http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/0708_child_tax_credit_kneebone.aspx

The Child Tax Credit’s $3,000 earnings threshold put into place by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is set to expire after tax year 2010.  This factsheet uses our MetroTax model to estimate the number of working families that would see their Child Tax Credit (CTC) reduced or eliminated if policymakers allow the Child Tax Credit’s earnings threshold to revert to pre-ARRA levels.

Estimates are presented for each state and for the 100 largest metro areas.

http://www.panen.org/sites/default/files/Cook-2010/Brochure_Summer_SneakPeak.pdf

Mixing it Up: Edible Nutrition for Kids & Families
Making Food and Nutrition Attainable, Maintainable and Memorable

August 9-10, 2010 * Gettysburg, PA
August 26-27, 2010 * Bethlehem, PA
September 13-14, 2010 * Greensburg, PA

You will be able to earn up to 11 DPW credit hours by attending one of the Mixing it Up workshops this summer. For more information and a sneak-peek click here.

http://www.panen.org/summer-program-2010

PA Nutrition Education Network is offering an a la cart culinary-nutrition workshop for food and nutrition professionals who teach low income children and families about food and nutrition. Each session will include hands on activity and interactive group discussions including:

* How to Present an Effective Food Demo
* Building Toolkits & Advice for Family Budgets, Realities and Cooking Abilities
* Nourishing Kids!  Lessons Learned about Teaching Kids about Food and Cooking from Chefs and Nutrition Experts Across America
* Cooking Basics you can Teach for Maximum Impact
* Easy-To-Learn Skills and Low Cost Ingredients that Make Many Dishes

Raising a family is hard work, join our group!

Get support, Support Others, Strengthen your Community
• Learn new skills to stay connected to your kids
• Learn to improve your communication skills
• Learn to develop conflict resolution skills

Where: Universal Missionary Baptist Church
4401 Germantown Ave., Phila, Pa, 19144
When: Every Wednesday for Ten Weeks
Starting August 11-Sept. 13 2010
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM

Attend 8 out of 10 sessions: Earn a $50 Gift Card, Certificate and attend the Graduation Potluck

Peaceful Posse is a program of Physicians for Social Responsibility
704 North 23rd St, Phila. PA ~ http://www.psrphila.org

Funding for this program was generously provided by the Snave Foundation

For more information, call Kay Brennan 215-765-3771

At the International Economic Development Council’s 2010 Annual Conference, September 26-29 in Columbus, OH, we’ll explore how economic developers are making innovation investments in order to be ready for and to obtain the new prosperity and competitive industries of tomorrow.

Economic developers are creating new jobs and competitiveness within their communities in this period of economic restructuring by fostering entrepreneurship and innovation infrastructure. Venture capital, angel investments and long-term strategic planning are just some of the tools that will enable you to move into the more knowledge-driven, global economy. Through a series of conference sessions, we will discuss how your innovation investments will help shape the future of economic development and your community.

Join IEDC in Columbus for the world’s largest gathering of economic developers as we discuss the new paradigms of economic development: new tools, new uses, new ventures and new directions.

http://www.iedconline.org/AnnualConference/index.html

http://www.surdna.org/what-we-fund/funding-overview.html

Surdna Foundation
The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States—communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures. Through the Thriving Cultures priority area, the Foundation is currently accepting letters of inquiry for the Teens Artistic Advancement initiative. This initiative aims to stimulate fresh thinking and new approaches to address the isolation and lack of opportunities for artistic advancement for young people from disadvantaged communities. Support will be provided to nonprofit organizations that offer programs where young people have long-term opportunities to create art with accomplished artists, often resulting in strong mentoring relationships, as well as organizations that create professional artistic development opportunities for staff. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Visit the Foundation’s website for more information on the Teens Artistic Advancement initiative.

http://www.surdna.org/what-we-fund/thriving-cultures/80.html

http://www.changemakers.com/node/83131

Changemakers: Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change

Changemakers, an Ashoka initiative, is a global organization that models and supports community-based social change philanthropy. Through online collaborations and competitions, Changemakers helps advance blossoming social innovations. The Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change competition will identify innovative projects that engage citizens to steer change and build strong communities across the United States and Canada. Solutions from a variety of disciplines are encouraged, including conservation, planning, economics, politics, education, deliberative democracy, and the arts. The competition is open to all individuals and organizations (nonprofit organizations, private companies, and public entities). A panel of independent judges will select eight finalists from all of the entries submitted in the competition. From among these finalists, the Changemakers’ online community will vote for three winners, who will each receive a $5,000 grant. Competition submissions will be accepted until August 11, 2010. Visit the Changemakers website to review the eligibility, guidelines, and criteria for the competition.

