DailyGood: DIY Foreign Aid Revolution

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain

Inspiration of the Day:
Like so many highly trained young women these days, Elizabeth Scharpf has choices. She could be working in a Manhattan office tower with her Harvard Business School classmates, soaring through the ranks as a banker or business executive, aspiring to become a C.E.O. There's no question that women enjoy opportunities that didn't exist a few decades ago. Yet those exerting the greatest pressure for change often aren't presidents and tycoons but those further down the pyramid, driven by a passion to create a better world. This kind of Do-It-Yourself Foreign Aid shows that it's not only high-ranking officials who chip away at global challenges. Passionate individuals with great ideas can do the same, especially in the age of Internet and social media. [ more ]