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Travel philanthropy has been on the rise since the tsunami of 2004. Tourists looking to help the often disadvantaged countries they visit can invest time, energy or money. Below, some of the best ways to get away while giving something back...
...harm done, either way: Putin got the ring - and properly turned it over to the state depository for gifts, according to his staff. Kraft made the ring a gift to Putin to demonstrate his respect - and, one hopes, his intention to invest in Russia to his and Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words...
...Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded up on enterprises with brighter prospects, such as media and medical devices. Now, he's giving environmental products a starring role--pledging to invest in green technologies, clean up company operations and promote GE as a conglomerate even Sierra Clubbers might like...
Venture capitalists will be less likely to invest in enterprises that are “on the line” between innovation and infringement, he said...
...also funds research through the Dubai Harvard Foundation. It carefully vets donors to the foundation to ensure that they are “upstanding citizens of the community, who genuinely want to invest in the human capital of the Middle East,” Crone said...