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Business
How TOMS and Buy-One-Give-One Really Help
Do TOMS shoes—and all donations of goods—hurt the poor more than they help? One expert weighs in.
Education
Brain Drain: How Our Thirst for Academic Talent Hurts the Rest of the World
While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?
Education
Why We Should Make It Easier for High School Grads to Take a "Gap Year"
When students take a year off before college to gain real-world experience, everyone wins.
Lifestyle
Transparency: Simple Innovations Help African Farmers Thrive
Inexpensive, innovative tools can help small farmers in Africa fight global hunger.
Education
Ten Commencement Speakers You Wish You'd Had
These ten speakers inspired but still kept it real with their audiences, making their graduation speeches memorable years after they were given.
Business
Repatriating Retro T-Shirts from Africa (for a Good Cause)
Can we help Africa by clothing Americans in cool retro T-shirts? Maybe.
News
Going Gaddafi: Seven African Nations that Are Ripe for Revolution
With a dozen African countries on the brink of elections, we assess which are most likely to see a popular revolt.
Environment
How You Can Help the Maasai Win $50,000
Reinventing the Outdoors Contest: Learn about the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
Lifestyle
A Kenyan Slum Gets a Solar-Powered Soccer Field
Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi, Kenya, is a difficult place to grow up. And while sports provide a positive experience for kids in...
Environment
In the African Plains, Keeping People in Balance with Nature
Reinventing the Outdoors Contest: Learn about the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
GoDaddy.com CEO's Graphic Elephant Slaughter Video Causes an Uproar
Bob Parsons says he's helping out Zimbabwe by killing elephants in the middle of the night. Commenters on his video disagree.
Business
How to Do Good and Prove It: Integrate Social Impact in Your Nonprofit's DNA
Philanthropist Kevin Starr demands great ideas, scalability, and eight word mission statements. It's all part of a Design for Impact approach.
Culture
That "Face of Tomorrow" Photo Project Is Kind of Racist
Artist Mike Mike's photography project, "The Face of Tomorrow," makes some interesting decisions about how to group people.
News
Revolution in Egypt: Who's Next?
Hosni Mubarak's regime is over. Which other populations around the Middle East and Africa are ready to follow Egypt's lead?
News
The Puzzle of Child-Soldiers in a New Sudan
They were child soldiers, killing for a chance at freedom. Now that southern Sudan's liberation is at hand, will "Lost Boys" be forgotten or honored?
Lifestyle
Sanergy: A Startup That Plans to Turn Waste into Energy in Africa
A new business venture called Sanergy is trying to turn Kenya's sanitation problem into jobs, energy, and profits.
Culture
GOOD Design Daily: Africa Mon Amour, a Guide to the Rest of Africa
COLORS designs an artful newsprint look at 53 unreported, awesome things to try, see, hear, eat, and learn about in Africa's 53 nations.
Education
What It Really Means to Leave No Child Behind
In Rwanda, where 800,000 children are orphaned as a result of the genocide or the AIDS epidemic, what it takes to ensure that no child is left behind.
