Results are in – just in time for Earth Month! The Public-Private Alliance Foundation is among more than 50 nonprofits that qualified for the Top-Rated Green Nonprofits List in this year’s Green Choice Campaign!
The Green Choice Campaign is a joint effort of GreatNonprofits, GuideStar, the Sierra Club, and Environmental Volunteers.
At its March 24 meeting, the Foundation’s board named Dr. George A. Garland as a new member. Dr. Garland is an independent consultant with extensive experience in energy and hazardous waste management. He worked with the Environmental Protection Agency and abroad with the World Health Organization, USAID and the World Bank, and as staff member and volunteer with the United Nations Association of the USA.
Robert Worth and Imnet Yebio have been named new Associates. Both have interned or volunteered with the Foundation since 2009. For full bios of all three new Foundation members, Read more…
Building on interest expressed in Orlando, David Stillman and Daniel Faustin of SImACT met in Washington on March 14-15 with Lord Kevin Lumb, President of Global Investment Summits, for a series of meetings to plan the Haiti Reconstruction and Sustainability Summit, scheduled for mid-September. This included meetings with prominent Haitian-Americans and at the Inter-American Development Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and UN Foundation (Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves). Foundation board member Carol Dabbs joined a lunch meeting with the president of the Haiti Renewal Alliance and another Haitian-American who owns land in Haiti.
A next step will be meetings in Haiti, planned for mid-April.
At the Disaster Response and Recovery Summit in Orlando, Miyamoto International was a major sponsor and its president, Kit Miyamoto, made an impressive presentation on his company’s work for assessing earthquake damage in Port-au-Prince and engaging in repair of buildings. See his presentation on Miyamoto’s Disaster Response Work in Haiti . Miyamoto also posted this video: Haiti Earthquake: One Year Later.
On March 11 Kit Miyamoto was riding the subway in Tokyo when the Japanese earthquake and tsunami struck. In a moment he became an observer, participant and expert. He has written several circulars on what he has seen, and on March 24 his company posted this lengthy video Japan Earthquake March 11, 2011 – Presentation by Miyamoto
Both the people of Haiti and Japan are suffering through the effects of calamity, and deserve all possible assistance. Miyamoto International is one of the companies contributing to recovery. We of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation offer condolences to families who have lost so much. those involved and a desire to work together for a brighter future.
Over a hundred members of the international aid and development community gathered in Orlando, Florida for the inaugural Disaster Response & Recovery Summit, which took place at the Caribe Royale Hotel & Convention Center on 1-2 March 2011. The summit was organized to bring key decision makers in the aid & development community together with government policy-makers and partnering contractors looking to assist in the aftermath of disasters around the globe.
About one-third of the speakers dealt with Haiti. David Stillman’s presentation consisted of a photo essay as well as a speech on “Lives, Livelihoods and Environment in Haiti.” To request a copy of the speech, email: ppafoundation@gmail.com
Dr. David Stillman, Lord Kevin Lumb
The summit covered key issues during the morning presentations and enabled delegates to meet with UN, business and NGO officials in the afternoons. Twenty roundtables were set up for this purpose, with over 300 meetings taking place over the two days.
Proceedings were opened by Lord Kevin Lumb, Chairman of Global Development Summits.
Dr. David Stillman represented the Humpty Dumpty Institute as keynote speaker at Sustainability Dialogue Day at Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Arizona. The ten colleges have an enrollment of over 260,000 students. Chancellor Rufus Glasper opened the event, which comprised about 100 faculty and senior staff.
Thomas Williams, V. Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick, Pushpa Ramakrishna, Chancellor Rufus Glasper, David Stillman, Eric Leshinskie, Robert Morales
Stillman spoke on “International Perspectives on Sustainability” and led a workshop on “International Resources for Sustainable Development.” Chancellor Glasper is a signatory to the American Colleges and Universities Presidents’ Climate Commitment.
