In 1985, the United Nations passed a resolution to honor the efforts of the countless men and women who have dedicated their time to international development efforts. Th...
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Crisis Far from Over, Global Corporate Service Leaders and Internation...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dec. 2, 2014 – To help corporations respond to the Ebola global health crisis both in the short term and in the longer recovery period, Points of Light...
Who doesn’t love a victory lap? This fall, during the third week of September, the who’s who of international development gathered in New York to extol all the good that ...
“Partnership” is to relationships what “vanilla” is to ice cream. It has been so overused, in many cases with no real definition. A previously useful word has fallen prey...
This summer, four MBAs packed their bags and headed off to Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, and Uganda to work on water, hygiene, and sanitation-related issues (collectively known a...
In the humid pre-dawn darkness of southern Vietnam’s mangrove deltas, Van Cong To is hard at work hauling nets to harvest shrimp for the world’s markets. Before the early...
The New Global Citizen celebrates Pro Bono Week with a story of the power of global pro bono. The value of the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program is the triple ben...
I paused for a moment in the no-man’s-land of international travel, staring ahead at the double doors marked “No Re-entry.” The sign might as well have read “No turning b...
Four years ago, at the age of 28, I had a mid-life crisis. Perhaps some would say I was too young to experience such a thing, but I knew differently. I needed a change. I...
My epiphany came as I was recovering from serious orthopedic surgery. I had ruptured a disk and nearly broken my back in a snowboarding accident. I lay bedridden in a hos...