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2012 Starfish Community Expo

Kyle Adams
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Posted 4 weeks ago
This is a preliminary announcement about the 2012 Expo. Venue and agenda are yet to be determined, but the dates will be October 16-18, 2012 and it will be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The organizing team is open to any suggestions or recommendations for the format and agenda.

Global Changing Challenges Conference

Victor
1 Post
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Posted 3 months ago, updated 3 months ago
Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia from 3rd & 4th April. The goal of this conference is to introduce fundamentals of Community Based Disaster Management(CBDM) as an integrated network system, and how its resources and capabilities can be networked together for all hazards on a Global Scale. http://web.hishand.org/news ...

Expo Community Development Panel

Kyle Adams
76 Posts
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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
Hi everyone- Some of you have asked for Chris Ampadu's presentation on worldview from the 2010 Starfish Community Expo. It is attached to this post. If you have questions or comments about the material, post them here. thanks!

When Helping Hurts

Brian O'Connell
1 Post
1 Vote 0 Replies 320 Views
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
Many of us have found the book, When Helping Hurts, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert (2009, Moody Press) to be a highly valuable resource. Subtitled: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . or Yourself, it is a very nice collection of principles and

Culture Matters

Scott Allen
3 Posts
6 Votes 11 Replies 460 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
Friends, if the organizing principle of this new community is development, raising the poor out of poverty, and social transformation, then I suggest you think seriously about adding a new category to the HIST Model that deals with religion, worldview and/or culture. At the root of whether a nation ...

Causes of Poverty - Nouakchott, Mauritania

Karen B
31 Posts
1 Vote 3 Replies 919 Views
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
I'm currently working on some funding proposals, and in the process of reviewing some prior proposals, I came across a document my teammates and I put together a year ago which outlines some of the causes of poverty in Mauritania's capital. I thought it might be of interest ...

Econ Development / Job Creation Break Out - some topics discussed

Karen B
31 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 329 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 7 months ago
Given the huge numbers in today's Economic Development / Job Creation break out group it was hard to get beyond pretty basic sharing of our own experiences and briefly touching on a few big picture questions, at least in terms of the large group gathering. I sense there were