The heroic narrative is almost irresistable as a storytelling strategy. But many in the aid and development community think it…
The company that sells TOMS Shoes and markets its products as a means for consumers to facilitate shoe donations to…
The uproar over Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, continues. The most complete collection of articles and posts…
The debate about Greg “Three Cups of Tea” Mortenson is raging, and will rage for awhile. There’s plenty to read…
Greg Mortenson, the celebrated author of Three Cups of Tea who has been perhaps the world’s leading advocate for girl’s…
For the past few weeks I’ve been talking to young people, mostly around Seattle, who are involved in global poverty…
Next week, on April 5, is a day when the humanitarian cobblers at TOMS Shoes call upon folks around the…
For those of you who read the NYTimes magazine story about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, here are a…
I figured this must be some kind of joke when I first heard about it. But no. It’s not a…