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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

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billion) and the Philippines ($10.1 The study reports a very significant finding: "…recent data suggest that long-lasting structural changes in economic engagement with the developing world are making inroads against poverty in ways that surprised even the experts." aid, making up nearly 30% of total U.S. receiving $22.2

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. Melinda: Well, it might be helpful to explain the origin of Women's Global Green Action Network, because it helps to describe how we are structured. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Operation Smile and #BitcoinTuesday

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We had humble beginnings 40 years ago in the Philippines and our founders Bill and Kathleen Magee. He had heard that in the Philippines, there was quite a few kids that needed cleft palate or cleft lip surgery and cleft lip and cleft palate surgery is a specialty. Bill is a retired plastic surgeon.