building successful businesses using the internet. There is an abundance of opportunity online and depending on the venture, there is often less cost and risk involved when compared with traditional businesses. There is also a wealth of resources available to help the online entrepreneur to run a business more effectively and more profitably, and we list many of those resources here.

Most of the resources are free, however, some require a fee which is different for each resource.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

ACORN

Name of Organization URL

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http://ccrjustice.org/about-us/movementsupport/association-communityorganizations-reform-now-(acorn) ACORN is the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in about 75 cities across the country.

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to gain more insight into new directions you may want your organization to go.

This site does not allow to add your organization for fundraising or donations.

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AdvocateWeb http://www.advocateweb.org/index.php AdvocateWeb is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization providing information and resources to promote awareness and understanding of the issues involved in the exploitation of persons by trusted helping professionals. They are attempting to be a helpful resource for victim/survivors, their families and friends, the general public, and for victim advocates and professionals.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Clinton's Global Initiative http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org Convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most pressing challenges. This organization was developed in order to raise awareness and gain momentum in the fight to change the way the world works.

Organizations commit to raise and distribute money on their own.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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Doctors Without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Doctors Without Borders/MÊdecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 70 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.

No No Great organization! I profiled them in my book, The New Humanitarians

Idealist http://www.idealist.org/ Idealist is an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities (for volunteering) supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Kiva www.kiva.org A site dedicated to getting their life back on track. Does not simply give money to people in need but microfinances, allowing them to pay the money back when they can.

No No

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This is a good, helpful site for those in need, however, it does not allow you to add organizations.

We would suggest looking up the founder, Jessica Jackley, on youtube.com. She gives information on how she started Kiva, why she started it, and some helpful hints on starting a microfinancing organization.

Mashable Business

Name of Organization URL Description Transaction Fee? 501(c)3 required?

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http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/sociamedia-entrepreneurs/ A site outlining the 10 most important Social Media Tools for nonprofits.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

ONE Campaign www.one.org An advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! This site does not provide funds directly.

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Online Collaboration Resources for Social Entrepreneurs http://www.ned.com/group/i4c/ws/collab oration_resources/ This site is a bit like this information spreadsheet! This helps the entrepreneur to go to different sites dedicated to certain areas.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Psychology Resources Around the World http://www.iupsys.net/index.php/praw The vision of Psychology Around The World is to be the comprehensive "go to" web resource for psychology. Through this website you can explore topical information, read congress abstracts, find codes of ethics, and browse a document library. This will be your "one-stop" resource for information about the structure and functioning of psychology at the local, regional and global levels.

No No A great site for general psychology information to use around the world!

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Quaker Peace Center of Capetown, South Africa http://www.quaker.org/capetown/index2.htm "Our mission is to build a non-violent society where diversity is celebrated, the energies of conflict are turned into a positive transforming power, and where the democratic rights of every individual are respected, protected and pursued.

No No A great organization! I have met and worked with them before, they are great folk!

ReliefWeb http://reliefweb.int/ ReliefWeb is the world's leading online gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. ReliefWeb disseminates timely, reliable and relevant humanitarian information by updating its web site around the clock.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Social Edge http://www.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.

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No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! You do not have to register with the website in order to browse some of their information and blogs. However, more is offered if you do register.

10 tips for using Twitter with your Nonprofit http://www.socialearth.org/10-twittertools-for-nonprofits-social-entrepreneursand-activists This is a blog site that gives great information on a list of nonprofit specific tools that can help change-makers propel their cause through promotion and fundraising.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

US-Africa Children's Fellowship http://www.childrensfellowship.org

A way for children in US schools to connect with other children in African schools to communicate and get a better understanding of each other's cultures. It increases educational opportunities for all participating children and their communities.

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This site has not updated since 2008. It also appears that they were trying to add more schools to the program, but gives no information on how to get involved.

The World Bank www.worldbank.org Supporting the growth agenda through policy analysis and advice and also through grants and credits for projects and programs in agriculture, private sector development and infrastructure.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Yahoo! For Good http://kindness.yahoo.com People can come to this site, and state something positive they did (from as simple as removing trash from the road to donating money overseas). The purpose of the site is that others will see the good deed and then be inclined to help too, and snowballs from there.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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Animoto http://animoto.com/cause Animoto automatically turns your images, video clips and music into stunning videos.

