An antidote for cynicism
As some of you may vouch for, I’m often working out my personal duality, bouncing back and forth between hands-in-the-air cynicism and body-clenched optimism…
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How Charities Harness Social Media
Mr. Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing clean water to impoverished villages in Africa. In January, he got…
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Manging More Change, Faster
Upset with how slow public-health initiatives moved in poor countries, Josh Ruxin decided to treat them like the private sector. Just weeks after the…
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The High Stakes of Asylum Cases
Emily Arnold-Fernandez’s first client was a Liberian teen who would be forced to go to war without her help. When Emily Arnold-Fernandez realized the…
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Tackling Homelessness Beyond Shelters
Rosanne Haggerty’s Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City. Rosanne Haggerty…
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Extreme Do-GooderS: What Makes Them Tick?
Five extraordinary social entrepreneurs talk about their defining moments – when the urge to change the world gathered such force they couldn’t ignore it….
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Empathy Is His Superpower
Geoffrey Canada’s initiative, Harlem Children’s Zone, has grown to reach 8,000 children across nearly 100 city blocks. New York — Geoffrey Canada still remembers…
Read MoreYou don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Reporter Succeeds Where UN Failed: Rwanda rebel website closed
FDLR militia group’s website in Europe shut down after German newspaper raised questions. The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo took a surprising…
Read MoreGermany to FDLR: "Page not found"
It’s not like the FDLR web page was any big secret. The Hutu militia still active in eastern Congo, and viewed by most as…
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