Brett Jenks
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Sustainable Fishing in the Galapagos - Peter Knights, Executive Director of WildAid
Peter Knights, Executive Director of WildAid, recently spoke to Rare CEO Brett Jenks about the technology and methods used to enforce "No-take zones" in the Galapagos Islands.
Rare Bright Spot: Peter Knights, WildAid
Peter Knights, Executive Director of WildAid, recently spoke to Rare CEO Brett Jenks about the technology and methods used to enforce "No-take zones" in the Galapagos Islands.
Rare Bright Spot: Dr. Donald Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Welcome to a temporary site for the Measures Summit
Let me welcome those of you just joining the Measures Summit's temporary site here on RarePlanet. Within clicking distance you should find the agenda, background reading, a pre-meeting survey on the state of measures, and just about everything else you'll need to participate. Most of this information is filed under RESOURCES. Check it out. Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday morning at the Moore Foundation.
Interview with Charles Duncan, Manomet & Dr. Guy Morrison (English)
Interview with Charles Duncan, Manomet & Dr. Guy Morrison (English)
Protecting the Red Knot and its habitat in Argentina
In early March 2010, Rare hosted a trip with our partner Manomet to San Antonio Oeste, Argentina. There are three campaign sites in Argentina, each of which is focused on preserving the habitat of the migratory Red Knot shorebird: Costa Atlantica, Tierra del Fuego; Estuary Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz and the site we visited, San Antonio Bay.
Above: As I departed from Miami for Argentina I took a photo of an Audubon print of the Red Knot on display in the airport.
Great healthcare example of an online resource for conservation measures
Exciting to imagine that one of the outcome of the Measures Summit, perhaps 2-3 years down the road, woudl be a website like this one: http://www.ihi.org/ihi/files/promotions/websitetour/IHIvirtualtour.html Check it out. This is a product of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, an organization designed to accelerate the advancement of good medicine. Sound familiar? It's founder and CEO, Don Berwick is the outspoken leader of the measures movement in healthcare. Whether you read Bell Curve in The New Yorker (see the resources section here) or Dan Heath's forthcoming book Switch, you'll learn about Berwick's inspiring quest. He'd make a great speaker for our summit. Berwick is the physician who famously stood up at a conference December 14, 2004 and challenged hospital administrators nationwide to adopt six simple and new protocols that would save 100,000 lives in 18 months.
Good measures may get this group $8.5B
An article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy this week -- http://philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Need-to-Help-Innovative/63893/ -- credits Nurse-Family Partnership's focus on measures with President Obama's request for $8.5Bb to expand their programs. Proof of effectiveness in this case can lead to big money. Nurse-Family Partnership can be found at: http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/Proven-Results.
Great example of a measures-focused organization
www.collegesummit.org/aboutus/results_and_metrics/our_outcomes/
College Summit is a DC-based nonprofit working to get more middle and low-income kids to college. It's easy to see why they might think a lot about report cards. What's great is how much time they spend thinking about their own. Not only do they describe their own impact; they track it over time, they compare it to national averages, and they are focused on using their own good marks to get themselves into more scales. Over time, like a number of other social entrepreneurs around the world, they are using metrics to make the case for scaling their innovations. We in the conservation community would do well to find ways to do something similar.
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