Spread your message to users on social networking sites. Post easily to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Free to $249/year (Pro Account).

Nonprofits can apply for a free Animoto Pro account. http://animoto.com/pricing Yes (for free, NP acct) Just getting into it. Stay tuned…

Raise money by reselling DVDs of Animoto videos, or kick off your events with big screen projections for powerful, emotional messages.

Causes (Facebook) http://www.facebook.com/causes Causes is the world’s largest platform for activism and philanthropy. We empower individuals to create grassroots communities called “causes” that take action on behalf of a specific issue or nonprofit organization.

4.75% from your donation (through the organization, Network for Good) Yes Works well. Like 'em! http://exchange.causes.com/ ; http://www.causes.com/about

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Facebook http://www.facebook.com World's most popular social networking site.

No No Must have.

This is a site not directly linked to Facebook, but gives a video blog on tips to using Facebook for businesses; http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/toptips-for-using-facebook-for-business-video/

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Online photo storage/hosting service used to sort, search and share photos. "Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them."

Basic account free, upgrade to a Pro account for additional storage and benefits for $24.95 a year No Helpful tool to publicly post your images.

Allows media to get images they need to punch-up interview content.

With a free Flickr account, you can upload 2 videos and 300MB worth of photos each calendar month.

Google+ www.google.com/+ A social networking site that connects online sharing to many different circles of contacts allowing the user to disperse information to specific populations in their "circles".

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No No Helpful tool.

Google for Nonprofits http://www.google.com/nonprofits/ Google’s new nonprofit effort adds two major changes to the company’s current offering; a new single sign-on procedure for all of Google’s nonprofit offerings, and a 30-day clearing process to become approved for the program.

None, but approval needed Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Knowledge Genie http://myknowledgegenie.com/ Create customizable training programs to share your knowledge with a select group of users, or sell programs for profit.

Capture your information, package it, then publish.

First 30 days free option. Choice of paid plans with more features: $5/month, $25/month or $99/month. More info: http://myknowledgegenie.com/pricing.cfm No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! For more information about uses of Knowledge Genie ; http://myknowledgegenie.com/onepapers/ kg101.pdf

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Millennium Promise www.millenniumpromise.org In 2000, 189 UN member states came together under the leadership of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to commit their nations to a new global partnership for reducing extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. As a member, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have access to tools that help you track your impact, extend our reach, and build the movement.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! This site does not allow you to incorporate a link for donations. However, we believe that it would allow for your organization to include a link to your own website. The main goal of this site is to create awareness worldwide about poverty.

Ning http://www.ning.com/ An online service to create, customize, and share a social network. Integrate with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube to create a digital hub.

First 30 days free. Choice of 2 plans: Plus ($24.95/month) or Pro ($59.95/month) No Easy to use. Too bad it now costs.

Nutshell http://nutshellmail.com/ Social network aggregation service that allows users to manage and interact with 198

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updates from social networking services through a consolidated email digest.

Nutshell Mail supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, MySpace, YouTube, Foursquare, and Citysearch None, but reserves the right to charge in the future.

No Very helpful social media aggregator and time saver.

Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/login Another social networking site allowing the user to blog and post numerous things related to their organization.

No No Just getting into it. Stay tunedâ&#x20AC;Ś Able to sink your twitter account, so it helps with not having to repost the same thing with each site.

Twitter http://twitter.com/ A social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are textbased posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.

No cost for basic service. Nonprofits can get an advertising budget for "promoted tweets" No Gotta have it. Link it to Facebook and save a step. http://business.twitter.com/advertise/start

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Aid Workers Network http://www.aidworkers.net/ “When working in relief and development, we often face situations and problems that others have already encountered. Aid Workers Network is your starting point for finding out how they dealt with those situations and solved those problems - and for you to contribute your own experience to help others.”

No No A great resource to use, they are continually expanding on their site to update new information.

