Catalyze Magazine January 2022 Edition
With Ideagens extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. This edition of Catalyze Magazines highlights the Washington Roundtable and Global Leadership Summit, on the covers of this January Edition of Catalyze, we honor the legacy of those giants and statesmen who paved the way for all of us. The first article in this edition of Catalyze Magazine is publically available, please sign up at Ideagenmember.com to continue reading and stay up to date with our monthly releases.
With Ideagens extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. This edition of Catalyze Magazines highlights the Washington Roundtable and Global Leadership Summit, on the covers of this January Edition of Catalyze, we honor the legacy of those giants and statesmen who paved the way for all of us. The first article in this edition of Catalyze Magazine is publically available, please sign up at Ideagenmember.com to continue reading and stay up to date with our monthly releases.
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CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>January</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
The Late Chairman<br />
Emeritus of Ideagen,<br />
Congressman Louis<br />
Stokes
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>January</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
The Late<br />
Stefanos<br />
Gialamas,<br />
Former<br />
President<br />
of ACS Athens
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<strong>2022</strong> Winners<br />
Purpose Prize<br />
Learn More<br />
Bill Bracken<br />
You live. You learn. You give back.<br />
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No one knows this better than people ages 50<br />
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accumulating a wealth of knowledge that only<br />
life experience can bring. Armed with this<br />
wisdom, they are a powerhouse of innovation<br />
tackling some of the greatest societal<br />
challenges of our time and inspiring others to<br />
do the same.<br />
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“AARP is honored to celebrate these<br />
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dedicated their lives to serving others in<br />
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our country and globally, we are inspired to<br />
see people use their life experiences to build a<br />
better future for us all.”<br />
Ify Nwabuku<br />
Raymond Jetson<br />
Rita Zimmer<br />
Alan Miller<br />
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2021<br />
Purpose<br />
Prize<br />
Fellow<br />
Highlight<br />
Liz Fanning<br />
Founder and<br />
<br />
Executive<br />
Director at CorpsAfrica<br />
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Liz Fanning<br />
Founder and Executive<br />
Director, CorpsAfrica<br />
“I always say I never knew what I wanted to do but I spent my career preparing for it.<br />
Also, don’t be afraid to fail. Just roll up your sleeves and get to work.”<br />
The Peace Corps sends Americans to African countries, but CorpsAfrica uses talent that is<br />
homegrown. We recruit, train and dispatch college-educated young Africans to remote villages in<br />
their own countries, where they facilitate solutions to problems identified by local people. So far,<br />
more than 300 volunteers have served in four countries — Morocco, Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda<br />
— impacting an estimated 150,000 rural Africans. Our approach not only benefits the villagers, it<br />
transforms the lives and life goals of our volunteers.<br />
The problem I’m trying to solve<br />
Some countries in Africa are among the poorest in the world. In several where we work, nearly<br />
half the population lives below the poverty line. Meanwhile, Africa is rich in underutilized talent,<br />
with hundreds of universities graduating educated youth who can’t find enough jobs to employ<br />
them. By tapping their idealism and energy, CorpsAfrica empowers these young adults to be part<br />
of the solution. Our volunteers spend nearly a year in a village, learning what the locals view as<br />
their biggest needs and connecting them to organizations with the resources to help. Our wideranging<br />
projects include wells, irrigation (including a recent, innovative solar-powered system),<br />
toilets, self-sustaining kitchen gardens (750 and counting), and even an NBA-sponsored<br />
basketball court to give kids in a refugee camp a productive activity. When COVID-19 broke out,<br />
our volunteers were perfectly positioned to educate residents on the best ways to protect<br />
themselves.<br />
Advice to others who want to make a difference<br />
I always say I never knew what I wanted to do but I spent my career preparing for it. My 25 years<br />
of fundraising experiences are what allowed me to start this organization in 2011 and hit the<br />
ground running. When people tell me they want to do something similar, I advise them to make<br />
sure their ego is in check, let the project find them, and be flexible. Even in Africa, where our<br />
volunteers from the cities think they know poverty, they discover pretty quickly how humbling it<br />
is to live in a village without running water or electricity. That humility is what enables them to be<br />
of greatest service. Also, don’t be afraid to fail. Just roll up your sleeves and get to work.<br />
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Coming out of an unprecedented 2021, The Annual Global<br />
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qualities and capabilities that have allowed their organization to<br />
weather unforeseen challenges to reimagine the future.<br />
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I M P A C T 1 0 L I S T<br />
10 Organizations who changed the world in 2021<br />
*The list of organizations is compiled and developed via qualitative analysis based<br />
on Ideagen Global's internal research and review of publicly available information.<br />
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Editor's Note<br />
Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br />
As <strong>2022</strong> gets underway, Ideagen Global, Presented Globally by Microsoft,<br />
continues to maximize our efforts with a relentless commitment to convene<br />
the world's greatest minds from the world's leading companies, NGO's, and<br />
the public sector to "Create Global Partnerships for World Change". In<br />
2021, Ideagen TV content reached over 100 Million People across the<br />
planet with our ubiquitous content distribution including inspiring<br />
interviews and custom programming to create awareness and global<br />
partnerships to achieve the U.N. Global Goals.<br />
In this <strong>January</strong> <strong>Edition</strong> of <strong>Catalyze</strong>, we honor the legacy of those<br />
giants and statesmen who paved the way for all of us. It is with great<br />
honor and gratitude that we honor two of our very own on the covers<br />
of this edition, including the Late Hon. Congressman Louis Stokes,<br />
Founding Chairman of Ideagen Global and a continual inspiration for<br />
all of our work. In addition, we honor our friend and supporter of the<br />
Ideagen mission, the late Stefanos Gialamas, President of ACS<br />
Athens. There is not a day that goes by where we do not remember<br />
and where we are not inspired by their belief and support of our work.<br />
Their memory will always be eternal at Ideagen!<br />
GEORGE A. SIFAKIS<br />
GEORGE SIFAKIS<br />
Editor-in-Chief & CEO<br />
Ideagen Global<br />
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COOPER HENDERSON<br />
Senior Publication Editor<br />
JOHN MULBERGER<br />
Senior Digital Publication Editor<br />
Pictured Top to Bottom<br />
Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella<br />
The Late Hon. Congressman Louis<br />
Stokes<br />
CEO George Sifakis with Late<br />
Chairman Emeritus, Cong. Louis<br />
Stokes
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