Dr. Joseph Salim Speaks at Conference on Peace Through Reconstruction

October 23, 2009 Program: Introductory Remarks Prof. Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS). McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University. Winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals. Member, CCS….

Virtue Foundation Donates Netbooks to Create Liberated Learning Lab For K-3 students at Harlem’s Children’s Zone’s Promise Academy I

Virtue Foundation Donates Netbooks to Create Liberated Learning Lab For K-3 students at Harlem’s Children’s Zone’s Promise Academy I

This fall, The Virtue Foundation will donate netbooks to Harlem Children’s Zone’s Promise Academy I. In keeping with the Foundation’s goals to empower and provide opportunities for children to have access to a 21st Century education, the donated Netbooks will be utilized to launch the creation of a mobile Liberated Learning Lab for Promise Academy…

Mongolia Healthcare Initiative 2009 Recap

Mongolia Healthcare Initiative 2009 Recap

In June 2009, Virtue Foundation together with Surgical Eye Expeditions sponsored a team of physicians for a two-week surgical mission to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Virtue Foundation Presents Panel on Obstacles to Sustainable Development

Virtue Foundation will convene a panel of experts in law, medicine, and human rights to identify and discuss current obstacles to sustainable development. While there are many important and well-intentioned efforts being made to improve impoverished regions of the world, what lessons can be drawn from the past that might help accelerate such efforts and render them more effective?

Gender-Based Violence and Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas

In coordination with the Cornell International Law Journal, the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice will bring together judges (from international tribunals and national courts), scholars, policymakers and practitioners to discuss advances and obstacles to securing justice for women and girls in conflict and post-conflict areas. Women and girls are targeted for sexual and…