Podcasts about global poverty

In this mini-series, we explore different health professions to get a better understanding of the variety of team members involved in patient care. For this episode, we chatted with Angela Kwon about her journey in successfully matriculating into a Physician Associate program.Angela is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Department of Pulmonology at Stanford. While originally from Los Angeles, California, Angela grew up in the small agricultural town of Salinas on the central coast of the Golden State. As a first-generation American born to Korean immigrant parents, Angela was immersed in the world of healthcare from a young age, often stepping into roles as a translator, healthcare navigator, and even caregiver for her family. These experiences sparked her passion for healthcare and shaped her dedication to improving the lives of others. She earned her Honors Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare, with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice, from the University of California, Berkeley. Her honors thesis focused on women's health, reproductive justice, and its intersection with health and law. Over the years, Angela has gained various experiences in healthcare, having worked in diverse roles, from an oncology Medical Assistant to Research Coordinator in general surgery. Currently, she is contributing to research in pulmonology focused on COPD, the genetic basis of interstitial lung disease, Bronchiectasis and clinical trials for nontuberculosis mycobacteria. This fall, Angela will take the next step in her medical career by starting Physician Assistant school where she will pursue a dual degree in Physician Assistant and Master of Public Health.Episode produced by: Deborah ChenEpisode edited by Angeli Mittal and Deborah ChenEpisode recording date: 1/4/2025www.medicuspodcast.com |medicuspodcast@gmail.com | Donate:http://bit.ly/MedicusDonate

3+ weeks from now, I'll be running my first "world major," the Chicago Marathon...and doing it for a meaningful cause making a difference around the world. In this episode, you'll learn about training for a 26.2 mile race...facing a fitness challenge for a cause that matters to you, like partnering with Team World Vision...what the Christian humanitarian organization does to help conquer poverty and the global water crisis...and how our guest got this job with the nonprofit after surrendering her career to God. Here's where you can donate to help with my charity entry to the Chicago Marathon and help raise money for World Vision: https://www.teamworldvision.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=418235&fbclid=IwY2xjawFYWeBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSqAzylFvFuQKOfnS_OtqecgVhtajibXLd4e1RUvOKMlOM6YyasLsxH73g_aem_kxlMwCB8-dN24eZNWDZdZg. Katie Andre is a Team World Vision Senior Church Advisor in Illinois, and is running the Chicago Marathon for the third time. She talks on "Run The Race" about (5:02) conquering challenges for something bigger than yourself and how God met and shocked her through fundraising the first time. (14:04) World Vision is the biggest non-governmental provider of water in the world. Hear stories about what people in the poorest countries have to do for water and how this nonprofit changes lives, especially children. Run a race/marathon for yourself or to help others, especially with basic needs? Learn more about World Vision and how to do an event with this team: https://www.teamworldvision.org/?language=en. (23:17) Christian faith is at the center of all that Team World Vision does. Katie talks about Jesus' call to love others in action. It's also fun, rewarding for runners and walkers that partner with them. (31:52) She also tells stories about her journey from electrical engineering to church jobs to World Vision ministry. (43:33) She has advice for others too about making big changes like that...and how running can be me/God time...then I close us out in prayer. Thanks for listening to the #RunTheRace podcast, which I hope you'll subscribe to! Share it with your friends. Also, write a quick review about it, on Apple podcasts. For more info and listen to any previous episodes, go to www.wtvm.com/podcast/.

Why should I have to change my lifestyle when there's all those poor people over there we can blame?!?BONUS EPISODES available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/deniersplaybook) SOCIALS & MORE (https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook) CREDITS Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben BoultHosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole ConlanExecutive producer: Ben Boult Post-production: Jubilaria Media Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James CrugnaleArt: Jordan Doll Music: Tony Domenick Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center, Jan Breitling, Robert Fletcher SOURCESTucker: The world we live in cannot last. (2022, January 5). Fox News.U.S. Population Growth Rate 1950-2024. (2024). Macrotrends.Fox News. (2018, December 6). Tucker on mass migration's effect on our environment. YouTube.Fox News. (2017, July 7). Progressive: Limit immigration for the environments sake. YouTube.Utopian Dreams. (2017, March 27). Sir David Attenborough on Overpopulation. YouTube.Climate One. (2017). Jane Goodall Discusses Over Population. YouTube.The Borgen Project. (2010, August 2). Bill Gates on Overpopulation and Global Poverty. YouTube.Balan, M. (2016, October 24). NBC's Guthrie, Tom Hanks Hype Overpopulation: “The Math Does Add Up.” MrcTV; Media Research Center.Malthus, T. R. (1798). An Essay on the Principle of Population. In Internet Archive. J. Johnson London.The 1801 Census. (n.d.). 1911census.org.uk.Poor Law reform. (2024). UK Parliament.Ko, L. (2016, January 29). Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States. Independent Lens; PBS.Bold, M. G. (2015, March 5). Op-Ed: It's time for California to compensate its forced-sterilization victims. Los Angeles Times.Fletcher, R., Breitling, J., & Puleo, V. (2014). Barbarian hordes: the overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse. Third World Quarterly, 35(7), 1195–1215. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2014.926110Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union Address, 1967. (n.d.). Ballotpedia.Timms, A. (2020, May 18). Making Life Cheap: Making Life Cheap Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables. The New Republic.National Security Study Memorandum NSSM 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (THE KISSINGER REPORT). (1974). USAID.USAID Policy Paper: Population Assistance. (1982). USAID.Doshi, V. (2016, October 26). Will the closure of India's sterilisation camps end botched operations? The Guardian.Kovarik, J. (2018, October 8). Why Don't We Talk About Peru's Forced Sterilizations? The New Republic.ISSUE BRIEF: USAID'S PARTNERSHIP WITH PERU ADVANCES FAMILY PLANNING. (2016). USAID.Ehrlich, P. R. (1968). The Population Bomb. Ballantine Books.Paul Ehrlich, famed ecologist, answers questions. (2004, August 10). Grist.If Books Could Kill. (2022, December 15). The Population Bomb. Podbay.Union of Concerned Scientists. (1992, July 16). 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity. Union of Concerned Scientists.Haberman, C. (2015, May 31). The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. The New York Times.United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2022). World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results. United Nations.Oxfam. (2024, July 2). What is famine, and how can we stop it? Oxfam America.Is There a Global Food Shortage? What's Causing Hunger, Famine and Rising Food Costs Around the World. (2023, November 16). World Food Program USA.Pengra, B. (2012). One Planet, How Many People? A Review of Earth's Carrying Capacity. In UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS). UNEP.CONFRONTING CARBON INEQUALITY: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery. (2020). In OXFAM Media Briefing. OXFAM.United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2021). Global Population Growth and Sustainable Development. United Nations.Eyrich, T. (2018, November 14). Climate change is worsening, but population control isn't the answer. UC Riverside News.Disclaimer: Some media clips have been edited for length and clarity.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Scott Harrison was living a life of desolation and despair? Drowning in a sea of empty pleasures, his soul craved something more. Witness a powerful transformation, a journey from the depths of despair to a life-saving mission. Scott Harrison, once a high-powered nightclub promoter, unveils the dark secrets of his past and the rock bottom that forced him to confront his reality. But from the ashes rose a burning passion to change the world.Join us as we delve into the story behind Charity Water, an organization dedicated to bringing clean water to millions in need. Discover how Scott Harrison found redemption and ignited a global movement that's transforming lives.This is a story of hope, of finding purpose in the face of immense pain. It's a testament to the human spirit's ability to rise above and make a difference. Prepare to be inspired!To learn more or donate, visit charitywater.orgYour Host: Kimberly Beam Holmes, Expert in Self-Improvement and RelationshipsKimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

The Prism of America's Education with Host Karen Schoen – I delve into the depths of globalism and its cornerstone, the Agenda 21/2030 plan, revealing its true aim: a deliberate quest towards universal poverty. Unpacking the intricate layers, from environmental dictatorship to wealth redistribution, I highlight how these globalist agendas are reshaping our world, demanding a shift in our perception and actions towards a sustainable future.

