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SoFi Will Crowdsource Your Student Loans
Credit: 401(K) 2012/ flickr By Ariel Schwartz $57,070. That’s the yearly tuition for 2012-2013 at the small liberal arts college where I went to school. That kind of cost can lead to crushing debt for...
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Ten Moments Of 2012 That Will Affect The Next 50 Years
Credit: cipovic/ flickr By Kyle Westaway SOPA and PIPA In January, the internet community secured a huge policy victory. At the end of 2011, the internet got angry—very angry. Its ire was directed at...
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In India, Violence Against Women Is No Longer A “Women’s Issue”
Credit: ramesh_lalwani/ flickr By Swapna Majumdar NEW DELHI–The enormous national and international response to the December gang rape here in the nation’s multicultural capital that left a 23-year-old...
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Service 2.0: The New Giving Will Transform Philanthropy
Credit: Your Secret Admiral/ flickr By Rachael Chong Charitable giving is a part of life for most Americans. 65 percent of households with incomes less than $100,000 donate, and 98 percent of high net...
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Flower Vendors Promote Election Peace In Kenya
Credit: @Doug88888/ flickr By Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI — Flowers are often associated with love, especially on Valentine’s Day. But in Kenya, flower vendors have joined forces to send a message of...
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Tibetans Fight China With “Weapon of Weak”
Credit: SqueakyMarmot/ flickr By Ivan Broadhead DHARAMSALA, INDIA — In Chinese-ruled Tibet, activists have used various means to protest policies that human rights groups say subjugate, and even...
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Understanding Resilience
Johannesburg — No one working in the aid community in recent years could have avoided the buzzword “resilience” – but what does the term mean practically, and how has it helped shape action on the...
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India’s Anti-Rape Movement: Redefining Solidarity Outside The Colonial Frame
By Amrit Wilson On the 19th of March a sparsely attended Lok Sabha (Lower House) of the Indian Parliament debated and finally passed the country’snew anti-rape Law. Sonia Gandhi, President of the...
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Looking For Gandhis In Mexico
Credit: greensefa/flickr By Jens Erik Gould New president, new ministers, new strategies. Same bloodshed. It has never been more obvious that the current approach to reducing Mexico’s drug-related...
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A Caring Economy Requires Building Bridges—Not Burning Them
Ai-jen Poo is the founder and director of the National Domestic Workers AlliancePhoto: Lane Hartwell By Sally Kohn Saul Alinsky is called the father of modern community organizing. His 1971 Rules for...
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