Gabrielle Fitzgerald
Founder and CEO of Panorama, a non-profit action tank working to solve global problems through audacious thinking and bold action.
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Thelancet.com 4d 1 tweets
Want better policy? Elect more women
Jackson Hole News&Guide 3d 1 tweets
As senior policy advisor to the Equality State Policy Center, I’ll spend 2020 launching a statewide pilot project that examines women’s roles in Wyoming: how women drive the economy, access
Gabrielle Fitzgerald "Those are policies that also benefit families & communities, incl #healthcare, #childcare, safety & education. They also tend to be policies that have positive economic impact..." Jen M. Simon of & (via ) 3d
Secret Deodorant Calls on People to Support Women-Owned Businesses
Cheddar 5d 1 tweets
Secret Deodorant is announcing a month-long celebration of women-owned businesses, calling on people to support 'Women-Owned Wednesdays.' Sara Saunders, associate brand director at Secret, joined Cheddar to discuss supporting local businesses...
142,000 died from measles last year, WHO estimates
the Guardian 8d 18 tweets
Number of cases reported so far this year is three times higher than at same stage in 2018
The United Nations Predicts The Worst Crises of 2020
UN Dispatch 4d 2 tweets
The United Nations is planning for a crisis filled 2020. Specifically, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that 168 million people will be in need of some form of humanitarian assistance next year,...
Gabrielle Fitzgerald #ICYMI, predicts that "168 million people will be in need of some form of humanitarian assistance next year, costing aid agencies $29 billion." That makes 2020 worse than 2019. 4d
The Power Of Purpose: How Salesforce Is Raising The Bar For Silicon Valley Companies To Get Involved In The United Nations SDG’s
Afdhel Aziz - Forbes 4d 1 tweets
Silicon Valley technology company Salesforce is now making an even bigger commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with $17 million dollars in grants, and a pledge of one million employee volunteer hours to be devoted...
Gabrielle Fitzgerald . writes about how is raising the #philanthropy bar in #SiliconValley + beyond: their "commitment to being a force for good is unparalleled." 4d
The Hidden Mental Health Costs of Climate Change
Vice 8d 4 tweets
A new report from the World Health Organization warns that the climate crisis is already spreading disease, and could also trigger anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald "It’s important to link [mental health issues] to #climatechange," because "these events, they’re no longer one-off—it’s not a one-in-100-year flood anymore." A new report by warns about the impact #climatechange is already having on mental health 4d
Summit Agenda
American Sustainable Business Council 4d 2 tweets
December 10-11, 2019 - Washington, D.C. 
Gabrielle Fitzgerald Many of today's companies are adopting “high-road” #workplace practices, good for employees & employers alike. 's speaks about our work on the ROI of #paidleave at today's 's Sustainable Business & Advocacy Summit 3d
These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade
Nat Geo Science - Science 6d 8 tweets
The 2010s yielded many incredible finds and important milestones. Here are our favorites.
Disaster prevention is better than cure, says UN emergency chief   
The Telegraph 9d 2 tweets
What do the market price of goats, Google symptoms searches and satellite images of grasslands have in common?
Gabrielle Fitzgerald “An anticipatory approach [to disaster prevention] requires a degree of boldness, maybe bravery, to challenge the status quo. It requires a leap - not of faith, b/c this is data driven - but of confidence.” 7d
Record rise in attacks on healthcare workers leaves 'millions at risk' – UN
Karen McVeigh - the Guardian 8d 6 tweets
Increase in violent conflict combined with effects of climate crisis make outlook bleak for world’s poorest people, says report
Gabrielle Fitzgerald According to , attacks on healthcare workers have reached a "record high," and “unless #climatechange and the root of conflicts are better addressed,” the # of people in need could rise to 200M by 2022. #NotaTarget 7d
Scientists have gotten predictions of global warming right since the 1970s
David Roberts - Vox 9d 9 tweets
The first systematic review finds that climate models have been remarkably accurate.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald “We find that #climate models published over the past five decades were generally quite accurate in predicting #globalwarming in the years after publication.” #climatecrisis 7d
Men Say They Want Paid Leave but Then Don’t Use All of It. What Stops Them?
Claire Cain Miller - Nytimes.com 9d 16 tweets
When balancing work and family becomes difficult, women tend to resort to caregiving and men to earning money.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald Two new reports find that men take much shorter #paidleave than women: "To combat #genderinequality, it’s not enough for men & women to change their behavior. Bigger, structural changes are needed." 7d
The Persistent Myth of Female Office Rivalries
Harvard Business Review 11d 4 tweets
There’s no evidence that women are more hostile to other women than men are to other men.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald "Instead of setting up female rivalries, let’s fix those workplaces so that women are not systematically disadvantaged in their pursuit of career advancement." 8d
Philadelphia has a gun violence epidemic. What if it were treated like any other contagious disease?
The Philadelphia Inquirer - https://www.inquirer.com 10d 2 tweets
There is research showing that violence can spread, like any other contagion. It resembles public health issues in other ways, too.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald "When an area has violence, it breeds more violence, and violence makes every other social determinant of health worse.” -Kathleen Reeves, MD What exactly does it mean to take a #publichealth approach to #gunviolence? 8d
The 16 Scientific Moments That Defined 2019
Popular Mechanics 8d 2 tweets
A lot of science happened this year. Here are the moments and discoveries that amazed us.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald 15 science moments that had a big impact this year, including the first all-female #spacewalk and the #Artemis mission and advances in #Ebola treatments: 8d
Nonprofits Raise Nearly $2 Billion on GivingTuesday
The Chronicle of Philanthropy 9d 4 tweets
As the day that kicks of year-end appeals wrapped up, U.S. nonprofits had raised an estimated $511 million online and twice as much offline. Many organizations fared better than in 2018 and took advantage of a variety of creative approaches to draw a
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Rsci.app.link 9d 1 tweets
Countries are 'exposed and vulnerable' to health impacts of climate change
The Telegraph 10d 3 tweets
The majority of countries around the world are not prepared to deal with the health impacts of climate change, despite mounting evidence of the threat to health posed by the warming planet.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald “Health has been seen as a separate issue... Govt's are not good at connecting different issues. #Climatechange is undermining all environmental determinants of health & should be forcing us to work better to make connections." 9d
Why You Should Give Your Money Away Today
Nytimes.com 10d 5 tweets
Understanding what motivates charitable giving could inspire us all to be more generous.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald "I learned that there are constraints on time and money at every stage in life. We can motivate ourselves to give throughout our lives, in whatever ways one can, by surrounding ourselves in giving-supportive contexts." Great advice from 9d