First Person Dispatch: Why we should bring the "Teach English" phenomenon home
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VOLUNTEERING: Alyssa Martino reflects on the therapeutic effects of teaching English to refugees living in the United States. More »
Urban Volunteering: Los Angeles
VOLUNTEERING: Want to volunteer in Los Angeles? Eric Mackey gives Matador a list of great organizations to choose from! More »
Don't believe in global warming?
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CLIMATE CHANGE: How do you refute the argument of someone using "science" to claim global warming isn't a problem? Megan Hill explains. More »
BREAKING NEWS: United States Pushes Partners to Cancel Haiti's Debt
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NEWS: News so new that The New York Times hasn't even reported it yet. More »
#FollowFriday: Essential tweeps to follow for info about #Haiti
TECHNOLOGY: 12 people we follow for information and insight on the ground and analysis and aid from afar. More »
Lakota Sioux facing hard winter- again.
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TAKE ACTION: "Nobody should have to burn clothes for heat." Here's what you can do to help. More »
Urban Volunteering: Melbourne
VOLUNTEERING: Laura Aberdeen rounds up volunteer opportunities in Melbourne More »
Tracing oil profits: Oxfam asks, "Where does all the money go?"
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CULTURAL CRITICISM: Big oil has big profit losses. But people in the communities where oil is extracted have long wondered where *their* profits are. More »
Photo Essay: Kayaking Dangerous Rapids to Save the Amazon
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CONSERVATION: See the Epicocity Project's recent kayaking expedition in the Amazon. Together with National Geographic, the team is raising awareness about an ecosystem scheduled to be destroyed in 2012. More »
109 Ways to Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles for Good: The Americas Edition
TAKE ACTION: Part one of Matador's comprehensive guide to donating your frequent flyer miles. More »
5 Things You Can Do to Help Free the Hikers
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TAKE ACTION: Help free Matador contributor Sarah Shourd from an Iranian prison. More »
10,000 tents for Haiti
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TAKE ACTION: Shaun King leads effort to collect 10,000 tents for Haiti in 24 hours. How many tents can the Matador community contribute? More »
New Wave of Social Media: Tweeting and Blogging from the Amazon
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CONSERVATION: Can we save the world by tweeting and blogging? The Epicocity Project tweets and blogs while kayaking gnarly rapids in the Amazon jungle. More »
Gates Foundation pledges $10 billion to world vaccine project
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NEWS: The Gates' call 2010-2020 "The Decade of Vaccines." More »
Fight leprosy. Fight stigma.
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CHANGING THE WORLD: January 31 is World Leprosy Day. More »
How to evaluate an organization's claims
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CULTURAL CRITICISM: What starts out as a feel-good assignment leads to important lessons about evaluating an organization's claims about its work. More »
Cartoon: U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United Decision
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CULTURAL CRITICISM: Kate Sedgwick responds to a cartoonish decision with... a cartoon. More »
From the Editor: Notes on organizing Matador's Haiti relief effort
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FROM THE EDITOR: "We have mobilized thousands of people to take tangible action. It's exhilirating. It's complicated." More »
Helping Haiti: An on the ground report from Mai Alyschild, RN
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INSPIRATION: A nurse volunteering in Haiti shares her unedited thoughts about her experiences on the ground. More »
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