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Tag: Bob Geldof

Moving Beyond Band Aid

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date September 3, 2010

“Our time to change is now, and our time to change is short,” was the message that the new USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah delivered to a Town Hall meeting of the US Global Leadership coalition on May 5th this year. To sustain the commitment to spend billions of federal dollars on aid, he was warning, […]

Tags Andrew Mitchell, Bill Easterly, Bob Geldof, DFID, Live Aid, Raj Shah, Social Investment Task Force, USAID

Celanthropy the Geldof Way

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date October 13, 2009

“Futility” was aid champion “Sir” Bob Geldof’s verdict on what he had achieved nearly a quarter of a century after the former Boomtown Rats vocalist organised the Band Aid song that mobilised a massive public campaign to help the starving people of Ethiopia. Geldof was speaking on a panel moderated by Michael at Forum 2000, […]

Tags Aid, Band Aid, Bob Geldof, Bono, Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid, Helena Houdova, Niklas Zennstrom, Sigrid Rausing, Vaclav Havel, Yohei Sasakawa