From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? WWW.BEYONDELECTIONS.COM (Part 14)
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In October 2007, the World Bank Institute, the Tanzanian Commission for AIDS, the Prime Minister’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government, The Global Fund and other partners organized a learning program to help Tanzania improve information flow, transparency and accountability in their response to HIV/AIDS at the community level. The program helped increase the capacity of key players at the district and community levels so they can more effectively administer, distribute and allocate financial resources and supplies for HIV/AIDS, thereby ensuring that the resources reach the intended beneficiaries and are used for the intended purposes. People living with HIV/AIDS, faith based groups, community organizations, districts and local and national government institutions identified their own tools such as participatory planning, community involvement, community score cards, public budget hearings, use of radio, open council sessions, transparency in bids and purchases, protection mechanisms of people of reporting corruption, regular executive meetings, use of minutes and reporting, monitoring and evaluation, among others.
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Welcome!
U.S. Office in Prishtina currently employs a Economic/Commercial Assistant, maintaining contacts with over 250 local and more than 100 U.S. companies and organizations. Our Office in Prishtina offers valuable services to U.S. companies assisting them export goods and services to Kosovo. We have actively assisted and supported a number of U.S. companies doing business in Kosovo. Our aim is primarily to help the local community by developing an environment open to business and assisting U.S. companies to export and invest in Kosovo.
We have developed excellent contacts with public and private sector officials, and are able to provide U.S. companies with necessary introductions, market reports and guidance to facilitate doing business in Kosovo. Also, we have developed an extensive cooperation with U.S. government organizations or subcontractors working on specific policy development projects within Kosovo.
We look forward to working with You!
http://www.buyusa.gov/kosovo/en/doingbusinessinkosovo.html
The Israel of the Balkans
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-israel-of-the-balkans-11266
An Israeli in Kosovo
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/08/an-israeli-in-k.php
The Arab Betrayal of Balkan Islam
http://www.meforum.org/article/166
Conversion rate
A surprising story of Muslim converts to Christianity
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12868180
The Vatican Purposes to Evangelize Kosovo
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4995.3269.0.0
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Video from our FREE Online Business Course
http://www.myownbusiness.org
Session 4 – Business Organization
Question:
“What are some of the most common mistakes you see with people going into small business?”
Stan Henslee
Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.)
Topics covered in this video:
Business mistakes, capital, planning, separation, bank accounts, organization
Transcript:
Basically I think there are three. The first one is that they’re going into the business under-capitalized. They put everything they’ve got into the business at the very start and they don’t have anything to fall back on. If they just had some high limit credit cards that were fairly clean to have something to fall back on to pay the bills when the business takes off a little slower than expected.
The second problem I see is co-mingling funds: paying personal expenses out of the business bank account and paying the business bills out of the personal bank account. You have to keep them separate and you have to treat the business as a separate entity and let it stand on its own.
The third biggest mistake I see, and this cripples most young businesses, is that owners take too much money out of the business in the early stages; where they leave the business under capitalized and no longer have the money needed to replace the product on the shelf or to expand into new areas. That is the kiss of death to a young business.
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So this is my submission to the VlogBrother’s annual event called Project For Awesome where videos about charity organizations take over Youtube!!
I hope you enjoy.
P4A Homepage
http://www.projectforawesome.com/
VlogBrother’s Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers
How To Make Your Own P4A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzZLKs5QaEs
Where To Share Your P4A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ukyj5bml0
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The world’s organizations are changing. Networked tools are allowing groups to form and collaborate without any of the traditional friction that comes from managing the efforts of multitudes.
Clay Shirky, a noted author and educator on the social and economic effects of the web, spoke at the World Bank in May 2008 about his book, “Here Comes Everybody – The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.”
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The excessive federal spending spree MUST STOP ! ——————— [FEB 2009]
American Issues Projects new ad highlights the failure of the pork-laden stimulus bill
to stimulate the economy.
Washington, DC February 20, 2009 American Issues Project launched a major television advertising campaign today spotlighting the excessive spending and pet projects within the far-reaching stimulus legislation, which the Congressional Budget Office has said will harm the American economy in the long term. The ad will begin running today on FOX News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNBC and FOX Business Network.
Washington is, once again, out of touch with the American people, said Ed Martin, the organizations president. Congress has used the anxiety of the American people as a vehicle for appeasing special interest groups and financing their pork projects back home. This type of spending has no place within emergency legislation intended to jump-start the economy.
The ad also showcases examples of the billions spent on pork projects—including golf carts, fish hatcheries and remodeled federal offices—and targets liberal senator Charles Schumer for his claim on the Senate floor that the American people really dont care about porky amendments.
American Issues Projects ad examines assertions that the funding in the stimulus package will not help the economy, neither this year nor in the long term, according to economists and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
With this so-called stimulus bill, its the government that will grow, not the economy. The spending circus in Washington must stop before our politicians amass generational debt even further out of our control, said American Issues Project President Ed Martin.
The ad buy of nearly one million dollars starts airing Friday and urges concerned citizens to text ENOUGH to 97180 if they want to join the organization. An electronic version of the ad, plus full documentation for all statements made, is available at American Issues Projects website: http://www.americanissuesproject.org
About American Issues Project
American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization representing a coalition of conservative activists committed to raising important issues that deserve deeper examination given their impact on policy and politics. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation.
http://www.americanissuesproject.org/2009/02/19/every-single-day-ad-facts/
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Tomorrow’s Youth Organization works to enable children, youth and parents to realize their potential, becoming healthier individuals who contribute to safer and more vibrant communities in disadvantaged areas of the Middle East.
Duration : 0:10:21