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 a safe and structured residential community for orphaned children in Rwanda.

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 him in the $700bn package that is the largest bailout in history. Why? First because if he does get some hedge funds to coinvest with him when he buys bad loans the American taxpayer will realize that at least there are some other investors out there who are willing to buy those loans as well. That those $700bn are an investment and not an expenditure per se. That it may actually not be such a bad business for the American taxpayer to buy mortgages at a discount and so much so that hedge funds are willing to go along. That there is value to what the US government is buying. Secondly because hedge funds are already buying up these loans, crowding them out does not make much sense. And thirdly because working with hedge funds may actually reduce the size of the government intervention overall. In a sense Warren Buffet has already started operating in this direction as I am sure Paulson was very happy to see him choose to invest $5bn in Goldman Sachs. What Paulson needs now is cooperation with all financial players. Even hedge funds.

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 students around the world. It is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.

Curriki, as FON, is based on an open source platform.

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.