As government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: althoug

We send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save whales and oceans. We stay up all night to comfort a friend with a broken rel

An argument for putting sentiment aside and maximizing the practical impact of our donated dollars: “Powerful, provocative” (Nicholas Kristof, The New York

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize

Argues that altruism is an inherent factor of group functionality and discusses how studying group function can promote positive changes to the human condition.