GlobalShift

On Saturday, March 20, 2010, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics will be attempting to break an amazing record. They won’t be jumping rope or eating hot dogs. The record they’re looking to break is the Guinness World Record for largest food drive in 24 hours at one location. To do this, [...]

I live towards the top of a hill that divides two neighborhoods. There are steep streets on either side of the peak. The hill is a short cut people use to walk from one neighborhood to other. During the summer it gets quite hot. A few weeks ago, I noticed my neighbor, who lives at the top of the peak, installed a drinking fountain on the outside wall of his property. It’s a small spigot that is clearly meant to be drunk from and on the ground underneath it, is a bowl to catch the water that also doubles as a water bowl for pets.

On Friday morning, Sarah Killen was a normal small town girl. She had a Twitter account, Lovely Button, and she had three followers. She was taking classes online for a local high school, getting ready to marry her fiancé, and trying to raise money for her upcoming walk in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk [...]

Today, we have guest author Danielle Turchiano an entertainment reporter and CEO of IBG, a company that hosts fundraising events where fans get to hang out with their favorite stars.
They say charity starts at home, and my personal experience has proven to be the rule and not the exception. I grew up watching my [...]

Three days. Sixty miles. Millions of dollars going towards ending breast cancer. When Nancy Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan Komen, that she would do everything she could to cure breast cancer, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was formed. This summer, you can become a part of Nancy’s promise by registering to [...]

The name Ryan Miller has been heard a lot through this winter’s Olympic Games. The goalie for the Silver medal winning United States hockey team, has been a big part of the team’s success. But Ryan Miller isn’t just a good goalie, he’s a genuinely good person too, and his humble attitude and philanthropic work [...]

When a disaster strikes, anywhere in the world, people tend to open their wallets en masse and donate to charity as their way of helping with the cause. Unfortunately, there are people in the world looking to take advantage of the misfortunes of others, who create false charities to trick people into donating money that [...]

Think about the different drinks you buy throughout the day. $4.50 for a Starbucks coffee in the morning, $1.50 for Coke with lunch, $20.00 on beers or cocktails while you’re hanging out with your friends. It’s good stuff – right? But suppose you gave it all up. Not forever, just for 40 days. Think of [...]

Brave New Films has recently released its 5th Anniversary Activist Collection, a DVD box set spanning 2004 – 2009. Containing a whopping 40 hours of material (something that shocked me – I was expecting closer to 8 or 10), the box set offers a compilation of short and long films, conversations with distinguished guests like [...]

This weekend, write “love” on your arms. Write “love” to support those fighting depression, as part of To Write Love on Her Arms day, happening this weekend. Today and tomorrow, people are encouraged to write love on their arms to spread awareness about To Write Love on Her Arms, a non-profit organization with the goals [...]