Kate Schecter, president and CEO of World Neighbors, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss progress and setbacks in promoting economic development in some of the world's poorest countries.   For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President's Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/combating-global-poverty-kate-schecter 

Join Sharjeel Ahmad for Tuesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘Global Poverty' and 'Cancer' Global Poverty Poverty is rapidly increasing as an enduring issue, bringing along with it inflation and income inequality. In today's Western society's welfare system, one can find that it is one of the government's dysfunctional systems. What can we do to help decrease the concerning tolls of poverty? Tune in as we discuss how Islam addresses these issues by dignifying labour and teaching a believer to rely on Allah for their needs. Cancer The alarming trend of cancer rising in young people has become a growing concern in recent years. The impact of early-onset cancer is profound, as it not only affects the individuals directly but also poses unique challenges for healthcare systems and support networks. Efforts to raise awareness, promote healthy living, and advance research into the specific mechanisms driving cancer in young people are crucial in addressing and mitigating this emerging public health issue. Guests Sian Robinson-Brown (Cancer Information & Support, CIST, Service Knowledge Specialist at Macmillan Cancer Support) Dr Johnstone Shaw (Trustee at Fight Bladder Cancer charity) Professor Dan Stark (Professor of Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Research at Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds) Producers Mahira Ramzeen and Durr-e-Sameen Mirza

Andy Kuper, the founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments, tells us how his PHD in philosophy led him to marry profit with purpose, by creating investment funds with deep impact on the lives of 200 million low-income people worldwide, while generating strong returns for its investors and the companies in which it invests. https://leapfroginvest.com Andy's Book Democracy Beyond Borders: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Beyond-Borders-Representation-Institutions-ebook-dp-B000WNHG48/dp/B000WNHG48/

