Youth at the Crossroads: A Generation with Untapped Potential

For the first ever UN World Youth Skills Day we look at ...

The Trouble With Impact Investors’ Brains

Creating a clear value proposition for impact investors may be less about ...

The Culturally-Sensitive Butt:

I've got a rule when I travel - I eat or drink ...

Poverty Tourism Taxonomy 2.0

"Poverty tourism" may not mean what you think it means...at all.

A Moderate Elitist

Aid Elitism isn't helpful. We need both competence and humility to do ...

The First Principle of Community-Based International Development

Over tea we built trust and became vulnerable together. Slowly, I was ...

Positive Youth Development

Positive Youth Development focuses on assets, agency and creating an enabling environment that helps young people thrive.

Thoughts on Youth and Violence on International Youth Day 2015

Let us remember our youth today on #YouthDay, and remember that they are not yet adult, but in a transition period between being children and adults. It is our collective responsibility to prepare and shepherd them through this transition safely, to protect them from harm and violence and exploitation.

Youth at the Crossroads: A Generation with Untapped Potential

For the first ever UN World Youth Skills Day we look at the state of the world’s youth. The largest youth generation ever is having a harder time finding work than ever before. The youth unemployment crisis is one of the most significant development challenges we face today. We look at causes, data, and solutions.

The Global Citizen Single Origin Coffee Club

A new partnership between Zoka Coffee and the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship delivers the best single-origin direct trade coffees from around the world to your home, while helping equip young volunteers with leadership skills equal to the challenges of our times.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world. – Dr. Paul Farmer

Water Everlasting? A Film Screening & Panel Discussion Invitation

For decades, aid groups have traveled to Haiti to donate wells, tanks, and water purification machines. But these efforts often fail because of poor management and maintenance. Today, nearly 70 percent of Haitians still lack access to clean water. This story is different. It’s about Haitians and foreigners working together to design a lasting solution, […]

A Brief Address on Global Citizenship

Global Citizenship involves the ability to navigate across cultures, to communicate and work well with people of other faiths and political beliefs, to build coalitions and work in teams, to listen and engage broadly, to be empathetic, to use peace-building language, to lead from behind through adaptive challenges, to exercise both humility and initiative by crossing […]

Getting the Best, Brightest, AND Poorest to School

A world of untapped potential In Half the Sky, Kristof and WuDunn make a compelling case that the emancipation of oppressed women around the globe is the central moral issue of our time, much as slavery was that of its time. But they go beyond saying that women and girls are victims in need of […]

Follow the Frog

Yeah, I know; this video came out last year. But, I just saw it for first time last week. It’s very funny in a way that requires someone like me to be able to laugh at himself. My life as a professional international development practitioner has actually been lived somewhere between “this is what you’re […]

Social Impact Bonds Webinar this week

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are an exciting innovation in results-based development financing. It’s particularly exciting in terms of how it might reshape how governments fund new approaches to stubborn social issues. The Development Impact Bonds Working Group over at the Center for Global Development recently released a report on SIBs in the context of international […]