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Trained as a journalist, Susan Skog has written about humanitarians and their projects for more than 20 years. The author of six nonfiction books, her work has also appeared in many leading magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Newsday, AARP, Family Circle, Prevention, and many other leading publications. Her latest book, The Give-Back Solution: Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents, and Travel, celebrates the rewards and impacts of giving back, and features hundreds of ways volunteers can channel their time, talents, and resources to make a difference here or around the world.

As a communications leader and consultant, Skog has supported the efforts of BeadforLife, Developments in Literacy, Water For People, Engineers Without Borders, Dining for Women, and other nonprofits at work in the developing world.

Blog Entries by Susan Skog

Skoll Recipient Ned Breslin: Lives Are Transformed When Water Projects Aren't Allowed to Fail

Posted April 6, 2011 | 15:42:35 (EST)

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As a young girl in an African village, Esperanca became a victim of drive-through humanitarianism. Well-intentioned groups came and installed life-saving, safe water projects -- but went away and never monitored those projects to make sure they were working. So, Esperanca's source of clean...

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Girls' Education in Pakistan Can't be Swept Away by Floodwaters

Posted August 23, 2010 | 19:10:36 (EST)

An e-mailed image from Sindh, the front lines of Pakistan's flooding, unfolds across my computer screen: The haunted eyes of a mother peer into the camera as she lies under a low, crude shelter with her young daughter. The shelter looks like an upturned coffee table with a canvas tarp...

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"Ponzied" and Poorer in Stuff, But Richer in What Really Matters

Posted November 5, 2009 | 20:49:35 (EST)

Millions of us are actively engaging, volunteering, and serving as never before. And I find it amazing how often the lives we save include our own.

Helping other people reach for a brighter day helped me not just survive, but soar, after staggering Ponzi losses. Three years ago, my...

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