Ammado http://www.ammado.com/ Working like PayPal, Ammado provides nonprofits with a global donations and engagement platform, one that can accept donations from all around the world – in more than 75 currencies and through all major and many local payment methods.

Membership is free and there are no monthly fees /Ammado deducts a 5% fee from all donations. For online payments only, an additional charge (approximately 2.5%) is deducted to cover providers' processing charges.

Yes We received a donation in British Pounds, which is great, but organizations cannot access donations until they reach a threshold (~US$100). Good site to make 200

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connections with other NGOs as well as donors.

Widget available for website and Facebook for easy giving / Ammado uses third-party payment service providers to process its donations.

Card Partner http://www.cardpartner.com/ CardPartner is an online tool that enables U.S.-based membership organizations and non-profits of all sizes to create custom affinity credit card programs.

No, but 5 year commitment required Yes Works well. Like 'em! Love the ability to get our logo and have our images on the cards!

Create card designs using trademarks or service marks unique to the organization, receive $50 per active account opened by their members, bonus of $50 for each active account, also earn 30 basis points (.3%) of net purchases made on cards issued under your program on an ongoing basis. / 5 year commitment needed. / CardPartner technology is provided through UMB Bank,

ClearlySo http://www.clearlyso.com/about.html ClearlySo connects social business, enterprise, commerce and investment. Our goal is to grow the social economy. We help social entrepreneurs raise capital and improve their core business skills. We help investors find exciting opportunities and introduce corporations to the social sector.

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No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! This site links you to an informational video and more facts about the company. http://www.clearlyso.com/about/what-we-do.html

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Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Gives everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” approach to copyright — which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet.

No charge No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Fly for Good

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http://www.flyforgood.com/nonprofit.php?pag e_id=224

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Fly for Good offers discounted international airfare ( of 10% to 25% off the published rate for non-profits, their family members and their volunteers) on over 24 airlines exclusively for non-profits engaging in international humanitarian missions.

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None listed but "may charge a fee for the service provided when you purchase, book or reserve travel services, or accommodations through the Site. Any such service fee is non-refundable. In addition, you will be responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes, and assessment arising out of your use of the Products and Services available from the Site."

Yes Works well. We like them!

Qualified charities must be verified through 2 non-profit watch dog associations, GuideStar and CharityNavigator. Also has a community to find charitable projects, group travel discounts and travel insurance.

Free Conference Call Pro http://www.freeconferencepro.com/ FreeConferencePro is a free, full-featured audio conferencing service. You can make unlimited audio conference calls without having to pay for any bridging time. Uses Conference Access Numbers and Passcodes.

Free, but long-distance access charges may apply. Not toll free numbers.

No Great tool for conference calling. Easy to use. You can record calls and those who missed it can call in later to hear what was missed.

Maximum conference duration: 6 hours

The GAVI Alliance www.gavialliance.org Helps get vaccines to children in developing nations who otherwise would not have access.

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Application is free No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! There are guidelines and some stipulations that need to be met in order to qualify for this opportunity. This is the link that will direct you to the downloadable file. http://www.gavialliance.org/support/apply/

Good Search http://www.goodsearch.com/ GoodSearch is a search engine (powered by Yahoo) which donates 50 percent of its sponsored search revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. Also includes GoodShop, an online shopping mall with online merchants.

No Yes Works well. Like 'em! They only pay annually though.

Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you're more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.

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account, and if You have an active Adwords campaign in good standing, the Service is provided without charge to You without a page view limitation.

No Super helpful to track your website traffic and campaigns.

Google for Nonprofits http://www.google.com/nonprofits/ Google’s new nonprofit effort adds two major changes to the company’s current offering; a new single sign-on procedure for all of Google’s nonprofit offerings, and a 30day clearing process to become approved for the program.

None, but approval needed Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Name of Organization

Human Centered Design Tool Kit

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http://www.ideo.com/work/humancentered-design-toolkit/ For years, businesses have used humancentered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? The free kit, available for download here, walks users through the human-centered design process and supports them in activities such as building listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas.

