'Tis the season for Gifts for Gals that Empower Women Around the World: Jewelry Helping Poor Ugandan Women

This holiday, give the leading ladies in your life a gift that also helps women in need.

When customers purchase jewelry from the Akola Project, they're h...

If you're looking for an extra stocking stuffer that supports a good cause, Project 7's sugar-free gum and mints will do the trick. Each flavor is tied to one of seven causes: "heal the sick," "save the Earth," "house the homeless," "feed the hungry," "quench the thir...

Companies committed to positive social impact and wonderful holiday gifts!

50 Cent's audio brand SMS Audio designs both earphones and headphones with quality, durability and style in mind. The company is working with domestic hunger relief charity Feeding America to pr...

To give us perspective with regard to charities receiving donations ... another chart!

With $3.9 billion in private donations, United Way is the largest charity in the United Stated by a considerable distance, according to Forbes, mostly due to private donations....

As Giving Tuesday approaches on Dec. 2, marking the third annual global effort to kick off the holiday giving season, people around the world are deciding how to donate their money and time to causes, charities and nonprofits.

According to a recent Harri...

“ I am not a scientist or an engineer.  But I saw a problem and wanted to solve it. 

The technology we developed is simple but the application is changing lives."

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Tendekayi Katsiga realized that hearing impaired people in rural Africa who wer...

Cameron Russell has spent the last decade working as a supermodel. In this video, she sheds some much needed light, on the modeling industry, the concept of image, and the concept of beauty. 

Her speech is brutally honest yet inspiring and should be shared wi...

If you are looking for a compelling reason why the number of women in STEM (science, tech, engineering and math) industries needs to increase, GoldieBlox creator Debbie Sterling has it down pat. She created a range of toys that encourage young girls to cultivate probl...

“We got started as a result of seeing the fantastic work that food vans and the like do for homeless people. Food, healthcare and support are all readily available yet there is minimal affordable access to hygiene services and we feel it is an area that is overlooked.”

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A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Roles found that girls who played with a buxom Barbie dressed up as a doctor thought they had fewer career choices than those who played with an amorphous Mrs. Potato Head doll.

Findings of the research, conducted by Sherm...