passion, perseverance and innovation are sometimes highlighted at the expense of professionalism. When Nick Kristof, for example, told Maggie Doyne's story, he highlighted her youth and her passion.

When Lindsay Brown, a junior at the University of Notre Dame, decided to host a bake sale in her dorm last year to fundraise for girls' education at the Kopila Valley Children's School, she had no idea that she was launching a movement.

After finishing high school in Mendham, N.J., Maggie Doyne wasn't sure what she wanted to do. She'd been an ambitious and driven student -- the editor...

Maggie Doyne should have jumped ship to college like any other teen her age. Instead, the New Jersey native was drawn to the orphan children of Nepal and her mission was to build a home for them.

In his recent article, "The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution," celebrated columnist Nicholas Kristof explores how individuals have taken international ai...

One thing that is of interest is that many recent aid projects are mostly started by women and for women. Can this cause a positive shift in development? Or, could it create new problems which need to be addressed?

The European Summit for Global Transformation started when a group of friends asked, "What if we got together everyone we knew who's up to big things on the planet?" The results have exceeded everyone's expectations.