The Realist Idealist

I’m in San Diego this weekend for one of my quarterly meetings on the national board of directors for Hostelling International.
(Yes, the weather is insanely gorgeous.)
One of the incredible programs run by HI is called World Travel 101.
They are conducted in REIs and hostels and all kinds of places around the country, and I was [...]

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My favorite blog for the last several months is 5 Minutes of Caring on CoolPeopleCare.org.  It’s often the most useful thing I get all day.
That is to say, it’s almost always something I can actually do.  And on top of that, it’s fun!

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Getting people engaged in their communities is something I’ve been working on for quite a while - or at least it seems like quite a while to me. From using alternative spring breaks as a catalyst to Active Citizenship with college students to working with company networks to increase corporate volunteerism to doubling the [...]

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“Small/Medium Enterprise?” Why bother delineating this different type of business when it comes to how business relates to the community or environment? “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) is still taking form in societal consciousness for the most part. It is still not fully rooted in the minds of the general population. And then there [...]

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Original HuffPo post - jake brewer
Forget Condi Rice, Colin Powell, James A. Baker, and the rest. If you’re like most Americans, you already have anyway.
The best diplomats the United States has are citizens who travel abroad and serve in communities as volunteers.
Policy, negotiating, trade, intelligence gathering and the like is of course best left [...]

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