Craig Paxton, Ed.M.'09, executive director of Axium Education, on the importance of supporting education efforts in South Africa's most rural communities.
The focus, since 2000, has led to both increased coordination between agencies, assisted by the emergence of the Inter-Agency Network on Education in Emergencies (INEE), and to increased international advocacy supporting education in conflict-affected countries.
However, philanthropists who have an eye focused on improving our world should seriously consider supporting education policy change that will increase the number of high quality educational choices for parents in every state of the union.
Supporting education is an investment in people.
Tickets are $150, with all proceeds supporting education activities at Planting Fields.
She was an active member of her community, supporting education and church programming.
"I strongly and firmly believe in supporting education," Mr. Silver said in an interview.
Supporting education, of course, is not the sole province of the affluent.
But philanthropy has always played a powerful place in supporting education.
"Those dollars now are going into Canada, supporting education, into Connecticut, into New Jersey, not into New York".
"Soros has done much good for Russia ever since the 1990s, supporting education and science as well as civil society.
