2014-2015 Vera Fellowship Program-apply by April 1st
2014-2015 Vera Fellowship Program
In its third year, the Vera Fellowship Program provides energetic, hard-working and impact-driven young professionals with the opportunity to solve problems for some of the most innovative NGOs, social enterprises, and grant-making institutions worldwide.
Through a year-long placement in one of Vera’s hubs, Fellows gain:
- First-hand experience and mentorship in the design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and management systems in health, education, and development
- Valuable knowledge of Force.com, the world’s leading cloud-computing platform currently used by more than 100,000 for-profit and 20,000 non-profit organizations worldwide
- Exposure to the landscape of cloud- and mobile-technologies used across the sector
Fellows come from diverse professional and educational backgrounds but share a common belief in the power of data to transform the efficiency and effectiveness of social impact organizations. You can visit Vera’s blog to learn more about our work.
Applications are open now through April 1, 2014.
For more information, please visit http://www.verasolutions.org/open-positions/ or email jobs@verasolutions.org.
Africans in Boston Hakuna Sunday, March 9th!
Please join us at our Hakuna Sundays mixer this coming Sunday at O'Sushi Cambridge in Harvard Square.
Hakuna Sundays | Africans in Boston networking mixer
WHEN: Sunday, March 09, 2014 | 6:30pm-10pm
WHERE: O'Sushi Cambridge - 1 Eliot Street - Cambridge, MA 02138
WHAT: Join us to meet Africans, friends of Africans, students and professionals
COST: No cover charge - Open Bar and Pay for your own food.
AiB discount: 20% off all food orders.
Music: we will have a collective mix of Afrobeat tunes
Location: section at bar area and opposite tables
Easily Accessible by MBTA, Red Line to Harvard Square
For more information, contact Joycelina at 857-228-8833
Africans in Boston Inc. is an organization that fosters the socio- economic and educational development of its members by offering a platform that connects the African Diaspora in the greater Boston area and in the state of Massachusetts. The organization provides its members with various resources by cultivating meaningful and professional relationships and by creating a thriving environment.
Are you ready for a free international trip this summer to tell the stories of global health?
The BU Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD), School of Public Health (SPH), and the College of Communication (COM) in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting are offering a paid international reporting Fellowship to two BU students.
During this summer Fellowship, two outstanding BU students will have the opportunity to work in Washington, D.C., at the Pulitzer Center headquarters and to travel internationally (likely to a developing country) on a 2-3 week reporting trip mentored by a professional journalist.
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Indo-US Collaborations for Biomedical Research discussion with MGH Center for Global Health
Please join the Mass General Center for Global Health, the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech), and Partners Healthcare International for an afternoon discussion:
Indo-U.S. Collaborations for
Biomedical Research
Panel I: Opportunities and Challenges in Indo-U.S. Partnerships
Moderated by Mehul Mehta, VP, Partners International
Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, InnAccel (India)
Dr. Patricia Hibberd, Mass General for Children (U.S.)
