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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

(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 — [...]

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 [...]

Jersey woman loses 120 pounds, helps others along the way in Save the World Diet movement
So far in 2009, Kara Richardson Whitely of Summit, New Jersey, has run in Central Park at midnight for UNICEF, jumped in icy Lake Champlain, Vt. for Special Olympics, walked amid monkeys and alligators for the MS Society, walked/jogged where [...]

The newly jobless find volunteering is a give-and-take comfort
Susan Mitchell has been unemployed since March, but she’s never at a loss for work.
A Type A personality who found herself with time on her hands, Mitchell is almost as busy now as before she was laid off from her job as a project manager for software [...]

Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals in need of funding – not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs’ profiles on [...]

Volunteer jobs are catching on among the growing ranks of laid-off workers, giving them valuable career experience and offering strapped nonprofits access to a bigger talent pool.
Charitable organizations say they are benefiting from a class of skilled volunteers ready to lend their expertise to a cause. And volunteering is giving out-of-work professionals the opportunity to [...]