This training is great for teachers, facilitators, and partner organizations new to Earth Force, environmental education, working with urban youth, and/or service learning, and for veteran EF teachers seeking to infuse their program with additional information/resources. We do provide Act 48 credits.

The training will cover the Earth Force CAPS (Community Action Problem Solving) process, will introduce some of the many resources/partners available to support projects with students, and will focus on fleshing out a program in various environmental content areas.  The training will start promptly at 9:00 am each day and go until 3:00 pm.   Earth Force will be providing lunch and refreshments both days.

Please RSVP to Evelyn Christian, Program Director at DVEF: echristian@earthforce.org

Directions:  http://www.bartramsgarden.org/information/directions.html
Delaware Valley Earth Force is looking for teachers, adult facilitators of youth programs and partner organizations serving youth to join a national network of innovative and creative educators.ACT 48 Credit Approved!

August 26 and 27th, 2010
9:00am-3pm
at Bartram’s Garden

The Community Action And Problem Solving Process (CAPS)  is a framework for building an environmental or social, community-based, service-learning project with young people in a school-based or out-of-school setting

Youth Benefits:
Develop and use critical thinking and  problem solving skills
Identify, define and describe local environmental issues
Personal connection to learning

Teacher/Facilitator Benefits:
Improved satisfaction with teaching
Positive attitudinal shift because of student success
Effective new teaching techniques
Resources and recognition
Network of teachers for support

Support:
Kick off activity with your students
Letter and email updates on events, resources and funding opportunities
Curriculum integration to meet standards
Planning meeting at start of the year
2-4 sessions led by staff and community partners
Community partner connections
Telephone and email consultations
Expectations:
· Administrative support
· Completion of service learning project
For more information  or to reserve your space for this training, please contact Evelyn Christian at echristian@earthforce.org

Over 200 workshops on organic farming, gardening, land care, sustainability and homesteading.

Teen and children’s program, dozens of outdoor exhibits and vendors.

Keynote speakers: Sally Fallon Morrell, founder of Weston A. Price Foundation and author of bestselling book Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Second keynote speaker is Dr. Fernando Funes, of the Cuban Association of Agronomists and Foresters. Dr. Funes will speak on the Cuban transition to a sustainable farming system during the Peak Oil crisis and Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980. Entertainment including dancing, country fair, live auction. Dorm rooms, camping and wholesome organic meals.

To register visit http://www.nofasummerconference.org.  For more information contact the NOFA Summer Conference office at (978) 355-2853 or info@nofasummerconference.org.

Excerpt from Editorial Statement: This edition of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is devoted to examining food system (re)-regionalization—a topic that has exploded in academic and public policy circles over the last 5 years. The growing interest in regionalizing food systems is linked to broader concerns that the conventional agro-industrial food system has not effectively provided a nutritious, sustainable and equitable supply of food to the world’s population. Technological innovations have provided cheap food to millions, but there are costs of such a system in terms of soil and water depletion, food safety scares, animal welfare, declining rural communities, rising obesity and diet-related health problems, as well as growing food insecurity. These costs were brought into sharp focus in 2007–2008 when a price surge in world food prices led to food-related riots in over 60 countries.

The majority of the papers in this issue begin with the assumption that the conventional agro-industrial food system is malfunctioning. The interpretation of how broken and what to do about it, however, is where these papers diverge and offer varied perspectives on food system re-regionalization. Papers provide evidence from both the global north and the global south, as well as rural and urban perspectives. They also enlist different conceptual frameworks ranging from urban political ecology to institutional economics. This introduction to the special issue reviews (i) definitions of food system (re)-regionalization, (ii) past and current conceptual perspectives on re-regionalized food systems, (iii) evidence of new institutional arrangements in particular regions and (iv) directions for future research.

