Reading this article from Bloomberg you can see that it makes sense to cap the compensation of the people who work for banks whose bad loans get bought by the US taxpayer.
The five biggest — Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns — paid their 185,687 employees $66 billion in 2007, [...]

Rural China Education Foundation works in a small number of sites to experiment in-depth with innovative models of rural education. They focus on developing teaching methods that make rural education more relevant to rural students’ lives.

Ceres is a network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.

Clinton Global Initiative started this year with CGI Exchange, a forum for members to showcase their projects and accomplishments at the Annual Meeting.
I will publish some short interviews to people in the different stands that explain what these organizations do. The first interview is on Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a project which aims to create [...]

No. The title is misleading. It´s not what you are thinking. I am not saying that Paulson should bail out hedge funds. I understand that that would offend you. I am actually saying the opposite. I am recommending that Secretary Paulson invite large hedge funds to coinvest with [...]

In some way, Curriki is very similar to Educ.ar, the foundation I started in Argentina (to which I donated 11.2 million dollars) to help improve education in my country of origin. Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and [...]

IRC has been working on the field for 75 years bringing sustained support to regions torn apart by violence and deprivation. Basically, they provide a fresh start for refugees.

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As I wrote a few weeks ago in my blog in Spanish, Lance Armstrong decided to compete again in the Tour de France and he announced it at CGI.

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This was the opening plenary session at CGI, a discussion of the major challenges that CGI is focusing on this year: education, energy & climate change, global health, and poverty alleviation. This session explored the transformative capacity of business, government, and NGOs to collaboratively develop and implement sustainable solutions.
Participants is [...]

In this video taken at 930am EST at the Clinton Global Initiative conference Mc Cain explains what parts of the $700bn financial rescue plan he disagrees with. It was fun for me to see Palin in person, I was sorry she did not speak though. I think she is the most intriguing phenomenom [...]