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Sustainable Development Goals Where We Are Making the Most Progress
As shown in the graphic below, we are making the greatest progress through our portfolio companies on SDGs 3 (Good Health and Well-Being); 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Pr... | ['Impact Investing', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Impact', 'B Corp'] |
So how did the SDG Action Manager come about?
Insights by B Lab and the UN Global Compact showed that awareness of the SDGs was high among companies, but they lacked the tools and direction to get started and take action. And while there are standards and frameworks in the market that help companies report on their SD... | ['Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'B Impact Assessment', 'B Corp'] |
Data for monitoring WASH access
The UN Independent Expert Advisory Group [1] (IEAG) coined in 2014 what has become something of a mantra in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda when it stated that data are the lifeblood of decision-making. In its Data Revolution Report, the IEAG urged all stakeholders — govern... | ['Human Rights', 'Water And Sanitation', 'Sdgs', 'Sdg6', 'Water Utility'] |
Last December’s climate change convention (COP25) may be over but for me, the lasting impressions linger vehemently. I had the opportunity of attending the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a member of the delegation from Tufts University, through the Tufts Institute of the Environm... | ['Madrid', 'Sdgs', 'Climate Change', 'Cop25', 'Tufts University'] |
Behaviors we might survive by,* or: Recipes for achieving the SDGs
Astrid Scholz and Cameron Burgess**
Stupid is still winning
In a 2011 op-ed, Thomas L. Friedman quotes the Australian environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Gilding, who in his book The Great Disruption posits that the climate crisis will be transfor... | ['Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Change Management'] |
How can we, together, #Act4SDGs?
For the third year in a row, campaigners and advocates for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) gather at the SDG Global Festival of Action in Bonn to celebrate and showcase action for the SDGs.
The Festival brings together leading experts, activists and practitioners from publ... | ['Global Goals', 'Inclusion', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Equality'] |
Cristianne Close, WWF Markets Leader, Delfin Ganapin, WWF Governance Leader, and Margaret Kuhlow, WWF Finance Leader, take stock of what the new IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services means for business and finance, and propose a reform agenda designed to ensure prosperity and well-being for all... | ['Sdgs', 'Climate Change', 'Finance', 'Business', 'Conservation'] |
Tourism: A global meeting point in an increasingly divided world
Our world is increasingly separated between the have and have nots, peace with prosperity and conflict with violence.
Without a peaceful and inclusive environment, development isn’t sustainable ‘Development that meets the needs of the present without co... | ['Justice', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Peace', 'Tourism'] |
Photo by Christine Roy on Unsplash
StartingUpGood continues to explore the sweet spots for startups and impact investing — and, lucky for us, there has been a lot to explore in 2019.
Impact investing is growing and becoming more mainstream — no surprise here. But the rate of growth in not only the size of assets unde... | ['Impact Investing', 'Global Goals', 'Sdgs', 'Startup', 'Funding'] |
This is an article of my experience in the 2019 f8 Hackathon which took place in San Jose from 28th April- 1st May 2019. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience and I thank Facebook for making it possible. I was lucky to be selected to take part in the hackathon. I applied for the competition after reading a post ... | ['F8', 'Sdgs', 'Hackathons', 'Devpost', 'Facebook'] |
Photo by Stock Photography on Unsplash
According to Charles Duhigg in his book ‘’The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business’’, the reason why we create and stick to a habit is that our brain is constantly looking for a way to save time and energy.
In other orders: our brain is lazy so it turns our ... | ['Sdgs', 'Habit Building', 'Self Improvement'] |
Innovate: to make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products
In other words, innovation is about managing progress.
