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New York Faith Community and Sikhs of Kenya: A Partnership is Born

Nomi Teutsch | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Interfaith Action, Sikhism, UNITED SIKHS, Sikhs of Kenya, New York, Interfaith Impact, Impact, Interfaith, Religion News

Communities and individuals across NYC have been working together not only to have impact on issues of global health and hunger, but to show the positive power that people of faith can have.

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Connecting The Dots

Ian David Moss | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Nea, Creative Placemaking, Research, Impact, Outcomes, Evaluation, Artplace, The Recessionary Arts, Recessionary Arts, Culture News

Much like South Park's Underpants Gnomes, arts projects may have a clear idea of what they're putting into the process and what they hope to get out of it, but a much vaguer sense of how they're going to get from Phase 1 to Phase 3.

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Pride & Prejudice: (What) Can Nonprofits Learn From the For-Profit World?

Richard Dare | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Arts, Nonprofits, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Entrepreneurship, Business Model, Art, Strategy, Brooklyn, Orchestra, New York, Impact, Business Plan, Culture News

Like everyone else in the business world, we nonprofits need money to operate, folks, and lots of it. Let's focus on some steps nonprofits might take to follow their siblings in the for-profit sector toward a brighter financial future.

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Saving Lives in Africa?

Scott Warren | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Kony 2012, Kenya, Making a Difference, Impact, Africa, World News

Whether we like it or not, Africa is a land where white people can make a difference in the lives of the natives. So should we?

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Woman's Unexpected Million-Dollar Legacy

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Self-Improvement, Marathon, Death, Legacy, Personal Legacy, Activism, Gps-Soul, Mindfulness, Personal Impact, Volunteerism, Contributions, Memories, Impact, Healthy Living News

Although it is a morbid exercise, I want you to think about what your obituary will read one day. What words will people use to describe you and how will you remembered?

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May Day Coverage - Oakland

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Ows, Jobs, May Day, Occupy, Impact, Protest, Occupy Oakland, Video, Impact News

Youth Radio reporters are live Tweeting May Day demonstrations in Oakland, California @YouthRadio, and we're archiving the stream on this p...

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The Hunt for Impact Investments

Maura O'Neill | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Usaid, Innovation, Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Investment, State Department, Impact, Impact News

If a boat is financial capital, and deals are the fish, investors want to be floating in a river where the fish are jumping.

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Could You Live On $1.50 A Day?

Charlotte Dando | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Interfaith Action, Interfaith, UK Impact, Multifaith Action, Live-Below-the-Line, Impact, Interfaith-Social-Action, Religion News

We believe that the time to take action is now. We are inspired by our faith to take action.

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Leveraging Technology to Feed India's Hungry Children

Jesse Seaver | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Underprivileged Children, India, Underprivileged Students, Technology, Child Hunger, Impact, Third World Poverty, Curry Without Worry, Poverty in India, Video, Global Motherhood, Impact News

A wholesome mid-day meal, served in schools, helps break the cycle of poverty and helps children to become productive global citizens.

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Tackling Shame: 'Shame's Primary Power Is to Make Us Afraid of Being Vulnerable.' Part I

George Molho | Posted 04.24.2012

The beauty of vulnerability is in its expression. Its power resides in embracing it. By being unafraid to be vulnerable you will shrink shame, make a feast of fear and starve insecurities.

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Introducing 'The Boston Hope Project'

Shannon Archer | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Buried Life, Childhood Health, The Buried Life, Bucket List, Impact, Books News

This entry is part of a contest by HuffPost Books and The Buried Life. Click here to read more about it. When it comes to sports, I have the most ra...

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Sponsoring Prosper

Zach Grossman | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Child Sponsorship, Buried Life, The Buried Life, Bucket List, Impact, Books News

This entry is part of a contest by HuffPost Books and The Buried Life. Click here to read more about it. I started sponsoring Prosper in February of...

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Students Determined To Change The World

Katherine Marshall | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Northwestern University, Global-Engagement-Summit, Social Entrepreneurship, Faith Acts Fellow, Interfaith, Impact, Religion News

Spiritual values and a spiritual quest are thus part and parcel of the vision that brings the Global Engagement Summit together.

