Category: News

ENOUGH: by the women of Haiti. Thank you to everyone who tuned into the Dec. 20 video premiere. Enough: by the women of Haiti is a documentary highlighting the Security and Sensitization Project in the Place Petion Camp in Port au Prince Haiti. This video was produced by the Goldin Institute in partnership with the Institute for… Continue reading Community Driven Solutions for Ending Gender-Based Violence

  Our colleauges in Colombia welcome the latest development in the ongoing peace negotiations and hope that this is a step in breaking the cycle of violence. BBC News outlines the details for peace talks between FARC and the government of Colombia to end the 48-year-old conflict.

The Goldin Institute was excited to expand the Digital Storytelling Project by conducting an intensive week-long workshop in Port au Prince, Haiti in August 2011. In this workshop, Goldin Institute associates teamed with Professor Lisa Dush from DePaul University and her graduate assistant Heather Eidson to train seven local women in Port au Prince to complete their… Continue reading Haiti Update: Digital Storytelling Project

Interested in learning more about the promise and peril of microcredit? The current debate about the efficacy of microfinance is marked by the absence of those who have most at stake in the controversy: loan recipients. The Goldin Institute is working to lift up these voices—most often marginalized women—and restore their perspectives, insights and aspirations… Continue reading Goldin Institute’s Travis Rejman Interviewed on Worldview

The Goldin Institute believes that one of the most effective ways to further our mission and bring greater awareness to the global community issues we are working towards solving is to make use of the best tools that today’s technology has to offer. Much of our work is done on a personal and direct level… Continue reading Goldin Advances Digital Storytelling Project

Children Living in Conflict-Torn Region Would Benefit Directly From Proposed “Peace School” As part of her ongoing work in Mindanao, Global Associate Dr. Susana Salvador-Anayatin hosted the Adopt a School of Peace summit in Cotabato City, Philippines on Mar. 23, 2011. Community leaders are engaging government officials, teachers, members of the military, former child soldiers… Continue reading Philippines Update: Adopt a School of Peace Summit

Microcredit Summit in Dhaka Groundbreaking meeting between microcredit recipients, lenders and regulators, hosted in June 2010. We are pleased to share the recently compiled transcript from the “Listening to the Experiences of Microcredit Recipients” roundtable discussion that took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 21, 2010.  This groundbreaking summit was the first dialogue between microcredit… Continue reading Transcript of Roundtable Dialogue in Bangladesh