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We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/media/ Resources%20Documents/UnLtd%20%20Bu ilt%20to%20Last%20Toolkit.pdf

Idealware www.idealware.org Idealware provides thoroughly researched, impartial and accessible resources about software to help nonprofits make smart software decisions.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

InSTEDD www.instedd.org They design and add open source technology tools to help partners enhance collaboration and improve information flow to better deliver critical services to vulnerable populations.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! They have many different tools that can be used for your organization. Check out this website for all the information.

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InSTEDD GeoChat http://instedd.org/technologies/geochat/ GeoChat is a flexible open source group communications technology that lets team members interact to maintain shared geospatial awareness of who is doing what where — over any device, on any platform, over any network. GeoChat allows you and your team to stay in touch one another in a variety of ways: over SMS, over email, and on the surface of a map in a web browser.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

InSTEDD Mesh4X http://instedd.org/technologies/mesh4x/ Mesh4X is a set of libraries, services and applications that allow data to be synchronized across multiple applications, databases and files. This allows you to see and edit data records on mobile phones (and not just “report” data), and to merge databases and maps that have been edited at the same time while users are offline.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

InSTEDD Riff http://instedd.org/technologies/riff/ Riff helps your team separate signal from noise and collaborate over live data. With Riff it is very simple to start monitoring 207

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multiple sources of information, delete the “noise” and map, tag, and collaborate on what’s important. Riff’s analytics scans your data and suggests correlations and patterns that aren’t immediately obvious. Data is imported and exported in real time to keep systems integrated.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! You create your workspace, set the privacy level, and invite people to work on it. You then subscribe to multiple RSS, twitter, news, SMS, and email feeds and choose the collaboration, visualization, or analytics modules you need for your work.

MicroMentor http://www.micromentor.org/ MicroMentor is an online service that connects small business owners with business mentors. MicroMentor puts experience to work by offering business professionals meaningful volunteer opportunities and by offering entrepreneurs one-on-one advice to help build successful businesses. Our mission is to help small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people. We make it easy to be a mentor, find a mentor, and build a business.

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Millennium Promise www.millenniumpromise.org In 2000, 189 UN member states came together under the leadership of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to commit their nations to a new global partnership for reducing extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. As a member, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have access to tools that help you track your impact, extend our reach, and build the movement.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! This site does not allow you to incorporate a link for donations. However, we believe that it would allow for your organization to include a link to your own website. The main goal of this site is to create awareness worldwide about poverty.

On-Call Scientists http://oncallscientists.aaas.org/default.aspx On-Call Scientists connects scientists interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of scientific expertise.

The price differs depending on which type of membership you choose.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

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The Network for Good

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www.thenetworkforgood.org

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The Network for Good is a community for nonprofit fundraisers and communicators to collaborate on new ideas, solve issues, share experiences and build on Network for Good's accumulated expertise in online fundraising and outreach.

No Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Npower www.npower.org Npower is a national nonprofit that brings information technology services to nonprofits and training to young adults No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

NTEN

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www.nten.org

Description

The Nonprofit Technology Network is the membership organization for nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes. NTEN helps you do your job better, so you can make the world a better place.

Transaction Fee?

Yes, but it depends on how many donations your foundation receives a year.

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Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

PayPal

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https://merchant.paypal.com/cgibin/marketingweb?cmd=_rendercontent&content_ID=merchant/donations Well-known, online donation processing website.

2.2% + $.30 per transaction (for less than $100K in monthly volume) Different rates for over $100K monthly volume.

No, but discounted rates for 501(c)(3) status Works well. Like 'em! https://merchant.paypal.com/cms_content /US/en_US/files/merchant/paypal_nonprofi t_datasheet.pdf

Project HOPE http://www.projecthope.org/ Was founded on the willingness of doctors, nurses and other medical volunteers to travel the globe on a floating hospital ship, the SS HOPE, to provide medical care, health education and humanitarian assistance to people in need. If you are interested in volunteering with Project HOPE, we invite you to register with is now so you will be in our volunteer database when a need arises.

No No ?

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Public/Private Ventures http://ppv.org/ppv/index.asp They partner with organizations to improve their effectiveness in helping young people from high poverty communities successfully transition into adulthood.

No Donations are tax deductible, but it is unclear if your organizations need to be as well.

