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IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira |
Creating options with 'holy fury' as her ally As a co-founder and co-coordinator of Santa Furia (Holy Fury), 27-year-old Catalina Montenegro runs a communications training and production center that helps young people to become more involved in public life.  |
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira |
Music that attracts gangs Lorena Cuerno calls herself a pacifist and a lover of life and the arts. It's ironic, then, that this young Salvadoran spends a large part of her time in the world of gangs and criminals. It all began when Cuerno, the leader of a rock band, decided to undertake a project called Street Rock.  |
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira |
Tinki-Pali Pilar Pilar Oporta Rodriguez, community coordinator for Accion Medica Cristiana (Christian Medical Action), is one of the best known and widely appreciated persons in Waspam, a district in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua.  |
IDB America July 2002 |
IDB supports small and vulnerable Caribbean states The IDB in June announced the approval of a $20 million soft loan to finance economic and social development projects in four low-income Eastern Caribbean island states that are vulnerable to external financial shocks and natural disasters.  |
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira |
A wellspring of service to young people The United States offered her a world of opportunities, but Carolyn Gentle preferred to return to her country, Belize.  |
ifeminists August 20, 2002 Wendy McElroy |
The Silence Surrounding RAWA Questioning how the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is using donated money.  |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education.  |
Outside August 2002 John Galvin |
Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash.  |
CIO July 1, 2002 Simone Kaplan |
Unmerging Technology Free Geek, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore., takes donated used computers, refurbishes them and provides them to area residents in exchange for community service.  |
Inc. May 1, 2002 Donna Fenn |
Shaking the Foundations Sanjay Chopra is an astute donor. The founder of two technology companies recently joined 59 other fledgling philanthropists to give $50,000 to KidsVoice, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that provides legal services to children in juvenile court...  |
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