New York sing for hope

Having met Monica the extraordinary elder daughter of Dr Yunus, I am quite sure that every yunus city will find ways to collaborate with http://singforhope.org until New York youth know how to celebrate 2010s as most exciting decade- will you help first? 

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Permalink Reply by isabella wm on August 20, 2011 at 11:54am

Muhammad yunus ecents september 2011 include

keynotes at 2 day change model event http://itp.nyu.edu/changemodel/

Bill Moggridge, Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Utku Teksoz, Economist and advisor to Ban Ki Moon on the Millennium Development Goals
Gabe Brodbar, Director of the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University
Ewa Wojkowska and Toshi Nakamura, Founders, Kopernik
Jennifer P. Holt, Deputy Director, Peace Dividend Trust

 

http://socialgoodsummit-fbb.eventbrite.com/

 

Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation present the second annual Social Good Summit. Held at the heart of UN week, the Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions.

The Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges. It ignites conversations between a live audience in New York City and thousands around the world participating via Livestream.

The most innovative technologists, influential minds and passionate activists will come together this September with one shared goal: to unlock the potential of new media and technology to make the world a better place.

Join us in person. Join us online. September 19-22, 2011

 

Dates & Times: 

Monday, September 19, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

* Doors Open at 12:00 p.m. to the public

Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street

Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall

Goals of the Summit:

  • Bringing together a new dynamic community of leaders (and followers) — technologists, innovators, social entrepreneurs, bloggers and more 
  • Raising awareness for the global challenges to be address by the General Assembly during UN Week
  • Discovering, encouraging and showcasing new and innovative solutions to those global challenges
  • Igniting a conversation between a live audience and a world-wide audience via livestream
  • Connecting leaders already working in the social good space with technologists and other leaders who can collaborate and share best practices.
  • Creating a sustainable thought-leadership forum that sparks important discussion and inspires new solutions.

Agenda:

Together, we will explore how communities and audiences are connecting with each other through social and digital innovations. We will share best practices and case studies. This will come in the form of keynote speeches, Q&As, conversations, case studies and networking sessions.

Each day, we will have sessions running from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Below is the current agenda and schedule for the Social Good Summit. Keep checking back for speaker additions and updates to the schedule:

Monday September 19 - 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Next Generation Leadership: an Opening Keynote Conversation

Ted Turner, Chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc. and the United Nations Foundation and Mashable’s Editor in Chief, Adam Ostrow

How Networks are Changing Global Foreign Policy and Activism

Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

The Future of Maternal Health

Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts, and Heather Armstrong, Writer and Creator of dooce.com, and Advisor of EMC's Techonolgy and Media

Social Value Investing: A New Paradigm for Future Generations

Howard W. Buffett, Executive Director, Howard G. Buffett Foundation

Building a Private SectorPillar of Global Social Change

Simon Mainwaring, Founder / Author, WE FIRST

Coming soon: Panel presented by Ericsson

Tuesday September 20 - 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ancient Values and New Media: the Future of Ethics in a Connected World

Mashable’s Founder and CEO, Pete Cashmore and Elie Wiesel, President of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

The Original Social Network - LIVESTRONG Wristbands and Global Good

Lance Armstrong, Founder and Chairman of LIVESTRONG and Doug Ulman, President and Chief Executive Officer of LIVESTRONG

Women and Girls Lead: Where Storytelling, Gaming and Public Media Converge

Academy Award Winning-Actor, Geena Davis, Abigail Disney, Executive Producer of Women, War, War & Peace, Tamara Gould, Vice President of ITVS International and Asi Burak, Co-president of Games of Change, moderated by Aaron Sherinian, Vice President of Communications and Public Relations of the United Nations Foundation

Coming soon: Panel presented by Ericsson

Wednesday September 21 - 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

How Micro-financing is Enabling Social Change

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, and Matthew Bishop, American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist

Join the CEO of the UN Foundation, Kathy Calvin, for a Conversation with Global Leaders on the Importance of Social Good

Kathy Calvin, Chief Executive Officer, the United Nations Foundation

The Future of Technology and Education: Skype in the Classroom

Tony Bates, Chief Executive Officer of Skype

Developing Technology for the Developing World: the Big Challenges

Raj Shah, USAID Administrator, United States Agency for International Development

Vaccines and a Movement to Save Lives

Every hour, nearly 300 children around the world die from a disease easily prevented with a vaccine. Learn from a dynamic panel of speakers about a movement to save their lives.

Coming soon: Panel presented by Ericsson

Thursday September 22 - 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Startups for Good Challenge

Startups for Good Challenge is a special event to showcase eight startups that are striving to improve the world through innovative technology and websites. The companies will compete for a $10,000 cash prize.

Coming soon: Panel presented by Ericsson

Confirmed Speakers:

Permalink Reply by isabella wm on September 17, 2011 at 5:32pm

This year, the CGI program is focused on three primary topic areas:

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  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Generating Employment for the 21st Century, which will highlight effective workforce training programs, showcase innovative government incentives that catalyze inclusive job growth, and examine market-leading business developments that can sustainably increase profits, productivity, and prosperity around the world. This topic area will build on the work of CGI America, the first CGI event focused on job creation and driving economic growth in the U.S., which took take place this past June in Chicago.
  • Sustainable Consumption: Ensuring Long-term Prosperity on a Finite Planet, which will explore how, by redefining consumption, organizations can quickly respond to the realities of impending resource constraints and instability while ensuring economic growth.
  • Girls and Women: Scaling What Works, which will return as a topic area for this year’s

Annual Meeting and will build on the continued success of past efforts by taking a deeper look at what is working in girls and women’s empowerment and highlighting areas where more resources could make a significant impact.