Handouts will be available on the PPAF website or by request to ppafoundation@gmail.com
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On March 4 David Stillman will be the keynote speaker at “Sustainability Dialogue Day” at Maricopa County Community College District (10 community colleges in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area, with about 250,000 students). The audience will include the system chancellor and vice chancellors, college presidents and faculty. The Chancellor is signatory to the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment. http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/
Stillman’s presentation “International Perspectives on Sustainability” will include information on the work of the United Nations and its agencies in this area, as well as a case example of the work of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation and its partners to bring ethanol-burning cookstoves to Haiti. He will also lead a breakout session on the topic “International Resources for Sustainability.”
Stillman’s participation in the Day has been arranged by the Higher Education Alliance (HEA), a new program of the Humpty Dumpty Institute. The Institute forges public-private partnerships to find solutions to humanitarian problems. HDI fosters dialogue between the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, supports mine-action programs, and works to alleviate both domestic and international hunger.
The HEA Program aims to assist universities and colleges across the United States to obtain a more global perspective for their students, including interaction with the United Nations and other international institutions, and possibilities for studies and internships abroad. The program targets historically black colleges and universities and community colleges, as these traditionally have had less opportunity for such exposure.
On March 1-2 David Stillman will speak in Orlando, Florida at the Disaster Response and Recovery Summit, organized by Global Investment Summits, Ltd. This will bring key decision makers in the aid and development community together with government policy-makers and partnering contractors looking to assist in the aftermath of disasters around the globe.
Morning sessions will introduce the presenters, while afternoon sessions will devoted to private consultations between attendees and participants to discuss key issues affecting disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
Stillman will participate in the panel on Aid and Relief. His topic is “Lives, Livelihoods and the Environment in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” Other panelists represent THW – the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Germany), World Cares Center and Mercy Corps.
The Summit will include panels on “Preparedness, Prediction and Assessment,” “Disaster Response,” “Public-Private Cooperation.” “Communications, Logistics & Supply Chain Management,” and “Reconstruction and Recovery.”
In March 2010 Stillman spoke at a similar meeting, in Miami, “Haiti: Resources for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance Summit.”
Leslie Black Cordes, Acting Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which is housed in the UN Foundation, took part in a panel on energy and climate change at the United Nations Association of the USA Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference / Members Day at the UN. This day-long conference brought some 550 participants to hear presentations on issues of great importance to the U.S., the UN and globally.
Cordes emphasized the impact of dirty, inefficient cookstoves and open fires on health and environment, as half the world’s population continues to depend on wood and other biomass for cooking. She pointed out that exposure to such smoke kills almost two million young children and women a year and sickens millions more. Cookstove smoke is one of the top five worst overall health risk factors in the developing world. Reliance on wood and charcoal is a major contributor to deforestation.
Cordes described the recent establishment of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, its program focus and the technical working groups that are being established. She declared that the Alliance hopes to promote adoption of 100 million clean, efficient cookstoves in ten years, which would be approximately 20% of the globally affected population. She invited expanded government, private sector, philanthropic, academic, NGO and other institutions to engage in partnership opportunities. For more information, see http://cleancookstoves.org and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppaf For information on the UNA-USA Conference, see: http://unasouthernny.wordpress.com
The Public-Private Alliance Foundation organized meetings from January 13 through 17 for representatives of Blume Distillation, LLC, which is planning to manufacture community-level distilleries for alcohol production that fuel clean cookstoves, motorbikes, etc. The distilleries will accept sugar cane and a variety of other feedstocks and can receive support through distance monitoring. The aim is to encourage agribusiness both in feedstock production and in co-products of the distillation process which can enrich the soil and support secondary markets.
Meetings were held with several potential private investors, with Ambassadors to the UN from Madagascar and Haiti, and with UN officials. On the 15th SImACT, a Haitian-American investment group, organized a session with more than 50 participants at their Brooklyn headquarters for discussions on both the clean cookstoves and the distilleries.
On January 14, Blume Distillation represented and investors joined Stillman at the Conference for Teaching About the UN. Blume staffed a display table at the conference along with Project Gaia. Stillman addressed the conference on the topic “Fighting the Silent Killer in the Kitchen: Achieving the MDGs.”
Photos are available on the Foundation’s Flickr account.
