Tackling Homelessness Beyond Shelters
Rosanne Haggerty’s Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City. Rosanne Haggerty…
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Extreme Do-GooderS: What Makes Them Tick?
Five extraordinary social entrepreneurs talk about their defining moments – when the urge to change the world gathered such force they couldn’t ignore it….
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Empathy Is His Superpower
Geoffrey Canada’s initiative, Harlem Children’s Zone, has grown to reach 8,000 children across nearly 100 city blocks. New York — Geoffrey Canada still remembers…
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The Pity and Voyeurism — and Authenticity — Of Poverty Tourism
Does peeking at how the other five-sixths lives preserve culture – or commodify it? Mayange, Rwanda — Jeanne d’Arc Mukamurigo and her daughter sit…
Read MoreI’m really concerned about whether Angelina Jolie birthed those twins or not
No, I’m not. I just wanted to test that out and see how it feels. It feels as stupid as this little blip from…
Read MoreForget fish. Teach a man–an Afghan man–to make soap. And then take all his money.
This is a tantalizing–and for that reason, far too short–look at the way U.S. foreign aid works. Albeit in a single country. In a…
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