Month: October 2022

[PODCAST] Taking Care of the Mission-Critical Volunteers

Taking Care of Mission-Critical Volunteers The relationship between the mission-critical voluntary sector and social impact is inextricably linked. The changing economic climate and generational changes are complicating what it looks like to build a sustainable and successful volunteer program. In this episode, Katie talks to Matt Campo, the president of the Ronald McDonald House for …

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ACT-Accelerator launches six month plan as world transitions to long-term COVID-19 control

Plan sets out the partnership’s key priorities and ways of working, as countries transition to managing COVID-19 as a long-term public health issue The plan’s focus is on vaccinating high-risk populations, introducing new treatments, boosting testing and securing sustained access to COVID-19 tools The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator is a global collaboration to accelerate …

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On World Cities Day 2022, WHO calls on countries to “Act Local to Go Global”

By 2050, nearly 7 out of 10 people globally will live in cities and other urban settings. While cities face many health challenges, on World Cities Day 2022 WHO and partners examine how city leaders are uniquely positioned to understand local needs and respond rapidly to changing conditions to safeguard health. Although living in cities …

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The Power of Integrating Brand Strategy Into Your Nonprofit’s Website

The Power of Integrating Brand Strategy Into Your Nonprofit’s Website By Matt Schwartz, Founder & Executive Director of Constructive. Have you ever seen a nonprofit website that you know doesn’t represent an organization as it truly is? That doesn’t tell an organization’s story effectively or fails to clarify its impact. That makes it too challenging to …

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TAG-VE statement on Omicron sublineages BQ.1 and XBB

As part of its ongoing work to track variants, WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) met on the 24 October 2022 to discuss the latest evidence on the Omicron variant of concern, and how its evolution is currently unfolding, in light of high levels of population immunity in many settings and country …

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Partnerships Director

JOB TITLE Partnerships Director Full Time/Salaried/Non-exempt POSITION DESCRIPTION The Partnerships Director will manage and sustain the organization’s growing national presence, modern partnership profile, and highly trafficked educational media platform. The Director of Partnerships plays a major role in curating and creating educational content with a network of innovative nonprofit service, product providers, and professionals that …

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WHO releases first-ever list of health-threatening fungi

WHO today published a report highlighting the first-ever list of fungal “priority pathogens” – a catalogue of the 19 fungi that represent the greatest threat to public health.  The WHO fungal priority pathogens list (FPPL) is the first global effort to systematically prioritize fungal pathogens, considering the unmet research and development (R&D) needs and the …

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World Health Organization (WHO) response to the External Evaluation of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A)

WHO appreciates the broad range of views on the ACT-Accelerator (ACT-A) setup, operations and results that are captured in the External Evaluation, which was commissioned by the ACT-A Facilitation Council.  Of particular value in this report are the perspectives expressed by a number of countries in Africa, South America and Asia that used ACT-A processes …

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