At the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival panelists Jacqueline Novogratz, Beth Brooke, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, and Helene Gayle discuss the critical importance and innovative ways of empowering and educating women to help relieve global poverty.
Bio
Beth Brooke
Beth Brooke is the global vice chair of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs for Ernst & Young LLP.
A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Brooke earned her bachelor's degree from Purdue University and holds CPA and FLMI distinctions. In addition to being named in the Forbes 100, Accounting Today listed her among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting.
A former adviser to the Clinton Administration, she worked in the U.S. Department of Treasury on policy issues before serving as Ernst & Young's national director of Tax Advisory Services.
Based in Washington, D.C, Brooke is involved in many civic and business organizations and serves on the boards of TechnoServe, the White House Project, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Partnership for Public Service, the Advisory Council for Open Compliance and Ethics Group, and the National Women's Leadership Hall of Fame Advisory Council.
Dr. Helene Gayle
As president and CEO of CARE, Helene D. Gayle is responsible for providing overall leadership, management, and direction to one of the world's premier international relief and development organizations.
With programs in some seventy countries, CARE helps people in poor communities expand the control they have over their own lives to advance positive, enduring social change. CARE helps millions of people recover from natural disasters and other acute emergencies, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and gain access to healthcare, nutrition, education, safe water, and improved sanitation.
Dr. Gayle also served as the AIDS coordinator and chief of the HIV/AIDS division for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). She has served as a health consultant to international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the World Bank and UNAIDS and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She also served as the director of CDC's Washington Office.
Prior to assuming her current position, Gayle was the director of the HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Gayle has published numerous articles on public health, especially related to HIV/AIDS, and has received many awards for her scientific and public health contributions.
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
On June 18, 2004, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter was appointed chairman of the American Red Cross by President George W. Bush, the first woman to be selected as chairman in the organization's 126-year history.
Bonnie is the founder and CEO of Pace Communications, the nation's largest custom publishing company, ranked by Working Woman Magazine as one of the top 175 women-owned businesses. She is also former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (2001-2003).
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund. Prior to starting Acumen, she worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she created and directed the Philanthropy Workshop and the Next Generation Leadership program.
Novogratz has also worked at the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and has served as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Bank in various African countries. She helped found a micro-finance institution for women in Rwanda and began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank.
Novogratz holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of Virginia.
Jane Wales
Jane Wales is vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen Institute, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council, and founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum.
Previously, Wales was a special assistant to President Clinton, senior director of the National Security Council, and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
She also chaired the international security programs at the Carnegie Corporation and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and directed the Project on World Security at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Wales is the former national executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
So what we should do instead was to give them financial advice, so they are able to buy their own stovs.
This might be the right way, because it does not help rescuring people time and time again.
What helps is adviceing them so that they can better their own futures by thinking their way our, instead of waiting on some one throwing them a bone.
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