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Linked with Walter Jon Williams – USA.

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences?  The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.

Homepage with many links;
Latest and Archives;
Primers;
Alternate datas;   
CPI Inflation Calculator;
Economic Indicators;
Consumer Price Index;
Updates/News;
Disclaimer;
Newsletter (Subscription includes access to all back issues and SGS Alternate Data Series);
Contact online.

About (on the Homepage): « John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics » is an electronic newsletter that exposes and analyzes the flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic conditions, net of financial-market hype.

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Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

The housing organization Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America NACA – STOP THE TAXPAYER’S BAILOUT OF WALL STREET, JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR MAIN STREET

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA

The Main Goal: NACA is leading the fight against the bailout of lenders and investment bankers while advocating for real solutions for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The focus is the outrageous $30 billion taxpayer bailout of JPMorgan/Chase’s takeover of Bear Stearns. On Wednesday March 26th, NACA organized more than 200 homeowners, many at risk of foreclosure, to storm the Bear Stearns corporate office in New York City. For over an hour we demonstrated inside their « home ». This is another non-violent « attack » as we bring the homeowner’s anger and frustration to the corporations and wealthy executives who created and profited from this mortgage crisis. A few press clippings are provided below: The campaign needs to continue. Please access the link to sign the petition to stop the bailout of these financial predators and to implement the Homeownership Stabilization Initiative for all owner-occupied non-investor homeowners:

1. Stop the resets
2. Reduce interest rates to the initial rate
3. Impose a moratorium on foreclosures
4. Require default mitigation including restructuring the mortgage to an affordable long-term mortgage payment. (NACA’S Mainpage).

Homepage and in the news;
Economic justice;
Partnership;
Members;
Purchase /America’s best Mortage;
Homesave Program;
Property Rehab;
Vendors;
Participation;
e-mail by the web page;
Contact-Addresses.

About: The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (« NACA ») is a non-profit, community advocacy and homeownership organization. NACA’s primary goal is to build strong, healthy neighborhoods in urban and rural areas nationwide through affordable homeownership.

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Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

The sitemapt is in the right column of every page

Homepage: More than 2000 people a day use our free information clearinghouse site to:

• find advice about problems they face by browsing our 15,000 article links (categorized by topic and country/state);
• get profiles of almost 10,000 people, publications, and organizations involved in fairness issues;
• learn about important fairness issues of the day.

We hope you too will find the site reliable, objective, and (most importantly) helpful.

In early 2008 we’ll unveil a unique Election 2008 service; register here so we can keep you informed about exciting new developments!

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Contact.

About: 2008 will be the watershed year for Fairness.com; we have very exciting plans for Election 2008. If you have « political junkie » tendencies and/or want to raise the level of American political debate please use our contact form to let us know of your potential interest in our innovative new program. Details to be announced early next year.

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Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

Every year, millions of people around the world are forcibly uprooted in the name of development and progress.

The International Accountability Project (IAP) challenges unjust displacement by exposing and demanding accountability for the human rights impacts of development-induced displacement. We exert strategic pressure on the international banks and corporations that finance projects causing displacement, while strengthening communities’ power to hold their ground and defend their fundamental human rights … (full text Homepage and latest news).

Development-Induced Displacements;
Displacements;
Our work;
Institutions;
Publications;
Slide Shows;
Resources;
Donate;
Accountability Mechanisms;
Video Advocacy Workshop;
Contact.

About: The International Accountability Project (IAP) is a small, public-interest, non-profit organization that was established in late 2003 by Dana Clark. The IAP was formed to improve citizen-based accountability at international financial institutions, and to promote the rights of people who are threatened with displacement by internationally-financed development projects.

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working to prevent conflict worldwide – in many languages

… The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict … (full text, about 1/2).

Homepage und latest publications;
sitemap;
crisiswatch;
crisiswatch database;
research resources and links;
speeches;
current positions/vacancies;
Download the Annual Report 2008, 52 pages – download previous reports on the same page
contact: advocacy and Field Offices.

(About 2/2):
… Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation on the initiative of a group of well known transatlantic figures who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to the tragedies in the early 1990s of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia.

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The Homepage of LBH APIK in Indonesian.

Linked with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana – Indonesia.

