Environment
Resilience Meets Disaster Economics
Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Partnership brings greater social impact. This post features a video.
Calling on the resilience and creativity of the Haitian people will speed Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery.
With a mission to “bring transparency to the world of philanthropy” Glass Pockets offers reports on the transparency of large, well known foundations.
The recent Haiti earthquake and relief show that funders are not willing to make the significant investments needed to support nonprofits.
How donors can more effectively provide long-term support in rebuilding Haiti after a devastating earthquake.
The massive charitable response to the devastation in Haiti should be a wake-up call for the charitable marketplace.
Instead of sending the money all at once, donors should create a plan to stagger and guarantee funding for years to come.
Recipient of the 9th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Paul Farmer is a medical doctor and a professor of anthropology at Harvard's medical school. He shuttles between Harvard and Haiti, where he maintains a practice at Clinique Bon Saveur, a charity hospital he founded. Farmer talks in this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about the challenges and rewards of providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most.