7 Gifts that Give Back to the World
This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.
This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.
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.
Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Katrina affected everybody in New Orleans, but the long term effects of days in crowded shelters, months of homelessness, and years of changing schools have proved especially destructive to children.
AP | ROD McGUIRK and AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
APIA, Samoa — Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-swept streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed surv...
Richard Walden | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 28, 2009)-- Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced that it was preparing relief supplies to ...
Arnold Bogis | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Local officials should not delude themselves into thinking that existing plans for responding to dirty bombs can be simply expanded to deal with nuclear terrorism.
Kelly Caldwell | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
It is not enough to either sit by and hope that each president makes disaster-recovery a priority, or to spread urban legends designed to make FEMA as popular as Guantanamo Bay.
Richard Walden | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
China's 10 million-plus victims of last May's Sichuan Earthquake remain largely in massive temporary prefabricated housing complexes, in tents or under blue tarps in partially damaged homes.
Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
It occurred to me that maybe more was going on at the site of the 1.1 billion gallon coal ash spill in Tennessee than what I could gather from the news. With an invitation from the community, I decided to make the trip to the disaster site.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
The independent liberal group Accountable America is coming out with a new 60-second spot that tweaks some familiar GOP talking points on the economy....
Richard Walden | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living
Most of the large brand name relief groups derive 20-75% of all their funds from US government agencies but non-governmental Operation USA is not beholden to political winds.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media
They looked like they didn't have a lot of money. They didn't look like they were there for the NAB. They weren't. They were victims of Hurricane Ike.
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
Governor Jindal has noticed a disparity between the federal government's willingness to lift a recovery burden off the state of Texas and its refusal to do the same for Louisiana.
Mark Shriver | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
While the federal disaster relief agencies are there to protect us, there is one tragic and gaping hole in our disaster relief system: the protection of our kids.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
Relief to small businesses and homeowners recovering from this season's round of hurricanes will be dramatically hampered by a series of severe Bush A...
Arthur Fournier | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
Most of Haiti's 8-12 million people live in an inaccessible interior, rarely visited by the press, who focuses more on the coastal areas of the country.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
Local radio coverage is "pathetic," Wirt said in frustration, urging citizens journalists to try to make contact with the Terrebonne Indian tribe "who did not dodge a bullet."
Craig Newmark | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Hey, still of great pertinence is the Gustav Information Center, thanks to Andy Carvin. It consolidates a lot of good info, and will be the basis of ...
Richard Walden | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
Most people think everyone engaged in relief, development, and human rights basically have shared goals. But there's a shocking split between human rights and relief communities.
Philip Slater | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
It's useful to compare the way China handled its national disaster with the way the Burmese handled the cyclone, and the way our Republican administration handled Katrina.
Richard Walden | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact