I am proud to be an American.  I left Maseru, Lesotho to travel to Durban, South Africa.  My only objective for the day was to get into town to watch the Obama Inauguration.  Since Durban is a large, international town, I figured I could find some Americans to watch the historic speech with.  To commemorate the [...]

While I was in Panama at the International Association of Voluntary Efforts (IAVE) Conference, I met the director of the End Poverty 2015 Millennium Campaign.  In 2000, 189 world leaders signed  the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet a set of benchmarks called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs.)
The overarching goal is to eradicate extreme poverty.  [...]

April 3, 2008-International Association of Voluntary Efforts International Conference
One of the people I saw yesterday from my past nonprofit life was Mei Cobb, who now works for United Way of America.  We worked together for a number of years on volunteer center development through Volunteer Centers of Michigan and the Points of Light Foundation.  She [...]

In order to provide a more real time update on the conference for my nonprofit friends, I will post the blogs about my hiking in Patagonia next week.
April 3, 2008-International Association of Voluntary Efforts International Conference
First full day

Last summer, I began to let my national network of nonprofit colleagues know my plans for my international [...]