Mills Scofield

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Are Non-Profits Doomed to Fail in Haiti?

Mills Scofield

I began volunteering in Haiti in 2007, and moved to Léogane in 2010 to begin my work with GOALS. This is especially true following the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed 230,000-300,000 people. This year, the media marked the three-year anniversary with a review of aid efforts.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

It’s just not in the mainstream media. Dan Pink, known for his fabulous books A Whole New Mind and Drive , talked about 2010’s two Physics Nobel Prize winners, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, breakthrough in extremely thin graphene. What if you step back and look for obvious, simple (perhaps not easy) solutions?

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