Other special sessions will address critical issues in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the role architecture, sports, and the arts play in fostering positive change. The complete program, session descriptions, and participants are available online atwww.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings.

President Barack Obama will join President Bill Clinton again at the 2011 Annual Meeting of CGI in New York.

Among the other confirmed attendees include Bob McDonald, chairman of the board, president, and CEO, Procter & Gamble; Chelsea Clinton; Denis O’Brien, chairman, Digicel; Dikembe Mutombo, chairman and president, Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, Inc.; Geena Davis, founder, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media; Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of the Kingdom of Norway; Hillary Rodham Clinton, secretary of state, U.S. Department of State; Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO, CARE USA; Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; Jim Rogers, chairman, president and CEO, Duke Energy; John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco; K’NAAN; Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank; Mark Tercek, president and CEO, the Nature Conservancy; Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and first under-secretary-general and executive director, UN Women; Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank; Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company; Paul Polman, chief executive officer, Unilever; Premal Shah, president, Kiva.org; Bob Diamond, Jr., chief executive, Barclays; Trudie Styler & Sting; Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom; Vikki Spruill, chief executive officer, the Ocean Conservancy. 

In a special ceremony, President Clinton will also present the fifth annual Clinton Global Citizen Awards, which recognize remarkable individuals for their leadership in addressing global challenges in philanthropy, government, civil society, and the corporate sector including:

  • Trudie Styler & Sting, founders, the Rainforest Fund will be honored for their commitment to protecting rainforests around the world and for defending the rights of the indigenous peoples who live there. 
  • Philippe Douste-Blazy, chair of the board, UNITAID will be honored for the French Government’s innovative financing of UNITAID to expand access to health for the world’s most disadvantaged people.
  • Denis Mukwege, founder and medical director, the Panzi Hospital of Bukavu will be honored for his commitment to healing the women and girls of the Congo who have fallen victim to sexual violence as a result of the ongoing war.
  • Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi, chairman and CEO, Injaz Morocco will be honored for his visionary approach to transform the Moroccan education system by mobilizing public and private partnerships to create better schools.
  • Güler Sabanci, chairman and managing director, Sabanci Holding will be honored for her leadership to empower girls and women around the world, and for her commitment to social, cultural and economic development throughout Turkey. 
Permalink Reply by isabella wm on September 20, 2011 at 4:31am
New York, New York, September 13, 2011: The latest documentary by award winning filmmaker Holly Mosher titled Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus - the first film looking at his work from microcredit to social business - will make it's debut at the United Nations in New York during the Clinton Global Initiative from 4:00-5:30pm. The film is an emotionally compelling look at his work tackling poverty from all angles. Yunus will appear during the Q&A after the film.

"Seeing the real people in this movie gives you the real experience," says Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus.

Bonsai People highlights his work offering, not only financial services, but also health services, energy, communications and more - all aimed at helping the poor. The screening is being held the day after The International Day of Peace to remind us that we need to address problems of economic disparity - as it is one of the biggest threats to peace.

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus is screening through the sponsorship of The Institute of International Social Development; and The Spirituality, Values, Business and Peace Working Group of the Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns-NY.

The screening will take place September 22, 2011 from 4-6pm at Holy Family Church - 315 East 47th Street; NY, NY (between 1st and 2nd Avenues).

The Institute of International Social Development is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. The Institute was formed "To Build a Better World". The main objective of the Institute was thus to promote the United Nation's vision "One Earth-One Family". From 2000, we consciously frame every project to support the newly formulated Millennium Development Goals by the UN.

The Spirituality, Values, Business and Peace Working Group of the Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns-NY - The Committee on Spirituality, Values, and Global Concerns-NY (CSVGC-NY), a Committee of NGOs in Consultative Status with the United Nations (CoNGO), envisions a global culture of peace based on justice, solidarity, inclusiveness, shared responsibility, harmony, cooperation, compassion, love, wisdom, goodwill and reverence for the sacredness of all life through active peaceful engagement. Infused with a foundation of spirituality and values which are universal in nature, transcending the boundaries of religion, ethnicity, gender and geography, the Committee is resolved to help bring about a culture in which "We, the peoples of the world...", can address together our common global concerns in a positive, holistic and transforming way and live together in peace with one another, thus realizing the core objectives and universal principles stated in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Holly Mosher is an award winning filmmaker and honors graduate from NYU. She produced commercials and features before deciding to work exclusively on projects inspiring positive change. In 2001, The Hollywood Reporter recognized her as an up-and-coming indie producer. In 2004 Holly had her directorial debut with Hummingbird, which won numerous awards, including Best Human Rights Documentary in Rome and Best Short for Children's Advocacy at the Artivist Film Festival. In various producing roles, she has contributed to films on healthcare - Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety and Side Effects; women's issues - Maybe Baby, the environment - Vanishing of the Bees, and election issues - Free For All and Pay 2 Play. Bonsai People - The Vision of Muhammad Yunus on Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank and Social Businesses is her latest passion project.

Hummingbird Pictures LLC was formed in 2005 by writer/director Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau and producer Holly Mosher as a distribution company for Side Effects and Money Talks. The title for the production company comes from Holly's first film Hummingbird, which is a documentary about two groups in Brazil that work with street kids and women suffering domestic violence. Hummingbird Pictures formed in order to bring socially responsible films into the world, making a difference one drop at a time.

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