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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B Y I D E A G E N January 2022
The Late Chairman
Emeritus of Ideagen,
Congressman Louis
Stokes
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B Y I D E A G E N January 2022
The Late
Stefanos
Gialamas,
Former
President
of ACS Athens
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Liz Fanning
Founder and Executive
Director, CorpsAfrica
“I always say I never knew what I wanted to do but I spent my career preparing for it.
Also, don’t be afraid to fail. Just roll up your sleeves and get to work.”
The Peace Corps sends Americans to African countries, but CorpsAfrica uses talent that is
homegrown. We recruit, train and dispatch college-educated young Africans to remote villages in
their own countries, where they facilitate solutions to problems identified by local people. So far,
more than 300 volunteers have served in four countries — Morocco, Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda
— impacting an estimated 150,000 rural Africans. Our approach not only benefits the villagers, it
transforms the lives and life goals of our volunteers.
The problem I’m trying to solve
Some countries in Africa are among the poorest in the world. In several where we work, nearly
half the population lives below the poverty line. Meanwhile, Africa is rich in underutilized talent,
with hundreds of universities graduating educated youth who can’t find enough jobs to employ
them. By tapping their idealism and energy, CorpsAfrica empowers these young adults to be part
of the solution. Our volunteers spend nearly a year in a village, learning what the locals view as
their biggest needs and connecting them to organizations with the resources to help. Our wideranging
projects include wells, irrigation (including a recent, innovative solar-powered system),
toilets, self-sustaining kitchen gardens (750 and counting), and even an NBA-sponsored
basketball court to give kids in a refugee camp a productive activity. When COVID-19 broke out,
our volunteers were perfectly positioned to educate residents on the best ways to protect
themselves.
Advice to others who want to make a difference
I always say I never knew what I wanted to do but I spent my career preparing for it. My 25 years
of fundraising experiences are what allowed me to start this organization in 2011 and hit the
ground running. When people tell me they want to do something similar, I advise them to make
sure their ego is in check, let the project find them, and be flexible. Even in Africa, where our
volunteers from the cities think they know poverty, they discover pretty quickly how humbling it
is to live in a village without running water or electricity. That humility is what enables them to be
of greatest service. Also, don’t be afraid to fail. Just roll up your sleeves and get to work.
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I M P A C T 1 0 L I S T
10 Organizations who changed the world in 2021
*The list of organizations is compiled and developed via qualitative analysis based
on Ideagen Global's internal research and review of publicly available information.
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Editor's Note
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As 2022 gets underway, Ideagen Global, Presented Globally by Microsoft,
continues to maximize our efforts with a relentless commitment to convene
the world's greatest minds from the world's leading companies, NGO's, and
the public sector to "Create Global Partnerships for World Change". In
2021, Ideagen TV content reached over 100 Million People across the
planet with our ubiquitous content distribution including inspiring
interviews and custom programming to create awareness and global
partnerships to achieve the U.N. Global Goals.
In this January Edition of Catalyze, we honor the legacy of those
giants and statesmen who paved the way for all of us. It is with great
honor and gratitude that we honor two of our very own on the covers
of this edition, including the Late Hon. Congressman Louis Stokes,
Founding Chairman of Ideagen Global and a continual inspiration for
all of our work. In addition, we honor our friend and supporter of the
Ideagen mission, the late Stefanos Gialamas, President of ACS
Athens. There is not a day that goes by where we do not remember
and where we are not inspired by their belief and support of our work.
Their memory will always be eternal at Ideagen!
GEORGE A. SIFAKIS
GEORGE SIFAKIS
Editor-in-Chief & CEO
Ideagen Global
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COOPER HENDERSON
Senior Publication Editor
JOHN MULBERGER
Senior Digital Publication Editor
Pictured Top to Bottom
Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella
The Late Hon. Congressman Louis
Stokes
CEO George Sifakis with Late
Chairman Emeritus, Cong. Louis
Stokes