The Unbearable Lightness of Non-Profit Propaganda
By Daniela Kon (originally published on HuffPost Impact and edited for use of the Two Dollar Challenge.) The best way for...
Stop Trying to Solve Other People’s Problems
by Robin Pendoley US culture highly values problem solvers, especially those who focus on the problems of others. We have...
Starting Within
by Sandra Macias del Villar Picture this: It’s the weekend. You wake up and make some coffee. You open up...
Focus on People
By Renee Ho So you want to end poverty. But for starters—how do you define what it even is? If...
Throwing the Book at Poverty
by Jonathan C. Lewis Economic and social justice work is the most selfish thing I do. Fighting the good fight...
How Can You End Poverty if You Haven’t Listened to It?
By Anjana Sreedhar and Kate Otto, Everyday Ambassador Flyers and brochures featuring slack-jawed African infants, bellies protruding. A Southeast Asian...
5 Ways that Outsiders can Support Local Leaders
By Jennifer Lentfer, IDEX Director of Communications and creator of how-matters.org I started my career during the height of the...
Hang Up Your Cape
It may happen when a passerby with skeptical eyes asks you to explain your simulation of poverty. It may happen...
Eroding Agency
When I open my door to a knocking Jehova’s Witness, does she see me as someone in need of “service”?...
The Do-Gooder Industrial Complex
I was in eighth grade. It was a cold spring morning in Ohio. And, I was holding my mom’s hand...