We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! They work with a lot of different areas, but we were unable to find any information on the website as to how to get your organization involved. If you find information pertaining to this, please let us know!

Ring Central http://www.ringcentral.com/ Cloud-based business phone systems provider.

Various fees depending on service No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Skype www.skype.com/ Software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet.

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be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. More info, http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/ No Especially great for traveling.

Unlike other VoIP services, Skype is a peerto-peer system rather than a client–server system, and makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky peer-to-peer – reflects this.

Sprout e-course http://sprout.tigweb.org Courses for young people in order to help them grow. This site gives them access to training in essential training including team building, project management, communications and leveraging technology.

The membership is free.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Tech Soup www.techsoup.org/ TechSoup is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits and public libraries get the technology resources they need to operate at their full potential. Learning resources — including articles, blogs, webinars, and forums led by expert hosts — are available for free to all users.

No Yes Great content and great deals.

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Learning resources, including articles, blogs, free webinars, and forums led by expert hosts are available to all users. Once qualified with TechSoup, nonprofits and libraries can access 400+ technology products from more than 40 donor partners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. All donated and discounted products are available for a small admin fee that supports our work in the United States and around the world.

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Trademarks http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp Government agency, the Trademark Office of the USPTO handles trademarks in the United States only. $275-$375. Fee schedule located at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/o pe/fee2009september15.htm#tm No Easy to do insurance.

For information on patents, please visit Patents or contact 800-786-9199. For information on copyrights, please contact the Copyright Office (a division of the Library of Congress).

UnLtd

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http://unltd.org.uk/template.php?ID=29&Pag eName=downloads This page provides information to help you run your project, whatever stage it is at.

Here, you can download sample project plans, information about our awards, and publications such as the quarterly magazine for Award Winners, No Limits, and our Annual Report.

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No No We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Volunteer Card http://www.volunteercard.com/ The Volunteer Card is an internationally recognized travel insurance and discount card available exclusively for volunteers.

Also offers 24/7 Assistance for log luggage, medical emergencies, lost passport or visas and travel alerts.

Different levels of insurance and price plans: $25/$35/$45.

Yes We have not yet used this site. If you do, send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! Works with Travel Guard, one of the largest travel insurance providers in the world.

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Do It http://www.do-it.org.uk/ Allows individuals to come to this site to find places to volunteer around them. This site is only pertaining to the UK. It is also possible to add your organization to find volunteers.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

GoAbroad GoAbroad.com "Our directories contain over 15,000 opportunities abroad updated daily including study abroad, internships, volunteer opportunities, teach abroad, language schools and much more."

The costs differ depending on which country and trip. Seems very affordable.

No We have not yet used this site. If your do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Global Crossroads http://www.globalcrossroad.com/ Its ever-expanding program offer a variety of volunteer and travel programs in 34 different countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America: Volunteer Abroad, TEFL Abroad, Tours and Travels, Internship Abroad, Mini-Venture, Group 216

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Seasonal Escapes and Paid Teaching opportunities.

The costs differ depending on which country and trip.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Global Vision International http://www.gvi.co.uk/ Global Vision International offers volunteers the opportunity to make a genuine difference through its expeditions and projects while having an amazing hands-on experience in over forty countries worldwide. Opportunities range from 1 week to 6 months.

The costs differ depending on which country and trip. Scholarships are available.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Global Volunteers http://www.globalvolunteers.com/ Join short-term volunteers in our non-profit network providing long-term, ethical service on a volunteer vacation abroad or a USA volunteer program. Live and work with local people on life-affirming service programs for one, two or three weeks. Extended stay options up to 24 weeks.

The costs differ depending on which country and trip.

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Global Volunteer Network http://www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/3/ Connecting people with communities in needâ&#x20AC;ŚWe currently provide volunteer programs through our partner organizations in 21 counties. The network continues to expand with new programs currently being researched and assessed.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Health Care Volunteer http://www.healthcarevolunteer.com/ "We connect volunteers to health-related volunteering opportunities for free, any time, and for any length of time. 100% free for volunteers and organizations."