Brian and Aubrey are chatting about churches that have multiple Christmas Eve services,  an African proverb, and good news from the week. Then, they're fascinated by new research on universal basic income:  thousands of villagers in Kenya received cash grants of varying frequency, and researchers tracked how they chose to spend the money. The results will surprise you... especially if you're skeptical. Follow The Common Good on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Hosted by Aubrey Sampson and Brian From Produced by Laura Finch and Keith ConradSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Epistemic Status: I've researched this broad topic for a couple of years. I've read about 30+ books and 100+ articles on the topic so far (I'm not really keeping count). I've also read many other works in the related areas of normative moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral epistemology, moral methodology, and metaethics, since it's basically my area of specialization within philosophy. This project will be my PhD thesis. However, I still have 3 years of the PhD to go, so a substantial amount of my opinions on the matter are subject to changes. Disclaimer: I have received some funding as a Forethought Foundation Fellow in support of my PhD research. But all the opinions expressed here are my own. Index. Part I - Bibliography Review Part II - Preliminary Takes and Opinions (I'm writing it, coming very soon!) More parts to be published later on. Introduction. Hi everyone, this [...] ---Outline:(00:51) Index.(01:05) Introduction.(03:55) Guiding Questions.(08:33) Who has a good Personal Fit for becoming a Moral Progress researcher?(15:05) Bibliography Review.(15:32) TL;DR / Recommended Reading Order.(17:05) Amazing books (5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Read them and take notes)(17:15) Allen Buchanan and Rachel Powell - The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018) - Genre: Moral Philosophy - No Audiobook(19:32) Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature. The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes (2011) - Genre: Historical Trends - Audiobook Available(21:11) Hanno Sauer - Moral Teleology: A Theory of Progress (2023) - Genre: Moral Philosophy - No Audiobook(22:07) Oded Galor - The Journey of Humanity (2020) - Genre: Historical Trends - Audiobook Available(23:02) Joseph Henrichs - The Secret of Our Success (2016) - Genre: Cultural Evolution, Pre-History - Audiobook Available(23:59) Joseph Henrich - The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2020) - Genre: Cultural Evolution, Historical Trends since the 1300s - Audiobook Available(26:51) Great books (4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Read them)(26:59) Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell - A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made Us Human (2022) - Genre: Moral Psychology, Moral Philosophy - Audiobook Available(27:40) Philip Kitcher - Moral Progress (2021) - Genre: Moral Philosophy, Social Movements - No Audiobook(30:22) Hans Rosling - Factfulness: Ten Reasons Were Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (2018) - Genre: Post-Industrial Historical Trends. - Audiobook Available(31:10) Michael Tomasello - Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (2018)- Genre: Cognitive Human Development - No Audiobook(32:03) Jose Antonio Marina - Biography of Inhumanity (2021) - Genre: Moral Values, Cultural Evolution - Audiobook in Spanish only(32:32) Kim Sterelnys - The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (2009) - Genre: Human Pre-History - Audiobook Available(33:25) Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind (2011) - Genre: Political Psychology - Audiobook Available(34:52) Okay books (3/5 ⭐⭐⭐ - Skim them)(34:59) Peter Singer - The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (1979 [2011]) - Genre: Moral Philosophy - No Audiobook(36:19) Frans de Waal - Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (2006) - Genre: Ape Proto-Morality - No Audiobook(37:00) Robert Wright - Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (2000) - Genre: Cultural Evolution - Audiobook Available(37:51) Joshua Greene - Moral Tribes. Emotion, Reason, and the gap between Us and Them (2013) - Genre: Moral Psychology - Audiobook Available(38:48) Derek Parfit - On What Matters (2011) (just the section on the Triple Theory) - Genre: Moral Philosophy - No Audiobook(39:28) Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now. The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018) - Genre: Social Values / Enlightenment Values - Audiobook Available(40:15) Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (1983) - Genre: Modernity - No Audiobook(41:26) William MacAskill - Moral Uncertainty (2020) - Genre: Moral Philosophy - No Audiobook(42:01) Daniel Dennett - Darwins Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) - Genre: Evolution - Audiobook Available(42:52) Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu - Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (2012) - Genre: Transhumanism, Human Nature - No Audiobook(43:25) Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism (1965) - Genre: Romantic Values, Nationalism - No Audiobook(44:06) Mediocre books (2/5 ⭐⭐ - Skip to the relevant sections)(44:13) Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010) - Genre: Moral Philosophy, Social Movements - Audiobook Available(46:13) Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate (2000) - Genre: General Psychology - Audiobook Available(47:10) Cecilia Heyes - Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (2018) - Genre: Cultural Evolution, Psychology - Audiobook Available(48:11) Cass Sunstein - How Change Happens (2019) - Genre: Social Change, Policy - Audiobook Available(48:44) Angus Deaton - The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (2013) - Genre: Trends in Global Poverty, Health - Audiobook Available(49:09) Johan Norberg - Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016) - Genre: Post-Industrial Historical Trends - Audiobook Available(49:39) David Livingstone Smith - On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (2020) - Genre: - Audiobook Available(50:18) Bad books (1/5 ⭐ - Skip)(50:23) Michael Shermer - The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People (2015) - Genre: Enlightenment Values - Audiobook Available(50:51) Michele Moody-Adams - Genre: Social Movements, Moral Philosophy - Making Space for Justice (2023) - Audiobook Available(51:21) Thomas Piketty - A Brief History of Equality (2021) - Genre: Historical Trends - Audiobook Available(51:44) Article collection.(52:08) Worthwhile articles (Read them).(52:55) Alright ones (Skim them).(01:03:29) Bad ones (Skip them).(01:03:55) Havent read them yet or dont remember enough to classify them.(01:05:31) Books I havent read yet, and my reasoning for why I want to read them.(01:05:37) Important books or articles I havent read yet.(01:07:13) Books or articles I havent read yet. I might read them but I consider less directly relevant or less pressing.(01:09:56) Minor readings I might do when I have free time (e.g. over the summer just to corroborate if Im missing anything important in my own work):(01:10:58) Potentially interesting extensions but probably beyond the scope of my work.(01:13:13) EA work on Moral Progress and related topics.(01:13:29) Moral Circle Expansion.(01:15:12) Economic Growth and Moral Progress.(01:15:31) Progress Studies.(01:16:22) Social and Intellectual Movements.(01:16:58) Historical Processes.(01:17:16) Cultural Evolution and Value Drift.(01:18:37) Longtermist Institutional Reform.(01:19:17) Conclusion.(01:19:46) Acknowledgements.(01:20:05) Contact Information.--- First published: December 10th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YC3Mvw2xNtpKxR5sK/phd-on-moral-progress-bibliography-review --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Called to CARE with SCOTT SABIN, ceo, Plant With Purpose. Solving Poverty with environmental care. Learning from "the Poor." Redefining "Inclusion." Choosing to grow a future we can all look forward to. Leaving things better than you find them. Creating abundance by caring for the living members of the creation... That's what this podcast is about. Hope you enjoy Called to CARE with Scott Sabin. "Right now we are directly serving about 500,000 people and having a measurable impact on just over 1,000,000 people." - SCOTT  CARE: Curious. Appropriate. Responsive. Empathetic.In this interview world-changing Christian leader, Scott Sabin, whose organization is currently helping more than 1,000,000 people in nine countries, shares some insights after 30 years of leading breakthrough sustainable development work. Scott is joined by legendary funk bassist, noted author, and care-centric pastor, Reverend Jimi Calhoun, as well as the co-founder/executive editor of AllCreation.org, Chris Searles. Plant With Purpose is a nonprofit organization utilizing globally-strategic reforestation, regenerative agriculture, purpose groups, community-savings groups, church partners, and open-hearted, Christian-community values to lift roughly one million of the world's most isolated and under-resourced people out of poverty today. When Scott started with the organization as executive director, 30 years ago, they had one program and just 80 participants. #################################Learn More ScottSabin.com  PlantWithPurpose.org #################################COHOSTSRev. Jimi Calhoun is lead pastor at BridgingAustin.org, an influential musician and a noted author (JimiCalhoun.com) who's just published his fifth book. Chris Searles is founder/director at BioIntegrity Partnerships (biointegrity.net), an environmental solutions nonprofit which produces AllCreation.org, and co-founder/executive editor at AllCreation.org. #################################PROGRAM0:00 Welcome5:45 SCOTT13:10 INCLUSION30:30 REDEEMING “WORK”39:25 “POVERTY”46:40 THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE 59:55 WHAT IS A #1 PRIORITY? WELCOME0:00 Chris Searles, co-host/producer0:45 Intro' Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host2:15 Intro' Scott Sabin, special guest5:45 Scott on PlantWithPurpose: “We stand on the shoulders of giants... Literally, everything we're doing now, we learned from our local partners... It's so easy to approach things as if we have all the answers... They're planting the trees, not us, almost 62 million trees now... Managing over $12 million of their own money... making about an 18 to 20% return on their investments...INCLUSION13:10  Jimi, story on Landi the landscaper and being a Christian missionary in Belize (Central America). "The first thing I learned (as a missionary) was to value people as you find them... When you're inserted into a different culture you have two choices,  try and convert them to what you're bringing, or allow yourself to be stretched a little bit... Sensitivity and humility, those are our bywords." 20:30 Scott, on the prejudices against subsistence farmers, “The people we work with are our Partners not our projects... We have as much to learn from them -- or more, than we have to offer and it's in working together that anything's accomplished.”22:25 Jimi, story on Castillo the part-maker, "Ingenuity doesn't come from regurgitating what came in, it comes from your observation and what you're able to do with what you see!"24:50 Scott, "Most of us couldn't survive in these environments, so people we might look at as uneducated, or who might be discriminated against by their own governments, are incredibly resourceful and managing to survive in conditions that would kill us. They've got a lot to teach us."26:00 Jimi, "I have a responsibility to love you as you are, to serve you when I can, and to love you whatever it is that you need. That's what I mean, and Bridging means, when we say the word, Christian."27:20 Scott, "I've become convinced that part of our purpose is to serve others..." Scott talks about one of his first visits to the Congo and the freedom fighter turned peace-maker, “I realized I had gifts to offer...”REDEEMING "WORK"30:30 Chris, "We should take pride in our potential..."31:30 Jimi, “In work and worship you find God." ... "You have to define work... I never think of any call I make or any conversation I have as work... It's all geared towards improving the life of someone else in whatever way they need it..." 33:50 Scott, "I don't want to romanticize things… There's a lot of places and a lot of people where work is drudgery or slavery, or serves no purpose, or is abusive, so I don't want to romanticize that. But I do think that, at its best, in the Kingdom of God there's an alignment between purpose and what we do, and that we were made to be co-creators… But again, I don't want to romanticize: being a subsistence farmer on a barren hillside somewhere in East Africa is HARD."35:25 Jimi stories on the banana lady; Indentured-Irish "slaves" and African slaves 38:30 Scott, "Some of Plant With Purpose's work is to bring good news of Redemption and offer opportunities to redeem work.""POVERTY"39:40 Chris, "How do you define Poverty and relate it to caring for "the least of these"?"40:00 Scott - “Poverty: “A state of hopelessness.” Western definitions tend to be a lot about a lack of material things. Those of the global south, talking about poverty, it tends to be much more: hopelessness, discouragement, embarrassment… My definition, a lack of agency or perceived agency and opportunity, which can be closely connected to hopelessness. If you're hopeless you don't exercise what agency you might have.”41:25 Jimi - “What does poverty mean to you when you hear that word? … Poverty has more components to it than economics. . .”  … It took men a long time to realize that they were acting exactly as they should. You know, I thought I could come down and offer some pointers… And that's NOT what they needed. They needed somebody to come along and say, I understand your attitude. I get why you see the world the way you do... there's not a lot of good options on your horizon, you don't see a way out of this.”44:40 Scott: "Your comment about those who are economically wealthy, but spiritually-impoverished is important... We come in many ways impoverished as well.”FUTURE WE CHOOSE46:20 Chris, "Biospherically, the system is designed to renew; we're just sitting on top of potential all the time." 48:20 Scott, “First we saw a vicious cycle between environmental degradation and the impoverishment of their farms… We had a vicious cycle, what I learned from them is there is a possibility in that of creating a virtuous cycle, and actually a win-win…  We often look at human need and environmental issues as a zero sum game... and I think there's tremendous potential if we: 1) seek out the win win, 2) approach everything from a spirit of abundance rather than scarcity, 3) partner with those we serve... “Probably the greatest untapped resource in the world (is subsistence farmers), they have so much to offer, so much creativity, and THEY'RE THE ONES who planted 61 million trees, not us! ... Like I say, they're our partners not our projects.”51:10 Chris, How to utilize and implement PlantWithPurpose's ideas locally? 52:06 Scott, "Looking for the win-win... We're intended to be good news for Creation... What does that look like in practice? We're supposed to be good news to All of Creation. Are we in our communities of Faith life-giving or death-dealing? ... We can be a living witness to the Kingdom of God, bringing good news to ALL of God's creation."53:30, Scott, "To your earlier question about Global Poverty... You can see the impacts. I've seen poverty dramatically reduced at the same time I've seen forests return, rivers begin to flow again, and fruitfulness return to the land, and I think that is scalable... Right now we are directly serving about 500,000 people and having a measurable impact on just over 1,000,000 people."55:00, Scott "And forests and fertile soil sequester carbon and have an impact on climate change. I've seen local farmers get excited about the fact that they're having a positive impact on the climate... and they get excited not just that “we're doing something for our community," but "I'm doing something for the planet.”56:25, Jimi, "Perception precedes perspective..."58:05 Chris, "The inspiration that I get from each for you is profound... It's exciting... Look what Scott did in 30 years, where could we be in 30 more years?!”WHAT IS A #1 PRIORITY? 1:00:10 Chris, What is the one thing you wished everyone was acting on?1:00:50 Scott, “You don't have to see this work as a zero sum game... I see good news every single day... (Thirty years ago) I remember thinking "This is futile. What are we doin' this for?" And, this Spring I walked through a forest with trees that were 40 feet high, the smell of pine needles,  the birds perching in the branches,  the farmer talking about the biodiversity that had returned, the stream that was flowing and the deer that had come back… If we see it as hopeless, we lose our agency. It's not hopeless!"#################################REFERENCES Scott: Brian McClaren, Tony Campollo, Rev. Sibomana (in the Congo) Jimi: Brian McClaren, Belize, The Iona Community Jimi's work: BridgingAustin.org (Jimi's church), JimiCalhoun.com, Jimi's books Chris's work: AllCreation.org, BioIntegrity #################################Thanks for listening. Produced, recorded and edited by Chris Searles.Presented by AllCreation.org and BioIntegrity.net. Visit AllCreation.org/Care for more content. Visit the AllCreation podcast for more audio!

