The key question then is how to humanize such mega-cities, the theme of the upcoming New Cities Foundation summit that Sao Paulo is hosting in June. (Full disclosure: I serve on the NCF board of trustees.) The reinvention of Sao Paulo will begin right at its center with projects such as the URBEM Foundation's Casa Paulista.

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The London summit kicks off the Foundation's official campaign for support and funding for that effort.

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From a research station operated by the National Science Foundation called Summit Camp, a spot where the ice sheet is about 2 miles thick, GROVER will crawl at an average speed of 1.2 mph (2 kilometers per hour).

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Sponsored by the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92Y, UNDP and The Gates Foundation, the annual Social Good Summit, now heading into its 4th year, never ceases to amaze.

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Last month, the Authentics Foundation held the Global Anti-Counterfeit summit in Brussels.

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These days, he devotes more time on the charitable projects of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, which owns 24% of JG Summit.

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Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.

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This week, the United Nations Foundation will join governments, the private sector and civil society organizations for a summit in Washington focused on ending preventable child deaths.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend.

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