National Education for Sustainability Fellowship Program Overview
Education for Sustainability (EfS) holds the promise of engaging students in learning, energizing teachers, transforming school culture, and connecting schools and communities. Around the country K-12 teachers, teacher educators, and administrators are engaged in education for sustainability and are looking for a network of like-minded educators to learn with and from.

This Fellows Program will give educators the opportunity to focus on EfS in their classroom or schools, learn from experts in the field, and collectively improve their practice. The Fellowship Program is open to K-12 teachers and administrators in both public and private schools in the United States. Fellows will be selected on a competitive basis. To apply for the Fellows program, complete the application form and submit it by August 31, 2010. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

GOALS:
– Offer Fellows an opportunity to engage with US Partnership steering committee members to support their understanding and practice in EfS
– Offer Fellows an opportunity to engage with international organizations and institutions who are successfully integrating EfS into K-12 and Teacher Education
– Create a national network of Fellows to support collaborative capacity building in EfS practice and pedagogy
– Support Fellows in strengthening their own projects and programs
– Offer Fellows an opportunity to participate in on-line training in the principles and practices of EfS
– Document the stories of the Fellows to be shared with a national audience
– Support innovative and creative teaching and learning by the Fellows
– Support professional growth and development of the Fellows

REQUIREMENTS:
– Work on and contribute to a USP K-12 and Teacher Education sector project or program (related to one of the 2010 goals –see above)
– Participate in quarterly calls with other Fellows and Steering Committee member mentors
– Document personal and professional stories and practices of EfS
– Communicate with other Fellows to build a national network
– Share and showcase work through the US Partnership website and/or webinar
– Help identify the next cohort of Fellows and market the program locally and through their networks
– Recognition by USP as a National Fellow

http://usp.umfglobal.org/resources/0000/0085/EFS_Fellowship_application.pdf

Workshop Information and Online Registration:
https://register.cbsm.com/workshops/?site=Toronto

Please consider forwarding this announcement to colleagues who might benefit from attending.

Sincerely,

Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D.
Environmental Psychologist

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The cornerstone of sustainability is behavior change. If we are to move toward a sustainable future we must encourage individuals and businesses to engage in a multitude of actions (e.g., waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, pollution prevention, etc.). To date, most programs to encourage such activities have relied upon disseminating information. Research demonstrates, however, that simply providing information has little or no effect on what people or businesses do. But if not ads, brochures or booklets, then what? Over the last decade a new approach — community-based social marketing — has emerged as an effective alternative for delivering programs to foster sustainable behavior.

This September Dr. McKenzie-Mohr, an environmental psychologist, will be presenting an introductory two-day community-based social marketing workshop in Toronto (September 13th & 14th — please note that this session is one of few workshops being offered until the spring of 2011 in North America). Dr. McKenzie-Mohr is the founder of community-based social marketing and has written and presented extensively on the topic. We invite you to attend this workshop, as we are confident that the training provided will fundamentally change the way you think about program delivery.

Evaluations
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More than 50,000 program managers have attended workshops on community-based social marketing that Dr. McKenzie-Mohr has delivered internationally. Here are several anonymous evaluations from recent
sessions:
“This was the best workshop that I have attended in my 25 years of professional work”

“Fantastic. Simply invaluable”

“Easily the most valuable workshop I’ve ever attended.”

“Outstanding presentation style. Expertise is obvious.”

“Great workshop. Lots of useful tools and information.”

“Outstanding!”

“Much, much better than expected.”

“Great information. Speaker was wonderful.”

Workshop Description
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This two-day workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to community-based social marketing and how it is being applied throughout the world to foster sustainable behavior. Those who attend the workshop will learn the five steps of community-based social marketing (selecting behaviors, identifying barriers, developing strategies, conducting pilots, and broad scale implementation), and will be exposed to numerous case studies illustrating its use. As such, this workshop provides an in-depth exposure to community-based social marketing and provides participants with the knowledge they need to design and evaluate their own community-based social marketing programs. Further, attendees will have extensive opportunities to discuss the application of community-based social marketing to the design of actual programs. At the end of the two days participants will have acquired sufficient knowledge to use community-based social marketing to develop successful programs to foster sustainable behavior.