There is enough money going into nonprofits to end poverty, but it's not being allocated effectively. What we need is a consolidated approach in the philanthropy space and for donors to help improve the system.

Ever had one of those lightbulb moments where you're like, "Hold up, us hairstylists have the power to literally change the world?" Well, snuggle in, because this episode is all about that. We're diving deep into the beauty industry, our mad skills, and the big heart we've got for making a difference. In this weeks episode I'm chatting with Alannah Zilkowsky. She's not just your everyday hairstylist; she's a salon boss and crafts some seriously cool websites for folks in our industry. And she's from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada! But here's the real tea: she's deeply involved with this initiative called Hair Aid. Imagine jetting off to the Philippines, teaching hair magic, and empowering women to uplift their families. Mind-blowing, right?Now, Hair Aid isn't just a catchy name. It's an Australian charity that's all about teaching women the art of hair cutting. They're sprinkling their magic in places from Indonesia to Cambodia and even Guatemala. Alannah spills all about her adventures, from the funniest language mix-ups to the rapid-fire learning of the trainees, our chat is packed with all the feels. If you've ever daydreamed about blending your love for hair with some real-world impact, you're in for a treat.Resources:  Check out Hair AidConnect with Alannah on Instagram:  @breezewebdesignsStreamline your business with user-friendly forms. Join Jotform here! Let's connect on Instagram!

Is global poverty improving, or getting worse? In this episode we explore the true reality of the horror of deprivation and mass death from a lack of the basic necessities or generic drugs to cure medieval diseases-- from a lack of money. Capitalist apologists claim poverty is decreasing, while the line is set at a measly $2 a day-- increase it by even 2 more and the number of people in extreme poverty explodes. 18 million people die every year, 20,000 CHILDREN every day, and 1 in 2 people lives on less than $5.50 a day. To explore this topic we brought on one of if not THE greatest expert on global poverty, professor Thomas Pogge to counter the establishment narrative that everything is getting better, and work to eradicate poverty as we know it through systemic change.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Copenhagen Consensus Center's newest research on global poverty - we should be talking about this, published by alamo 2914 on September 5, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is a non-profit think-tank, that has published economic cost-benefit analyses on global issues since 2004. It is headed by Bjørn Lomborg. In the chronological history of prominent effective altruists, I think he is the 2nd behind Peter Singer (but that's besides the point). The CCC has high standards of research, and has employed top economists since its inception, including Nobel Prize winners. It has previously published large reports in 2o04, 2008, 2012 & 2015. It's recommendations were usually similar to the ones in the EA movement (child nutrition, immunization, malaria, deworming etc.), but with a larger focus on economic policy. About 4 months ago, the CCC has published its Halftime for the Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030. A book based on this report has received good reviews from the chief economist of the world bank, Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith, and Bill Gates. Anyways, the report mentions some interventions that are seldom, or even never, talked about in the EA community, along with other more familiar ones. The things that I've barely/never seen EA talk about are land tenure security, e-procurement and agricultural R&D. Agricultural R&D is good for obvious reasons. Land tenure is interesting - according to CCC: Globally, 70 percent of the world's population has no access to formal land registration systems. One-in-five, or almost a billion people, consider it likely or very likely they will be evicted in the next five years. [...] When farmers know they own their land, they are more willing to make expensive investments to increase long-term productivity. They can also use their land deed as collateral to borrow money for investments like farm equipment or property expansion. [...] The researchers show that the total benefits of providing more secure urban tenure would therefore be about $160 billion, or 30-times the costs. e-procurement is also interesting: In the countries where the poorer half of the world's population lives, procurement makes up an astounding half of all government expenditure. This procurement can be made less corrupt and more effective by putting the whole system online, making it transparent. Electronic procurement or "e-procurement" lets many more companies hear about procurement offers, ensures more bids can be submitted and means governments lose less money through corruption and waste. [...] For each dollar spent, the low-income country will realize savings worth $38. For lower-middle income countries, the average savings are more than $5 billion over the first 12 years, meaning each dollar spent creates more than $300 of social benefits. This makes e-procurement one of the world's most effective policies. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

With over 719 million people across the world living below the international poverty line and the current data indicating the world will miss its target of eliminating poverty by 2030, we dive into the issues facing these efforts, what international organizations are missing, and why it is so important to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #1 as soon as possible. It is not by chance that the first SDG is the elimination of poverty in all its forms. Through a wide array of studies, conversations, observations, and engagements, the world recognizes that many different issues stem from poverty including crime, malnourishment, migration, and more. This is not only a problem for the Global South, but for the entire world, as poverty remains endemic in all countries (Iceland has the lowest poverty rate, at 4.5% of its population) and the SDG #1 promises to leave no one behind, while focusing on the most extreme forms of poverty first. However, since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world has seen the first rise in global poverty rates in over a generation. This issue is not going away soon, but local social entrepreneur, Marc Blumenthal, has a new approach that he believes will create sustainable systems designed to empower local communities to bring economic development to their own communities.In this episode we speak with Marc Blumenthal of Social Ventures Foundation and the EPIC program, and hear from him about how the top down approach of the global development agencies has failed those experiencing poverty and how his new social venture program will tackle the issue from the bottom up. By by-passing governments and working directly with the people, Marc believes his social ventures and social franchises can create economic drivers that are lead and run by the people in-need. Rather than funding the haves and expecting a trickle down effect, the Social Ventures Foundation looks to work with people on the bottom of the economic ladder, not only to build businesses, but to also provide social impact.  Marc Blumenthal has been involved in a variety of startups in the fields of Education, Medical Devices, Plasma Fusion, and Aerospace.  He founded SVF in 2017 and has been involved in the enterprise on a full-time basis. At the age of 19 he was involved in his first start-up, while attending the University of Pennsylvania. His second venture was designed around providing educational opportunities for millions of children across the Northeast, through The Learning Guild. After his time with the Learning Guild, he became Managing Director of a multi-million dollar limited investment partnership, which then led him to creating his own Venture Capital firm, Novations. He began the Social Ventures Foundation in response to a lack of sustainable resource allocation in the poverty reduction industry. Our mission is three-fold: to identify, promote, and invest in businesses of all sorts that have a product or service that lifts the livelihoods of the poor. Through this work, they engage directly with the people inthese communities to build sustainable paths to a better future, economically, socially, and communally. Contact Marc at: marc@socialventuresfoundation.org

Bruce Friedrich is the founder and CEO of the Good Food Institute (GFI). As a child, hebecame profoundly aware of the poverty and starvation of others and was compelled to dosomething about it. He explains how this led him to found GFI to address global poverty andchallenge the industrialized food system. GFI does this while also supporting a work culture thatpromotes vocational self-actualization and avoids burnout. This conversation highlights Bruce'sbelief that making animal products without animals (plant-based and cellular agriculture) can doa huge amount to prevent climate change, preserve biodiversity, and mitigate existential risks.

Now for some good news: According to Abhijit Banerjee, a Nobel Prize winner for his work fighting poverty, extreme global poverty is “entirely solvable.” Hear what this practical visionary says about the necessity and limitations of aid, why the poor often end up with harmful healthcare, and the surprising optimism of many who are impoverished.

