TDC takes on the X-Men (well, at least Wolverine)
This week the TDC team was emailing students to join our Month of Microfinance by participating in our $2 a...
Not Sure What To Do This Summer? How About You Change the World?
The TDC team recently came across ThinkImpact. This is an organization that runs a curriculum-based eight-week full-immersion program that, in...
The Top 10- Books on the Economics of Poverty
The following post was written by Amy Lockwood over at the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The growing community of students...
Why don’t we just send aid money directly to poor people’s cellphones?
The following post was written by Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam GB and author of “From Poverty to Power.”...
Search, Shop, Dine, Give
As a student, giving is hard. Many students don’t have very regular income, and that income is often tied up...
MTV Wants You To Give A Shit – and Nothing Else
A few months ago MTV started a new campaign, asking folks to “give a shit.” The website provides several causes...
It’s Alive! Our Blog, That Is.
Here at TDC we’ve been doing a lot of work. We’ve honed our mission and vision, formed a coalition of...
Endorse the Month of Microfinance!
Endorse the Month of Microfinance and support the Student Microfinance Movement in promoting Client-Centered Microfinance! Learn More: http://monthofmicrofinance.org/about/
More than Good Intentions
By Meredith Greenwell and Laura Dick Monsignor Ivan Illich, in his address (“To Hell with Good Intentions“) to the Conference...
Voluntourism
Perhaps the most recent iteration of the enduring problem faced by the development community, so eloquently presented by Ivan Illich...