John Haines provides opportunities for poor families to become investors and build better futures for their kids
John W. Haines He’s ridden a bike up Everest, paddled down the Niger River, and been hit by a train. Now he’s creating wealth among working families, one mini-mall at a time. Who is this Guy? The brain of the banker. The heart of an explorer. John Haines grew up in Laramie, Wyoming, a fourth-generation […]
Dmitri Belser was a lifelong warrior for human rights, dignity, and equality
The late Dmitri and his husband Tom were the first same-sex couple in the United States to adopt children, both of whom have entered into honorable adulthood. He founded an organization that made it possible for people with disabilities to use computer technology at school and work when few thought it was possible.
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It’s impossible to know how many women and girls Arlinda Begay protected from abuse – and worse
For years, while raising her children and teaching school, Arlinda traveled the vast Navajo Nation, removing women and girls from abusive homes, educating her people about missing and murdered indigenous women, and lobbying for new legislation – and she did it all on her own time and her own dime.
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Moving power over sacred land back to Indigenous people
The Bears Ears region is slated to become the first National Monument in the United States to be co-managed by a tribal coalition and the U.S. government. This work provides a model for sharing power with Native people and creating a small measure of restorative justice. The Trump administration has expressed opposition, but as one of our Zuni colleagues says: ‘We’ve been here for a couple of thousand years, and we’ll still be here long after this President has moved along.”
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Creating an entirely new field of science to the benefit of all humans
Thirty-five years ago, there was no field of contemplative science. Because of the Dalai Lama’s abiding interest in science, and the dedication of three generations of researchers around the world, we are beginning to understand the science of the mind in ways previously not possible – and this knowledge contributes to human well-being and even peace.
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College and career ready: proving the case for Children’s Savings Accounts
Our client, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, has been a key investor in the Children’s Savings Accounts movement for over twenty years. We are now studying the first cohort as they enter college. Early indications are that even small amounts of savings change beliefs, behaviour, high school graduation rates, and college entrance rates.
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Strategic Vision, Organizational Design, and Talent Advising
OE facilitated a long term strategic framework, recommended gentle organizational redesign, and provided continuing talent advice to the Foundation’s founder and Executive Director, Sona Dimidjian. Having created a strategic framework, we worked with the Executive Director and Deputy Director to implement new approaches and strategies.
Strategic Communications and Design Project
They commissioned us to create a communications strategy and collateral with which to present findings from a series of dialogues among global leaders identifying a framework on international coordination and strategic points of intervention for governments, the private sector, and other decision-makers for global food security