Project Redwood and Tides

Project Redwood and Tides

   Program for the 2017 Africa Forum co-sponsored byProject Redwood and TidesProject Redwood was first imagined in 2005, at the 25th reunion of the Stanford Business school Class of 1980, as a way to give back for the good fortune the class had...
Hitting the Sweet Spot

Hitting the Sweet Spot

$1.25 million Skoll Foundation Award goes to 2016 and 2017 grantee myAgromyAgro EnrollmentThe Skoll Foundation’s stated mission is “investing in change agents whose innovations disrupt the status quo and accelerating their progress toward impact at scale.” It was...
Big Thinking Pragmatists

Big Thinking Pragmatists

Photo by Paul DowneyPoverty’s afflictions reach wide and go deep.The ringworm that infects more than half of rural villagers in parts of Mexico, for example, impedes economic development.  Children and adults who are weakened and malnourished from the parasite can’t...