In our risk-taking series, Tulane University and Ashoka U students Katie Smalley and Laura White shed light on the value of risk-taking. By interviewing social innovators about bold steps they’ve taken, they reveal that behavior that appears risky may be the most dependable ...
While attending Opportunity Collaboration, a professed non-conference conference focused on eradicating poverty last week in Ixtapa, Mexico, I started jotting down my learnings along the way. Here are a few of them, in no particular order. A visitor is a blessing. Peter Ndungu, ...
PROBLEM: People generally want to volunteer in some capacity; social change organizations generally need volunteers. Soup kitchens and Habitat for Humanity seldom have a shortage of volunteers, because most anyone can do it. But, for a professional who wants to use their specialized ...
About 1.2 million American students drop out of high school each year, at great cost -- high school graduates earn ten times more wealth over their careers than dropouts. If the students who dropped out of the class of 2007 had graduated, the ...
Good design can innovate solutions to problems we weren’t even aware of and create products that make everyday life easier. Ramsey Ford, a co-founder of Design Impact, spoke to Dowser about the myriad possibilities in harnessing the power of effective design in development ...
Americans don’t save enough. In 2005, Americans’ personal savings rate was negative for the first time since the Great Depression ─ instead of piling up savings, we are piling up debt. According to Financial Engines, an investment advisory firm that has surveyed the ...
At 32, after a two-decade battle with drug addiction, Gary Field walked out of a rehab center and shortly thereafter discovered a passion for helping others. Field began working as a social worker focusing on mental health care in New York City, but ...
Shortly after Gerald Chertavian landed a banking job on Wall Street in the late 1980s, he became a Big Brother to David Heredia, a ten-year old who lived in a low-income housing project in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Chertavian was moved by David’s ...
Brenda Palms Barber didn’t set out to make honey. But after spending six years teaching work and life skills to ex-offenders in Chicago—only to see them get rejected for jobs due to the stigma of incarceration—the director of the North Lawndale Employment Network ...