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Since starting my freelance design career at the age of 16, I have been giving the majority of my work away for free. In 2008, I launched verynice, a global design and innovation consultancy that donates more than half of its work to nonprofit organizations.

One day two years ago, I happened to pass a young woman sitting on the street. She was crying and saying over and over to herself that she'd never be clean. I live in San Francisco, where it's impossible to be unaware of the homeless.

I remember where I was on July 22 two years ago, when reports of a massacre in Norway started to break.

In 2007, I was brought on to help the Cotton On Group, a global retail chain, find a way to make a difference for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

It was a scorchingly hot Tuesday afternoon last summer on a rough corner in South Chicago. Despite the heat, and despite it being the time of...

In the mid eighties, nobody in the U.S. knew what a designated driver was. The concept simply didn't exist here. It was actually a Scandinavian...

A unique and detailed survey funded by the Rockefeller Foundation confirms the important role that social and community bonds play vis-à-vis...

For better or for worse, money pervades the fabric of American life. Money funds our life-résumés, from our most basic needs, to our most...

I’ve been a pro bono devotee since I first learned about it. While doing some soul-searing career exploration, I heard of this new...

This August, 40 pioneering millennials will embark on a train journey across the country. Where early pioneers went west, these millennials will...

As corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes more integral to business strategy and less of an "add-on," companies are realizing they need to be more than just fair weather friends to their consumers, stakeholders, and society at large.

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