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Congratulations to Karen Finney who’s being considered for White House Press Secretary . We’re immensely honored to have her as one of Global Change Network’s team members!
New Girl Effect video just premiered at Clinton Global Initiative 2010. The Clock is Ticking - Check it out!
Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues at the Women Deliver conference.
Big news: For the first time in more than 20 yrs, maternal mortality has declined. Reasons for the improvement are lower pregnancy rates in some countries; higher income, which improves nutrition and access to health care; more education for women; and the increasing availability of “skilled attendants” at births.
Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World
“What would happen if aid organizations and other philanthropists embraced the dark arts of marketing spin and psychological persuasion used on Madison Avenue? We’d save millions more lives.”
It works. From our years at global advertising agency, DDB, we saw first-hand how consumer marketing techniques could effectively move social and environmental issues into the mainstream.