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G8: Don't Forget the Farmer at the End of the Road

Samuel A. Worthington | Posted 06.08.2013 | Impact
Samuel A. Worthington

As world leaders tackle hunger, poor nutrition and extreme poverty, they need to ensure their solutions are not top down. Farmers, particularly women farmers, must be central to any strategy and not an afterthought.

Promoting Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Women's Health

Leslie Mancuso, PhD, RN, FAAN | Posted 03.24.2013 | Impact
Leslie Mancuso, PhD, RN, FAAN

At the center of our global health partnerships are strategies and innovations to prevent the needless deaths of women and families, whether from childbirth, HIV/AIDS, malaria, infection or cervical cancer.

Not-So-Common Courtesy

SidneyAnne Stone | Posted 03.12.2013 | Women
SidneyAnne Stone

We have started to accept the unacceptable as the norm. Whether it is our politicians, our doctors, our pharmacists or even our neighbors, when did it become OK to do whatever you want and expect it be tolerated?

Lizzie Bennet Diaries Modernizes Pride and Prejudice for the YouTube Generation

Shira Lazar | Posted 01.06.2013 | Books
Shira Lazar

The stars of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries YouTube phenomenon -- Ashley Clements (Lizzie Bennet) and Daniel Vincent Gordh (William Darcy) -- join What's Trending to answer fan questions about the webcam adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Five Things LinkedIn Has Forgotten About People

Liz Ryan | Posted 12.02.2012 | Business
Liz Ryan

I love LinkedIn as a tool, and I write incessantly about it, but I get frustrated at its social ineptitude.

Is Talking to Strangers Good for the Soul (and for America)?

Matthew Ross Smith | Posted 10.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Matthew Ross Smith

Were Americans ever really more connected and trusting? Or is that just nostalgia? This summer and fall, I'm trying my best to find out. For the past two weeks I've been slowly driving across America, town by town, state by state, trying to meet 100 strangers per day, every day.

Soccer: An Advocacy Tool for Malians with Disabilities

Caleb DembƩlƩ | Posted 09.29.2012 | Impact
Caleb DembƩlƩ

By capitalizing on the universal appeal and excitement that sports can bring, people with disabilities in Mali were able to transform themselves from dependent and voiceless individuals into advocates for themselves and their communities.

Sorting Through My Addiction, Sifting Through a Smorgasbord of Experts

Amanda Slavin | Posted 09.02.2012 | Healthy Living
Amanda Slavin

Once you recognize who you want to be and what you are hungry for, surrounding yourself with passionate, supportive people and listening -- and more importantly, learning from them -- will help guide you to be the best version of yourself.

What's Your Body Saying About You?

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.01.2012 | Healthy Living
Lisa Earle McLeod

Human beings are always reacting and responding to each other. Some of it's conscious, but most of it's unconscious.

Technology Ruins Relationships

The Miami Hurricane | Posted 06.19.2012 | College
The Miami Hurricane

Technology may be increasing the ability of humanity to be the superior species, but it's degrading our ability to be human.

Drop Tart Tone

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

People are more sensitive to tone than to the explicit content of spoken or written language. To paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, people will forget what you said, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Am I Antisocial?

Marian Salzman | Posted 03.25.2012 | Technology
Marian Salzman

How has this happened to me? How has this happened to so many of us? It seems that all the hyperconnectedness in today's society is siphoning away our energy for real-life interaction. Some people might call my lifestyle antisocial; I'd prefer to say I'm living the "new normal."

INFOGRAPHIC: 2 Years Later, Where Did All The Aid Money For Haiti Go?

Posted 01.11.2012 | Impact

Thursday marks the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake that killed 316,000 people, but experts say it could be at least another 10 years before...

Why President Obama's Peace Corps is Relevant

Lindsay Coates | Posted 05.28.2011 | World
Lindsay Coates

This month, my daughter left for Morocco, an eager volunteer in the Peace Corps, a program created exactly half a century ago by President John F. Ken...

Table Talk

Paul Cummins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Paul Cummins

Having read and loved Laurie David's The Family Dinner, I want to add that it is not just a book advocating that families eat dinner together, but tha...

Bye Bye Tellers - Hello Branch 2.0

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Brett King

Given the challenges of branch banking today, there's a bunch of innovations taking place in respect to "Engagement Banking" within the branch propert...

The Clintons Take Over Global Disaster Relief

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Richard Walden

There is a negative "Clinton effect" on the financial health of nonprofit relief agencies here and abroad who have to compete with them for a diminishing pool of available private funds.

Potentially Lethal: Increased Relationship Between Military And Aid

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Who will have the final say if U.S. foreign policy and development goals conflict with military objectives in unstable countries?