As we face up to the looming challenges of monumental technological, ecological and social disruption, our collective ability to embrace change and harnes... | ['Sdgs', 'Innovation', 'Millenials', 'Esg', 'Corporate Culture'] |
Written by Brady Press
Concern is deepening for the world’s most vulnerable populations as health, economic and social implications of COVID-19 are being felt across the globe. Among them are the millions of refugees and migrants who have been displaced due to conflict and/or disasters in their home countries. In this... | ['Covid 19', 'Sdgs', 'Refugees', 'Migrants'] |
By Tokunbo Kujore, Impact Analyst, Girls Education Advocate and Founder, Afro Girls
With a decade between us and the UN proposed deadline for the eradication of poverty, a global pandemic that completely changed life as we knew it and the general rollercoaster that has been 2020, I believe it’s safe to say that the we... | ['Goal1', 'Global Goals', 'End Poverty', 'Sdgs', '2030now'] |
In a fine 3rd Feb 2020 morning, I attended a lecture by Prof. Jeffry Sachs on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and his pessimistic view on the progress made by countries and challenges which SDGs are facing given the increasing hostility towards multilateralism and the tilting of powerful states like USA and UK towa... | ['Development', 'Sdgs'] |
There are more young people in the world than ever before, creating unprecedented potential for economic and social progress. Many of the global challenges to development are especially salient for children and youth. At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, 193 world leaders committed... | ['Education', 'Sustainable Development', 'Sdg'] |
Corporate Organizations and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Goals aren’t just the business of a select few or the United Nations alone. It is the business of every single person, government, nation, and all businesses worldwide.
In every nation, businesses usually carry out Corporate Social Responsibili... | ['Development', 'Csr', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Corporate Culture'] |
Article by Raymond S., Doctoral Student in Medecine, Burkina Faso
Malaria also called “jungle fever” or rarely “paludism” is an endemic-epidemic, tropical and intertropical parasitic disease. It is characterized by the presence in the body, associated or not with symptomatic manifestations, of a parasite of red blood ... | ['Africa', 'Burkina Faso', 'Sdgs', 'Malaria', 'Health'] |
Elkanodata is an information design agency that transforms complex information and data, into insightful, innovative, and attractive digital experiences for relevant topics and stories that matter.
Elkanodata’s mission is to leverage information design as a tool for social change, redefining the way people engage with... | ['Sdgs', 'Elkanodata', 'Sustainable Development'] |
Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by a lack of food. About 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted per year. To take an initiative to stop food wastage I would be helping in my school cafeteria by suggesting the cafeteria lady to give healthy food, sliced fruits, and veggies, as children would then take... | ['Foodwastage', 'Food Waste', 'Sdgs', 'Hunger', 'Hungry'] |
SWIFT publishes its 2018 Communication on Progress to the UN Global Compact
SWIFT has taken a series of initiatives which focus on reducing our impact on the environment, by reducing plastic waste by encouraging re-use and recycling, and on implementing measures to reduce our energy consumption. SWIFT encourages staff... | ['Global Compact', 'UN', 'United Nations', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development'] |
We have started a series of blogs to share the important aspects covered in our Podcasts. This edition talks about migration from the Developing World. Listen to the INDIA MIGRATION NOW EXTRA: DILIP RATHA
As more and more countries reach middle income status, the rate of cross border migration has increased phenomenal... | ['World Bank', 'Development', 'Sdgs', 'Remittances', 'Migration'] |
5 stories behind the ASEAN MY World 2030 Programme
A group of young SDGs Advocates in the ASEAN region share their experiences being volunteers for the MYWorld survey to raise awareness about the 2030 agenda. Their report and achievements will be presented at the ASEAN Summit on the last day of the Sixth Asia-Pacific ... | ['Youth', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Asean', 'Advocates'] |
Health is one of the determinants for poverty.
In 2017, when I started working with Japan International Cooperation Agency, as operation manager in charge of one of the intervention, Automatic Appointment Reminder and Defaulter Tracing System.
It was part of my duties to visit, supervise, troubleshoot, engage, analyz... | ['Public Health', 'Healthcare', 'Sdgs', 'Health System Performance', 'Uhc2030'] |
Imagine yourself in a tranquil village nested atop the majestic mountains. You are greeted with a hug of the warm sun and melody of the morning prayer. You take a walk along the village, the cold breeze bristling through your hair, watching people enjoying a hearty cup of tea, quaintly weaving intricate colourful blank... | ['Travel', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Bangladesh'] |
This semester I've been taking part in a block course with U21 x Common Purpose, with a focus on leadership development vis-à-vis the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This kōrero is a quick reflection following my first week on what I did not personally expect to be such an impactful side quest.
The SDGs... | ['Human Rights', 'Gospel', 'UN', 'Sdgs', 'Jesus'] |
Unleashing sustainable cities
Credit to my dear friend Gonzalo Cuéllar
Throughout history, cities have been the model organization to gather people and resources, create institutions such as governments and universities, that allowed us to increase our knowledge organize ourselves to drive humankind to a bold future.... | ['Utopia', 'Cities', 'Sdgs', 'Climate Change', 'Sustainable Cities'] |
Conceptual summarize of 2018 SDG report & methodology
Introduction
Sustainable Development Goals is a universal agenda that applies to all countries. Set by the United Nations, the goal is to call to action on the above 17 dimensions. Hoping to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace an... | ['United Nations', 'Sustainability', 'Globalization', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development'] |
This January, like every January for decades, cross-sector leaders jetted to the quaint, bitterly cold streets of Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s hallmark event, a jam-packed and dizzyingly fast-paced week of meetings, panels, and parties. The week combines the gravity of a NATO summit with the overs... | ['Civil Society', 'Nonprofit', 'Sdgs', 'Davos', 'Philanthropy'] |
#HERchanger is someone who is fostering a more human, empathetic, and responsible startup ecosystem for ALL. SheTransacts (em)powers female founders to unlock the most aligned global resources as they fundraise and grow their companies together. We’re replacing the winner takes all startup world with a cooperative and ... | ['Sustainable Business', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Cognitive Computing', 'AI'] |
The power of music can be harnessed to inspire and mobilize people, organizations and decision-makers across cultures and regions to #TurnItAround for a healthy, green and just future for all.
From artists speaking out and creating their own advocacy and work on climate, to youth participation and the change towards m... | ['Climateaction', 'Act4sdgs', 'Sdgs', 'Globalgoal', 'Turnitaround'] |
By Jon Kapp
Early in my career, a mentor said to me, “we measure what we treasure, and we treasure what we measure.”
It was a simple play on words, a chicken-or-egg sort-of-statement, but the message resonated. At that moment, early in the MDG era, we realized that simply counting girls in and out of school was nowhe... | ['Sdgs', 'Datavalue', 'Data', 'Data4sdgs'] |
The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals are broken down into 169 targets and 231 unique indicators. Although framed for governmental responses, many of these targets and indicators are readily applicable to companies — particularly those seeking to address (as many are) the SDGs as part of their wider ESG p... | ['Geothermal', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Green Bond', 'Clean Water'] |
The Nationwide lockdown has degraded our economy, but it has done well to nature. Our mother nature is healing from the sufferings we have imposed on her. As we follow up on the bad news about deaths and loss to the economy amid this coronavirus pandemic, we also look for optimism that this lockdown has brought with it... | ['Lessons Learned', 'Sdgs', 'Earth', 'Lockdown', 'Life'] |
SDGs
During the past few years, sustainability has become the new business buzzword. Many organizations are investing massively into something that can be called “sustainability transformations” and have started to think about sustainability as something strategic. In 2018, a whopping 86% on S&P 500 companies publishe... | ['Strategy', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Leadership'] |
A simple plan for repairing our society: we need new human rights, and this is how we get them. Vinay Gupta Jun 3, 2020·48 min read
Everybody knows the old world ended this weekend.
We better have a dialogue about what comes next.
We all know that this is the end of the line for the old vision of America. As a resul... | ['Human Rights', 'America', 'Sdgs', 'Children', 'Crisis'] |
Design by Hyunna WH Yoo.
Theme 3: Future of work and economic growth
Meet our teams fostering more sustainable cities through inclusive communities and economical businesses.
Aamartaka | Bangladesh | SDG 1, 8, 9, 17. Check out their ICC Profile to find out more about their work on an online Credit Assessment platfor... | ['Community Driven Design', 'Impact Investing', 'Sdgs', 'Tech4good', '2030now'] |
Crypto ❤️ Grassroots
Origin
ETHLocal is the natural development of the premises under which the ETHTurin Hackathon was held by: directing some of the focus of the Ethereum Community towards those Grassroot Movements around the world that are helping re-shape our cities and lifestyles.
