When the Music Comes to Life
Growing up surrounded by war in his home country of Niger, Bombino is an artist who chose to use his guitar and music as his weapon of choice. We took his song, “Ahoulaguine Akaline,” around the world, adding musicians from the U.S. all the way to Japan—showing men and women, […]
You can be one of the many thousand “Points of Light”
Get Inspired. Get Involved. Transforming Organizations Through Strategic Volunteer Engagement A national change-management approach, the Service Enterprise Initiative helps organizations gain a greater return on volunteer investment to meet their missions by tackling tough questions like: How do we address myths or misconceptions about volunteers among our staff? How can […]
An Enlightened Vision for Foster Care
Place of Hope provides traditional faith-based, family-style foster care, with placement priority given to sibling groups and other special needs (“hard to place”) foster children in need of consistent, structured long-term care. The organization provides family cottages located within a safe, serene, gated neighborhood in Palm Beach Gardens. Although individual […]
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
A guide to worrying in the 21stcentury By Bill Gates | December 3, 2018 The human mind wants to worry. This is not necessarily a bad thing—after all, if a bear is stalking you, worrying about it may well save your life. Although most of us don’t need to lose too […]
Spread the Music
Vision of Ending Extreme Poverty
Global Citizens Help Fulfill Mandela’s Vision of Ending Extreme Poverty by Taking 5.6M Actions “Here, in the southernmost tip of Africa, we too have heeded the call!” SHARETWEETEMAIL By Neha Shah DEC. 3, 2018 Over 5.65M actions led to 58 commitments and announcements worth $7,096,996,725 (ZAR 99,503,546,297), set to affect the lives of 137,368,628 people. On […]
Be K.I.N.D. to a Student in Malawi
Every day, 70% of children in Malawi struggle to learn while sitting on the ground. Giving them a desk empowers their educational journey and fuels their dreams for the future. Join UNICEF USA and MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” in an ambitious campaign called K.I.N.D.: Kids in Need of Desks to provide desks to […]
Spreading the Love with Reggae Music
Reggae Music and it’s primary promoter, Bob Marley, had it’s birth in the 1960’s, the same prolific period for cultural development that promoted social change on a global level in a variety of ways. As developed by Marley and others in Jamaica, it grow way past the boundaries of the […]
Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development
The Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development is a ground-breaking event powered by the UN SDG Action Campaign with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Federal Foreign Office and partners. The Festival’s overall aim is to gather and inspire SDGs […]