Moscow         It is hard to imagine Sergey Tsyplenkov and Valentina Melnikova in the same room much less in the same sentence, but after meetings with each of them on two different days in Moscow they are linked in my mind as the creme of the non-profit crop in Moscow despite their differences. Sergey …

Utrecht, Netherlands     Jan van Doggenaaar, the director of a 55-person team for the ICCO Alliance that focuses on the program area of “basic needs” was very generous with his time, because it took a while to describe both what ICCO was and how it has totally re-invented itself along new lines in January of …

New York We went to Orange County and back and forth to Southern California in a tag team off and on for the last year seeing if we could get the sub-prime industry to see the risks and “do right.” We got to know a lot of the people that are in the news these …