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

The news concerning climate change isn't good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that exacerbate existing global inequalities. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, even if adhered to, may not be sufficient. The situation seems hopeless. However, in Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford UP, 2022), Darrel Moellendorf argues that there not only is reason to hope that we might successfully address the climate crisis, but also reason to mobilize hope – to act now in ways that can forge the kind of global solidarity necessary to meet the challenge of climate change. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

The tension between addressing global poverty and acting on the climate crisis is one the fossil fuel industry, and those who carry water for it, have been increasingly leaning on in recent years. We asked Dr. Narasimha Rao to join us this week to get into the details of that conversation, where there are and aren't tradeoffs, and what his Decent Living Energy Project at Yale can tell us about how to solve both global crises at once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roger Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He writes about many of the same issues that animate the work at the International Livestock Research Institute - nutrition, development, hunger, and aid for subsistence farmers. As a writer, Thurow conveys what the lives of the poor are like in vivid, granular detail. We hear from him about what inspired him to focus on these issues - and how he has seen the lives of smallholder farmers change for the better.Further readingRoger Thurow | The Chicago Council on Global AffairsOne Acre Fund

What does it take to create gender equality at work? How can we help marginalised groups progress in business – and particularly marginalised women in business? Listen to this podcast to hear from Social Impact Pioneers helping young women from underserved backgrounds to progress and succeed in the workplace. Your gender, your education, your background, and your earning potential are all connected. If we're going to create gender equality in the workplace, we need to understand that not all women have the same background, privileges, and experience. A woman's earning potential goes up 20% for every year of schooling she completes. And sadly, girls are less likely to complete school than boys. Meet Social Impact Pioneers: Rani Pooran and Tere Gonzalez. They are champions of women in the workplace. Working tirelessly to create gender parity in education and in business. Together they talk in practical terms, about what we can do to help girls, particularly from marginalised backgrounds to succeed, prosper and reach their potential. They share practical ways for individuals and employers to take positive action. Rani Pooran is the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. Now based in Washington DC, Rani has worked in the UK, US and Canada. She is a past Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative's Gender Equality Working Group and a former board member and Vice-President of a community mental health agency based in Toronto. Tere, is the Executive Director of Circle de Luz. The Charlotte based organisation empowering young Latinas through extensive mentoring, holistic programming and scholarship funds for further education. She was appointed as one of the first 17 United Nations Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals in recognition of her work around the world. Tere has previously worked at the United Nations Foundation, the Organization of American States, and the World Bank Group to advance shared prosperity, youth empowerment, gender equality, diversity, and the upward mobility of underserved groups. She is now the leader of Circle de Luz. Tere says: “I am a proud immigrant from Mexico and leader of a US based organisation empowering young Latinas and advancing their education. I believe education is one of the greatest assets a person can have—with a ripple effect on communities, economies, and the next generations.” And we would love to hear your thoughts on this conversation and urge you to join in the collection of better data to help everyone to be able to get on and achieve their potential. Do get in touch: https://twitter.com/FightPoverty and https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-fights-poverty/ Links: Catalyst Link: https://www.catalyst.org/research/emotional-tax-teams-key-findings/ Tere Gonzalez - https://www.linkedin.com/in/globaltere/ and @globaltere Circle de Luz: www.circledeluz.org Circle de Luz on social media: • Instagram – @circledeluz • Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/CircledeLuz • LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/circle-de-luz/ • Twitter – @circledeluz Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the IFC: https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/Topics_Ext_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_Site/FP_Home/People IFC research: https://www.forbes.com.mx/ellas-lideran-mujeres-representan-52-de-los-inscritos-en-cursos-en-linea/ Children and Poverty education facts: https://www.compassion.com/poverty/education.htm Children International, Global Poverty and Education: https://www.children.org/global-poverty/global-poverty-facts/facts-about-world-poverty-and-education

Tibor Rutar analyzes the costs and benefits of capitalism using a straightforward and empirical framework.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy Recommended and Discussed Books: Social Democratic Capitalism; Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?; In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty

Welcome to Linda's Corner.  In this episode, humanitarian James Belt explains a world changing approach to fighting global poverty.   James is the owner and president of Belt Enterprises, Inc., the author of "Hope Realized," and a church leader and missionary who served in Nicaragua for 3 years where he witnessed the realities of poverty first hand.  You can reach James and learn more about his book and his mission at his website JamesHBelt.com.   When you buy a copy of Hope Realized  you are taking a step to bring hope to others as 50% of the royalties will be invested in NicaWorks! (an organization that creates community-led change to build a hopeful present and future for the vulnerable in Nicaragua).Some of the highlights James shares:Poverty isn't just a lack of resources.  Often, even after resources are available, poverty lingers.  Why is that? and can anything be done to help?A world free of poverty is possible when we reimagine the powerful force of hope and what it can doJames shares his personal experiences in poverty stricken NicaraguaThe reason why resources and missionary work aren't enough to create real changeThe importance of redefining hope - it's not about wishy washy wishingThe importance of redefining identity by understanding that you are created by a God who loves you.  You were created on purpose and for a purpose.How to combat poverty by combining the incredible powers of practical and spiritual hopeHow the power of practical and spiritual development can diminish poverty and expose the lie of hopelessnessHarness the Powerful Force of Hope with Easy Action StepsHow being curious helps us find solutionsHow we perceive people can influence how we treat themBring your skillset to the tableBet connectedTake a step And morePlease share, subscribe, leave a rating and review, visit the Linda's Corner website at lindascornerpodcast.com and/or follow on youtube, facebook, instagram, and pinterest @lindascornerpodcast. Thanks!Also please visit the Hope for Healing website at hopeforhealingfoundation.org for free resources to increase happiness, build confidence and self esteem, improve relationships, manage stress, and calm feelings of depression and anxiety.

COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and other crises have dealt the biggest setback to global poverty reduction in decades. 2020 alone saw the largest one-year increase in extreme poverty since global monitoring began. In this episode of The Development Podcast, we comb through the recent Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report (PSPR) to understand what's happening, where and why. Ruth Hill, a lead economist at the World Bank discusses the actions governments can take to help correct course. We also get a snapshot of just how hard the last few years have been for many people, such as Sonia Cifuentes in Bogota, Colombia, and how cash transfers helped her when she needed support to cover the basics for herself and her children. Listen now!Featured VoicesRuth Hill, Lead Economist, Global Unit of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank. "There's evidence that households which receive cash transfers are more likely to have their kids in school. And that has a long run impact on household welfare."Sonia Cifuentes, Colombian citizen benefited from a cash transfer program: "If I hadn't had access to those transfers, I would've had to have found someone to give me a donation because I had to feed my children."Timestamps[00:00] Welcome and introduction of the topic[01:37] Understanding the data behind the Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report[07:28] Visions from Bogota, Colombia: Vulnerability and cash transfer programs[11:10] The meaning behind poverty[12:42] 2020 saw the biggest setback to global poverty in decades[14:36] Measuring poverty: Methodology and research[15:33] Progress made in ending poverty over the last few decades[17:05] The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty reduction efforts[19:40] Increase in poverty in different regions of the world[20:35] Public policies to counter poverty trends[21:37] Subsidies and cash transfer programs[25:37] Closing and thanks for tuning in!ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT PODCASTThis international development podcast brings together the data, research—and solutions—that can pave the way to a sustainable future. Through conversations focused on revealing the latest data, the best research, and cutting-edge solutions, let us introduce you to the folks working to make the world a better place. Don't miss an episode! Listen and subscribe for free on your favorite platform.ABOUT THE WORLD BANK GROUPThe World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for low-income countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.

