Who are Americans?

WildAid is a nonprofit organization with a mission to end illegal wildlife trade by raising awareness to reduce the demand for threatened and endangered animal species products, and to increase public support for wildlife conservation.
WildAid is headquartered in San Francisco, California with branch offices in London (UK), Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), New Delhi (India) and Beijing [...]

KickStart (San Francisco headquarters) is a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes technologies that can be used by entrepreneurs in Africa to establish and run profitable self-sustaining small scale enterprises.
64,000 new businesses, generating $79-million a year in new profits and wages, have been started through KickStart’s assistance.
One of the unique aspects of KickStart is that [...]

People from 16 of the largest countries in the world were asked, “Suppose a young person who wanted to leave this country asked you to recommend where to go to lead a good life - what country would you recommend?”
The USA was the top destination country in the voting of only one country, according to [...]

I recently read an article where an Iranian man, now living in America, said that American people and American culture (movies, clothes, music, etc.)  are more popular in Iran than in any Arab country.  He mentioned the average American probably is not aware of this.
So I did some research and came up with some interesting results from various surveys. The best survey [...]

Established in 1990, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in more than 70 countries to improve the conditions and prospects for young people. Millions of young people have gained access to life skills, education, job training and opportunities critical to their future.
IYF believes there are thousands of effective programs throughout the world that are making [...]

National Geographic and GlobeScan conducted a study of 14,000 people in 14 countries. The Greendex study asked questions about their energy use and conservation, transportation choices, food sources, use of ‘green’ products, and attitudes toward the environment. The Greendex is the first survey to rank the performance of individual consumers within each country.
Brazil and India [...]

The United States Sports Academy awarded the Iraqi national soccer team as the winner of it’s 2008 ‘Team of the Year’ award. The men of the Iraqi soccer team won the Asia Cup Championship with a win over Saudi Arabia in the final match in Jakarta.
In the final minutes of the championship game, an Iraqi [...]

Ever wonder exactly what types of non-military projects the U.S. Government is working on in Iraq? Soccer fields, popcorn for Scouts, aerial spraying of farms using helicopters, hybrid seeds, comedy plays, micro-grants, sewing centers, internet centers, prescription eyewear programs … all are types of projects undertaken to assist local Iraqis.
Below is a listing of just a [...]