The World's Community Rose To This Great Recession's Challenges

by J John Swanko

10/02/2012 (People Port) Jasper, FL -This Great Recession has produced all types of problems, Contangos, wide spread unemployment, vast tracks of empty houses, upset electorate —> the Arab Spring. All tasked the world's leaders, corporations, and firm providing philanthropy.

A variety of firms and governments are providing help to the world.  As this budget debate continues, firms have stepped up to fill in where governments have not been able to provide the needed services.

In White Springs Florida, the local big employer, Potash Corp, stepped in when the State said, No.   From building a library, to rebuilding a Missouri school and extending a hand around the world, It is important to note, they are a for profit company that makes real money. 

Firms like Omidyar look at helping the world from an economic perspective.  They firmly believe, organizations providing goods or services to the extreme poor are much more likely to require subsidy than those serving the next level up.  They work around the world.

Why not use your plastic is an attempt to get funds where they are needed fast.  Developed by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi, Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, U.N. Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Visa Inc,  Formed Better Than Cash Alliance.  Peru, Kenya, Colombia, and Republic of Philippines were quick to sign on.

The sick are getting well.  Africa's infant mortality has been cut in half. Organizations are working hard to wipe out all types of sickness.  The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), launched in 1988, is spearheaded by national governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, and supported by key partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  This experience is driving innovation in many other areas.

The study of how to manage our global calamities is a major subject today.  The Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the United Nations Foundation are addressing national security issues, understanding the environmental and man made shocks and stresses—> climate change, food shortages, and resource competition, in a growing world. 

Farmers are getting help.  Once considered an imposable hurdle, the size package for small farmers, was reduced, price slashed.  In it was the right seeds for their soils, locations, increasing yields many fold.  On grant will offer savings accounts to more than 600,000 rural farmers and the poor in Ethiopia through mobile technologies. It will mobilize savings officers using PDAs and traveling by motorbike to enable client transactions in communities surrounding branch offices.

So many firms rose to this Great Recession's challenge it is very difficult to conical all their efforts.  Our past presidents have stepped up.  While so many wonder if the challenges can be met,  our Congress works to avoid the coming financial cliff.