“NGO – NonGovernmentalOganization – any group of private citizens who join together to create a movement for public good to address social needs and improve human conditions (clinton,B – “Giving – How each of us can change the world”)
Jeffry Sachs - Commonwealth – Economics for our crowded planet at Authors @ Google on youtube
- Youngest tenure professor at 28
- Director of earth institute – Columbia university
- Special Advisor UN secretary General Ban ki moon
- Served as a secretary advisor for Kofi Annan
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Divergence: the act of moving away in different direction from a common point – 1800s - 1950s where rich countries were able to improve at a fast rate than poor countries could improve
- Since the end of cold war, people started living in elected governments which created more opportunities for democratic societies and citizen activism to develop, technology revolution, and globalization increased profits which made more people be able to give
- After 1950s – there was convergence: approach toward a definite value, a definite point, a common view or opinion, or toward a fixed or equilibrium state. Angelia Jolie did a poverty project in Africa with Jeffry Sachs in 2006 – MTV diaries
Gift of Time
“Regardless of age, language or school stage, teens are volunteering. 84% of Canadian teens volunteer at least 5 hours a year to charitable causes” Mackenzie financial
- Reciprocity – give back to someone who has given to us ] In my program – Business Administration – Information System we have course called Customer Relationship Management which I am currently studying. This course expands the “role” of customers. Right in the first chapter, we get introduced to a term called “360 degree view” employees, subordinates, and bosses review each other’s service.
- Initiative builds the foundation of the 360 degree view because every decision is in our hands as we have power and voice to achieve our goals, and help others.
- There are many local movements that need volunteering in animal care, environmental improvements, food drives, healthcare, child care which are a good start off
- Then there is David Suzuki Foundations, Doctors without bordersWorld Vision Canada- this is where you learn about many projects that are implemented to that affect global change
- Mohammad Yunus won a nobel peace prize in 2006. He had opened Grameen bank in Bangladesh that loans money without any agreements or interest to small businesses started by really poor people. His bank had a 98.3% recovery rate
- Scarcity – have things that you can have less off – there are 24 hours in a day – can you give one or 2 hours a day, a week or at least a month to public or global efforts that is being made to solve problems
- Commitment and Consistency – do what you plan to do – to complete any assigned tasks given to use we plan to work on them before a due date to be able to submit the work on time by putting in effort aiming to get an A. This is a skill that adds up in a long run for you to be able to make differences. In high schools our volunteer hours need to be completed 40 hours in order to graduate. So in our reports cards with our marks it had how many hours are completed and how many hours need to be completed. So this was a reminder for all students so we could prioritize volunteering. So there are advertisements like World Vision ads about adopting children which reminds us people need our help and as teens for us the best way to starts is to provide help to those around us that are in need.
I have got the 3 points from the lecture of Robert Cialdini – an author and professor of University of Arkansas in Psychology and Marketing. I have told you my influences, but it was this book “Giving – How each of us can change the world” that became a formulated strategy I can implement on through reading about many inputs and outputs.
We can all give either time money or skills that can be beneficial to others
References:
Authors at Google Video, Jeffery Sachs. Youtube
Big Think, Robert Cialdini, Professor of Psychology and Marketing
Giving, Bill Clinton
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