by Laura Power | Dec 20, 2014 | Partners Out and About
In the early 1990s, Donna Davis Allen was at a crossroads. After a decade as a key member of a team that grew a Bay Area insurance start-up into an acquisition prize, she never-the-less felt unsatisfied. It wasn’t a full-fledged crisis, exactly, but an increasingly...
by Susan Miller | Nov 19, 2014 | Partners Out and About
Project Redwood’s latest round of grant reviews (grant cycle eight for anyone counting) was a real record breaker! We are supporting more projects this year, 13 (a new lucky number), and distributed our highest funding level to date; a total of $262,600. In addition,...
by Ken Inadomi | Sep 11, 2014 | Partners Out and About
Those were the sobering first words in the warning letter I received from the U.S. State Department in March 2013, shortly after getting my visa to Burundi – and less than one month before my scheduled departure for Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi. In 2012 I...
by Laura Power | Jun 30, 2014 | Partners Out and About
When pressed, Project Redwood partner Gerald Thomas tells his story with a nonchalance that belies the magnitude of his achievements. The native of Malaysia ticks through the details of his early vitae as if he were simply noting the pleasantries of a walk with his...
by Laura Power | Apr 2, 2014 | Americas, Partners Out and About, Recent Posts, Standard of Living
Self Help International (SHI) in Nicaragua educates farmers in cultivation and post-harvest practices, feeds young children, and introduces water chlorination systems among the the rural poor.In the 2012 grant cycle, Project Redwood awarded SHI a grant to help build...
by Laura Power | Mar 27, 2014 | Partners Out and About, Recent Posts
Over 30 Stanford Graduate School of Business 1980 classmates and an equal number of spouses, friends, and guests converged on grid-locked Washington, DC for a weekend in late October, 2013. When we arrived, the autumn weather turned beautiful, the government shut...
