Today’s guest post comes from Rob Gradoville, a current Kiva Fellow, Rotary Scholar, and Fulbright Fellow in Cusco, Peru. Since 2005, Rob has been thinking about the best way to provide the basic services that rural folks in the developing world want and need most: clean water and electricity[...]
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November 24th, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Nicaragua, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
Guest Post: To Kiva Fellow or not to Kiva Fellow, Eso e’ la pregunta. (Part III of III)
November 23rd, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Nicaragua, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
Guest Post: To Kiva Fellow or not to Kiva Fellow, Eso e’ la pregunta. (Part II of III)
Today’s guest post comes from Rob Gradoville, a current Kiva Fellow, Rotary Scholar, and Fulbright Fellow in Cusco, Peru. Since 2005, Rob has been thinking about the best way to provide the basic services that rural folks in the developing world want and need most: clean water and electricity.[...]
November 22nd, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Nicaragua, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
Guest Post: To Kiva Fellow or not to Kiva Fellow, Eso e’ la pregunta. (Part I of III)
Today’s guest post comes from Rob Gradoville, a current Kiva Fellow, Rotary Scholar, and Fulbright Fellow in Cusco, Peru. Since 2005, Rob has been thinking about the best way to provide the basic services that rural folks in the developing world want and need most: clean water and electricity[...]
The Adventure Illusion or: how I learned to stop thinking and just ride a bike
Today’s guest post comes from Casey Link. Casey is a software engineer who just can’t seem to stay in one place. Between stopovers at oases of Internet necessary for his work, Casey finds himself compelled toward that mysterious blue horizon. That compulsion has taken him across the USA,[...]
November 11th, 2011 - 5:00 am § in Good Ideas, Looking for Opportunity, Nonprofit Spotlight, Tips & Resources
Connecting the Least Connected (with people who can help!)
Today’s guest post comes from Kamiel Verwer on his start-up site KindMankind. KindMankind seeks to create a world in which tiny, struggling grass roots initiatives in poor areas get an equal chance to connect and can attract skilled, pro-active “changemakers” that support them on their[...]
June 20th, 2011 - 5:25 am § in Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nonprofit Spotlight, Volunteer Spotlight
Quetzaltrekkers: Into the Clouds, Part 1
Three-thousand three-hundred feet below the mountaintop we will summit tomorrow morning, I sit in a small one-room house on a wooden chair fit for a person of childlike proportions. The house is lit by a single candle. The faces of my co-guide and our clients are illuminated by the flame’s orange [...]
June 17th, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Nonprofit Spotlight, Uncategorized
A Guest Post by Carolyn Chuong: Mucu-what?
Mucu-what? Carolyn Chuong Here’s a tongue twister for you. On Saturday I traveled to the village Mucuchachí for the opening of Mucuposada Mucuchá. I went with an NGO that I’ve been volunteering with called Programa Andes Tropicales (PAT), which is located in Mérida, Venezuela. Andes Tropic[...]
September 6th, 2010 - 9:47 am § in News, Tips & Resources
¿Did You Know Idealist Also Blogs En Español?
Adapted from the Idealist.org homepage blog Are you a Spanish speaker or do you have any Spanish speaking amigos? You might not have realized that writers at our sister site, Idealistas, are blogging up a storm on topics ranging from career advice to ideas for social change that are spreading throug[...]