As the ETHTurin came to an end ... | ['Ethereum', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Impact', 'Crypto'] |
On June 26, 2020, top global cosmetics maker L’Oréal launched its new sustainability program that outlines the company’s vision for 2030 — “L’Oréal for the Future”. Of note is the broadening of their areas of involvement based on the concept of “Planetary Boundaries”. Along with this, we take a look at L’Oréal Japan’s ... | ['Loreal', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Esg', 'Environment'] |
This article is part 1/2 of the Omdena series of articles ‘The Trash We Make’, which summarizes the work carried out in the Omdena Challenge in partnership with Trash Out.
The Omdena TrashOut challenge identified three tasks that aim to map illegal dumps and help citizens recycle more. The first, build AI models that ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Sdgs', 'Tech For Good', 'Environment', 'AI'] |
YOU CAN’T OUTCOMPETE EACH OTHER TO COMBAT RACISM, SO WHY DON’T YOU GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, TOGETHER?
My business partner and I have just finished a deep dive into racial equity for a Seattle-based company. Like nearly all of their PNW colleagues, they have responded with intention to the racial unrest. They gathered e... | ['Sdgs', 'Collective Action'] |
A new film called The Social Dilemma has everyone discussing the impact of social media during these times of COVID when so many of us are spending an exorbitant amount of time online. The film raises many important revelations about the dangers of growing online polarization, personal data-exploitation, fake news, and... | ['Meditation', 'Technology', 'Sdgs', 'Social Media', 'Peace'] |
Left to right the two first members of the Gender Equality Dream Team, Fatuma Abdulkadir, from Kenya and Emma Holten, from Denmark, UN, HQ, March 2017. The Gender Equality Dream Team as a catalyst to 1) Highlight the importance of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. 2) Celebrate significant and ground-b... | ['Undp', 'Sdgs', 'Global Goals'] |
Your aim should solely not be profit driven. If your intention is for pure profit then there are plenty of business incubators out there. YSI is not just like any other innovation program. Real life problem solving and making a positive impact on society is at the core of YSI. YSI is not just an event, it’s a journey. ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Youth', 'Sdgs', 'Startup', 'Social Impact'] |
As various institutions and businesses around the world assess their progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it has become more clear that with the current pace of progress, it will be difficult to meet society’s growing needs. Without an acceleration of the achievement of the targets, we a... | ['Sdgs', 'Innovation', 'Sustainable Development', 'Sustainability'] |
Invent Future Global Food Systems Challenge | 19–31 July 2021
The InventFuture.Global (IF.G) mission is to support and enable students to develop and improve their creativity and problem-solving skills, so that they will be able to handle and overcome the many problems and issues that they will face in their adult liv... | ['Youth', 'United Nations', 'Sdgs', 'Food Systems', 'Education'] |
Sustainability Goals
Today, organizations of all sizes are challenged — no, expected — to contribute to sustainability. Investors, customers, and other stakeholders are holding companies accountable for affecting positive change locally and globally.
“The course of climatization — the process by which climate change ... | ['Csr', 'Climate Action', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Esg'] |
Note: This post is by Zahra Biabani.
So far, human activity has resulted in the degradation of two billion hectares of land, meaning that soil quality and land productivity have diminished across much of the world. This loss of land quality directly affects the livelihoods and wellbeing of more than 3.2 billion people... | ['Impact Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Impacttech', 'Life On Land'] |
The winner of the Bookworm season 2 reality show, Uriel Prince Boateng Aryeetey has launched an initiative to help promote and inculcate reading habit in children particularly among the less privileged in the society.
