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Damilola Hamid Balogun: Driving Positive Change in Communities Worldwide

Mar 09, 2024 Posted by: George Romar Damilola Hamid Balogun,  Lagos,  Nigeria,  SDG 17
Damilola Hamid Balogun: Driving Positive Change in Communities Worldwide
Damilola: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! As the CEO of the Youth Sustainable Development Network (YSDN), my team and I are dedicated to tackling the challenge of youth empowerment for sustainable development. Through capacity building, policy recommendations, and sustainable project implementation, we empower young changemakers to make tangible impacts. With over 10,000 empowered youth, a reduction of over 258.11 tCO2 emissions, and numerous strategic partnerships, our organization is driving positive change in communities worldwide.

Larisa Schelkin: Enhancing Access to Quality STEM Education

Feb 21, 2024 Posted by: Sujit Kunte Larisa Schelkin,  MA,  SDG 10,  SDG 11,  SDG 13,  SDG 14,  SDG 15,  SDG 17,  SDG 4,  SDG 5,  SDG 6,  SDG 7,  USA
Larisa Schelkin: Enhancing Access to Quality STEM Education

Larisa: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! As a partner of the Global Learning and Observations to benefit the Environment Program (GLOBE) of the United States (US) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Global STEM Education Center addresses key challenges—enhancing access to quality science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, fostering global environmental awareness, and promoting hands-on learning and equipping students with skills in research, technology, and environmental stewardship. Collaborating with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations General Assembly Science Summit, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), we support environmental science diplomacy through education, furthering our mission to prepare young learners for global challenges and opportunities in STEM fields.

Maria Ida Palmieri: Bringing Social Business Models inside of Companies

Jan 11, 2024 Posted by: Sujit Kunte Germany,  Maria Ida Palmieri,  SDG 1,  SDG 10,  SDG 11,  SDG 16,  SDG 17,  SDG 4,  SDG 5,  SDG 8
Maria Ida Palmieri: Bringing Social Business Models inside of Companies
Maria: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! Through my work at The Grameen Creative Lab (TGCL), we were mainly addressing one challenge—how can we make business as usual become even more usual by putting people and the planet at the center? At TGCL, we were using creativity and innovation, in particular, to train social entrepreneurs and company leaders of today and tomorrow to adopt social business principles and mindsets in the way they were designing and carrying out their business, following the vision of our founder and Nobel laureate—Professor Muhammad Yunus. Key aspects of our programs were to first analyze problems systemically.