Beyond The Market Book Published
The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together with other key economic data price and employment statistics are widely used as indicators of how well the nation is doing. GDP, however, is focused on the production of goods and services sold in markets and reveals relatively little about important production in the home and other areas outside of markets. A set of satellite accounts in areas such as health, education, volunteer and home production, and environmental impacts would contribute to a better understanding of major issues related to economic growth and societal well-being.

Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States, published by The National Academies Press in early 2005, is product of the Glaser Progress Foundation’s multi-year grants to Yale University. This book aims to encourage social scientists to make further efforts and contributions in the analysis of nonmarket activities and in corresponding data collection and accounting systems. Beyond the Market illustrates new data sources and new ideas that have improved the prospects for progress.Order this title.

Clinton Foundation Fundraiser
The Glaser Progress Foundation hosted President Bill Clinton at a Seattle fundraising event in June 2004. Some $200,000 was raised for the Clinton Foundation at a small dinner held between the President’s popular book signings of his autobiography My Life at the Issaquah Costco and Elliott Bay Books. The Glaser Progress Foundation contributed $20,000 to the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative which has become a focal point of the Clinton Foundation. President Clinton believes democratization, economic development and the security of the global community are at risk if we do not turn the tide of HIV/AIDS.

Rwandan Leader Visits Seattle
In April 2004 The Glaser Progress Foundation hosted President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and a delegation of ministers in Seattle. The Seattle visit – the first for the Rwandans -- grew out of a meeting earlier in the year in Kigali between President Kagame and Foundation Trustee Rob Glaser, who visited Rwanda to learn more about AIDS counseling, treatment and prevention in that country as performed by the Foundation-funded Access Project. While in Seattle President Kagame addressed a lunch crowd of business and civic leaders, seeking support for his country’s innovative and effective health programs. After a tour of RealNetworks and the Program on Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH), President Kagame delivered an address of hope with caution at the University of Washington, marking the ten year anniversary of the 100-day genocide that left over 800,000 Rwandans dead in one of the most tragic and genocides of this generation. President Kagame was joined in Seattle by Dr. Innocent Nyauhirira, Rwandan Minster of HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases and Zac Nsenga the Rwandan Ambassador to the United States.
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Just Published
Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy is the result of a year long exploration into the nature of progress, a joint effort of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and the Glaser Progress Foundation. Making Progress draws on writers from many disciplines to provoke a broad-based discussion on the meaning of, measurement of, and necessary conditions for, progress. Viewing the meaning of progress over time and across cultures, the book focuses the discussion into three domains: progress in relation to ourselves, including morality and literature; progress in relation to others, including social relations, human rights and justice; and progress in relation to our material and physical world, including economic wealth, new technologies, and the natural environment. Making Progress is unique in its attempt to systematically explore the relationship of public policy to progress. It will be of interest to the public whose lives are touched daily by public policy, and the scholars, policymakers, advocates and analysts who are helping to craft those policies in the name of progress. See Table of Contents.

Animal Grantmakers Meet in Seattle
The Glaser Progress Foundation hosted approximately 30 colleagues from across the country at the fourth annual Animal Grantmakers Conference held in Seattle on November 18 and 19, 2002. Special expert-led briefings were held on the topics of great apes, farmed animals, companion animals and endangered wildlife. Former presidential speechwriter Matthew Scully, author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy was among the featured speakers.