Sorry, there exists an english website, but I cannot reach it for the moment. What I can get is the following:

Based on the analysis of the said legal system and in addition to the reality that the existing legal aid does not consider the issue of women as a significant human rights issue, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, one of the founders and the director of APIK formulated a concept for legal aid called legal aid structural gender. By using the feminist legal theory approach (that includes unsure women as significant elements for legal changes) and in order to explain its objective as a tool for social transformation, its name was changed to gender and transformative legal aid.[4] Based on this concept, APIK formulated its mission to correct unjust gender relations that are the basis of the legal system and to eradicate structural poverty that imprisons the life of the majority of the Indonesian women.

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Socialinvestments.com provides current and prospective investors with information on the fast-growing UK social business sector … (full text Homepage and more links).

Introduction to social business;
individual social business;
resorts by topic;
news;
glossary;
links;
feedback;
catalist blogs;
contact.

About: Our Aim: We want socialinvestments.com to be the site that gives investors better access than exists anywhere else to intelligent commentary on the social business sector and information about the companies within it. We would like this site to be as useful as possible to the investor and to social businesses and so welcome suggestions on how we could improve our offering.

Background: Companies in the social business sector are poorly served (or not served at all) by financial commentators. We consider this lack of information to be a considerable obstacle to investment. We have built socialinvestments.com because we believe that it will facilitate the flow of much-needed investment into the sector.

Principles: During the development of this website we have tried to adhere to the following principles: … (full text).

Links:

Social Entrepreneurship driven by Web 2.0;

Social Entrepreneurship on wikipedia.

National Endowment for the Humanities

EDSITEment contains a variety of links to other websites and references to resources available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities. These links and references are provided solely for informational purposes and the convenience of the user … (down of each page).

Homepage;
SITEMAP;
Calendar (events);
all Lessons;
all Subject Categories;
all Websites (204);
Partners;
Contact.

About: EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

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Stop Child Sexual Abuse

Stop the Silence® is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization working with others toward the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse … Stop the Silence is pleased to be able to offer organizations a tested and available program to train various types of service providers about the realities of CSA, dealing sensitively with survivors, and CSA prevention. Contact Pamela Pine to inquire how your organization can benefit from this training.

Hotlines;

Homepage;
What is Child sexual abuse and how common is it;
International;
You can help, an overview;
our work;
survivors;
Contact online.

About: The mission of Stop the Silence is two-fold:

• to increase awareness about and conduct programming to address the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse (CSA),
• to address the relationships between this issue and the broader issues of overall family and community violence.

This mission underlines the importance of a shift in focus on positive development within our overall social complexes (e.g., the relationships between men and women, adults and children, cultural groups) to hinder violence-prone relationships. Our goal is to stop CSA and related forms of violence by changing societal relationships among and between groups.

The history of Stop the Silence: … (full text).

Linked with Megh Ale – Nepal.

The magic of Asia is impossible to ignore, from the highest mountains in the world, dense jungle to the beaches of Sri Lanka, Asia offers you one of the planet’s most diverse and exotic adventure travel destinations. We have spent our lives roaming the globe in search of the ultimate outdoor wilderness experiences, now we’d like to show you the adventure of a lifetime. The Borderland has pioneered the opening of many new and exciting locations in Nepal and Sri Lanka these journeys of discovery and we believe that we offer the adventure seeker one of the finest experiences to be found. From all of us, we welcome you to experience the Borderland … (About 1/2).

Homepage;
Photo Gallery;
Downloads;
Contat: Borderlands, Tel. + 94 11 (4410110), +94 11 (2504602), Fax : +94 11 (2501274), e-mail one,
e-mail two.

The Staff: We believe diversity is the key; our facilitators range from teachers and musicians to corporate executives, all professionally trained, creating a staff dedicated to providing a safe environment together with a rewarding experience. Our instructors are educators, not guides. They are committed to inspiring participants to explore and develop their understanding of wilderness ethics, leadership, teamwork, natural history, and technical skills.
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Linked with Megh Ale – Nepal.

The Nepal River Conservation Trust NRCT is a non-profit organization that was established by a group of concerned river guides who recognized the ecological and cultural damage that was taking place on Nepal’s rivers at an alarming rate. Since its inception in 1995, the NRCT has worked towards conserving Nepal’s Himalayan river system, preserving Nepal’s cultural heritage and developing an environmentally responsible river tourism industry. (Homepage).

Projects;
Plantation Program;
NRCT Past Project;
2nd Bagmati River Festival BRF 2002;
5th Bagmati River Festival BRF 2005;
Contact.