Carol Rossborough, Co-founder and CEO of ESTHER, shares her talk, “How to Tackle Global Poverty with a Scalable Tech Movement.” She takes us on the journey of ESTHER from an idea to a global organization. She shares how they help people, especially women at a local level, and provide the tools to connect people with resources.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Marketing Messages Trial for GWWC Giving Guide Campaign, published by Erin Morrissey on September 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The trial was run in conjunction with Josh Lewis (NYU). Thanks to David Moss and others for feedback on this post, and to Jamie Elsey for support with the Bayesian analysis. TL;DR Giving What We Can together with the EA Market Testing Team (EAMT) tested marketing and messaging themes on Facebook in their Effective Giving Guide Facebook Lead campaigns which ran from late November 2021 - January 2022. GWWC's Giving Guide answers key questions about effective giving and includes the latest effective giving recommendations to teach donors how to do the most good with their donations. These were exploratory trials to identify promising strategies to recruit people for GWWC and engage people with EA more broadly. We report the most interesting patterns from these trials to provide insight into which hypotheses might be worth exploring more rigorously in future (‘confirmatory analysis') work. Across four trials we compared the effectiveness of different types of (1) messages, (2) videos, and (3) targeted audiences. The key outcomes were (i) email addresses per dollar (when a Facebook user provides an email lead) and (ii) link clicks per dollar. Based on our analysis of 682,577 unique Facebook ‘impressions', we found: The cost of an email address was as low as $8.00 across campaigns, but it seemed to vary substantially across audiences, videos, and messages. The message "Only 3% of donors give based on charity effectiveness, yet the best charities can be 100x more impactful" generated more link clicks and email addresses per dollar than other messages. In contrast, the message "Giving What We Can has helped 6,000+ people make a bigger impact on the causes they care about most" was less cost-effective than the other messages. A ‘short video with facts about effective giving' generated more email addresses per dollar than either (1) a long video with facts about effective giving or (2) a long video that explained how GWWC can help maximize charitable impact, the GWWC 'brand video.' On a per-dollar basis ‘Animal' audiences that were given animal-related cause videos performed among the best, both overall and in the most comparable trials. ‘Lookalike' audiences (those with a similar profile as current people engaging with GWWC) performed best overall, for both cause and non-cause videos. However, ‘Climate' and ‘Global Poverty' audiences basically underperformed the ‘Philanthropy' audience when presented videos ‘for their own causes.' The Animal-related cause video performed particularly poorly on the ‘Philanthropy' audience. Demographics were mostly not predictive of email addresses per dollar nor link clicks per dollar See our Quarto dynamic document linked here for more details, and ongoing analyses. Purpose and Interpretation of this Report One of the primary goals of the EAMT is to identify the most effective, scalable strategies for marketing EA. Our main approach is to test marketing and messaging themes in naturally-occurring settings (such as advertising campaigns on Facebook, YouTube, etc.), targeting large audiences, to determine which specific strategies work best in the most relevant contexts. In this report, we share key patterns and insights about the effectiveness of different marketing and messaging approaches used in GWWC's Effective Giving Guide Facebook Lead campaigns. The patterns we share here serve as a starting point to consider themes and hypotheses to test more rigorously in our ongoing research project. We are hoping for feedback and suggestions from the EA community on these trials and their implementation and analysis. We continue to conduct detailed analyses of this data. We'd like to get ideas from the community ...

Foreign ministers of the Group of 20 countries – including the U.S., Russia and China – are converging in Bali today. Among the talking points: the Ukraine war and its effects on poverty, energy and food security. The BBC has the latest on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s impending resignation. Marketplace senior economics contributor Chris Farrell discusses how the flawed U.S. child care system adds to the burden of the economy.

Foreign ministers of the Group of 20 countries – including the U.S., Russia and China – are converging in Bali today. Among the talking points: the Ukraine war and its effects on poverty, energy and food security. The BBC has the latest on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s impending resignation. Marketplace senior economics contributor Chris Farrell discusses how the flawed U.S. child care system adds to the burden of the economy.

Gret Glyer is the CEO of DonorSee and has raised more than a million dollars for those in extreme poverty. From 2013 to 2016, Glyer lived with the world's poorest people in Malawi, Africa where he built more than 150 houses for the homeless, and crowdfunded $100,000 to build a girls' school in rural Malawi. Glyer has been featured in USA Today, National Review, HuffPo, Acton Institute, and is a TEDx Speaker. Learn more: https://www.donorsee.com/team/gret-glyer Chelsea Follett is the managing editor of Human​Progress​.org, a project of the Cato Institute that seeks to educate the public on the global improvements in well‐​being by providing free empirical data on long‐​term developments.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Charlie Robertson, author of The Time-Travelling Economist: Why Education, Electricity and Fertility Are Key to Escaping Poverty. Charlie Robertson is an emerging markets specialist, covering global economic themes including democratisation to demographics, education to ESG, fertility, as well as shorter-term indicators like exchange rates and growth. He is the lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution, and his latest book is The Time-Travelling Economist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One late night not so long ago Ashley Johnson sat up thinking, "how can I change the world?" She thought and thought.... The result?? The Constellation Coalition! The Constellation Coalition was created to help woman entrepreneurs in developing countries build businesses! “We envision… a movement of women around the world who end global poverty.” Huge goal but Ashley and her team have big brains and a huge work ethic! How to contact Ashley and help the cause? Website: www.theconstellationcoalition.org Facebook: TheConstellationCoalition Instagram: @theconstellationcoalition LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-constellation-coalition/ #theconstellationcoalition #womanentrepreneur #femalerunbusiness #motivation

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Revisiting "Why Global Poverty", published by Jeff Kaufman on June 1, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Seven years ago I gave a talk, Why Global Poverty, at the 2015 effective altruism conference. I concluded that building the EA movement was the highest priority, but that we should be doing some things that are directly valuable in parallel and that global poverty was the best option there. Reading back over the talk, with the benefit of seven years of hindsight, I'm not happy with my treatment of existential risk. Here's that section of the talk, with thoughts interspersed: There's a bit of a continuum. At one end we have risks like an asteroid hitting the earth. Cataloging asteroids and comets that might hit the earth at some point is something that people are working on, and actually is reasonably well understood. Because we have a pretty good understanding, and governments have a lot of sensible people, risks like this are reasonably well funded. So this end of the continuum is probably not high impact. I'm far more skeptical of the "governments have this covered" position than I was in 2015. Some of this is for theoretical reasons (ex: preventing catastrophe benefits people beyond your country) and some of it is from observing governments more (ex: pandemic response). At the other end we have risks like the development of an artificial intelligence that destroys us through its indifference. Very few people are working on this, there's low funding, and we don't have much understanding of the problem. Neglectedness is a strong heuristic for finding causes where your contribution can go far, and this does seem relatively neglected. The main question for me, though, is how do you know if you're making progress? First, a brief digression into feedback loops. [...] Back to AI risk. The problem is we really really don't know how to make good feedback loops here. We can theorize that an AI needs certain properties not to just kill us all, and that in order to have those properties it would be useful to have certain theorems proved, and go work on those theorems. And maybe we have some success at this, and the mathematical community thinks highly of us instead of dismissing our work. But if our reasoning about what math would be useful is off there's no way for us to find out. Everything will still seem like it's going well. This was primarily criticism of MIRI's approach, and was about a year before Concrete Problems in AI Safety came out. That paper had an enormous impact on the field, and when I interviewed one of the co-authors a year later I really liked the emphasis on grounding work in empirical feedback loops. With existential risk we have a continuum from well understood risks that don't need our marginal contribution to poorly understood risks where we don't have a way to find out if our contribution is reducing the risk. Maybe there's a sweet spot in between, where we can make progress and existing funding bodies are blind to the need? Future generations don't get to vote, so it wouldn't surprise me if governments systematically discount their interest. I'm not aware of any good candidates here, but if you'd like to find me after the talk I'd be interested in hearing about any. I think this was mostly wrong. In the talk I divided work into what Owen Cotton-Barratt calls "Phase 1" and "Phase 2". First you have indirectly valuable work, such as exploring what things might be good to do, evaluating specific options, or building capacity, and then you have work that more concretely makes the world better, such as distributing bednets, detecting outbreaks, or preventing illicit synthesis of hazardous DNA. While this Phase 1/2 division is still a good one, and I continue to find the arguments against over-investing in "Phase 1" convincing, I didn't apply it we...

