The focus on women and girls is accelerating with increased awareness of barriers to be broken and new calls for action. Addressing 21st century challenges facing women and girls is central to the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly,
To study abroad, to experience another culture, raises student awareness of the opportunities and challenges they will face as adults in our connected world. Research shows the positive impact of study abroad experiences, especially for first generation students. But first
Global travel has an impact on all of us. But global experiences particularly benefit first generation college students. I know this for a fact because I am a first generation college graduate. I had rarely left my home state, much
When is the last time your principal, executive director or boss asked you to redesign a curriculum, program or product launch by empathizing with students, grant recipients or consumers? Probably not recently. But in a world saturated with the memes
Have you ever thought you defined a problem or solved a challenge by implementing your “pet idea” — an elegant product, groundbreaking system or awesome experience? No doubt, the solution itself was probably fantastic, but did it actually address the
Knowledge Without Borders™ used design thinking for social good to implement a user-centered solution for a school in a poor district of Lima, Peru. For several years I represented Knowledge Without Borders™ in a philanthropic project at the Madre Admirable
Design thinking is a dynamic and fluid approach to problem solving that has captured the imagination of innovators in education and philanthropy, as well as entrepreneurs around the globe. Originally focused on the exclusive domain of engineering, design thinking has
Located on Istanbul’s Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait, Kadiköy is a bustling municipality with a diverse population of more than 500,000 professionals, artists, workers and their families. Its street markets are stocked with fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, Turkish
In her book, Giving 2.0: Transforming Your Giving and Our World (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen gives us a guided tour of the 21st century philanthropic landscape. Arrillaga-Andreessen does not focus on “traditional” giving models associated with large foundations where the
A Maltese priest, Father Alex Busuttil, works primarily with single mothers and their children in the “old” and “new” settlements in Alto Cayma, a mountainous enclave on the outskirts of Arequipa, Peru. Through mutual respect, flexibility and the courage to
