Walker Impact Strategies

11/16/2016

https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-sdg-indicators-must-match-the-ambition-of-the-goals-89168

Malala Fund Head of Advocacy Barry Johnston suggests certain indicators for measuring the Sustainable Development Goals urgently need a rethink, in this opinion piece.

09/25/2016

Proud of the work Caterpillar is doing to empower women and girls globally https://vimeo.com/183492298

Caterpillar is pursuing global energy access for all...starting with women. Because when you empower a woman, you change the world! Read more stories of women…

09/23/2016

Thank you Tory Burch for using your voice and influence on an incredibly important topic. http://www.wsj.com/articles/time-off-to-vote-shouldnt-be-a-luxury-1474498000

Tory Burch writes that time off to vote shouldn’t be a luxury: I hope my decision to give my employees time off to go to the polls will inspire other CEOs to do the same.

09/19/2016

Tom Brokaw and T.Boone Pickens talking fracking.

09/15/2016

17 is a convener & startup accelerator activating entrepreneurs, corporations and organizations to launch businesses to help solve the 17 UN Global Goals

09/15/2016

Am excited to take my passion of finding large and small scale market based solutions to global problems with a great team and very cool organization: 17, www.17accelerator.org.

17 focuses its work around the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, our world’s to-do list, and the interconnection points of the goals—how working on solving one goal can also help to solve other goals. Through convenings, strategic partnerships, and a startup accelerator to support early stage enterprises, 17 will build a platform and community to help to further some of the most viable market based solutions to achieving the 17 Global Goals.

We would love you to join/like our new FB page. Hope you will click below, check us out, and hit the like button. We welcome your participation, engagement, feedback, ideas, commentary creates the foundation for the marketplace of ideas – to add in to the wellspring so that we’ll all successfully achieve the 17 Global Goals.

09/07/2016

“ through is about connecting idle capital to SMEs to see communities transformed http://ow.ly/Y8xY303Xp63”

03/30/2015

Excited to support Victor Hwang on his long awaited launch. Check them out!

The water you drink should be naked: free of bacteria, free of added chemicals, and free of hassle. Drink naked water anywhere.

03/30/2015

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sustainable-development-goals-shift-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2015-03

The Sustainable Development Goals will continue the fight begun by the Millennium Development Goals against extreme poverty, and add targets relating to inclusiveness and environmental sustainability. But will a new set of goals actually be able to catalyze a shift from business as usual to true sus…

03/20/2015

Great article from my friend Eric Stowe who leads SPLASH

Splash is an international charity dedicated to bringing clean drinking water (along with hygiene and sanitation) to millions of children living in urban poverty. What makes us different is our definition of success. We'll know we have arrived when we can hand over the keys to the shop, so to speak,…

08/11/2014

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/globalization/lions_go_global_deepening_africas_ties_to_the_united_states?cid=other-eml-alt-mgi-mck-oth-1408

Africa is the world’s second-fastest growing economic region, yet US engagement with the continent is lagging. There’s an opportunity this week to change that. A McKinsey Global Institute article.

06/23/2014

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/print/865605579/Entrepreneurs-might-just-be-the-answer-to-global-poverty.html

Jeff Hoffman, the founder and former CEO of Priceline.com, decided to take a year to say yes. It was an experiment to see what would happen if for one year — to the best of his ability — he responded to anyone who asked him for help.