International granting: 6 answers to questions you didn’t know you had

By Joanne Chen Youn I recently returned from a trip to the Middle East and Asia with TrustBridge Global, a network of foundations with member offices around the world. As I met with potential givers, many of them had questions about international granting. You may too. Despite the recent proliferation of quantitative and qualitative data […]

Supporting Better Choices: The best efforts against poverty reinforce what people are doing right

The best efforts against poverty reinforce what people are doing right By Ryan Streeter Do you know why most people are poor, and what would make them better off? Mauricio Miller is pretty sure you do not. In The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong, he argues that people involved in […]

Happiness From Being Generous Has a Neural Basis Within the Brain – Seeker

In a study on the psychology of giving, MRI scans revealed that an area of the brain linked to generosity triggered a response in another part related to happiness.  What inspires humans to display acts of generosity? Economists, psychologists and philosophers have pondered this question for millennia. If one assumes that human behavior is primarily […]