by Gary MacDonald | Jan 5, 2017 | General
om Green was seldom what people expected. The first time we met I wasn’t quite sure what to make of him. It was the typical kind of cloyingly hot day in Indonesia where the spiced smell of cigarettes sinks into your clothes. Tom had a ready smile and a big handshake....
by Gary MacDonald | Aug 5, 2016 | General
WASHINGTON, DC, FEBRUARY 1, 2016—Social performance management leader MFC has named Krista Hendry as its new chief of operations. Hendry, formerly the executive director of the Fund for Peace, brings more than a decade’s experience working with companies and civil...
by Gary MacDonald | Aug 5, 2016 | Environmental Impact Assessment, Health Impact Assessment
VANCOUVER – A detailed impact assessment of the Mount Polley tailings-dam spill nearly two years ago has found ongoing damage to salmon fisheries and community life in First Nations communities. A report of the findings was released Friday, July 29, 2016, by...
by Gary MacDonald | May 21, 2016 | General
NAGOYA, JAPAN, May 13, 2016—Managing worker influx is often a problem for startup projects, and that can especially be the case when one of the main goals of the project is to encourage economic transformation. Those are the dynamics key MFC staff explore in its...
by Gary MacDonald | May 21, 2016 | Agriculture, Capacity Building, Community Development, Community Relations, Crisis, Environmental Impact Assessment
HANOI, JANUARY 1, 2016–International funders and organizations looking for funding got a break last week when an internationally recognized consulting company founded a company in Hanoi. The company, Monkey Forest Consulting Vietnam Limited (MFC-VN), started...