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By bluerasberry on December 31, 2011
Brian Glanz is one of the organizers of Open Science Federation. The OSF is a nonprofit organization which has the goal of making science information more accessible, and historically it has done that by connecting scientists with online technology. There is a core team involved including Brian which has been together since 1999, and they [...]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, rights, Seattle | Tagged NWABR, Open Science Federation
By bluerasberry on November 30, 2011
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops [...]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media
By bluerasberry on August 4, 2011
Yesterday I got a letter from someone at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a PR person who was editing her organization’s Wikipedia article, and since I was watching that article, I immediately knew she was changing it. I wrote to her offering to help her develop the article, and she sent me back a [...]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2011
Recently I met a lot of leaders in public and global health. The World Affairs Council is a Seattle non-profit which organizes for leaders from other countries to come to Seattle and give presentations. Global Health Nexus promotes talks about health issues in Seattle. WAC definitely does a lot more events. On June 6 WAC [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, politician, royal
By bluerasberry on June 6, 2011
I attended the June 4 open house to celebrate the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation building opening across the street from the Seattle Center. This is a 500 million dollar building whose employees have the responsibility to manage the spending of 3 billion dollars a year to improve the human condition. The [...]
Posted in education, encounter, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on May 11, 2011
I have been trying to learn some Bengali sign language and it has been fun for me to try to communicate with Abdul. I feel bad about regional sign languages; they seem like languages with little history or cultural attachment and I get this idea in my hide that there should be a big international [...]
Posted in India, non-profit | Tagged language
By bluerasberry on February 20, 2011
I wanted to visit the site of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster. I also wanted to visit whatever major NGO was working with the survivors. This is why we went to Bhopal, the capitol of Madhya Pradesh. I expected that affected people were still living in the area. I also expected that these people had [...]
Posted in education, health, India, legal, non-profit | Tagged death, pollution, school, toxic waste
By bluerasberry on February 2, 2011
Nandan and I left our Mumbai friends and flew to Lucknow. We visited Imam Bara and the residency and the haunted house as before but all this was just a backdrop for planning our next moves. At Imam Bara we paid for a tour and were charged triple the price we were supposed to pay, [...]
Posted in gay stuff, India, non-profit, tour
By bluerasberry on September 23, 2010
I went to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health meeting Monday and Tuesday September 20-21. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the role of the university in promoting global health. I had been talking with Nandan for some years now about doing things to attract enough students to merit the establishment of [...]
Posted in non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on August 7, 2010
The Seattle Century is a 100 mile bicycle tour organized this year as a fundraiser for Bikeworks, which is a non-profit organizing which promotes cycling for young people. There were participation levels for 50 and 100 miles; I did the 50 mile on July 31, the day of the event. Registration for the event was [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, tour | Tagged ecotourism, fundraiser, sport