News from the High Road
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Mar 1st, 2010
Feeling Good and Doing Good on Holid...
Israeli GoEco Tours blazes a trail in volunteer tourism for visitors to Israel and for Israelis who want to do good abroad.
With GoEco Tours, an Israeli and world pioneer in the relatively new field of “volunteer tourism,” travel doesn’t just benefit the visitor – but the visited, as well.
“We believe in giving tourists the opportunity to get involved with...
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Feb 22nd, 2010
Music for Young people; Achievement ...
Even through difficult times, organizations enhance the quality of our children’s lives.
“The DC Youth Orchestra Program provides music classes and ensemble training to all students who wish to participate. Because of the program’s unique structure and curriculum, no child is turned away and every child is challenged by being placed in a level appropriate to his or her ability. ...
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Feb 15th, 2010
Doctors Without Borders...
By Darragh Worland | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:33 PM ET
A staff member with Doctors Without Borders offers an insider’s view of the organization’s medical relief work in Haiti and how your thoughts and prayers are helping those in need.
In the days and weeks after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, beyond donating money, many of us felt helpless. What was most needed, of course, were...
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Feb 8th, 2010
People Doing Good: Haiti Women and t...
Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles.
A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
At a time when Haitian commercial banks remain closed, Fonkoze, the Haitian...
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Feb 1st, 2010
Doing Well Doing Good...
(from the WSJ)
This is the time of year when all of us think about giving back. But for some, it seems to be in their blood.
When Cory Doctorow co-founded the open-source software company OpenCola in 1999, he was just another techie genius. Then he had a discussion with people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation — a technology advocacy nonprofit and proponent of Internet civil liberties —...
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Jan 25th, 2010
Doing Well by Doing Good...
In June 2006, Bill Gates announced he was stepping down from his full-time role at Microsoft and shifting his focus to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. When the world’s richest entrepreneur decides to take a step in the nonprofit direction, he may be onto something.
In the last decade, a generation of social entrepreneurs has become increasingly visible by creating self-sustaining businesses....
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