Who Should Attend?
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If you design or fund programs to encourage individuals or businesses to engage in environmentally beneficial behaviors — such as those involved in waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, watershed and habitat protection, pollution prevention or transportation changes — you will find these workshops invaluable. The workshops will also be useful for environmental education professionals who work in settings such as zoos, aquariums and parks. Public health professionals who work to foster sustainable active lifestyles will also benefit from attending.

Register
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Online Registration: https://register.cbsm.com/workshops/?site=Toronto

August 23-27

Location TBA

Topics include:

• Legal Responsibilities of Board Members
• Time Management
• Nonprofit Administration
• Logic Models
• Grant Writing
• Public Speaking
• Financial Planning
• Strategic Planning & Fundraising
• Media Writing
• Legal Issues
• Special Event Planning
• Maintaining a Donor Database

For more information, contact Isabel Samson-Mapp, Associate Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, 215-898-2020 or sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu.

See also: http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/programs/npi/

This workshop is supported through funding from PHENND and Learn & Serve America.

Washington, DC – Despite difficult economic times, the number of Americans volunteering in their communities jumped by 1.6 million last year, the largest increase in six years, according to a report released in June by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

The Corporation’s annual Volunteering in America report found that 63.4 million Americans volunteered through a formal organization last year, giving more than 8.1 billion hours of volunteer service worth an
estimated $169 billion.

http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/

“Americans have responded to tough economic times by volunteering in big numbers,” said Patrick Corvington, the Corporation’s CEO. “What we’re seeing is the depth of the American spirit and generosity at its best. People are turning toward problems, working with their neighbors to find solutions to real problems, from homelessness to the dropout crisis.”

Previous research would suggest that volunteering should drop during an economic downturn, because volunteer rates are higher among job-holders and homeowners. Instead, volunteering increased at
the fastest rate in six years, and the volunteer rate went up among all race and ethnic groups.

President Obama has placed a high priority on citizen service as a strategy to meet national challenges. With bipartisan Congressional support, the President has worked with the Corporation for National and Community Service to create more opportunities for Americans to serve, to encourage social innovation, and to focus service on tackling pressing social problems.

The Volunteering in America research is produced by the Corporation as part of its efforts to expand the reach and impact of America’s volunteers. The research is the most comprehensive data on volunteering ever assembled, and it includes a volunteer data profile for all states, including the District of Columbia, and hundreds of cities, including data on volunteer rates, rankings, area-specific trends, and analysis.

The report is a tool used by elected officials and nonprofit leaders to develop strategies to mobilize more Americans in service to address local needs and problems. The complete report can be accessed at VolunteeringInAmerica.gov, and below are the top-line findings.

http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/

Key Findings and State/City Profiles:

– Overall 63.4 million Americans (age 16 and older) volunteered in 2009, an increase of almost 1.6 million since 2008.This is the first significant increase in the volunteer rate and the largest single year increase in the volunteer numbers since 2003.

– For the fifth year in a row, Utah was the top volunteer state with a volunteer rate of 44.2%, followed by Iowa (37.8%), Minnesota (37.5%), Nebraska (37.4%), and Alaska (37.3%). Iowa climbed from the 5th ranked state last year to the 2nd this year.

– Minneapolis-St. Paul once again ranked number one among large cities at 37.4%, followed by Portland, OR (37.1%), Salt Lake City, UT (35.8%), Seattle, WA (34.9%), and Oklahoma City, OK (33.9%).

– Mid-size cities, particularly those in the Midwest, have on average higher volunteer rates than large cities, and residents of mid-size cities contribute more hours to volunteering.

– Among 75 mid-sized cities, Provo, Utah, led the nation for the third year in a row with a whopping 63.6 percent volunteer rate, followed by Iowa City (50.0%), Ogden, UT (47.7%), Fort Collins, CO (40.7%) and Madison, WI (40.0%).

Key Demographic and Ethnic Findings:

– Women again volunteered at higher rates then men. Working mothers have the highest volunteer rates.

– Rates increased among African Americans, especially women, this year more than among other groups. The rate of volunteerism among African Americans climbed from 19.1% in 2008 to 20.0% in 2009, and increased by 1.6% among African American women.

Factors Influencing Volunteer Rates:

– The research found that higher rates of homeownership, lower rates of foreclosure, shorter average commute times, more robust nonprofit infrastructure, lower poverty rates, and higher education levels are all related to higher rates of volunteering.

