The Civil Society Project- International

US-Japanese Conference on Civil Society

Speech given at the U.S. - Japanese Civil Society Partnership in Washington, D.C. - June 13, 2002

Civil Society and Sustainable Development: Major Themes and Objectives

Speech given at Civil Society and Sustainable Development Conference in Washington, D.C. - 2002

It is my pleasure to be here representing the experiment that is presently underway in the US in the area of community-based approaches to social problem-solving and poverty reduction...

SMEs: The Relationship of Economic Growth to Sound Governance

Presentation to conference on SMEs sponsored by The Parker Foundation

Micro-Enterprise: From Charity to Entrepreneurship

Presentation by Don Eberly to Hope International Event, December 1, 2006

Compassion: America’s Most Consequential Export

The world has entered a promising new era that is certain to yield advances in democracy and new opportunities for the world’s poor...

Wealth, Poverty, and the Rise of Corporate Citizenship

In September of 2005, the biggest ever summit of world leaders took place at the UN for the purpose of assessing progress on goals that were established at a similar gathering of world leaders five years earlier...

Micro-Enterprise: Tapping Native Capability at the Bottom of the Pyramid

The greatest harm that can be done to the poor is to ignore them altogether. While the poor weigh on the minds of humanitarian workers and religious charities, they have been in large part ignored by the most powerful actors in the global market economy, business firms, and financial institutions...

The power of Micro-Franchising As a Poverty-Reduction Tool

International development strategies are increasingly recognizing the limits of both traditional government-dominated command and control development aid as well as traditional charity that does little to cultivate indigenous institutions or local private enterprise...