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Global Issues

Voices from the Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary, Including Paul Farmer

The opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum had numerous themes and twitter-perfect quotes, but to me one of the most important threads that ran through the evening was the importance of giving individuals a voice to help themselves out of conflict, abject poverty, and the effects of natural disaster. With speakers from the development, NGO, and medical innovation communities, the audience was encouraged to shift our language of the poor... (continue reading this blog post)

Philanthropy

How to Help Haiti

I’ve been asked by many people how they can best provide support in the wake of the Haitian earthquake. However, picking nonprofits on behalf of our clients is really not what we get hired to do… (continue reading this blog post)

Global Issues

Research: Why They Stayed

Social Innovations

The House That BRAC Built

Global Issues

Technology’s Positive Impact on Human Rights

The author details a Web that tells stories and exposes human injustice and trauma rather than gossip

Nonprofits

Q & A: William Brindley

Global Issues

Review: Despite Good Intentions

Nonprofit Management

Going Global

Social Innovations

Where’s the Money?

Where are the NGOs in the long wake of the Asian tsunami?

Nonprofits

Hurricane Relief Not Coming from Large Nonprofits

Where are the Red Cross and Salvation Army?