Kenya may soon allow the use of genetically-modified cotton and maize
seeds following pressure from agribusiness giant Monsanto, USAID, and
the bill and melinda gates Foundati...
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/monsanto-cohorts-pressure-kenyas-gmo-ban/
It’s no longer a matter of learning leadership
[http://www.forbes.com/leadership/] at school or from a book. By the
time you’ve finished your studies, the world will have ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelliekarabell/2015/12/30/5-leadership-resolutions-for-2016/?utm_source=allactivity&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20151230
Happy New Year to GrantWatch readers! Here is some light reading for
the holiday weekend.
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) has announced that six new members have
been elected to...
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/12/29/people-post-staff-and-board-changes-in-health-philanthropy-honors-request-for-proposals/
A look at the future of food from an unlikely perspective: that of a
GMO researcher and her organic-farmer husband, both trying to
determine how to feed the world together. Dr...
https://www.fi.edu/event/2016-01-20/franklin-institute-speaker-series
If you’re nerdy and/or compulsive like we are, you’ve been
watching the tiny number in the footer of GHN emails. Day by day since
GHN’s inception on January 2, 2014, it...
http://globalhealthnow.org/news/special-500th-issue
by Steven M. Druker
[https://allianceforbiointegrity.wordpress.com/about/] Surprisingly,
the Cornell Alliance for Science, which is funded by the bill and
melinda gates Founda...
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/cornell-takes-gmo-safety-debate-to-new-level/
3 things to know about Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the bill &
melinda gates foundation, as revealed by a Washington Post On
Leadership Q&A:
Simplification is a major them...
http://globalhealthnow.org/news/getting-to-know-sue
Here’s what you need to know about what happened in the Dutch
startup scene last week.
FUNDING
Electric scooter startup Bolt Mobility secured a record investment of
over ...
http://www.startupdelta.org/news/Dutch-startup-news-update-Fitmo-Pimmr-8vance
From the youngest self-made billionaire, to an award-winning film
director, to President Barack Obama's senior advisor, MAKERS has
captured the stories of extraordinary women ...
http://www.makers.com/blog/women-of-makers-2015
The Women's Philanthropy Institute at IUPUI has received a grant from
the bill & melinda gates foundation to identify motivating factors for
men and women and to study giving ...
http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2015/12/2.1m-gates-foundation-grant-giving.shtml