FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2019 CONTACT Billy Williams | billy.williams@nuruinternational.org Washington, DC–Nuru International celebrates the passage of the bipartisan Global Fragility Act (GFA), included in the Fiscal Year 2020 spending package. This landmark legislation requires the establishment of a robust strategy to focus U.S. foreign assistance on addressing and preventing violent extremism in fragile …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2019 CONTACT Tacy Layne | tacy.layne@nuruinternational.org Costa Mesa– On Thursday, July 18, the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs hosted its “UNITY on GLOBAL FRAGILITY: Can Today’s Momentum in Washington Stop Tomorrow’s Violent Conflicts?” event in Washington, D.C. The hosts led a robust discussion on countering violent …
WASHINGTON – Humentum honored Marc Rahlves, Chief Operating Officer at Nuru International, with its 2019 Operational Excellence Award at the annual conference, OpEx DC 2019, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, July 10. The Humentum Operational Excellence Awards were established in 2010 (originally the InsideNGO Operational Excellence Awards) to recognize professionals within the development sector who …
Costa Mesa, CA– Nuru International applauds the introduction of the Global Fragility Act of 2019, by Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), Mike McCaul (R-TX), Adam Smith (D-WA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Bill Keating (D-MA), and Francis Rooney (R-FL) in the United States House of Representatives as H.R. 1580, and Senators Christopher Coons (D-DE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff …
On November 27th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed critical bi-partisan legislation that Nuru International and a broad coalition of other NGOs have been tirelessly working on for over two years. The Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act would require the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), …
BrandPlus TV created the Executive Woman series to showcase how women are transforming the socio-economic landscape in Kenya while also creating positive change in their communities. Using powerful storytelling, BrandPlus TV seeks to motivate women to go after their dreams. In the episode, host Ng’endo Mwangi speaks to Pauline Wambeti, the Country Director of Nuru Kenya, an …
In the fight against terrorism, Jimmy Leak ’12 isn’t a typical soldier. Instead of military training, he has a Ph.D. in educational policy & social context. And instead of drone strikes, he relies on poems and storybooks. Leak works for Nuru International, a nonprofit founded by an ex-Marine who sees poverty and hopelessness as fertile …
Can growing corn in Kenya fight terrorism? One veteran says it can. By Robert L. Strauss BY HIS OWN RECKONING, Jake Harriman has told the same story more than 500 times. It is early morning in April 2003. The fog is lifting along Highway 7 in southern Iraq. A small car blazes up the road. …
By Robert L. Strauss IF JAKE HARRIMAN’S EPIPHANY about war and peace came in 2003 along Highway 7 in southern Iraq, then Alex Martin’s arrived aboard the Magellan Star, a German-owned cargo ship pirated off the coast of Somalia in 2010. Martin, a major in the Marine Corps reserve who co-directed Nuru’s operations in Kenya …
In this interview on July 10, 2015, Presidential Leadership Scholar Jake Harriman speaks with CNN Newsroom Anchor Brooke Baldwin about his unique opportunity to interact with former Presidents Bush and Clinton and about his work with Nuru International. The full transcript for the “George W. Bush and Bill Clinton On One Stage” segment is on CNN.com.
Click here to read this post in the New York Times. These days, I spend most of my time hiking the rolling hills and valleys of Kuria, a remote district in rural Kenya. I’m on a very different career path now than I was before, as a Marine patrolling streets and alleys in Iraq. In …
Nuru International is humbled that a number of well respected blogs, websites, and magazines have written about our work in 2010. Here is a sampling of what’s being said about us: “Nuru’s mission is simple but ambitious: end extreme poverty and, as a direct result, contribute to ending terrorism.” -Tonic.com “[Nuru is] an organization becoming …
Nuru International CEO Jake Harriman is quoted in a Huffington Post article. The piece titled [How To] Design for (Real) Impact, written by Jacob Donnelly, looks at high performance organizations that focus on measuring impact of positive behavioral changes in the communities where they work and live. It’s a great read and we’re honored to …
Nuru International CEO Jake Harriman was recently featured on Tonic.com. Writer Will Laughlin wrote the feature entitled Uncommon Valor: A Marine Trades His Guns for Good. The article compellingly recounts Jake’s experiences as a U.S. Marine Force Recon Platoon Commander in the Iraq War, and his decision to leave the military to start Nuru International. …
Nuru International is humbled to be featured on Apple.com’s Hot News feed. Apple’s Hot News picked up a story written by Jim Dalrymple of The Loop Insight website entitled, “Non-profit organization Nuru utillizes Macs to end extreme poverty.” The Nuru Media team is in heaven since we’re all HUGE Mac fans! Thank you to The …