The initiative dubbed: “Uriel Foundation” seeks to reach out to every child, inspire, empower, encour... | ['Sdgs', 'Winner', 'Bookworm', 'Contests', 'Pupil'] |
Agriculture and human beings go hand in hand. The panic that sets in when considering how it changes, as certain resources are removed, overused, or destabilised in some other way… is palpable in parallel with how concerned I felt reading The Capitalocene[1] which introduces the topic from an ecology standpoint. Except... | ['Czech Republic', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Climate Change', 'Agriculture'] |
Can Brands Meet the Challenge of Achieving a Sustainable Innovation Strategy? IdeaScale Apr 6·5 min read
Overview: Sustainability approaches and innovation strategy go hand-in-hand, yet too often are seen as separate targets. The two need to be reconciled, especially as hitting necessary sustainability targets will be... | ['Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Innovation', 'Reframing', 'Problem Solving'] |
These Inventor Entrepreneurs Are Solving Global Health Challenges
From better neonatal care to affordable and accessible diagnostics, invention-based businesses are addressing health disparities and spurring economic growth. Lemelson Foundation Follow Apr 6 · 7 min read
Whether COVID-19 or pneumonia, blindness or jau... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Development', 'International', 'Sdgs', 'Health'] |
“We cannot change where we came from but we can change where we’re going”, Marina Ponti, Global Director of the UN SDG Action Campaign
Looking beyond the promises of Agenda 2030, the third edition of the SDG Global Festival of Action saw more than 1,700 participants from over 150 countries come together to make the ... | ['Sdgglobalfest', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Sdgglobalfest 2019'] |
Shakira Elizabeth, a form 4 girl who plans to be a lawyer. Shakira is a refugee from Congo and is supported by CIYOTA.
Shakira Elizabeth never imagined that she would ever reach form 4.
“It is beyond anything I ever hoped for,” she said.
The 18-year-old student at Albert Secondary School in Hoima is a Congolese refu... | ['Life Skills', 'Sdgs', 'Uganda', 'Refugees', 'Education'] |
Senior 3 teacher Solomon Bbosa, a teacher at Entebbe Secondary School who teaches a business and entrepreneurship skills lab that teaches students skills to help them find their confidence to meet today’s economic and employment challenges.
“Zip…Zap…Zoom,” the students of senior 3 at Entebbe Secondary School shout amo... | ['Africa', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life Skills', 'Sdgs', 'Education'] |
Students at Olooetepes Primary School in share a laugh with their teacher during a Youth First Kenya lesson. The program, implemented by SOWED Kenya, together with Corstone, builds social and emotional skills for teenagers.
In the spacious classroom at Olooltepes Primary School, the class 8 students are sat with their... | ['Kenya', 'Sdgs', 'Life Skills', 'Sdg4', 'Education'] |
Moving Towards the Inclusion of Dual Education in Universities
The program my sister is in is great in a lot of ways. Financially, it costs nearly five times less than a typical university degree and allows her to work while studying. Its schedule and timing are fantastic, requiring her to study intensely in short bur... | ['Higher Education', 'Sdgs', 'Education', 'Arc'] |
ImpactMapper is thrilled to announce a new research project, focusing on building the evidence base of global women’s rights movements’ outcomes and exploring their alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)!
It’s an exciting time to focus on this relationship with so many inspiring women’s rights movemen... | ['Feminism', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Womens Rights'] |
Nziyonvira Ntakamaze, executive director of COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA). Ntakamze grew up in the same refugee camp that he returned to work in.
One of the biggest success stories coming out of COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA) is in the fo... | ['Heroes', 'Life Skills', 'Sdgs', 'Refugees', 'Education'] |
Without the right culture, it’s easy to talk ourselves out of collaboration and simpler to avoid challenging the dynamics that come with partnership working. However when it comes to addressing society’s greatest challenges — reflected by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Scotland’s National Outcomes — we can’t ... | ['Scotland', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Network', 'Charity'] |
Students on the STEM Club at Mikindani Secondary School in Zanzibar. Such clubs across Zanzibar are made possible by the STEM For Success project.
The STEM students are at the height of excitement as they prepare to present their recent science projects.
Farhat, a senior 4 student, is the first to step up. This eight... | ['Tanzania', 'Sdgs', 'Science', 'Education', 'STEM'] |
Joseph Nilole started to see the immediate effects of the Youth First Kenya program on his daughter soon after it started.
The girl had just joined Olooltepes Primary School in class 8 after moving over from a nearby boarding school. Before she started the program, she was insolent and a less than average performer, h... | ['Kenya', 'Sdgs', 'Life Skills', 'Fgm', 'Education'] |
Seventeen-year-old Atim knew she wanted to become a doctor when her brother fell from a tree last year.
Her younger brother was unconscious after the fall and appeared to have fractured an arm and a leg. But when her family took him to the government hospital at 4 pm in nearby Lira in Uganda’s northern region, they we... | ['Africa', 'Sdgs', 'Uganda', 'Education', 'STEM'] |
Paul Bbosa, a commerce teacher at Entebbe Secondary school teaching a skills lab which uses student-centered approach to learning. Bbosa, is one of 1500 teachers that have been trained by Educate!