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A Guy Who's Plugged In: How Our Spending Can Change the World

Jesse Seaver | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Electric Car, Philanthropy, Charitable Giving, Electric Cars, Impact, Impact News

"It's the only car I've ever loved. It's guilt-free driving. And I'm proud to be seen in it. I never had a sports car, but everyone is looking at me as if I'm the coolest guy on the block. They ask if it's really fully electric, and are amazed that there is no place for the gasoline!'"

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Homelessness - A Test of True Compassion

Christine Schanes | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Christine Schanes, Homelessness, Compassion, Impact, Impact News

I believe that we are all, with the possible exception of a very few, born with compassion. Thus, for most of us, the quality of compassion is already within ourselves from birth -- we need only to find and awaken our compassion.

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Will He Make It? Brit's Astounding Quest For Charity

Huffington Post | Janie Campbell | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Lewis-Colam-Rowing, Fischer Center for Alzheimer's Research, Miami Impact, I Am Fine Challenge, Paula Deen, Alzheimer's, Tracking Lewis Colam, Rowing Miami to New York, Michael Groover Lewis Colam, Lewis Colam, Impact, Alzheimers, Miami News

Last time we checked in with Lewis Colam, the 24-year-old Brit was just starting out on what some onlookers considered an impossible challenge: rowing...

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Modern Family, Rockefeller Style

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Susan Rockefeller, Mission of Mermaids, Rockefeller, Bid to Save the Earth, Christie's Bid to Save the Earth, Ocean Conservation, David Rockefeller, Impact, Impact News

When I first met Sue Rockefeller at a social function, she was simply a person standing next to me with a wine glass.

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Passover In The First Person

David Leopold | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Religion and Politics, Religion, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, DREAM Act, Passover, Judaism, Impact, Immigration, Religion News

The Haggadah that we read at the seder table, instructs that the history of liberation be remembered as a personal experience, commanding that parents tell the story to their children in the first person: "I myself went free from Egypt."

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Last of the Nomads: How Mongolian Culture May Change Drastically Within a Generation

Nina Wegner | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Nomadic Living, Impact, Mongolia, Mongolian Culture, Nomads, Slidepollajax, Herding, World News

Two years later, while many in Mongolia continue to recover from the 2010 dzud, the trend of urbanization still continues, and at a rapid rate. Many herders now agree that pasture quality and the harshness of recent winters are so bad that herding has become untenable.

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Cuts To Global Aid Are Unjustified - Even In The Current Climate

Dr David McNair | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Overseas Aid, Poverty, UK Impact, Children, Africa, UK Politics, Ghana, Global Motherhood, Global Aid, Save the Children, Immunisation, Impact, Home News

New figures from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that global aid fell in 2011 for the first time in 14 years. The cut of nearly 3% will impede progress in reducing poverty and cost children's lives.

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Because Of People Who Cared

Rev. Romal J. Tune | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Religion, Education, Poverty, Academic Achievement, Charity, Donating to Charity, Public Education, Faith, Impact, Religion News

Why are we doing this? Because I know what it's like to be a child feeling alone in the world wondering if anyone cares enough to help.

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Melting Before My Eyes

Lea Lane | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Travel, Climate Change, Glaciers, World, Greenland, Antarctica, Global Warming, Impact, Greenland Ice Melting, Greenland Glaciers, Greenland Ice, Green News

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April 4th: Lend your Leg

Carlos Macías | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Colombia War, International Mine Awareness Day, Colombia, Lend Your Leg, Impact, Latino Voices News

The United Nations has declared April 4 as the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action to fight back against these buried threats.

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Grab the Land

Josh Tetrick | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Poverty, Disease, Water, Africa, Genocide, Land, Impact, Development, Inequity, Inequality, Culture, Impact News

For millions of indigenous villagers and pastoralists it means forced relocation, loss of livelihoods, and a death blow to their ancient cultures. Ethiopia is a sad example of the worst of these outcomes.

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Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and GMOs

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Sustainable Food, Alison Rose Levy, Earth, Green, Planet, Monsanto, Usda, Ecology, Water, Food Politics, Deepak Chopra, Food Supply, Environment, Food, Bullshit, Vandana Shiva, Deepakhomebasecom, Impact, Green News

By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.

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