– Factors such as the prevalence of multi-unit housing, higher poverty rates, and longer commuting times are associated with lower volunteer rates.

To make it easier for Americans to volunteer, the Corporation worked with the White House to launch United We Serve and the Serve.gov website last summer. At Serve.gov, potential volunteers can find local opportunities simply by entering their zip codes. The site includes do-it-yourself toolkits with instructions for finding and filling local needs, and a blog featuring stories of service from people all across the country.

http://www.serve.gov/

About the Volunteering In America Report:

The Volunteering In America report is a partnership between the Corporation for National and Community Service, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Bureau for Labor Statistics to collect volunteering data annually through the Current Population Survey’s (CPS) Supplement on Volunteering. The CPS is a monthly survey of about 60,000 households (approximately 100,000 adults), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Volunteers are defined as individuals ages 16 and over who perform unpaid volunteer activities for or through an organization. The report includes information for all 50 states, Washington, DC, and 198 cities, including 51 large cities, 75 mid-size cities, and 72 additional cities, based on Metropolitan Statistical Areas. For more information, visit VolunteeringInAmerica.gov.

http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/

About the Corporation for National and Community Service:

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, and
leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve. For more information, visit NationalService.gov[5].

http://www.nationalservice.gov/

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

“A Meeting of Minds”–CNN

Unite For Sight’s must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  The conference convenes 2,200 people from all 50 states and from 50 countries.

Conference registration is now open.

Interested in presenting at the conference? We have two types of presentation opportunities.

*   Call For Abstracts: Do you have an abstract for oral or poster presentation?  Submit your abstract for presentation.  The first abstract deadline is August 15, 2010.  Complete details are on the conference website.
*   Call For Social Enterprise Pitches: Do you have an innovative idea or a new program in development?  Submit your idea for presentation.  Social enterprise pitches are accepted on a rolling application deadline, and the first quality pitches will be accepted for oral presentation.  When the social enterprise pitch spots are filled to capacity, applications will no longer be accepted.  See social enterprise pitch instructions on the conference website.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

More keynote speakers to be announced

200 Featured Speakers, including these confirmed speakers:

“How Do You Know When You’ve Revolutionized An Industry?: Ashoka’s Approach to Assessing Impact,” Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurs: Systems Thinking in Action,” Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

“Design Education in the Humanitarian Sphere: Designmatters Best Practices,” Mariana Amatullo, Vice President, Director, Designmatters Department, Art Center College of Design

“Readying Orphans For Their Community: Models For Taking Orphans Out Of Isolation,” Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University

“Doctors as Storytellers: Using Our Stories For Social Change,” Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

“Workshop – New Media For Global Health,” Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

“Investing in Adolescent Girls — The Transition to Adulthood,” Wendy Baldwin, Vice President, Poverty, Gender and Youth, Population Council

“Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS, Music, and Health in Uganda,” Gregory Barz, PhD, Ethnomusicologist, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

“High-Impact Social Entrepreneurship” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurship,” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

Matthew Berg, ICT Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project

“Asking The Right Questions: Lessons Learned From The Cuban Health System,” Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George’s University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health

“Doctors With Borders,” Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center

“Orchestration of the Host Immune Response by Malaria Parasites,” Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

“Innovations and Technologies for Resource Constrained Settings: Opportunities and Strategies,” Thomas F. Burke, MD, Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, KCA University and Victoria Institute for Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya

“Strategies to Prevent Maternal Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Partners in Health

“Randomized Trials in Malaria: Questions, Answers and More Questions,” Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Josh Cohen, Managing Partner, City Light Capital

Cindy Cooper, Director, Social Innovation Incubator, School of Business Administration, Portland State University

“The Evolution of Development and Urgent Need for a Genetic Jump,” Mark Dybul, Co-Director Global Health Law Program; Distinguished Visiting Scholars, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN

“Designing Social Impact,” Heather Fleming, Catapult Design

“Technologies for Rural Health,” Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

“Pediatric Vision Screening in Western Hunan Province,” Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

“Collaborative Development of Open Source Medical Record Systems in Developing Countries: The OpenMRS Experience,” Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund