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

International Health Volunteers http://www.internationalhealthvolunteers.org/

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domestic and international short term medical relief projects.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

International Volunteer Program Association http://www.volunteerinternational.org/ The International Volunteer Programs Association is an association of nongovernmental organizations involved in international volunteer work and internship exchanges.

The costs differ depending on which country and trip.

No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos http://www.friendsoftheorphans.org/s/769/inn er_wem.aspx?sid=769&gid=1&pgid=266

The position is for psychologists, working as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside doctors, nurses, social workers, education professionals, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. The position requires either a Ph. D., PsyD. D. or a specialist degree in school psychology and a strong command of Spanish. All of the children in the homes have been orphaned or abandoned. $35 to cover the background check.

Otherwise all fees are included, along with a monthly stipend.

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Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/ Working to provide healthcare to the poor at home and abroad. They believe that fighting disease means also fighting poverty. Through community partners, PIH works to improve access to food, shelter, clean water, sanitation, education and economic opportunities.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! Under the subtitle "What You Can Do" the user can apply to start volunteering through there Boston office and/or abroad.

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http://www.seniorcorps.gov/about/progra ms/rsvp.asp America's largest volunteer network for people age 55 and over. RSVP offers a full range of volunteer opportunities with thousands of local and national organizations. With RSVP, you choose how and where you want to serve. You choose the amount of time you want to give. And you choose whether you want to draw on your skills or develop new ones. In short, you fond the opportunity that's right for you.

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SCI International Voluntary Service http://www.sci-ivs.org/new/ Each year more than 5,000 volunteers participate in 2 to 3 week work camps all over the world. Hundreds of other opportunities in over 60 countries.

Only pay for travel, everything else is included.

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Sparked.com http://www.sparked.com/ Convenient online microvolunteering opportunities to contribute to charitable campaigns. Low-maintenance way to get free work done from a huge pool of talented professionals; including creative design, job description review, new product brainstorms, new website focus-grouping, media relations strategies, and so much more No Yes We tried it once, and it was OK, but didn't really give us the depth or actionable info/help our question needed.

Challenges to volunteers must fit into 3 criteria: Must be entirely online, can be completed in a short amount of time (2 min to 2 hours) and has a clear deliverable or result.

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Teach with Africa http://www.teachwithafrica.org/ Teach With Africa (TWA) is recruiting highly qualified and motivated teachers to participate in our South Africa Teacher Training Fellowship program for the summer of 2012. We typically select certified teachers with several years or more of classroom experience teaching high school math, science, English, or computer science. Applicants with middle school experience will also be considered. A limited number of history/ social studies/ general studies No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx!

United Nations Online Volunteering Service http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/index.html

The UNV Online Volunteering service connects volunteers with organizations working for sustainable human development. Volunteers contribute their skills online to help organizations address development challenges. Organizations collaborate with online volunteers over the internet to strengthen the impact of their development work.

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United We Serve: Serve.gov http://www.serve.gov/ This initiative aims to both expand the impact of existing organizations by engaging new volunteers in their work and encourage volunteers to develop their own "do-ityourself" projects. Serve.gov is your online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own.

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VE Global in Chile http://www.ve-global.org/ Volunteers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities work with children in schools, community centers and orphanages to develop and implement educational programs and build lasting relationships.

Projects are created out of a desire to bring equality or opportunity to the children of Chile. The program empowers the volunteers and the children that are served not only to dream of change, but to be the change.

It is free to volunteer, however the volunteer is responsible for all expenses.

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Volunteers of America http://www.voa.org/ A national, nonprofit, faith-based organization dedicated to helping those in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential. Through thousands if human service programs, including housing and healthcare, Volunteers of America helps more than 2 million people in over 400 communities in 44 states.

No No We have not yet used this site. If you do send us a note as to your experience and we'll post it here. Thx! For volunteering inquiries, email volunteers@voa.org.

Volunteer Match http://www.volunteermatch.org/ Both for the volunteer and for the organization looking to obtain help.

