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• Date: 01 November 2016
• Published date: 01 November 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30254

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that White had allegedly received verbal and written

counseling for “excessive tardiness” on two occasions,

a reprimand for being away from an assigned location,

and that a fellow ofcer was ordered to stop training

her on the use of a laser device in preparation for a

certication in speed detection.

The judge explained that White had failed to

allege how the counseling or reprimand had an

adverse impact on her compensation, or the terms,

conditions or privileges of her employment. She

acknowledged that White had alleged that most of

the adverse actions were committed by—or osten-

sibly at the direction of—Graddy, in an effort to

ultimately demote or re her. However, the judge

ruled that allegation was irrelevant because White

never alleged she was demoted or red.

[White v. City of Sylvester, Georgia, U.S. District

Court for the Middle District of Georgia, No. 1:14-

CV-00076, 03/31/2016]. ■

Over $30 billion pledged

for African development

Political leaders, businesses and major development

agencies have pledged more than $30 billion in invest-

ments to increase production, income and employment

for smallholder farmers and local African agriculture

businesses over the next 10 years. The collective pledges

at the African Green Revolution Forum are believed to

represent the largest package of nancial commitments

to the African agricultural sector to date, backed by

the broadest coalitions ever assembled in support of

food production on the continent.

According to the AGRF, the commitments repre-

sent just the rst wave of support for the new “Seize the

Moment” campaign, which is backed by the African

Union Commission, the New Partnership for Africa’s

Development, the African Development Bank, the

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and several

key nonprot groups, companies and donor countries.

The campaign will push for the political, policy

and nancial commitments essential to transforming

Africa’s agricultural sector. The goal is to usher in a

new era of business opportunities for the 70 percent

of the African population that depend on farming for

food and income, yet too often face poverty and poor

nutrition, the AGRF said.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance names

charities failing in transparency

The BBB Wise Giving Alliance, a service of the

Better Business Bureau, has released a list of the 10

largest charities it says fail the test of transparency and,

therefore, should raise red ags for donors. According

to the group, the list—which includes numerous rec-

ognizable charities, including Teach for America, the

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National

Fish and Wildlife Foundation—did not disclose any of

the requested information needed to verify the charity’s

trustworthiness.

The BBB WGA conducts rigorous, comprehensive

evaluations on thousands of charities to help donors

ensure that the money and time they donate is being

spent wisely. When evaluating charities, the group

looks at 20 key metrics on subjects ranging from board

governance and nancials to fundraising activities and

impact measurement efforts.

The group compiles its list of top Transparency

Dodgers to uncover some of the largest national chari-

ties that fail to disclose critical information and un-

derscore the importance of donors researching before

they give.

To read the list in full, go to http://www.give.org.

U.S. commits up to $4.3 billion

for disease prevention

The United States is committing up to $4.3 billion

through 2019 to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,

Tuberculosis and Malaria, subject to congressional ap-

propriations. According to a statement from National

Security Advisor Susan Rice, the federal government is

committing to match one dollar for every two dollars in

pledges made by other donors through Sept. 30, 2017.

The government is calling on all partners to contrib-

ute in order to leverage this matching pledge to reach

the Global Fund’s replenishment goal of $13 billion

for the three-year period from 2017 to 2019, averting

300 million new infections and saving an additional 8

million lives from HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

by 2020. ■