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Comment on New trend: Sending 1 million [things] to Africa by jessia

jessia — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:18:09 +0000

I have lived up in Alaska for many years. I have a daughter, im a single mother and even though i come from a well to do family, i have been on my own and poor before. I HAVE lived in trailers with people who do not have enough money for food, for themselves or their children. My view on them, is that they could have that if they wanted it. Americans instead choose to buy things like tvs; video games; weed; cigarettes; alcohal; cameras; and other unecessary items that have much value to them but in reality have little value in their lives at all. I would LOVE to give my things to a poorer country, because i feel mosstt Americans are not grateful for what theyve got,. we have welfare and food drives all the time. A family of 3 gets at least 500 dollars of food up here for a month. i think that is supstancial. Excuse my spelling. I believe people who have never seen these things, would be much more grateful. People in africa and poorer countries have barely enough food for themselves; and they could use a lot more help than we all offer

Comment on Global Health Financing in an Age of Fiscal Austerity by “If you give a country a dollar…”: Subadditionality in Global Health Financing « Amanda Makulec

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:27:08 +0000

[...] on the general findings of the report in this post from last week. This post is the second of four on the IHME Financing Global Health in 2011 report [...]

Comment on Breaking Ground 2010: Be unreasonable. by Jordan Grudt

Jordan Grudt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:07:02 +0000

Its like you read my mind! You appear to grasp so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I believe that you can do with a few % to pressure the message home a little bit, but other than that, that is excellent blog. A great read. I will definitely be back.

Comment on Dear Google Marketing Department by Arlet

Arlet — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:41:27 +0000

I like this. Thank you for sharing

Comment on FWD the Facts: November 9th as a Global Day of Action by Jessica Ansong, MPH (@jessicaansong)

Jessica Ansong, MPH (@jessicaansong) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:15:59 +0000

You bring up an excellent point. Do Americans not care about the millions of people dying in the Horn of Africa or are they misinformed? I vote for the latter. Americans do not fully understand how the devastating circumstances in Africa affects us here in the States.

Comment on Inspiration from Steve Jobs by RIP Steve Jobs… | Life in Pink

RIP Steve Jobs… | Life in Pink — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:32:02 +0000

[...] “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on” – Steve Jobs (found here) [...]

Comment on Not just good PR, but good for HR too. by Beating up on Evil Inc (CSR reprised) « Bottom Up Thinking

Beating up on Evil Inc (CSR reprised) « Bottom Up Thinking — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:02:54 +0000

[...] I can also relate to the sense of hypocrisy that development and conservation folk may feel when some corporate spokesman stands up and says “We are donating this … bla, bla … consistent with our values … bla, bla.” Like what “values” exactly? It’s just the bottom line, innit? But I think this makes the opposite error of seeing only the wood and not the trees. For corporations are not monolithic, indivisible organisations solely and remorselessly dedicated to the bottom line. They are made up of people, many of whom are likely to be far from evil. These gene propagation machines feel better about themselves (maybe leading to better gene propagation?) if they think they are contributing to something good and worthwhile. In short CSR is good for HR. [...]

Comment on Private Investment in Public Good by Not just good PR, but good for HR too. « Amanda Makulec

Not just good PR, but good for HR too. « Amanda Makulec — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:10:32 +0000

[...] social good. This was highlighted repeatedly at the Social Good Summit last week, as reviewed in my most recent post, and the whole conversation seems to fit well with the timing for J’s first aid blog forum [...]

Comment on Four themes from Day 1 at #socialgood by Jaclyn

Jaclyn — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:38:25 +0000

Awesome roundup Amanda! Your coverage of the summit is really great and informative.

Comment on This is a #millennial? by Dave Algoso

Dave Algoso — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:40:10 +0000

I cringe every time I head some refer to “millennials” — because it usually implies this kind of weirdly narrow caricature of an entire generation. Of course, I bet members of the “baby boomers”, “generation X” and others feel the same way. Maybe we should stop pretending that a generation can double as an identity group?