Who are Americans?

World Education (Boston, MA) is a charity, founded in 1951, which last year, with local partners, helped nearly 700,000 people in 31 countries improve their lives by linking literacy and basic education with health, economic, social and civic development.
Voices for Vulnerable Children is a World Education campaign to challenge high school and college students to [...]

TOMS Shoes (Santa Monica, CA) was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie to provide shoes for disadvantaged children around the world. Purchase one pair of shoes and another pair is donated to a child in need.
TOMS Shoes has distributed 50,000 pairs of shoes in Argentina. Another ’shoe drop’ is expected to deliver 50,000 pairs of shoes to [...]

SOTENI International (Cincinnati, OH) is a charity that helps orphans and vulnerable children who have been most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Founded in 2003, by American and African volunteers, the nonprofit works through the ‘Villages of Hope’ model … where grassroots sustainable communities, led by locally elected management, supports orphans, children and families [...]

How much influence do women have in American life? Single women in particular are growing in numbers. Here are some statistics on the growing power of women in the USA.
There are roughly 50-million single women (over the age of 18) … compared to 42 million single men … and 105 million total women (97 million [...]

Global-HELP (Seattle, WA) is a nonprofit that provides free health-care texts for developing countries. By using a network of donors, authors, producers, health care workers and volunteers, medical publications can be made available without charge to recipients worldwide.
Scholarships are being offered to students and medical and health professionals who are interested in developing new publications. [...]

RESULTS is a nonprofit (Washington, DC), founded in 1980, that works with governments and individuals to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS has over 800 grassroots volunteers in about 100 communities in the USA, and has international offices in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Team Darfur (Washington, DC) is an international nonprofit coalition of Olympic and professional athletes who are committed to raising awareness about and bringing an end to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. In a campaign leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China, Team Darfur is not calling for an Olympic boycott … [...]

The University of Texas at Austin and Aga Khan University (Pakistan) have just established a 5-year exchange agreement that includes an expansion of the UTeach-Liberal Arts’ Muslim Histories and Cultures Program, a training program for Texas high school teachers that was first established in 2004.
“Our hope is that the collaborations will help to dispel many [...]