It's the local stories of cities and communities coming together for a shared cause that resonate the most here at Impact. Beau's Buddies Cancer Fund'...
Eric Klein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
CAN-DO was born out of my own frustration with the system and the critical need I saw to hold charitable organizations accountable for hard-earned donations and to the communities they serve.
Richard Walden | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
There were the obvious public statements issued after the US journalists returned from North Korea, but the off-radar, embargoed news was potentially as important as a thaw in our relations.
Louis Belanger | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
The UN has designated August 19th the inaugural World Humanitarian Day, to honor aid workers and the jobs they do in difficult and dangerous environments. Here is a slideshow to mark the event.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.
Jake Whitney | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
In addition to killing the aid program, Dambisa Moyo prescribes free-market policies such as delving into the capital markets and creative financing such as micro-finance.
Magatte Wade and Michael Strong | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
How can we help Africans develop companies that produce some of the coolest products and services on the planet, while producing them in a socially and environmentally responsible way?
Al Jazeera | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
The United Nations Security Council is to meet to discuss Sudan's decision to expel several aid groups from the country following the indictment of it...
Rob Crilly | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
"We didn't know how the government was going to react," said a Western diplomatic source. "This is one of our worst-case scenarios."
Dennis Whittle | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
As Bill Easterly has pointed out, we have spent more than $2 trillion in aid over the past fifty years with not enough to show for it.
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
What we need from your presidency, Mr. Obama, is a vision of how every man woman and child on our planet is connected and poverty can be changed.
Gary Paul Nabhan | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green
The sad truth is that famines are shaped less by drought and more by inequitable political and economic access to seed diversity, technical assistance, and temporary food relief.
Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact