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….
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…
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 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?
On March 2-4th, 2009, Virtue Foundation Executive Committee Member Kim K. Azzarelli, Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs of Avon Products, Inc., and Dr. Ebby Elahi, Assistant Professor of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Fifth Avenue Associates, participated in the Global Forum for Women and Justice in Washington D.C. hosted by the…
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…