Dr. V. Raju, Vellore Institute of Technology (India)
Dr. Paul Salins, Mazumdar Shah Cancer Center (India)
Dr. Data Santorino, Mbarara University (Uganda)
Panel II: Research Opportunities at the Vellore Institute of Technology
Moderated by Kris Olson, Medical Director, CAMTech
Featuring faculty from the Vellore Institute of Technology (India)
Tuesday, March 18th
1:30-3:30pm
O'Keeffe Auditorium
Blake Building, 1st Floor
Massachusetts General Hospital
++ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ++
Innovators Forum A Health and Social Entrepreneurship Conference presented by Unite for Sight
Innovators Forum
A Health and Social Entrepreneurship Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight and Sponsored by Harvard Business Innovations in Global Health Care
Friday, March 14, 2014
Shubert Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.uniteforsight.org/forum
- Keynote Addresses
- "Managing Uncertainty," Ken Himmelman, Chief Program Officer, Partners In Health
- "Is the World Ready for Nonprofit or Pharmaceutical Companies?" Victoria Hale, Founder and CEO, Medicines360
- "QuestBridge: One Organization's Journey to Scale," Ana Rowena McCullough, Co-Founder and CEO, QuestBridge
- Perspectives on Innovating
- "Building a Health Delivery Model for 1 Billion Rural People, Starting with One Remote Village in Liberia," Jason Bae, Director, Last Mile Health
- "A New Face of American Diplomacy: Global Health Service Abroad," Vanessa Kerry, Chief Executive Officer, Seed Global Health
- "The Developing World's Healthcare Problems are Complicated. The Solutions Don't Need to Be," David Barash, Executive Director, Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer, GE Foundation
- Key Lessons From Building Innovative, Successful Programs
- "Social and Mobile Innovations for Global Health Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Director, Center for Development Informatics, Futures Group
- "Contagious Health & Happiness," Leila Makarechi, COO, Microclinic International
- "Social Change is a Process, Not a Formula: Practical Lessons from Twenty Years of Success and Failure," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
- Conversations with Early-Stage Innovators, Global Health Technology Organizations, and Established Organizations
- Six Innovators Forum audience members will each present a 5-minute presentation to the Innovators Forum audience about their organization, current and expected impact, current challenges, and questions for the expert speakers. The presenters will then engage in a conversation with the keynote speakers and with Charlie MacCormack, President Emeritus at Save The Children, on the Shubert Theater stage and in front of the conference audience. The expert speakers will answer questions and offer guidance and advice. The entire audience will then have an opportunity to ask questions of the presenters and the expert speakers. In addition to offering a unique opportunity for the six selected presenters, the Innovators Forum audience will gain extensive insight from the expert speakers about navigating the challenges and complexities of real issues being experienced by the innovators in the audience.
Complete details and the Innovators Forum schedule can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/forum
BUSM historical society proudly presents a talk by Dr. Douglas Hughes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs “Charles Eastman: The Story of the first Native American Physician (a BU graduate in 1890)”
Be sure to not miss out on this awesome event. A talk by our beloved Dean Hughes while eating a non-pizza hot and delicious lunch. Trust me, you don't want to miss out on this.
Charles Eastman: The Story of the first Native America Physician (a BU graduate 1890). The first physician to attend to the victims of the massacre at Wounded Knee
BUSM historical society proudly presents a talk by Dr. Douglas Hughes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. At this talk he will discuss the life of Dr. Charles Eastman, BUSM Class of 1980 and the first Native American to graduate from a medical school in the United States. Charles Eastman was the first physician to attend to the victims of the massacre at Wounded Knee and later became an advocate for Native Americans and civil society in the United States.
Non-Pizza Lunch will be served
What: Charles Eastman
Where: L112
When: March 17, 2014 (Monday)
12:30pm – 1:30 pm
Why: Delicious food and awesome speaker
From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom 28th annual conference for student and community activists
From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom
28th Annual Conference, April 11-13, 2014
Register now for this year's conference!
From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom
28th annual conference for student and community activists
April 11-13, 2014
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
a project of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program
"I felt so honored to get to be in the room with such amazing and beautiful people, to learn from them, think about movement building, and to challenge the way I think about and do my work."
Registration is now open for our 28th annual conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom. Believe it or not, the conference is just around the corner—less than two months away—and we can't wait to see you there!
We look forward to 80 workshops, over 160 speakers, and having more than 1,000 students, activists, and advocates join us for three days of networking, strategy, and action around reproductive justice. We have some amazing workshops lined up, including "Taking Root in Flyover Country: Building Networks for Reproductive Justice," "We're All Media Makers: Using Storytelling & Creativity to Make Change," "The Intersections of Immigrant Rights and Reproductive Justice," "Queering Reproductive Justice," and more!
Register now for the 28th annual conference!
Weekly BNID job and internship openings
JOB / INTERNSHIP OPENINGS
- Financial Operations Analyst Harvard University - Center for International Development (CID)
- Director of Event Planning Intern - The Millennium Campus Network (MCN)
- Program Evaluation Associate Intern - The Millennium Campus Network (MCN)
- Disability Rights Fund Program Director - Disability Rights Fund and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund
- AKF USA Fellowship Program - Aga Khan Foundation
- Fellowship - The Advocacy Project