Alex Counts had a world of opportunity awaiting him after graduating from Cornell University. Yet he made the choice to travel the globe with an agenda to change the world. While spending over a decade in Bangladesh, Counts played a critical role in the global microcredit movement, which he utilized as an essential tool to battle world poverty. In addition, he established the Grameen Foundation, which grew to become a leading international humanitarian organization, with the support of his mentor, Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Today, Counts is a professor at the University of Maryland and continues to share his leadership and philanthropic experiences with local leaders, including nonprofits and boards across the world. Counts, who has been published in The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and many other national publications, joins us on the Florida Keys Weekly Podcast to discuss his latest book, “When In Doubt Ask For More: And 213 Other Life & Career Lessons for the Mission-Driven Leader.” Whether you are new to boards or have years of fundraising involvement, we promise Counts’ motivating approach and decades of shared experiences have the power to inspire you or your organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sibongani Kayola is Country Director of GiveDirectly Liberia, and someone deeply interested in the interaction between psychosocial factors and financial behavior. GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world's poorest households. Globally, GiveDirectly delivered $165M+ to over 534K households in 8 countries across 25 different programs in 2021. Sibongani joined the GiveDirectly Liberia program in 2018 and had a goal to deliver cash to ~12,000 people in 2 years. Fast forward to 2021 they enrolled and paid over 100,000 Liberians in a single year!  As country director she provides strategic leadership for GiveDirectly's in-country operations. She is responsible for managing a US$ 70M portfolio (2022-2025), leading in-country fundraising and resource mobilization and managing relationships with entities such as the Liberia Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, USAID and the World Bank. And today, Sibongani shares her learnings of giving money directly in Liberia and how we can end poverty in our lifetime by direct giving, an efficient, proven, and empowering way to help. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE What are the drivers of global poverty The step by step journey from donating your cash to someone receiving it The effectiveness of giving cash directly for lifting someone out of poverty Key considerations when looking for a meaningful career solving global issues How an everyday person can make change to solve big issues and much more... Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/77The Evolve podcast is produced by Plato University.TIMESTAMPS(00:00) - Introduction(01:54) - What are the drivers of global poverty?(06:05) - How does US poverty compare to global poverty?(07:02) - The State of Liberia in 2018 making poverty worse(10:32) - How much someone in Liberia lives on in a day(12:40) - The first steps to giving cash directly to people in Liberia(13:51) - What happens when they refuse to take the cash?(16:51) - The step by step journey from donating your cash to someone receiving it(18:50) - How country governments respond to GiveDirectly(21:33) - How communities change when money is given directly to citizens(24:15) - GiveDirectly's effectiveness compared to goods or service nonprofits(26:17) - Long-term research and considerations of giving cash directly(28:40) - Can crypto help end poverty?(31:04) - How to provide financial literacy to receivers of cash(34:08) - How Sibongani went from working in mental health to poverty(37:23) - Key considerations when looking for a meaningful career solving global issues(41:58) - Challenges to growing the GiveDirectly Liberia program(46:15) - How an everyday person can make change to solve big issues(49:16) - How we can push the world to Evolve

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Posting More Better: Social Media Rules of Thumb, published by Nathan Young on May 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Thank you to those who commented. This does not imply they agree with this post: Rob Bensinger, John Bridge, Garrsion Lovely, Fin Moorhouse, Bruce Tsai, Rachel Edwards, Linda Linsefors, Joseph Lemien, Ines, Charles Dhillon, Neel Nanda, Linchuan Zhang, Chana Messinger, Kirsten Horton, Vaidehi Agarwalla, Frances Lorenz, Dan Elton, Shakeel Hashim, please DM me if I've forgotten you, I'm very very forgetful. Tl;dr The downside risk of small accounts is low The upside of using social media is high If you like social media you should post more Context I use twitter a lot. Often I think, “Am I having a positive impact?”. I think I am. This post is an attempt to lower the barriers to entry to social media and offer you the chance to critique my thinking. My sense (and yours, though small sample) is that EA is getting more attention recently. Things feel higher upside and higher downside. So here are some rules of thumb I use when thinking about social media. I intend to write a second post around EA, comms and reputation, but if someone wants to beat me to it, feel free. While researching this, I learned the Community Health team are good point people to email for any developing community reputation issues media@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. There is also this article on how to talk to journalists Doing more good on social media: Some rules of thumb If you only read one bit of this article My life is my own. I find deference tempting, but my social media choices are my own. I want to start from a position of agency. I don't need anyone's permission to post Do good better. My social media presence is a resource just like everything else. How can I use it to maximally increase the outcomes I want/behave virtuously? There isn't a cutoff between my money, my time and my social media use (you might have different boundaries here) You can talk to people you've always wanted to through social media. Because of twitter, I have made several close friends, I have gotten 2 job offers and I interviewed Bryan Caplan the other day. If you're a small presence on social media, perhaps take a few more risks. I generally think people should post their actual views more, not less. There is a huge space of ideas and I think generally we under-discuss, rather than the opposite If you want a place to do this, I suggest discussing your cause area is a good place to explore boundaries. I would not recommend starting out with radical takes on sexual ethics If I make an error, I admit it and say why I was wrong If I posted something completely out of order, I often just delete it. I sometimes take flack from rationalists for this, but twitter doesn't allow EA forum-style crossing out. I don't want to be attached to a viral post I no longer endorse. Even correcting doesn't help if people don't see the correction I post about what gives me energy. I find social media a good thing between tasks. What do you enjoy talking or writing about and how can you use that for good? Reply well. Social media is about making connection with other people. Learn how to respond to someone in a friendly and conversation-starting way. In some way we are all "reply guys" for someone up the chain. I want Matt Yglesias to respond to my ideas. Matt Yglesias wants Joe Biden to respond to his. Twitter especially just condenses this social graph Correcting strangers is overrated. Changing minds is hard and it often requires relationship. If you are new to twitter, please do not start by arguing with everyone (unless it's rationalists, they love that) If you are in Global Poverty or Animal Welfare you are particularly missing on social media. Perhaps it's just me, but EA twitter feels like it has a strong...

https://youtu.be/FrAG6MpikUg Free markets are awesome because they give business incentives to do good stuff that sounds bad. Governments are awful because they give politicians incentives to do bad stuff that sounds good. Since the correlation between what IS good and what SOUNDS good is quite low, this is a huge deal. - Bryan Caplan, Ph.D. (December 27th, 2021) Dr. Bryan Caplan is the New York Times Bestselling author of Open Borders, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education, has been blogging for EconLog since 2005. Labor Econ Versus the World collects the very best of his EconLog essays on the science and ethics of work. Odysee BitChute Flote Archive Spotify Apple Podcasts

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA and Global Poverty. Let's Gather Evidence, published by Nathan Young on April 5, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. There was a recent discussion on twitter about whether global development had been deprioritised within EA. This struck a chord with some (edit despite the claim in the twitter thread being false). So: What is the priority of Global poverty within EA, compared to where it ought to be? I am going to post some data and some theories. I'd like if people in the comments falsified them and then we'd know the answer. Some people seem to think that global development is lower priority than it should be within EA. Is this view actually widespread? Global poverty was held in very high esteem in 2020. Without further evidence we should assume it still is. In the 2020 survey, no cause area had a higher average rating (I'm eyeballing this graph) or a higher % of near top + top priority ratings. In 2020, global development was considered the highest priority by EAs in general. Global poverty gets the most money by cause area from Open Phil & GWWC according to/ The FTX future fund lists economic growth as one of its areas of interest (/) Theory: Elite EA conversation discusses global poverty less than AI or animal welfare. What is the share of cause areas among forum posts, 80k episodes or EA tweets? I'm sure some of this information is trivial for one of you to find. Is this theory wrong? Theory: Global poverty work has ossified around GiveWell and their top charities. Jeff Mason and Yudkowsky both made variations of this point. Yudkowsky's reasoning was that risktakers hadn't been in global poverty research anyway - it attracted a more conservative kind of person. I don't know how to operationalise thoughts against this, but maybe one of you can. Personally, I think that many people find global poverty uniquely compelling. It's unarguably good. You can test it. It has quick feedback loops (compared to many other cause areas). I think it's good to be in coalition with the most effective area of an altruistic space that vibes with so many people. I like global poverty as a key concern (even though it's not my key concern) because I like good coalitional partners. And Longtermist and global development EAs seem to me to be natural allies. I can also believe that if we care about the lives of people currently alive in the developing world and have AI timelines of less than 20 years, we shouldn't focus on global development. I'm not an expert here and this view makes me uncomfortable, but conditional on short AI timelines, I can't find fault with it. In terms of QALYs there may be more risk to the global poor from AI than malnourishment. If this is the case, EA would moves away from being divided by cause areas towards a primary divide of "AI soon" vs "AI later" (though deontologists might argue it's still better to improve people's lives now rather than save them from something that kills all of us). Feel fry to suggest flaws in this argument I'm going to seed a few replies in the comments. I know some of you hate it when I do this, but please bear with me. What do you think? What are the facts about this? endnote: I predict 50% that this discussion won't work, resolved by me in two weeks. I think that people don't want to work together to build a sort of vague discussion on the forum. We'll see. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Should there be a BERI for animal welfare or global poverty?, published by sawyer on February 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative provides operational and administrative support to researchers working on existential risks in a university setting. The idea is to make operations faster and more flexible for these groups—not only to make them more directly effective, but also to improve morale by unblocking tasks and projects they care about that are hard to do efficiently through other means (e.g. existing university administration channels). Some specific examples: Hiring a software engineer, graphic designer, web developer, or copy editor; hiring a research assistant for month on 2 days notice; paying monthly software subscriptions; paying international contractors; buying stuff from a supplier that your university doesn't support. How beneficial would this same service be to researchers working on global poverty or animal welfare (or other cause areas for that matter) in a university setting? I'll add some of my preliminary arguments for and against below. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

