Fighters. This is the word I would choose to describe my incredible team and their performance in 2014. The pursuit of the end of extreme poverty is a slugfest—a fight…
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Category Archives: Nuru Model
Social Marketing (or Behavior Change Communication) is the art of applying marketing principles to affect behavior for the common good, benefiting the audience not the marketer. Social Marketing can inform…
San Clemente, CA…what an epic place. Of all the crazy places in the world, I always seem to end up here at the end of each year. It is certainly…
I previously wrote a blog post on why opening a Nuru project in Ethiopia is so critical to getting the Nuru Model to proof of concept. As I reflected on…
Two years ago, the impact programs at Nuru were still expected to generate their own revenue to fund operations. Shortly thereafter, the Income Generating Activities (IGA) program was born to…
Looking back and reflecting is something I have never been that good at. The pace of my life over the past five years and the aggressiveness of what we are…
*For an explanation of Nuru’s Proof of Concept, see below. I’m very excited about the launch of our new country project in Ethiopia. I just spent the last three months…
Wow…I forgot how hard this is. The last five weeks have pretty much been a blur since I hit the ground in Boreda, Ethiopia to launch Nuru’s new country project…
On New Year’s Eve this year, I found myself on the beach in San Clemente watching yet another beautiful sunset in SoCal – man I love this place! While I sat…
As board chairman, I’ve had the privilege of being involved with Nuru International from the very beginning. However, it wasn’t until August 2011 that I was able to see Nuru’s…
