http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/how-charities-used-donations-for-haiti/?scp=1&sq=donations&st=cse If you're reading this, you're probably among the estimated two-thirds of Americans who donated to help Haiti through the catastrophic earthquake of 2010. And whether you gave $10 through text messaging or $1,000 through the Red Cross, you've probably wondered where exactly your dollars went. The New York Times published a short article a few days ago describing the efforts of Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org), which, according to it's website, "works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic ...

This week we are featuring a guest blog post from Nathaniel Whittemore - one of the original founders of the Global Engagement Summit. To read the original blog post visit http://nlw.posterous.com/ Unbelievable. 30 years after coming into power at the hest of the bullet cut down Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak has been removed from power not with violence but on the backs of the united voices of millions of Egyptians who have spent the last three weeks demonstrating for a ...

So I’m in this class at Northwestern called “Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Writing for Social Change” along with half the staff in GES. We were recently assigned homework to write about what writing for social change is and what it can be. Besides the traditional reactions and answers, the crux of the discussion in class revolved around what the end product of such writing should be. I obviously don’t know the final answer but, more truthfully, I’m probably disappointed with the common response. Writing, I guess, is ...