How has the past year affected the most vulnerable communities around the world—and how can Christians step in and advance good? Jordan Gustafson of Food for the Hungry talks about ending poverty through sustainable holistic community development and disaster relief.

On this, the third episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, former NFL player, investor, and entrepreneur Dhani Jones sits down with the Founder of The Adara Group, Audette Exel. This is a show dedicated to dealmakers, rainmakers, and trailblazers, where we tap into the stories of modern dealmakers who are carving the path forward. This week Audette talks about how one gets into philanthropy, how she learned banking, how to be yourself, and the power of seeing everyone the same way we see ourselves.  Audette is a New Zealand-born businesswoman and entrepreneur. She's very highly decorated having been named Telstra NSW's “Business Woman of the Year” in 2012, awarded an honorary “Order of Australia” for her work in Nepal and Uganda in 2013, included in Forbes' list of “48 Heroes of Philanthropy” in 2014, and named Australia's “Leading Philanthropist” by Philanthropy Australia in 2016. Today's episode explores the “how” and the “why” behind much of her humanitarian work around the globe with The Adara Group and its divisions Adara Development and Adara Advisors. Listen to how she's studied law and banking in order to better understand power and help the poor. She traveled the world and found herself as chair of the Bermuda stock exchange and became one of the youngest women in the world to have run a publicly-traded bank.Come explore the exciting crossroads of dealmaking and humanitarian aid. As Audette recalls, it hasn't always been easy and philanthropy still exists within the world of business. Listen to the journey and the mistakes along the way to becoming a successful philanthropist. Get comfortable and don't miss out on an exciting new episode of The Pathfinders, presented by Ansarada! These are the challenges, the mess-ups, and the lessons learned on the path to success.Follow UsLinkedIn @AnsaradaTwitter @ansaradaFacebook @AnsaradaPlatformInstagram @ansarada_Presented by Ansaradawww.ansarada.com

Introduction: Dr Alister Scott is all about making big change happen. He has dedicated his career to this pursuit. He is the Co-founder of The One Leadership Project with his colleague Neil Scotton. The One Leadership Project is a strategy and leadership firm that supports those making big change happen. Alister and Neil have co-authored a book called The Little Book of Making Big Change Happen. Alister is also Co-founder and Director of the Knowledge Bridge LTD and Chair of the Cuckmeres Community Solar Project. Alister is a certified Coach and holds a doctorate in Science and Technology.  Podcast Episode Summary This episode explores the impetus for Alister's latest project, a passion to bring Compassion Practices to the world. His website Compassion Practices hosts 6 compassion practices and protocols for practicing compassion that anyone can download. In this episode we explore the meaning of compassion the principles that underpin the exercise of compassion practices and the impact of these practices on culture in organisations and on teams.  Points made over the episode The Pandemic had only just begun and Alister felt compelled to write material to support teams get support in times of enormous stress. He wanted his offerings to be accessible and timely.  His colleague and friend Andrew Bradley contacted him about his writing to think about combining his work on Compassion with that of others to build out a website www.compassionpractices.net The six practices, essentially an ecosystem of practices are pragmatic with dedicated protocols that anyone can follow. The practices are basically informed by the work of Nancy Kline and Alister and Andy along with a few other colleagues have pared down her work to offer six distinct principles  Essentially if a person equips themselves with the six principles espoused they will not go far wrong in conversation  Compassion is the ability to be with another as they suffer. It is kindness in action. It is not sympathy. It means you are providing a space for someone to be with their suffering without feeling alone.  Teams all too easily become task focused and forget to commune or connect with each other.  Nancy Kline's work is borne out of decades of research and writing to help people think better. She has written some brilliant books including Time to Think and More time to Think. By applying the principles housed in Nancy's work people disrupt their habitual communication practices -Listening without interrupting for example when practiced can be transformative for relationship and on teams.  The principles described on the website include the following;  -Identify the question that matters  -Give each person time to think on their own  -Listen without interruption  -Appreciate from the heart Appreciation and cultivating a culture of ERA (encouragement, recognition and appreciation) creates an environment where the experience of work is changed for the better  In order to practice the receipt of Appreciation you have to employ 3,As Acknowledge that the giver & what they have shared is true for them too. Allow the appreciation in -especially for those who have been emotionally starved and finally accept it.  Our ability to be compassionate is often forgotten. Indicators such as Global Poverty, Our Environmental Crisis, War and conflict all point to the lack of compassion. Our inability to feel and that as human beings, being the dominant species of the world, we are experiencing the worst form of extinction since the dinosaurs  Our practice of shutting down feelings, of indulging adrenaline induced activities, action addiction and our fear of others perspectives all contribute to a narrow vision where we are not able to be kind. The Practice involves the following steps Involve 2 people a host and facilitator  1st Round asking how are you arriving and name one thing that is going well outside of work? Name the question that matters such as “how are we doing as a team” Everyone prepares first alone and then speaks in a round going from left to right to provide some measure of predictability  Followed by Thinking pairs (with clear instruction) Finally a round where everyone reflects on their latest thinking and feeling on the same question  The mindset shift needed for teams to employ compassion practices is multifaceted. People need to matter. The idea of expert only where we do not ha`ve time for this sort of soft stuff.  We live in a society that indulges a conspiracy of silence about grief, failure and feelings that might be labelled as negative.  Alister shared the story of losing his wife five years ago and how few people, even his close friends could be with his grief.  The website is being officially launched on the 15th of September 2021 and people are invited to sign up on the website to access the practices and be involved in many facilitated community practices for professionals  Resources shared  www.compassionpractices.net Nancy Kline -Time to Think and More Time to Think  Francis Weller -The Wild Side of Sorrow 

Today, Amanda and Julia jump into a topic making headlines: billionaires going to space. Are these men really competing with each other, or is the media just assigning and old narrative to a new decade? (It's probably both).  Every billionaire we discuss has a different motivation for space exploration, but what's their responsibility in wealth inequality? Does it make sense to pour so much capital into private space exploration when people on the ground can't afford healthcare? Through the lens of global wealth disparity, Bezos's cowboy rocket ship adventure feels like an affront to those who need help now, unable to wait until we've established Mars colonies and satellite communities.

Wyatt Martin is joined by special guest, Katie Frank, as we discuss global poverty and missions. -Here are some links mentioned in the podcast:www.bread.orgwww.onedayswages.org-"But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you—see that you also excel in this gift of giving. I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich."2 Corinthians 8:7-9 NIV