Nuru: non-profit that works to end extreme poverty

This article talks about Nuru's approach on communities that are at risk of becoming part of terrorism if their needs are not addressed properly. When in desperate positions, people will do anything to survive.

Nuru's founder, Jake Harriman, a platoon commander in the Infantry and an elite unit of Marines called Force Recon; believes that address the following five areas of development: : Agriculture, Water & Sanitation, Healthcare, Community Economic Development and Education; extreme poverty can end and therefore terrorism.

http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/11/18/non-profit-organization-nuru-utilizes-macs-to-end-extreme-poverty/

Hypothesis VIII

This thesis presents the hypothesis that strategic design, a problem-solving methodology that uses abductive reasoning, can be applied to the challenge of providing financial support to a community center in a developing country. Traditional sources of financial support for such institutions, including individual benefactors, government agencies and international organizations have shown to be unreliable. Applying strategic design methodology to such a problem may provide innovative sources of funding for a community center drawn from local residences, a network of numerous such centers, and a hybrid of local and global community center grown businesses and cooperatives.