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Check out the GVN Foundation blog for our latest news and updates from around the world.

Blog authors include:

  • Courtney Montague - GVN Foundation Founder and Executive Director - Writing from New York
  • Lauren McMahon - GVN Foundation Media and Communications Manager - Writing from Wellington
  • Eliza Raymond - GVN Foundation Grants Coordinator - Writing from Wellington
  • Caitie Goddard - GVN Foundation Programs Development Coordinator - Writing from Wellington

 

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Blog Excerpt - Thursday, September 20, 2009 - United Nations Visit

 

Hello Everyone,

Tomorrow I'm visiting the United Nations to pick up my UN Representative Ground Pass and meet with a representative in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs Office for ECOSOC Support Coordination Branch. I'm excited to meet with a representative from the United Nations about how GVN Foundation can assist the United Nations, and specifically how we can assist them as they work to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Eliza is also working on emailing all of our ESTC hosts in NYC to see if they have any questions that I could answer over coffee and if they would like me to stop by their event to say hello and talk, from experience, about how their funds will change lives. I'm excited to meet our ESTC hosts in the great city of New York!

In addition to the above, I've started graduate classes at NYU. I'm taking a microeconomics class and our NYU professors are teaching us about trade and specialization. The basic premise is that we can do more/we can produce more if we specialize in whatever we are 'gifted at' and then trade with each other.

I was thinking that is a pretty basic and fundamental part of philanthropy... and life. We all have gifts, we can all do amazing things. It's just really a question of if we will join together to help those who don't have our same advantages (education, health, familial stability etc). The more we work together to affect change (like joining an ESTC event!!!) the greater our impact will be!

Alright, enough soap boxing...

I'll let you all know how the meeting goes.

Talk soon

Court

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