Homeshores Direct: a Festival of World Cultures 365
FEATURED: "Videos of the Month", a series
Foxy, your dedicated Sm'art Agent, has searched out a number of Feature Links, seen previously on our Front Page and Video of the Month", that we believe can benefit you and your organisation today. Together with Useful Site Links, these will guide you towards influential associations, think tanks, directories, social movements, social causes, social eMarketplace, cultural, apex & other leader organisations. In addition we include some providers of critical products and services that can be combined with VoxLabs System Displays at points of sale in Community-wide Outlets, which can be opened at diverse locations - in Colleges, Cooperatives, Credit Unions, Corporations or other locations that serve your Community worldwide either online, offline or mobile.
Checkout below some examples: Global Entrepreneurship Week; Center of Social Innovation (Stanford); Diogo Vasconcelos (Social Innovation Europe); Shakira's Waka Waka: THIS TIME FOR AFRICA; Grassroot Soccer & Nike (Red) Laces campaign for World Cup 2010; Jamii Bora in Kenya with Unitus; Mary Robinson's Realizing Rights initiative; Fair Trade: The Movie; Socialnomics on Social Media Revolution; Natalie Portman interview on FINCA'S Microfinance plans; C.O.O.P - Cooperating out of poverty; TeleNursing- ICN Global Shortage of Nurses; The Guinness 250th Global bash or DotCoop Directory below.
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK:WITH VOXWORLD.COOP ON A USB FLASH DRIVE PLATFORM YOUR COMMUNITY CAN JOIN...from November 14-20, 2011, with millions of other people around the world in a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries across six continents come together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. To think big. To turn their ideas into reality. To make their mark.
Each November, Global Entrepreneurship Week connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others participated in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings. IT ONLY TAKES A WEEK...TO CHANGE A LIFETIME.
"Reshaping Capitalism with the New Bottom Line" (TED Silicon Valley Conference)
"Kriss Deiglmeier is the founding executive director for the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has more than 20 years of management experience spanning the business, social enterprise, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors.
Upon coming to CSI, Kriss marshaled support for a new mission that has established the CSI as a global leader in the emerging social innovation field. Kriss is recognized as a pioneer in the social innovation field and has presented nationally and internationally on social innovation, social entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships, as well as guest-lectured at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, and Nagoya University."
DIOGO VASCONCELOS (Social Innovation Europe)
The words of the late Diogo Vasconcelos, the great visionary, speaking about the personal empowerment....
"IF EVERYONE PARTICIPATES, THINGS CAN CHANGE"....the words of Diogo Vasconcelos speaking about the personal empowerment through networking by which together we can co-create solutions to climate change. When I heard the shocking news of his death this morning, I went back to the conversation we had together in Lisbon in 2008 and put together this complete version of his message to us all. The world has lost a true visionary in all the causes he championed". R.I.P
Waka Waka: THIS TIME FOR AFRICA Music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song). (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment. It captures the enchanting Spirit of Africa and has over 306 million Views on UTube.
GRASSROOT SOCCER AFRICA & NIKE (RED) LACES CAMPAIGN
Founded in 2003, Grassroot Soccer has already empowered over 270,000 African youth with the knowledge, social support, and life skills they need to live HIV-free. Please donate today and help Kick AIDS in Africa!On December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day, soccer superstars Didier Drogba, Joe Cole, and Clint Dempsey stood together in London with pop legend and humanitarian Bono to announce Nike’s new partnership with (RED) to fight HIV in Africa through sport. As Nike’s long-term partner in the fight against HIV and AIDS, Grassroot Soccer features in Nike’s story-telling around this initiative, bringing to life how football can play a powerful role in educating youth about HIV prevention.
UNITUS MICROFINANCE & EAST AFRICA BUSINESS REPORT, KENYA
Unitus President Ed Bland and our microfinance partner Jamii Bora Trust featured on CNBC Africa. Learn more about Unitus's work to accelerate the growth of microfinance at www.unitus.com About the incredible work of Jamii Bora & its 200,000 members in the slums. Ed highlights four great needs - more bottom-up solutions, need for more social entrepreneurs, much more microfinance and.....more people aka.more believers. There is an 80% shortfall in supply of microfinance, but there is a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (refer book by CK Prahalad). Or simply listen to the amazing founder of Jamii Bora ('not even the sky is the limit' motto), Ingrid Munro, as she talks to passionately to JP Morgan & Prof Yunus - its not charity she seeks, just enlightened self-interest.
GUINNESS RELAND: 250th BIRTHDAY, GLOBAL PARTY CELEBRATIONS- 24th September, 2009
Memorable for its deep Irish Heritage that stretches back to 1759, Ireland being where VoxLabs was founded. Since then it has made an incalculable contribution in promoting Irish Culture, by helping foster the Gatherings & Craic, in equal measure, at Guinness Irish Pubs throughgout the world. Has become an integral party of the Irish way of life and life of Irish Diaspora everywhere. It has supported many Irish MSME's through merchandise licensing of their brand to them over many years, and in showcasing their quality at their Storehouse Museum - where their party starts and goes on worldwide throughout Irish Pubs at home and abroad on 24th. Happy 250th Birthday Arthur!
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FINCA & its 100,000 Village Banks goal: Natalie Portman interview
Natalie Portman appears on The View to talk about FINCA International, a microfinance organization. Natalie is co-chair, along with Queen Rania of Jordan, of the FINCA Village Banking Campaign with the goal of creating a 100,000 new village banks in the poorest countries of the world by 2010.
DIRECTORY.COOP
Founded by NCBA in USA with registration of restricted top-level domain at ICANN in 2001 with support of Coops apex organisation ICA in Geneva, to clearly identify Coops. DotCooperation (DotCoop) now runs the only complete Directory of online Coops. Visit this site, search and select products from among c.4000 registered coops ranges and VoxLabs can add a unique customised presentation display and system for instant appeal to your customers. Click on directory.coop image for web link.
TELE-NURSING
Advances in telecommunications technologies are revolutionising education and health services globally, including the provision of nursing services. Decreasing time and distance, these advances increase access to health and healthcare, especially to underserved populations and those living in rural and remote areas. They help to manage the demand for services, ensure more effective use of human and health resources and facilitate education and research activities. [INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES, GENEVA]
