Author and ethicist Peter Singer asks how much must we give when half the world survives on less than we spend on a bottle of water?
Resources for International Giving & Doing
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
How can one-acre farmers living on $1 a day feed their families and climb out of poverty with just a hand up rather than a handout? Founder of International Development Enterprises, Paul Polak, describes how low-cost irrigation and agricultural tools and links to markets can lift the rural poor.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and the development of Partners In Health. It illustrates the power of an exceptional person determined to effect change.
Grantmakers without Borders
provides the best weekly newsletter on international social change philanthropy. Join to find the latest scholarly reports, affinity groups, and learning opportunities.
Test Your Global IQ
is a simple on-line quiz from the Clinton Foundation. You may be surprised to learn what you and your friends don't know.
New Philanthropy Advisors'
website recommends outstanding books, blogs, videos and websites about international philanthropy and social entrepreneurship.
Engage with other international donors and funders through regional donor networks including New England International Donors, Chicago Global Donors Network and Pangea: Giving for Global Change, based in Seattle.
Build expertise in the art and science of strategic, high-impact philanthropy by enrolling in a training program via The Philanthropy Workshop West.
Benefit from the experiences of international development experts by joining Boston Network for International Development.
Discuss cutting-edge thinking on world affairs in an informal atmosphere with young professionals, graduate students, influential thinkers, and world leaders by joining Boston International.
Ignite your passion to contribute and explore your own giving potential by experiencing stories and videos of international donors, and utilizing philanthropy tools available on the Bolder Giving in Extraordinary Times website.
Increase the impact of your philanthropy with expert advising and staff services from The Philanthropic Initiative that run the spectrum from strategic planning, to program design, to training and evaluation.
Devote a week to working alongside Nicaraguan villagers and El Porvenir to bring clean water, sanitation, and reforestation projects to rural communities.
Introduce American schools to global giving and service learning by partnering with H2O for Life in bringing water and sanitation facilities to schools in impoverished communities.
Mobilize your college community to achieve lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice via Oxfam America's Change Leaders program.
Motivate young people to think beyond our borders by supporting FACE AIDS, a national student organization raising awareness about and fighting AIDS in Africa.
Introduce others to an on-line marketplace of community-based projects via Global Giving.
Volunteer or serve as an intern, at any age, in a developing country and learn a sustainable and collaborative approach to development with support from the Foundation for Sustainable Development.
