BIFOBY – Big Ideas For Our Backyard

Sidney | March 2, 2009

Are campaigns against major world poverty and health issues disproportionately focused on non-U.S. soil?  For example, such efforts as: the One Campaign (Poverty and AIDS); the Base of the Pyramid Protocol efforts (Poverty); Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Campaign (Inequality); and the NICE Campaign (Cancer), to name a few, address issues in regions outside of the [...]

Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship Summit

Sidney | February 24, 2009

It is not often that I get the chance to attend a free one-day meeting that offers  great networking opportunities and knowledge-packed presentations.  On Friday, I attended the Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship Summit at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  The summit was a student-organized event lead by [...]

"Why Uplift?"

This blog covers the issues of our world community and the people whose innovative ideas will bring about sustainable solutions for the good of all. The word “Uplift” is used as a metaphor for “sustainable” social change. Uplift was borrowed from the ideology of “racial uplift” espoused by twentieth century civil rights leaders that sought new approaches to social change in their pursuit of racial equality. Similarly, today's innovators seek new approaches to social change that will uplift the human race.