Tag Archives: Voices of Humanity
A Global Movement for Human Unity: Bringing the Vision Down to Earth
I have often been asked what Voices of Humanity is all about. I say VoH is designed to promote human unity with gender-equality and support for diversity built-in. I explain that each month participants will write messages on topics of … Continue reading
Readership List
As of October, 2016, the Readership list has been deactivated. The idea was to enlist a few organizations and that would set the stage for a take-off of the project. Pretty uniformly, tho, existing organizations are stretched to their limit … Continue reading
Order Out of Chaos: March 8, 2016
The Voices of Humanity project has launched with the election of four great messages. Voice of Humanity as One & Voice of Women Educating Young Girls Dear UN Women Executive Director Mlambo-Ngcuka, What happens when girls are educated? Many wonderful … Continue reading
UN Goals as a Scaffold for Local-to-Global Organizing
Voices of Humanity has launched. On March 8, 2016, we will send our crowd-sourced messages to Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women. Please sign up to participate at voh.c4c.intermix.org. Elevator Speech: The Voices of Humanity social media gives a … Continue reading
Latest Overview: How Voices of Humanity Can Underpin a Strategy for Human Unity
The Big Picture On the positive side, humanity is experiencing a welcome long range trend towards greater understanding, acceptance and even compassion. Literacy rates are going up. Living conditions are improving generally with proportionally more people being healthy and having … Continue reading
Using the SDGs as a Framework for Local to Global Organizing – an example
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) has recently published an important “opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals”. See http://www.ijgo.org/article/S0020-7292%2815%2900590-1/fulltext. The article has been picked up and popularized by outlets as diverse as Mother … Continue reading
Voices of Humanity: UN Goals as a Scaffold for Local-to-Global Organizing
Speech for UNA Council of Organizations Sep 28, 2015 “Achieving the Goals of the UN” event at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Franklin and Geary in San Francisco. by Roger Eaton UNA-SF Communications Chair. rogerweaton@gmail.com 415 933-0153 The 17 Sustainable … Continue reading
Google Impact Challenge Bay Area 2015 grant application
Collective Communication, Inc with UNA-SF as its major partner has applied for a Google grant in the amount of $100 to $500k. See below for the text of the grant application. Our thesis is that our Gender / Generation … Continue reading
Will the Genders Quarrel?
For presentation to the Feb 21, 2015 meeting of the UNA SF Bay Area Council of Organizations meeting. The world is in transition. It is clear to thoughtful people everywhere that we must develop our sense of common humanity so … Continue reading
UNA-SF Application for UNDEF grant for Gender Crosstalk Human Unity
Here is the text of the application for a grant from the United Nations Democracy Fund by UNA-SF. The application was submitted just under the wire on Dec 31, 2014, UNDEF grant number 14-21880. UNDEF proposal receipt number: 31520_GLO. Learn … Continue reading