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Blog /// Eating for Understanding
August 9, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, maybe that’s also the most direct route to hearts and minds. That’s the philosophy underlying a new restaurant in Pittsburgh. Conflict Kitchen, a takeout-style storefront that serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict, rotates its identity every four months to educate diners.Tags: goodwill, restaurants, food, conflict
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Blog /// Success for the Honor System
July 21, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
This just in: People are basically good. At least according to an experiment conducted by Panera, which operates 1,400 franchised and corporate-owned bakery-cafes across the country. Since we called attention to a New York Times article on June 4th about the first pay-what-you-wish Panera – in suburban St. Louis – the company has decided to expand the honor bar concept to locations around the country based on results from the vanguard café.Tags: goodwill, food, charity, restaurants
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Blog /// My Goodness | Trying to Volunteer
July 15, 2010 by Constance Casey for Slate.com
Dear My Goodness, I'm a twentysomething legal assistant who was very involved in charity organizations in college. I'd like to volunteer one evening a week, but I'm getting discouraged because some version of the following keeps happening. The organization gets back to me and asks whether I'll send my available dates and times to set up an interview. I do so immediately but don't hear back from them for weeks. Then someone from the charity e-mails with "thanks for your patience." We set up a time for a phone interview, and they don't call.Tags: slate.com, volunteering, charity, goodwill
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Essay /// A Helping Hand
July 15, 2010 by Jay Dixit
Dave was the guy who rescued me from fourth-grade social oblivion, adopting me when I was shy and friendless and bringing me into his social circle. At the time, Dave was a popular kid in striped Benetton shirts, with a knack for getting picked in touch football. He helped me buy Levi's red tab jeans, showed me how to mousse my hair, and introduced me to his friends. Soon we were inseparable. But in high school, after his parents divorced, Dave started to change. He grew his hair long, stopped eating meat, and started talking like a stoned-out surfer even though he’d never tried drugs.Tags: goodwill, friendship, therapy, depression
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Q and A /// Questions for: Patrick Corvington
June 25, 2010 by Laura van Straaten
Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama issued a call to service urging Americans to serve their communities and country in whatever way possible. Charged with helping citizens answer that call is Patrick Corvington, the newly appointed head of the federal agency known as the Corporation for National and Community Service. The agency oversees all of the volunteering programs in the nation, including AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, and helps nonprofits recruit, train, and manage volunteers. Corvington has devoted his life to serving and empowering communities.Tags: president obama, goodwill, volunteering, haiti, community
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Report /// People Making a Difference | Lynn Henning
May 19, 2010 by Yvonne Zipp for The Christian Science Monitor
Lynn Henning doesn't look much like the stereotypical environmental activist. She has no visible piercings, and neither hemp nor Birkenstocks feature heavily in her wardrobe. In fact, the white-haired Michigan woman looks very much what she is: a grandmother and farmer's wife. But on April 19, Henning became one of the 2010 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, sometimes called the Green Nobel, the largest prize in the world given to grass-roots environmentalists.Tags: goodwill, environmentalism, farming, the christian science monitor, livestock, pollution
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Report /// Billboard Power
May 19, 2010 by Ariel Schwartz for Fast Company
Humans may be good as a general rule, sure, but it's hard to deny the inhumanity of the many pedestrians that left the so-called "homeless hero" to die on the streets of NYC after he saved a woman from a mugging two weeks ago. In an apparent effort to prevent similar incidents, the Dutch government has placed augmented reality billboards strategically throughout Amsterdam and Rotterdam thoroughfares. But unlike other augmented reality applications that have some sort of informational or social component, these billboards are designed squarely to shame pedestrians into being good citizens.Tags: fast company, the netherlands, crime, augmented reality, goodwill, prevention
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Report /// People Making a Difference | Leslie Clark
May 14, 2010 by Hannah Armstrong for The Christian Science Monitor
At the Doli school for nomads, the teacher pounds on a hubcap each morning to summon children. Many don't hear it because they are too far out in the bush, scouring the scorched land for pastures to nourish their herds. Supplying education and health care to nomads in northern Niger is no easy task. But it is essential to a strategy hatched by Leslie Clark, a California artist and founder of the Nomad Foundation, which helps nomads hang onto their lifestyle in the world's poorest country.Tags: the christian science monitor, goodwill, california, nomads, desert, volunteering, niger, poverty, healthcare, culture
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