Millennium Development Goals Working Group
The student organization Positive Foundations decided to team up with the Programs in Sustainable International Development (SID) at the Heller School to form a new working group at Brandeis. Heller graduate students would share their expertise and experience with Positive Foundations, an undergraduate student group committed to advocating for the Millennium Development Goals to end poverty by 2015. Heller students would develop their mentoring skills while working with the undergraduate leaders of Positive Foundations to increase the effectiveness of their initiatives and bring vital cultural understanding to their work.
Although this group's members were unable to begin their initiative, the goals of the project continue through the Brandeis chapter of Positive Foundations, whose members are focused on eradicating extreme poverty through fund raising, education, and political advocacy.
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Positive Foundations
Project Directors:
Charlotte Benham, SID staff
Allyson Goldsmith ‘10, Director of Operations, Positive Foundations
Project Team:
Josephat Byaruhanga, M.A. candidate, SID '09
David Drayton '09, Director of Finances, Positive Foundations
Sara Hammerschlag '10, Director of Communications, Positive Foundations
Maria Caryl Sinepuelas Montales, M.A. candidate, SID '09
Harris Najib, M.A. candidate, SID '09
Remz Pokorny '09, Director of Outreach, Positive Foundations
Elizabeth Setren '10, Director of Educational Programs, Positive Foundations
Rajiv Ramakrishnan '10, Executive Director, Positive Foundations
Seth Werfel '10, Executive Director, Positive Foundations