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Wendy Davis for Texas

Brent Budowsky | Posted 06.17.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

The future of Texas will not be found in voices who prefer a Texas in which Hispanics are second-class citizens when they seek to vote and women are second class citizens when they seek to live their lives as they choose and seek a good job and a fair wage.

How-To Scale Your Impact By Going Small

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 06.17.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

"We must not only give what we have. We must also give what we are," advised the 20th Century Belgian Roman Catholic Cardinal DƩsirƩ-FƩlicien-Fran...

How-To Network Yourself Like A Change Agent Pro

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 06.10.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

Networking begins with being selfish. For a successful career in social entrepreneurship, social change work and life itself, become a selfish listen...

How-To Be An Imperfect Woman Of Change

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 06.02.2013 | Women
Jonathan Lewis

Social entrepreneurs of both sexes are imperfect beings -- with imperfect answers - acting on imperfect information -- for causes with imperfect resul...

How-To Make Your Mentor Matter

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2013 | College
Jonathan Lewis

Students are graduating. Hard-won college diplomas are being handed out with hearty handshakes and heartfelt wishes for successful careers. Graduati...

What My Mom Taught Me About Money

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 05.10.2013 | Black Voices
Dedrick Muhammad

All over the country, we will honor and celebrate our moms, take them to nice restaurants and shower them with gifts. But let's make sure to especially thank them for their economic sacrifices. On average it can cost around $176,890-$353,410 to raise a child from birth to 17. And that's not even including college!

Elise Foley

Senator Plans Amendment To Help Undocumented Kids

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) will push for an amendment to give undocumented children -- or "little Dreamers," as advocates call th...

Perhaps Congress Can Also Honor Dr. Yunus by Paying Attention to Him

Bob Harris | Posted 04.22.2013 | Impact
Bob Harris

Now that our leaders have given Dr. Yunus a gold medal, perhaps they might more truly honor him by considering why.

Social Change for Free Is a Difficult Price Point to Undersell

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 06.03.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

We can and must learn to acknowledge -- indeed respect -- the sincerely committed social innovator without unthoughtfully endorsing every social innovation.

Go BIG with Your Social Impact Career

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.26.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

No question, but that it is easier on the soul to work for a NGO, a social enterprise or an economic development agency. Purity is emotionally safe.

Get YOUR Social Justice Career Started Today

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.12.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

Falsely, neophyte social entrepreneurs often suppose that innovative social change starts with a great idea -- a brilliant insight. Maybe.

Ready to Change the World? Not So Fast

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 04.30.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Lewis

Social entrepreneurship is undeniably an adventure, an elixir, an exhilarating rush... a one-person fountain of youth. Well and good, but a social change career is not intended as personal therapy, these social change experts are warning social change novices.

Obama Seeks More Social Tolerance, Economic Opportunity For All

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 01.28.2013 | Politics

The president wants more social tolerance and economic opportunity. One goal is more achievable than the other....

Poor Americans More And More Likely To Stay That Way

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.27.2012 | Business

It's getting harder for poor Americans to lift themselves up. Don't believe it? The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has some pretty compelling evide...

Celebrate AmeriCorps Week 2012: Submit Your Photos!

Posted 03.14.2012 | Impact

When President Bill Clinton swore in the first class of AmeriCorps members in 1994, he asked them to reflect on the power of service: Service is a...

If Occupy Is Ephemeral, Is That a Bad Thing?

Colin Delany | Posted 05.16.2012 | Politics
Colin Delany

With the long-term occupations coming to an end, and more traditional activism coming to the fore (protesting international summits is not exactly a new thing), is Occupy fading as a distinct movement?

Honor Martin Luther King By Supporting His Causes

Posted 01.16.2012 | Impact

Though Monday is a national day of service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are other ways to pay tribute to the civil rights leader besides...

Overcoming Barriers with Electronic Connectivity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Jim Luce

Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.

Connectivity Is Key To Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jim Luce

In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...

PHOTOS: The Countries With BEST Economic Opportunities For Women

The Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

The United States is well behind other advanced economies in creating economic opportunities for women, according to a new ranking by theThe Economist...

How a National Broadband Plan Will Be The Next Public Works

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Ramon Nuez

The National Broadband Plan has been a project that the Federal Communications Commission has been charged with since early 2009. The plan is designed...

A Step Towards Equal Opportunity

Beth Shulman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Beth Shulman

If we want to live up to our promise of equal opportunity, we need to increase the size and number of Pell grants and give loan priority to those who need it most, just as President Obama is proposing.

Economic Stimulus: Fixing the Car While We're Driving It

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Hoyt Hilsman

The challenge of "fixing a car while we're driving it" is to make sure that we don't let the economy crash while making the fundamental repairs necessary to keep it running well into the future.