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Cryptocurrency: A new age of philanthropy

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Cryptocurrency is a digital asset and unit of exchange produced using a unique identifiable code. It is impossible to facilitate fake transactions, it cuts across international boundaries, and it can be stored on your hard drive instead of in a bank. Moreover, every cryptocurrency transaction is tracked in a public ledger allowing for more transparency, […]

What does it mean to be a changemaker?

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What is a “changemaker”? Who can be one? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this special Q&A guest blog post with Vishnu Swaminathan, vice president of global partnerships at our Charity Alliance partner, Ashoka. Ashoka’s vision is a world in which everyone is a changemaker—a society that responds quickly and effectively to […]

Help end modern slavery with your buying power

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You might be surprised to learn that tens of millions of people around the world are enslaved. I was. Yes, slavery has been outlawed, but it has not been eliminated. And, unfortunately you and I could be supporting slave labor without even knowing it. The items we regularly purchase can so easily come from a […]

Why you should hike 200 flights of stairs this April

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If you’re like me, you aren’t even close to accomplishing your new year’s resolutions yet. True, we are only one month in to 2020, so there’s still plenty of time. But, if you resolved to increase your physical fitness and make the world a better place, then boy – do I have a great idea […]

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