With Educate!’s focus on competency-based teaching methods, the organization understands that they need buy-in from a part... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Life Skills', 'Sdgs', 'Teachers', 'Education'] |
Welcome to your monthly roundup of 16+ news and views from the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
The Hague was the worldwide center of SDG16 + during the first week of February, as justice leaders from around the world came together to get serious about the promise of Justice for All by 2030.
As... | ['Justice', 'Newsletter', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Pathfinder'] |
Photo by Autumn Goodman on Unsplash
Today I want to tell you about a situation that I recently faced.
Has a currently unemployed and college drop out student, I’ve been job hunting until I can get my life back on track. Last month, I went to one of the most disturbing interviews of my life.
I walked inside the room ... | ['Gender Equality', 'Aiesec', 'Sdgs', 'Women'] |
Photo Credits: D.D. Gamage
The best part of growing up in a country like Sri Lanka is that there is always dialogue about how to develop and progress as a country.
The worst part of growing up in a country like Sri Lanka is that the dialogue about how to progress and develop as a country has always been there in the ... | ['Tolerance', '16', 'Sdg', 'Sri Lanka', 'Peace'] |
What should a business on the world’s first stock exchange focused exclusively on impact investment look like? Project Heather Sep 22, 2019·5 min read
Project Heather launches consultation at UN Climate Action Week
Consultation on a new proposed ‘public markets impact issuer model’ is welcomed by Jamison Ervin of the... | ['Impact Investing', 'Climate Week', 'Global Goals', 'Sdgs', 'Stock Exchange'] |
Disberse + AidHedge = True!
Some of you might already have seen it (we had a little teaser in the last update), but here is the big news! We have decided to team up with Disberse to build new and better services for aid finance. They are a regulated financial institution (FCA in the UK) and provide financial transacti... | ['Fintech', 'Sdgs', 'Blockchain', 'Collaboration'] |
“I’m hoping that those of us who are thinking about the big hurdles that we are facing right now — from health care, to homelessness, to climate change, to the future of work, to the future of education — that we cannot imagine designing and building those systems without thinking about the human beings within them, wh... | ['Stakeholder Capitalism', 'Sdgs', 'Gratitude', 'Community', 'B Corp'] |
By Linda Nyemba
Past participants at an in-person WFP innovation bootcamp in Munich. Photo: WFP/Paul Guenther
With the support of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and in collaboration with the Innovation Hub at the WFP Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa based in Nairobi, the WFP Innovation Accelerator is wr... | ['Sdgs', 'Hunger', 'Innovation', 'Wfp', 'Food Security'] |
Lufthansa Cargo is aligning its corporate responsibility commitment to the sustainability goals of the United Nations (UN). Within the framework of its Agenda 2030, the UN had adopted 17 concrete sustainability goals, covering economic, ecological and social aspects. The Agenda 2030 aims to end hunger and poverty on ea... | ['Frankfurt', 'Sdgs', 'Lufthansa', 'Airports', 'Cargo'] |
Gender-Lens Investing Strategies for 2019
Toniic’s Emilie Cortes discusses four strategies that can help fuel the momentum behind investing in organizations, products, and services that benefit women. Toniic Follow Mar 23, 2020 · 6 min read
After a decades-long outcry for data proving that gender-smart investing make... | ['Impact Investing', 'Gender Equality', 'Sdgs', 'Latest', 'Sustainable Development'] |
How has your B Corp aligned/shifted its business practices to advance progress on the SDGs? How has this affected your supply chain companies? Any adjustments to employee practices?
Michelle Sheldon: Back in 2015, a year before we became B Corp Certified, Eco Promotional Products Inc. began creating products for the U... | ['Fashion', 'Ethical Fashion', 'Sdgs', 'Climate Change', 'B Corp'] |
Theater and the Pursuit of a Sustainable Society
Award-winning playwright Oriza Hirata has been immersed in the world of Japanese theater since childhood.
SDGs Japan Portal’s Director Akira Aoyama spoke to multi-award-winning playwright and director, Professor Oriza Hirata, arguably one of preeminent figures in Japan... | ['Sdgs', 'Startup', 'Japan', 'Performing Arts', 'Theater'] |
The UN SDGs: Leaving No one Behind
Three years have passed since the SDGs came into force on January 1, 2016 and slowly but surely, they are gaining recognition. Meanwhile, new challenges are unfolding and need to be addressed.
In our inaugural interview, SDGs Japan Portal speaks to Satsuki Katayama, who is promoting... | ['Gender Equality', 'Rural Revitalization', 'Sdgs', 'Japan', 'Satsuki Katayama'] |
3. Building and Creating Practical Items Inspired by the SDGs
Riley Kerehoma, a 13-year-old from Gisborne, New Zealand, designed and launched a series of handmade bowties which align to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Riley sold the unique bowties during the Global Week to #ACT4SDGs and donated the proce... | ['Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Act4sdgs', 'Global Goals'] |
As beta testing begins on the SDG Action Manager, some B Corps have asked how it differs from the B Impact Assessment. To help interested companies work through this new tool, I’m sharing this FAQ, which outlines where the B Impact Assessment and SDG Action Manager differ or overlap, and how businesses can best employ ... | ['Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Business Strategy', 'Sustainable Development', 'B Corp'] |
The ‘spanner’ I added to the icon of SDG8 is to indicate that in it’s current framing this goal sabotages the implementation of all the other goals.
A systems approach to the SDGs & the need to reframe SDG8
On November 17th 2019, I had the wonderful opportunity to be a guests on a webinar offered to the participants ... | ['Sustainability', 'Culture', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Systems Thinking'] |
Ovocomputation
Easter is a Christian thing. Nothing too controversial about this bold claim, I hope. Easter eggs are an Easter thing. Even less controversial, hardly worth pointing out. Therefore, Easter eggs are a Christian thing. Fair?
So far so good.
Except (oh no — controversy alert), they’re not. At least, not ... | ['Easter Egg', 'Humor', 'Flatiron School', 'Git'] |
My Journey of becoming Software Engineer has started a few months ago when I decided to join Flatiron School’s full-time immersive program. Before I joined though, there was a pre work that I was required to complete. It covers the basic and foundational skills of any programming language. It starts by discussing scala... | ['Flatiron School', 'Oop Concepts', 'Ruby', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Software Engineering'] |
When I first figured out I was interested in product design, I researched the field and spoke with product designers at my current company in order to get advice. Through my research, I noticed the product designers who had similar backgrounds to me, all took courses at a coding/technical Bootcamp.
My first choice was... | ['Flatiron School', 'Career Change', 'UI Design', 'Codingbootcamp', 'Product Design'] |
Wait, that looks like HTML! — Yes, hold on to that thought!
Before I get into how we can treat this like HTML and add the nice styles to it, I want to talk about the S in SVG (it stands for Scalable).
Now when we mean that this is scalable what are we saying? Well, our entire coordinate system is like a blueprint for... | ['Css Animation', 'Flatiron School', 'SVG'] |
Programmers are in no shortage of tools when it comes to building their next product but it turns out the flexibility means that knowing which tool to use for the right situation is a huge skill in programming.
Since JavaScript supports multiple ways of function declarations and invocations, many programmers are still... | ['Functional Programming', 'Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript'] |
How I went about building this app — the logic behind it
Rails is based on model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern, in this blog post I’m going to refer mostly to the models of the app.
To kick things off I used the rails new command to generate the app folder and some of the core rails files and directorie... | ['Ruby on Rails', 'Flatiron School', 'Noukod', 'Ricardo'] |
After creating the tables/database, we create the controllers. In this case I used the application controller (creates the overall flow of the app) in which the rest of the controllers inherit from, the users controller ( performs CRUD actions for the user), the sessions controller (responsible for login and setting co... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Keyboard', 'Show Your Keyboard', 'Sinatra'] |
Hello, I’m Jasmine Ryon and this blog post will explain why I decided to apply and follow through with Flatiron School’s online software engineering bootcamp.
I was born and raised in Honolulu, HI and moved to Riverside, CA when I was 20 years old. In Hawaii, I graduated from an all girls high school (that had a gradu... | ['Flatiron School', 'Software Engineering'] |
While we all think we are invincible, as we inevitably get older, we don’t always have the same abilities as we did when we were younger. As web developers, we need to consider how our users interact with our sites and what we can do to attract the a wide range of people to engage with our applications.
Age is a key f... | ['UX', 'Flatiron School', 'UX Design', 'Aging'] |
Sinatra is a Back End framework that allows its users to create Web Application with Ruby. It is based on Rack a simpler Ruby web application framework . In my journey of becoming a Full-Stack Web Developer I learned Sinatra on Flatiron School online boot camp and as a final project for their Sinatra Section, I created... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Sinatrarb', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Freecodecamp'] |
It has been a blessing being part of the Flatiron School, surrounded by those with passion for making something from nothing. I was encouraged to write something about what I learned at school to share with others. As a newbie engineer, I am pumped for receiving feedback from my teachers and peers. Feel free to reach o... | ['Flatiron School', 'Programming', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Orm', 'Activerecord'] |
So began my friendship with ActiveRecord…
ActiveRecord was created to make coding easier, but it can feel like a new language. We’ll start with a guide to ActiveRecord and migration and end with a list of methods ActiveRecord gives us in Ruby. This information can be useful to understand the concepts and as a referenc... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Rake', 'Activerecord', 'Migration'] |
So it’s week 4 and we are all working on our first portfolio project, a CLI (command line interface) Gem (that’s Ruby for “app”). Our gems are supposed to scrape a website and then provide a way for the user to play with the data! That could range from displaying information (top 10 articles on The Economist? NYTimes b... | ['Ruby', 'Flatiron School', 'Git', 'Bundler'] |
With the Mod 2 code challenge fast approaching, we have the daunting task of meeting the requirements in the short time frame of 75 minutes. As an error prone new developer, I worry about being able to finish everything I need to in the allotted time. This blog will demonstrate the time I saved by using the rails gener... | ['Software Engineering', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Flatiron School', 'Software Development'] |
Hey, everyone, it’s me Danny here with my first blog post. In case you haven’t read the title yet today’s topic is MVC. So the question is what is MVC? well MVC is an application design model focused on the separation of concerns. In other words, it helps you structure your code into three major sections Model, View, a... | ['Mvc', 'Mvc Frameworks', 'Flatiron School', 'New Blogger'] |
Sooo…we started Ruby on Rails this week at Flatiron School, and man was it a whirlwind!! Can I say this week was short and long all at the same time!!
The first few days were mainly about understanding how the Rails framework all worked together to make a functioning website. To be frank, I almost pulled the hair I ha... | ['Mvc Frameworks', 'Flatiron School', 'Controller', 'Rails', 'Software Engineering'] |
Five lessons that the Pandemic has Taught Me as a UX/UI Designer Trying to Break into the Industry Holly Lancefield Jul 1, 2020·4 min read
When I started my course at Flatiron Design School, I did not envision myself attempting to enter the job market during a global pandemic. But there I was, several months later, ba... | ['Flatiron School', 'UI', 'Growth', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
What is “state?” How is it useful? How’s my own state? Actually…scratch that last question.
It’s not a huge stretch to say that I’m one fish in a sea of thousands subjecting themselves to the physical and psychological turmoil that comes with a six-month, full-time coding boot camp.
Having just completed my 4th of 5 ... | ['Programming', 'Coding', 'JavaScript', 'Flatiron School'] |
Have you ever gone on a website and thought to yourself: “Wow this needs a little more life in it!” I say it more often than not and it was probably my biggest fear when it came down to developing my own web apps. I wanted a web app that looked dynamic and caught your attention. I mean, when you are working with so man... | ['Flatiron School', 'Software Development', 'CSS', 'Animation', 'Software Engineering'] |
For the penultimate project in the Flatiron School software engineering program I had to create a single page application with JavaScript handling the frontend and Rails used as an API for the backend. These are the important things I want to convey to anyone else that is building something with this framework.
JavaSc... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
For the fourth project of the Flatiron School’s software engineering program, I created a flash cards single page application using Javascript. The idea behind my application was to create an application that would allow a user to generate flash cards for french verbs.
One of the features that my app includes is the a... | ['Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
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