“Rewards for Green Behavior,” Ron Gonen, Founder and CEO, Recycle Bank

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

“Clean Off-Grid Lighting,” Gaurav Gupta, Partner, Dalberg and Founder, The Climate Project, India

“Wireless Adherence Monitoring Technology,” Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Rema Hanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

“Authentic Corporate Engagement in Global Health,” Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors

“Not Everyone Cares: Marketing Your Cause in a Cluttered Marketplace,” Scott Hendersen, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

“Workshop – Breaking Thru The Clutter: How to Market Your Cause and Attract New Champions,” Scott Hendersen, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

Brian Heuser, M.T.S., Ed.D., Lecturer in International Education and Public Policy, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations; International Leadership Development Track Director, Peabody College of Education and Human Development; Senior Research Fellow and Advisor, Office of the Associate Provost and Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University

“Proceedings From The African Glaucoma Summit,” Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

“Workshop – Starting a Nonprofit: Myths and Realities,” Maurice Segall and Rick Hobish, JD, Pro Bono Partnership

“Global Health: Leadership, Not Money,” Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI

“Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases,” Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Distinguished Research Pressor and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi

“IQSolutions, Using Health Informatics to Make Informed Decisions,” Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group

“Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger,” Tony Kalm, Director, One Acre Fund

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mehmood Khan, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo

“Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business,” Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

“Building Widespread Political Support for Newborn, Child and Maternal Health,” Charles MacCormack, CEO, Save The Children

“Agriculture, The Other Health Intervention,” Bonnie McClafferty, Head, Development & Communications, HarvestPlus

“The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“Workshop – The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“The Talent Gap: A Leadership Opportunity,” Blair Miller, Talent Manager, Acumen Fund

“Architecture for the Underserved,” Michael Murphy, MASS Group

“Clean Energy — A Key to Health and Development,” Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO

Moses Musaazi, PhD, Professor and Former Head, Electrical Engineering Department, Makerere University; Founder and Managing Director of Technology for Tomorrow; Developer of Makapad

“Photonics Based Telemedicine Technologies Toward Smart Global Health Systems,” Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NanoSystems Institute, UCLA

Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-US

Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund, Global Grassroots Manager

“Building Successful Public Private Partnerships in Global Health: A Private Sector Perspective From The Malaria Community,” Steven Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

“Workshop – Design Global Change,” Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, University of Hartford

“Project Firefly: Next-Generation Infant Phototherapy for Developing Countries,” Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design That Matters

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Zeda Rosenberg, CEO, International Partnership for Microbicides

Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, USAID

Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President and Medical Director of JHPIEGO

Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners

“WE CARE Solar – Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care,” Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar

Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID Senior Maternal Health Advisor

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

“Global HIV Prevention,” Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

“Hearing The Unheard Cry: Strategies to Save Newborn Lives at Scale,” Steve Wall, Senior Newborn Health Research Advisor, Save The Children

“WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor,” Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org

“Design Thinking For Social Innovation,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Workshop – Design Thinking,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Narrowing The Gap Between Evidence and Action in Global Health,” Gavin Yamey, MD, MA, MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group

“ECOfashion: An ECOpreneur’s Journey to Transform the Global Textile Industry,” Marci Zaroff, Founder and CEO, FASE; Founder, Under the Canopy

The conference will include more than 200 speakers. More speakers to be announced.

Catalog Choice, a mail reduction service funded by the Overbrook Foundation, is launching a national contest designed to recognize and reward paperless fundraising campaigns by nonprofit organizations. The Paperless Choice Challenge will award prizes to organizations demonstrating innovation and results in digital fundraising techniques and campaigns.

The program invites entries of successful, creative, and replicable campaigns that use email, Web sites, video, social media, widgets, etc. — anything that is moving an organization away from traditional paper-based direct-mail fundraising.

A first prize of $5,000 and an honorable mention prize of $1,000 will be awarded in each of the following categories: Best Digital Campaign by a Small Organization (annual budget of $1 million or less); Best Digital Campaign by a Medium Organization (annual budget of $1 million to $5 million); Best Digital Campaign by a Large Organization (annual budget of $5 million or more); and Most Innovative Digital Campaign (organization of any size).

The Paperless Choice Challenge will be open for entries starting June 15, 2010, with submissions due by September 15, 2010. Program guidelines are available at the program Web site.

http://www.paperlesschoice.org/