Author: Goldin Institute

The Goldin Institute partnered with Grantmakers Without Borders to produce a groundbreaking guide to understanding and improving microcredit. This guide and its recommendations have been distributed throughout our combined global networks of donors, practitioners and recipients of microcredit. A central premise of the Guide is that In debates on development, the voices of those it… Continue reading Microcredit: A Guide for Funders

    Reintegration & Prevention: Breaking the Cycle of Violence for Ex-Combatants and Vulnerable Children and Youth The use of child soldiers and young combatants in armed insurgencies, militias and resistance movements is a staggering and growing problem in regions as diverse as The DR Congo, Sri Lanka and Colombia. Well over 300,000 young people… Continue reading 2007 Goldin Institute Event

  Providing Access to Safe Drinking Water Today 1.1 billion people, one-sixth of the world’s population, live without access to safe drinking water. This humanitarian crisis has staggering costs. Eighty percent of the illnesses and deaths in the developing world are attributable to water-borne diseases. This issue is intertwined with many other social ills plaguing… Continue reading 2004 Goldin Institute Event: Taipei, Taiwan

We are pleased to share this broadcast of Malya Villard-Appolon’s lecture in Chicago on April 22, 2014 at Loyola University.  In this public lecture, Malya spoke about her advocacy work from the courtrooms and IDP camps in Haiti to venues around the world including the UN Commission on Human Rights, the U.S. State Department and the… Continue reading Reconstructing Haiti: Presentation by Malya Villard