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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Africa at the Crossroads: Time to Abandon Failing Green Revolution

Africa at the Crossroads: Time to Abandon Failing Green Revolution
Million Belay and Timothy A. Wise
As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming models promoted by developed countries? Or will they move boldly into the uncertain ... MORE > >

Scientists Draw up Guidelines to Help Agri-food Companies Align with 2030 Agenda Isaiah Esipisu

Scientists Draw up Guidelines to Help Agri-food Companies Align with 2030 Agenda
Isaiah Esipisu
In Amuru district, 47 kilometres from Gulu town in northwestern Uganda, the Omer Farming Company has proven that it is possible to farm on thousands of acres of land using methods that conserve the environment and its biodiversity. On a 5,000 acre piece of land, the company is growing upland ... MORE > >

How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for the 1 Billion Africans

How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for the 1 Billion Africans
Dr Lawrence Haddad and Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko
One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering severe forms of the disease leading to a need for intensive hospitalization. In Kenya, for ... MORE > >

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream October 15, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET

The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

October 15, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET

American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system–but we’ve broken the hold of behemoths like these before, author Thom Hartmann says, and we can do it again.

In this webinar presentation, Thom Hartmann and David Korten will share how monopolies threaten our systems and economy, and the damage that they have done to so many industries and individuals, pulling from Thom's new book The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream.

They will explore America’s long history of trust busting, taking us from the birth of the nation as a revolt against monopoly, to the largely successful efforts of both Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and other like-minded leaders to restrain corporations’ monopolistic urges, to the massive changes in the rules of business starting during the Reagan years. Join Hartmann and Korten as they explore the current challenges we face, and what common sense measures we might engage in to retake control from monopolists and favor businesses dedicated to the wellbeing of the communities they serve.

In the book’s forward, Ralph Nader writes, "This is the most important, dynamic book about the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”

Thom Hartmann is a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of 30 books in print and the #1 progressive talk show host in America for more than a decade. Thom has co-written and been featured in 6 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools and colleges. A former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, Thom and his wife Louise live in Portland, Oregon with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks & geese.

David Korten is co-founder of YES! Magazine, president of the Living Economies Forum, and a member of the Club of Rome. He writes a regular column for YES! and is the author of numerous books including Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, and the international best-seller, When Corporations Rule the World. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, has served as a Harvard Business School professor, and has thirty years of experience as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Funding Opportunities: Washington, D.C.. What about your community? September 2020

Are funding opportunities available in your community similar to those in Washington, D.C. listed below?

From Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. Nationally within the U.S. and globally with the World Bank and others.

The funding environment has changed since March 2020 with the start of the COVID-19 crisis.

Your mission & vison for your nonprofit in the U.S. Must have certain perimeters in place for award and success. You cannot be a separate island in seeking your funding as in the past. Your mission & vision and program must be enhanced with some sustainability and resiliency to meet the future demands for your community that you serve. Addressing disasters, emergencies, and impact of climate change must be a part of your ‘enhanced’ mission & vision.

Are you a U.S. IRS 501c3 nonprofit? Foundation?
Do you have a resiliency plan, or business continuity plan?
How have you adapted to the COVID-19 crisis, and recovery for 2020?
How will you adapt to the extended recovery up to 2022?
Are you partnered or practicing Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and Partnering (C5&P) with a local or national, or even an international nonprofit organization?

Is your organization a member of BEMA International. This differs from your individual membership.

Do not consider, ADD BEMA International as your subject matter expert membership association to your grant proposal for your organization. You’ll be surprised at the response. Your individual membership takes on a whole new meaning when your organization becomes a member.

Without BEMA International. You may be just business as usual.

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“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here: Chaos or Community’.

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