What do you do to help ease the pain when someone you love's life has unfairly been cut short by cancer? You stand up. At least that's what has helped me.
Committing to the Giving Pledge is no small act; but the true work comes after the media buzz: assessing how the money can be used most wisely.
This Christmas season 15.5 million children in America are living in poverty -- the highest child poverty rate the nation has seen since 1959.
Despite enormous challenges -- 1.2 million people homeless and the capital's infrastructure devastated -- tangible progress has been made.
KCBS used the title "Southland Rain Hitting Homeless Population Hard," but the truth is it is Los Angeles' bureaucracy that continues to slam homeless people hard.
No other country in the world loses more women in childbirth than Afghanistan. None. Rarely has being first at something meant so much loss.
As the CEO of a homeless transitional center, the question "Should I give to the homeless on the street?" is one of the most common. Consistently, I give the same answer -- no.
I'm trying to approach this whole charity thing differently -- simply by not thinking of it as charity.
For our inaugural Good Men of the Year list, we're not celebrating memorable personalities or newly-minted pop culture icons. This was a year of unprecedented challenges, and it cried out for good men.
If you've ever been stumped on what cool stuff to fill that next box with, try Operation Box of Love. Here's what I did.
A project, titled Community Resistance to Slavery and Forced Labor (CRSFL), helps vulnerable communities organize and create community-based action plans to eradicate slavery.
While traditional economic indicators may point to the recession's end, this is hardly translating to working poor families.
These Santas will turn around and use your money to create gifts greater than anything I could ever make in my workshop.
If you've ever had a distressing encounter with a homeless person you wish you could have supported, here are some insights that may help you.
Social innovation is about finding new ways to solve systemic social issues like poverty, violence and hunger. It's about understanding that to solve social issues, all sectors of society must work together.
Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer? Here's a thought: Skip the tie, scarf or gift card and use your time or money to help someone help someone.
Every year, over 100,000 youth, men, and women are sexually abused in American's prisons and jails. The majority are victimized not by other inmates, but by facility staff -- the agents of our government whose job it is to protect them.
The phone calls at the homeless agencies I run, ring off the hook during these holidays. Everyone wants to volunteer. But where are they the rest of the year?
At the end of this year, I am predicting that 2011 will be a year of unprecedented reform of the backlog of untested rape kits in the United States.