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When I talk to young girls, I think back to when I was 12 years old and I had just moved to Texas from Alabama. My dad took me to a Houston Comets game and that was it. I told him right then that I wanted to play in the WNBA.
I am in Bangkok and have been very impressed with the work our local team is doing in delivering needed supplies to people that are still living in wa...
These are difficult economic times for many, and there are far too many children who will do without this holiday season. During this magical time of year, please be generous.
There's a new breed of activists on the rise. Mothers at mid-life are banding together around the rhetorical question: If we don't help this planet, who will?
Christmas is a magic time for most kids and many others in our community. Let's work together to insure it is a magic time for all kids young and old. Remember, you can make a difference (M.A.D.)!
Colleges want to see a well-rounded resume. So we troop off to nursing homes to entertain the aged, to schools to tutor the middle schoolers, and to shelters to cook for the less fortunate.
The challenges that children living with brain differences face each day represent a legitimate public health emergency -- and we have created the "Flawless elixir."
While giving a speech to a prep school in New York, I was asked an awesome question by a high school senior looking to volunteer in an orphanage. He w...
Unless the communities that typically receive services begin to serve, to stretch more than just their hands but their own hearts, they cannot experience the power they have to transform their own lives and own communities.
I am sometimes asked if it is difficult to be a hospice volunteer, to get to know someone only to have them pass away. The short answer is no. It is rewarding, transformative and life-affirming.
During the holidays it's natural for everyone to look back at what they did this year. For Peace Corps volunteers that can come with mixed emotions.
My first Thanksgiving after my divorce I thought was going to be my most awful ever but it was actually my greatest.
General Mills knows a thing or two about Zambia. It is one of four African countries where General Mills has been actively working to reduce malnutrition and insecurity.
At a time when most Americans are celebrating abundance, one in six of us is not getting enough to eat. Right now, do something to ensure that everyone has enough to eat this holiday season and throughout the year.
Yes, it's honorable to pass out turkey meals on Thanksgiving day. It's wonderful to pack baskets of food to distribute to hungry people. But true charity, philanthropy, goes beyond the coins that get dropped in the bell ringer's bucket at the holidays.
In West Africa, I confronted the "toubab" version of myself, a self previously foreign to me that was lethargic, cynical and at home with failure.
