March 21, 2021
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How leaders can harness the power of finance and technology for social good
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Author: Professor Durreen Shahnaz, CEO, Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) & Marius Døcker Managing Director, Business for Peace & Rob Acker CEO, Salesforce.org
A new imperative around inclusive growth is emerging.
A cross-sector movement that combines mindset shifts with technology and financing is leading the way.
Business leaders will need to cultivate ‘businessworthy’ mindsets to make building a new era of inclusion and sustainability a reality.
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BOURBONNAIS, Ill., Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Olivet Nazarene University announces
Your Way, a ground-breaking initiative which features tuition-free general education courses, providing adult students with a pathway to earn a bachelor s degree and creating a model that redefines the learning experience by using best-in-class technology to engage students online.
Your Way is an online, completely asynchronous flipped classroom, where students are able to read and consume the course material first and enter an online community to discuss the content with classmates and faculty to expand their knowledge and deepen understanding. Course content is created ahead of time, allowing Olivet s faculty to educate at scale.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Salesforce, the global leader in CRM (NYSE: CRM), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced today that they will collaborate to help Gavi manage critical information to equitably distribute approximately two billion COVID-19 vaccines to 190 countries by the end of 2021.
Fair, rapid and equitable access to vaccines is critical to ending the global pandemic. Public-private partnerships, such as Gavi, which are focused on getting vaccines to some of the world s poorest countries, need to be armed with data and technology to facilitate distribution at scale. The ability to manage huge volumes of country data is essential.