About: … Our Mission: “To restore, conserve and protect the rivers of Nepal through affirmative action and education, whilst maintaining the cultural integrity of local river side communities. »

Objectives: Increasing public awareness through workshops, seminars, and special rafting trips to policy makers, journalists, students and other stakeholders.

River side community development :

• River-guide training on environmentally sound rafting and camping practices.
• Conducting River restoration projects such as beach clean up and tree plantation.
• Networking with national and international groups and lobbying on the behalf of Nepal’s river environment etc.

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Linked with Rolene Miller – South Africa.

The Amy Biehl High School was founded in the spirit of Amy Biehl, a young person dedicated to social justice. Using a thematic approach across subject areas, we teach students to apply and demonstrate skills and knowledge and to analyze and address community needs. (Homepage).

Programs;
amy’s life and legacy;
ABF needs your help;
news links:
newsletter;
contact, attn. Lori Markowitz.

About: 12 years ago, on August 25, 1993, Amy made her transition from her eventful life on earth to an even larger life of committed service to the under-served and to the hopeful. The Amy Biehl Foundation draws breath and inspiration from Amy and her example. It is a creation of family and friends who loved her in life, and is now extended by many hundreds of new friends – young and old – who want to make a constructive difference in their world and who enjoy doing this in Amy’s name.

This website is dedicated to Amy and to her hundreds of unselfish friends throughout the world who carry on for her with zest, joy and friendship.

tralac – trade law centre for South Africa:

• is a not-for-profit organisation, building trade law capacity in the southern Africa region; in governments, the private sector and civil society;
• was established in February 2002, with the financial support of seco, the Swiss Department of Economic Development, and consists of a core of trade lawyers and economists with high-level expertise in a range of trade and trade-related areas. In-house expertise is complemented by specialist expertise of the network of tralac Associates. tralac is distinguished by its focus on trade law, and its inter-disciplinary approach to trade and trade-related matters;
• prides itself on good corporate governance; the tralac Board provides governance oversight and strategic guidance to the organisation.

… (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
sitemap;
news;
events;
publications;
discussions;
links;
weekly newsletter and its archive;
Contact.

About 2/2: Vision: tralac’s vision is to be a centre of excellence building trade law capacity in the Southern African region to develop a critical mass of trade law expertise which is essential if the countries in the region are to integrate effectively into the international economy, and to realise the benefits of international trade, in an increasingly competitive trading environment governed by complex trade rules.

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Safe Kids Worldwide is the first and only international nonprofit organization dedicated solely to preventing unintentional childhood injury. It focuses on one specific problem: more children 1 to 14 die from accidents such as motor vehicle crashes, fires, drowning, poisoning and falls than any other cause. Accidents kill one million children each year around the world and permanently disable many more. And almost all of these injuries are preventable. The organization was founded in Washington, DC in 1987 by Children’s National Medical Center with support from Johnson & Johnson … (full text / 1/2).

Toy Safety;

US Homepage;
US Research;

About the Safe Kids Worldwide Network;
Campaigns and Initiatives;
What you can do;
Contact.

About / 2/2:
What We Do: Safe Kids Worldwide promotes changes in attitudes, behaviors, laws and the environment to prevent accidental injury to children. In the United States, we have contributed to a 45 percent reduction in the child fatality rate from accidental injury – saving an estimated 38,000 children’s lives. Canada achieved a 37 percent reduction in child accidental deaths between 1994 and 2003, while the German child death rate declined 80 percent since 1980 and 75 percent in Austria between 1983 and 2003. We’ve distributed more than 2.5 million bike helmets and 250,000 smoke alarms and checked more than 740,000 car seats.

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a program of the Skoll Foundation

Social Edge is a program of the Skoll Foundation that was inspired by Jeff Skoll’s commitment to connecting people with shared passions. Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources … (about, what is social edge).

Homepage and latest news;
short survey;
many blogs-links;
discussions;
resources;
features;
team;
social edge on YouTube;
contact.

About 2/2: Relationship with the Skoll Foundation: While Social Edge is sponsored by the Skoll Foundation, Social Edge has no connection to its grantmaking programs. Participation in Social Edge is not a factor in the Foundation’s grant application and recommendation process. Also, opinions expressed in Social Edge may not reflect the Skoll Foundation’s opinions. And conversely.

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