Years of studying disaster relief has led Jose Holguin-Veras to a few simple truths about donations. While tiger costumes and Viagra aren't going to do much good, it makes people feel better to think they're helping. But they're ...READ MORE›
After blowing up on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, the LuminAID is going to be appearing on both the shelves of American stores and in disaster areas around the world.READ MORE›
International Medical Corps is a model for global not-for-profits, with a plan that goes way beyond drop-in disaster relief. In Haiti, IMC is training locals, building communities, and doing everything it can to put itself to pasture.READ MORE›
Everyone -- including us -- has strong opinions about the right and wrong and everything-in-between ways of using good design to raise awareness and money for relieving humanitarian crises like the one in Japan. Now two designers from ...READ MORE›
I almost didn't write this post, because the humanitarian tragedy following the earthquakes in Japan is such a sensitive, complicated situation. And designers like Signalnoise are earnestly trying to help by putting their formidable ...READ MORE›
For the one in every eight souls around the world lacking access to pure drinking water, how about this: A solar-powered water purification system that spits out pure water, hydrogen and, just for kicks, electricity too. Could it get ...READ MORE›
In the wake of the disaster in Haiti, Facebook's launched a portal for people who want to help: The Global Relief page. Twitter's playing its part too. Superficially frivolous social networks driving social responsibility--who'd've ...READ MORE›
Google Earth partnered with GeoEye and DigitalGlobe to provide updated images of the post-quake landscape of Port-au-Prince--disaster and aid workers will be using some of these same images in their recovery efforts. Here are before ...READ MORE›
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