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'Tis the Season to Give Back -- Digitally

Chris Curtin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Chris Curtin

Many people celebrate the holidays by giving back to their communities. People are discovering, though, that they can do more and have an even greater impact via the digital ecosystem.

All I Want for Christmas Is a Cow

Mary Steenburgen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Mary Steenburgen

If you're still scrambling to finish your holiday shopping, allow me to make an unlikely suggestion: A camel. Or a pig. Maybe a flock of chicks? Or, what the heck, buy an entire ark!

A New Decade for Women-Focused Philanthropy

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Kristi York Wooten

Women-focused philanthropy is more than just a trend; over the past several years, it has become one of the most important models for creating tangible results in communities.

Greening Your Holiday Gifts

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Terry Gardner

If you or your loved ones lean green, here are some possibilities for eco-friendly Christmas gifts. Of course, adopting a rescued animal or ...

Christmas Gifts 2010: 9 Gifts That Give Back

Posted 11.17.2012 | Impact

In the frenzy of holiday shopping, many look for presents that reward a lot more than just department stores. This year, there are tons of opportu...

Former Coca-Cola Exec Takes Reins At Hunger Relief Nonprofit

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

The world's top hunger-fighting nonprofit has appointed a new CEO -- a former food industry titan from Coca-Cola and Ben and Jerry's. Heifer Internat...

Playing for Keeps: Students Who Rock Hunger

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dan Silverstein

Last week, as Midnight Madness showcased college basketball players with visions of massive wealth and self-indulgence written all over their face...

Pushing For More and Better Development Assistance, One Letter at a Time

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Danielle Nierenberg

An interview with Asma Lateef, Director of the Bread for the World Institute, an anti-hunger advocacy organization.

World Food Conference Looks At Subsistence Farming

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

DES MOINES, Iowa — About 1 billion small farmers worldwide, many of them women, face drought, the effects of climate change and a lack of techno...

World Food Day: Changing the Politics of Hunger

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Kristi York Wooten

These commemorative occasions have little to do with cooking and everything to do with the humanitarian game changers who are working to find solutions to the world's hunger problem.

'Twitter For Food' Campaign Urges Skipping Meals, Giving To Charity

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

A new year, a new social-media-for-good campaign. TwitterForFood.com is urging users of the social microblogging site to tweet the following message: ...

The Gifts that Keep on Giving

Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Wendy Diamond

A recent Animalfair.com readership study found that 84% of pet parents will give their furry pals gifts this holiday season. Here are a few different ways you can give gifts that make a difference!

Kids Give Up Christmas Presents To Give Animals Through Heifer International

Causecast | Erica Liepmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Alyssa Ripley is your average seven year old girl, attending second grade in her hometown of Proctorsville, Vermont. Except this year, when Christmas ...

Hungry Cows, Hungrier People

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Josh Ruxin

In a country where ethnic distinctions were often linked to the number of cows owned, the free distribution of cows in Rwanda is a great equalizer. But if the cows are hungry, so are the people.

Lap Dance for Santa and other Off The Wall Gift Ideas

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Mary Ann West

The same fitness craze that brought us belly and pole dancing now has us Lap Dancing. This is not about the tawdry aspects of sex; it's about power, the power of the woman.

Save The World, One Gift At A Time

DivineCaroline.com | Kate Carter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

I love giving presents so much that I'm infamous among family and friends for coercing people into opening their gifts as soon as I buy them--sometime...

Go Green: Give Nothing

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Olivia Zaleski

Why is it that every holiday shopping season, I somehow believe the most useless mechanized piece of plastic will make the perfect Christmas gift? E...