Millions Learning

Nominate your favorite education project by August 15 2014.
Millions Learning seeks to identify where and how learning has improved at a national or sub-national level and to understand the main factors and forces that contributed to this progress. Click here to learn more.

Live Webcast Today

The African Growth Initiative will host "The Game Has Changed: The New Landscape for Innovation and Business in Africa" today, beginning at 9:15 EDT. Click here to join the live webcast.

Girl Rising Video

Inaugural Girl Summit

UNICEF is hosting the first ever Girl Summit , ongoing in London today.

Pledge your support to end forced marriage and FGM today

Better Education?

All of us know we need "Better Education", but defining what that looks like is the challenge. Here's a link to spark some thought.

Compassion Week

Compassion fuels our work - "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it".  Without it, our efforts are meaningless.

The Charter for Compassion is holding a "Compassion Week" conference in San Fransisco, November 10-16. Click here to learn more or register.

Seven Pieces of Advice from Rumi In generosity and helping others be like the river. In compassion and grace be like the sun. In concealing others' faults be like the night. In anger and fury be like the dead. In modesty and humility be like the soil. In tolerance be like the ocean. Either you appear as you are or be as you appear.

My World 2015

Faisal Azim's award-winning depiction of poverty in Bangladesh reminds us - this IS our world!

As the UN works to rethink the post 2015 Millennium Development Goals, please click here to vote for the world you want to see. 

What's Next For Girls' Education

Since 1990 the percentage of girls enrolled in primary school has increased dramatically. On June 17th The Brookings Center for Universal Education hosted
Celebrating Progress and Asking What's Next for Girls' Education.

The live webcast featured:
- Julia Gillard, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Center for Universal Education
- Catherine M. Russell, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State
- Rebecca Winthrop, Director, Brookings Center for Universal Education


Click here for a recap of the event.

Education Reform & Teacher Tenure

I hear my teacher can now be sacked.

On Tuesday a monumental ruling in CA that teacher tenure deprives students of their constitutional right to a quality education, has now made education reform an urgent issue.

Click here to learn more.

Teachers in CA received tenure after less than two years on the job. But due to a stunning victory in a lawsuit brought by Students Matter, this may now change.

In the case, brought against five state laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers, education reformers used a new tactic: framing their case as a defense of children’s civil rights, not an attack on teachers.

Click here to learn more.

Understanding Poverty

Is this child destined to a life of poverty?

Research suggests that pivotal and permanent brain development occurs from birth to three-years, when signals from the environment add  “epigenetic marks” onto DNA during sensitive periods of early brain development. To learn more about the “Biological embedding of early childhood adversity: Toxic stress and the vicious cycle of poverty in South Africa”  Click here. .

Regardless of the causes, understanding the perceptions of those living in poverty and chronic hunger is essential to developing effective solutions. A new IDS/Oxfam report, " Help Yourself" examines how the poor understand their right to food.  Click here to learn more.

ASAP Newsletter

Click Here to read ASAP's most recent newsletter.

Africa Progress vs. Boko Haram

Yesterday the 2014 Africa Progress Report, released by The Africa Progress Panel, shed light on the promise of this wealthy continent. By outlining the cooperation required to overcome  her major challenges, the report makes the goals of sustained growth and improved life for all Africans, attainable.

But for many of us, the insights and hope of the report are negated by the recent dastardly deeds of Boko Haram in Nigeria.  Thanks to The Brookings Institute for helping shed light on this group and it's activities in this recent feature. As MLK warned : "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Free Global Entrepreneurship Program

Do you want to learn more about entrepreneurship and starting a business? GCASE has the world’s first online global entrepreneurship program. Click here to learn more.

Startup Visas for Immigrants

A recent Kauffman Foundation report estimates that a startup visa for immigrant entrepreneurs could create between 500,000 and 1.5 million jobs or more. Click here to learn more, or here to read the report.

Read ASAP's 2013 Annual Report

Click Here and thanks for your interest.

Click to help Aid for Africa win $10,000

Click For A Cause is giving away $30,000 in prize money. All you have to do is click here, and select the Aid for Africa "Like" button. Contest ends Friday, April 25th. ASAP has been an Aid for Africa member since 2003 - a group of grassroots charities working to improve life for women and children in Africa. All members have very low overhead costs and direct their donations where they benefit families in Africa.

11th Annual Skoll World Forum

Beginning today, April 9 – 11, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders and strategic partners gather at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to exchange ideas, solutions and information at the 11th annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Click here to learn more. Click here to join the live stream.

Achieving Gender Equity

Gender equity is a goal whose time has come. Thrust into the global consciousness by "Half The Sky", today many, like Gary Barker of ICRW, believe gender equity will only be achieved when men and boys do 50% of the world’s unpaid care work. But the evolution from housewife the breadwinner is a struggle. Click here to learn how Women in Zambia are "Holding Up Half the Sky."

Year of Family Farming

Home-grown solutions are cheap and effective: Children in Namibia eat a meal made from products sourced from their field

The UN declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. The goal of the campaign is to place family farming at the centre of agricultural, environmental and social policies in the national agendas worldwide.
Click here to learn more.
Click here to see the various activities The FAO (Farm and Agriculture Organization) has planned.
This new approach may have been influenced by the impressive results achieved by Rwanda using "home-grown solutions". Click here to learn more.
As both obesity and starvation plague our planet, FoodTank is working to develop new strategies to address these issues in todays changing world. Click here to watch the video.

New Learning Opportunity for Teachers. Safe Schools

A new six week online course will be begin April 1st - Safe Schools: Building a Climate of Achievement. Through a partnership with Teachers Without Borders and the Organization of American States, the course will support teaching and learning throughout Latin America. Applications for scholarships will be accepted until March 15th. Click here to learn more.