All Blog Posts Tagged 'ACT1' (934)

Many woman do not have access to good medical care when birth does not go as it was planned. For a long time there have only been 3 options for prolonged or obstructed deliveries - c-section, forceps or vacuum delivery. All require a lot of training and/expensive equipment that is not easily accessible for many women and their birth attendants.

Jorge Odon - a car mechanic - has invented a new device called the Odon Device for helping woman in labour. It is currently in trial with the…

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M-PESA is an interesting article regarding the citizens of Kenya. What it is, is a mobile app that allows you to transfer money from one person to another, without the use of a bank. This gives independence to the citizens and the ability to not use a bank if they choose.

For my social innovator, I chose to follow Hal Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees. Steinbrenner sits on the board of directors for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a group which helps children of fallen soldiers. Steinbrenner's efforts have provided the opportunity for innumerable children of fallen heroes to attend school and gain an education. This selfless patriotism has revolutionized the American sporting industry, as teams all over the nation now have similar…

I've chosen to follow Richard Hawkins, who works at the World Bank, to follow as my social innovator.

I would love to shadow Alex Hornstein. He is someone who invents, and develops and deploys innovative clean technologies that are meant to help increase global access to electricity. He also is committed to reducing carbon emissions and has recently signed on to build a solar pocket factory. This is a machine that will produce small solar panels that could potentially provide power to millions of people worldwide.

My hero of social innovation that I am shadowing online will be Jay Cousins from AfriGadget because of the simple yet effective tools he created that can innovate African society one child at a time. One simple example is the Betabook which is a white board book that can help promote learning within Africa. I will keep up with them online by liking the AfriGadget page on facebook.

Mabel Van Oranje is the Social Innovator that I am going to follow. She is the founder of “Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End child Marriage.” She is involved with many more things such as the Elders. Oranje tries to educate and empower women so they have more of a say in their community. Empowering women can have many benefits including an economic one. The way that I am going to follow this hero is I am going to follow her website. I chose this person because ACT1.

The Social Innovator I chose is 'Aulani Wilhelm who is the founder of Island Water. 'Aulani Wilhelm is also a Stanford Social Innovation Fellow. Island Water helps provide and build fresh water supplies for islands surrounded by salt water. Water is the one thing need to survive by everyone and everything. Most people do not think that water is an issue on islands surrounded by water. However when that island is surrounded by saltwater, it is unusable as drinking water. Desalination methods…

Earlier today, I discovered a CEO who is making waves of change in the world. Her name is Nicole Stubbs. The aim of her organization is to reduce any and all lending/capital repayment to countries that are in developing regions. I truly believe that her focus is a cause that we need to set ours ears and eyes to for the decades to come. Keep Nicole and her organization in your thoughts and prayers.

For this mission I have decided to choose IAVA as my social role model. I am choosing this organization because I myself am a veteran. The information through this organization that is available about the current issues of mental health and suicide they are working to defeat is great. I will keep up with them through their website and blog IAVA.org.

For my hero I chose fellow University of Florida student Marla Murno. Marla served as the Women's Leadership Institute Director under the Women's Student Association as well as the Communications intern for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. I added her on Facebook and then sent her the attached message letting her know about the assignment and how I chose her as a social innovation role model. Feeling bold? Step out of the shadows -- send a email, Facebook message or Twitter…

I chose to shadow Julia Watson. She is the mail partner of Studio Rede, a collaborative which aims to apply traditional knowledge and practices to contemporary design, helping to sustain social capital in support of local biodiversity and global conservation. They're working to empower communities to protect their natural cultural landscapes. I'm going to shadow her by following her and her organization on Facebook as well as setting up a google alert for her name.

I have chosen Florida Gators basketball head coach Billy Donovan as my role model. I feel as though Donovan has done an excellent thus far leading and inspiring the Gators to be the very best they can be. This season went well as we made it closer to the championship than we have in years. I feel as though Donovan is constantly displaying his leadership every year when new players come on the squad and are trained. #ACT1

I am following Shane Battier on Facebook. This man is not only a hero in the fact of being the an amazing talent of my generation, but he is also an amazing human being for helping people that do not have as much as he has been given in his life. With his karaoke charity event, Battier was able to have fun with other Miami Heat players to raise money for kids that cannot afford to go to college. By following him on Facebook, I am able to keep up with his daily happenings whenever he…

Barack Obama! As this nation's first black president, he inspires me every day. I really don't think anyone gives him enough credit for all the things he does. He came in as president in a time when the US was totally screwed up and everyone blames him for doing things he has to do. Anywho, yup he's my hero and I keep up with him using Twitter!!!

I have chosen Sarah Ramirez. She is encouraging her community in California to be healthy. The group she started, 'Be Healthy Tulare', has collected 20,000 pounds of produce and have donated it to residents in need. I am choosing her because she has a passion and is doing things to help others. I have followed the 'Be Healthy Tulare' twitter account so I can shadow her and her organization's group online.

I chose Eric Stowe that I found on poptech.org. "Eric Stowe believes that every child has a right to clean water; to act on that belief, he founded Splash (formerly A Child’s Right), which cleans water for over 200,000 children in schools, orphanages, street shelters, hospitals, and rescue homes in Asia and East Africa." (poptech.org). In America i feel like we take such a precious resource such as clean water for granted and forget that it isn't available to everyone. I started following…

I chose Congressman Thomas Rooney as my social change role model. He is the congressman for the 17th district of Florida and is working to improve the lives of many floridians in a very large district. I chose him because of his impeccable work ethic and character. He is passionate about fixing the issues that face the state. After researching his representative history, I admire his efforts to stay true to his morals and values and to resist the temptation of focusing on politics over…

Instead of following a leader on the Internet, I followed a leader in my community. His name is Jared Ginsburg and he is service leader in a mentoring program at Lincoln Middle School in Gainesville. His organization, Greenhouse Ministries, has been working with students at Lincoln for several years. In our training session before our first mentoring session, Jared told us, "this is the trenches where the next generation of poverty will be fought." His words really resonated with me. I, like…