During this Spring term 2019 at Portland Community College, I have been taking a class focused on environmental sociology. As part of the curriculum, our instructor Dr. Kim Smith – founder of GPSEN – invited the class to participate in the Northwest Earth Institute’s...
Green Empowerment is a nonprofit founded and based in Portland that helps rural communities around the world access renewable energy and clean water, often for the first time. Over the last twenty years, our team has empowered over 400,000 people in 9 different countries through community-driven...
Jaha Dukureh is described as the lightning rod for change in The Gambia. An activist for women’s rights and the first UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, Dukureh was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Jaha is currently focused on building an African women’s grassroots leaders’...
Bring your lunch and join GlobalPDX and Kiva for a Lunch & Learn at We Works Custom House. We are honored to host Alex Counts, founder of the Grameen Foundation. Alex Counts is doing a book tour throughout the United States, and you can hear first hand about his new book release...
Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates made headlines last month as they both penned op-eds about their investments in global health — which total a cool $10 billion in the last two decades — and the need for continued global support in achieving Global Goal 3 on good health for all. Now they’re...