Nicole Hughes
June 13, 2008 | 9:28 am EST
Today in Wikincubate, the ever-expanding encyclopedia of ways to get engaged with socially conscious issues:
Social business multimedia, including this video of social business guru Muhammad Yunus:
The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!
Katie Halper:
Debra Winger and Rights Camera Action!
James Byrd Jr. and the Struggle for Tolerance
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Nicole Hughes:
Green Video of the Week: 5 Tips for Reducing Your Garbage
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Disappearing Destinations: Visit Before They Vanish
Chuck Norris Wants America to Start Drilling for Oil Here and Now!
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Jon Popham:
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Giulia Rozzi:
Gay Discrimination at Seattle Baseball Game
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Gina Telaroli:
Fathers Day Celebration of Movie Dads #1
The Girl Effect is a new online interactive project seeking to improve the dire situation in the developing world one girl at a time. The initiative, created by the advertising agencies Grow Interactive and Wieden & Kennedy, is part of a $100 Million investment in girls by the Nike Foundation and NoVo Foundation chairs Peter and Jennifer Buffett.
The Girl Effect recognizes that girls and young women are the foundation of communities around the world. The project seeks to direct funding to the education and entrepreneurial business activities of girls and young women in developing countries to help being their communities up. The statistical evidence is incredible when we learn the unique role girls and young women play in the health and wellbeing of their societies. According to the website’s Fact Sheet:
- When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children.
- An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages 10 to 20%. An extra year of secondary school boosts wages 15 to 25%.
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