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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT CHRIS AND HIS OTHER BOOKS… “All of us aspire to someday ‘make a real difference’ in the world yet, caught up in our own day-to-day personal crises and seemingly pressing obligations, very few of us ever fulfill this important human dream. Chris Stout is a world class humanitarian who has taken the time to vividly explore the inside world of those who have succeeded perhaps with this new appreciation for how to succeed, more of us will even-truly fulfill our own personal quest to make the world just a little bit better.” Pat de Leon, PhD, MPH, JD, Past President of the American Psychological Association # "Stout's stories of social innovators in the new humanitarians are inspiring and instructive --Helpful to anyone who wants to participate in building a better world." David Bornstein, author, How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs And The Power Of New Ideas, And The Price Of A Dream, and has written for the Atlantic monthly, The New York Times, and New York News-Day # “Poverty takes many forms, from lack of health care and the most basic education, to vulnerability to the abuse of others. where governments and multilateral agencies are falling short, concerned individuals have been racing forward with creative solutions like white blood cells addressing infections. this is one of the most powerful movements at work in the world today. Chris Stout is shining a bright light on their critically important work.” Welford Welch, author, The Tactics of Hope - How Social Entrepreneurs are Changing Our World # 225

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“We learn by our own experiences and by living the experiences of others through stories. We are human because of our connectedness with other humans. What Chris has done in the New Humanitarians is to capture and share in a compelling way the inspirational stories of people who are making a real difference to others; people who are leading beyond selfinterest. Just think if we all did that…” Fields Wicker-Miurin is the cofounder and partner of Leaders' Quest, former Chief Financial and Strategy Officer of the London Stock Exchange, NonExecutive Director of the CDC group PLC, the UK's Development Finance Institution, and a Governor of King's College London. # “In the late 1990s, I had the pleasure of working with Chris Stout for a year when he joined the team at UN headquarters in New York. His sustained, incredible energy, passion, and psychological insight which he brought to bear on the crucial importance of attaining the goals of the world conference on social development –poverty alleviation, productive employment, and social integration— were exemplary. His various accomplishments since then reflect his concrete contributions to these social issues. Chris Stout, has dedicated himself to global social responsibility for making a difference that counts in medical care, education, sustainable development, and social justice. His visionary, innovative and diligent work in these various areas is educational and truly inspirational.”Corann Okorodudu, EdD, Professor of Psychology, Coordinator for Africana Studies, Rowan University, and a Non-Governmental Organization Representative for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the American Psychological Association Accredited at the United Nations #

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“Chris E. Stout is a humanitarian's humanitarian and his fingerprints are all over the projects everywhere in the world that have to do with the relief of human misery and the enhancement of human health and dignity. This new work by professor stout epitomizes and is a remarkable capstone to a sturdy spate of weighty works that he has published over the last decade, related to the psychology of terrorism and international conflict. During that decade he has also promoted a veritable stream of humanitarian projects of healing at the most troubled places of human suffering around the world. Every little girl violated in international sex trade, every child orphaned by aids or neglected by drug addicted parents, every parent who has lost a son to another armed conflict, can thank Chris E. Stout directly for large and costly solutions to these problems now being successfully implemented everywhere in the world that they are needed.” J. Harold Ellens, PhD, Research Scholar, University of Michigan, author, the Destructive Power of Religion, Psychology # “Chris Stout is one of those rare idealists who puts his values into practice.

During my years as chief executive officer of the American psychological association, I had many occasions to talk with Chris about his humanitarian activities, and I have always come away astonished at the energy and commitment he has devoted to the causes he believes in. The three volumes of the new humanitarians demonstrate that there are other social entrepreneurs who, like Chris, are making a difference in the world.”

Raymond D. Fowler, PhD. Former President and Former CEO of the American Psychological Association. Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama. #

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“Einstein taught us all that today’s problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. The convergence of a more socially conscious business community on one hand and a more entrepreneurially driven philanthropic community on the other is perhaps the greatest source of inspiration as we chart the course ahead in these interesting but yet challenging times. I have followed Dr Stout’s work for several years and his passion and knowledge of the new humanitarians is as inspiring as it is important. His book is an important guide for anyone that wants to understand the emerging rules of a more humane version of entrepreneurship.” Mats Lederhausen, is Founder of Be-Cause, one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ “40 under 40”and Chairman of the Board for the Not-for-Profit Business for Social Responsibility. #

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