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    Eleanor Goldberg

    Eleanor Goldberg

    Business Reporter, HuffPost

  • Global Citizen Festival Includes Beyonce, Pearl Jam And Spotlights Women's Empowerment

    On Sept. 26, Beyonce, Pearl Jam, Ed Sheeran and other stars will play in Central Park at the fourth annual Global Citizen Festival. The free concert will fall just a little over a week after the U.N. will have signed off on its new global goals, a roadmap to end poverty, reduce maternal deaths and combat climate change, among other critical issues it will address. “We hope Pearl Jam fans will sign up to become Global Citizens -- not just to earn tickets to the show -- but to be part of a movement that encourages leaders of nations with the greatest wealth to apply aid, trade and governance policies in support of nations and communities in the greatest need,” Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard said in a statement. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • 3 Lessons For Nonprofits After Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

    The Supreme Court’s freedom-to-marry ruling was a momentous and inspiring win not just for gay people and our loved ones but also for America, a giant leap forward on our journey to a more perfect union. The decision not only required the freedom to marry throughout the land but signaled that it is time to end the "gay exception" to the law in all other areas.

  • How Section 8 Housing Can Actually Help Poor People Escape Poverty

    When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to “go back to your Section 8 homes” at a public pool earlier this month, she inadvertently spoke volumes about the failure of a program that was designed to help America’s poor. Created by Congress in 1974, the “Section 8” Housing Choice Voucher Program was supposed to help families move out of broken urban neighborhoods to places where they could live without the constant threat of violence and their kids could attend good schools.

  • More Proof That Housing Homeless People Actually Saves Money And Works

    San Francisco continues to clamp down on its anti-homelessness policies, an approach that has proven callous, ineffective and costly, a recent study concluded. A new report released by the Coalition on Homelessness found that San Francisco has passed more bans on homeless people’s activities than any other city in California and pours money into resources that only perpetuate the homelessness cycle. On a single night in January, San Francisco had 6,408 unsheltered people, the ninth most in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

  • Architect Turns Shopping Cart Into Shelter For Homeless People

    While homelessness is on the decline in the U.S., a dearth of affordable housing and emergency shelter options often leaves those who are still without permanent shelter with no choice but to sleep on the streets. Recognizing the need to provide homeless people with some sort of protection, Buenos Aires architect Eduardo Lacroze fashioned a portable shelter built around a shopping cart and submitted his design to a competition seeking such solutions for people on the streets. Lacroze’s innovation won the American Institute of Architect’s Small Project Award Program, which sought discreet and efficient shelters for homeless people.

  • Following The Charleston Shooting, Here's What You Can Do Right Now

    A white gunman devastated the Charleston, South Carolina, community after killing nine people on Wednesday evening at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. To help support the church, cover funeral expenses and counseling services, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley established the Mother Emanuel Hope Fund, Time.com reported.

  • San Diego High School For Homeless Youth Eliminates Shame, Barriers

    Andrea and I sat cramped around a little two-top table at a Starbucks near her apartment, materials from her U.S. government class spread out before us. The handouts were photocopied news articles about teenagers pursuing The American Dream, the topic of an essay Andrea was writing. Like these teens, 17-year-old Andrea wants to graduate from high school, go to college, and pursue a career.

  • How To Find The Perfect Charity

    Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glean from some brief encounters, like his shaggy blond hair and the approximation of a beard. MacAskill, I soon discovered, was a Cambridge-and Oxford-trained philosopher, and a steward of what’s known as effective altruism, a burgeoning movement that has been called "generosity for nerds." Effective altruism seeks to maximize the good from one's charitable donations and even from one’s career.

  • Child Labor Only Occurs In Poor Countries And 4 Other Myths About The Practice

    The ILO defines child labour as work that “deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development”. In its most extreme forms, child labour can involve youngsters being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to hazards and illnesses or left alone on city streets. “People don’t always understand the seriousness of child labour and many may see it as an acceptable pathway to adult work,” says Quinn.

  • Officials Demand Accountability After Damning Haiti Red Cross Investigation

    This story originally appeared on ProPublica. Haitian journalists grilled an American Red Cross official Wednesday about the group's Haiti program, but the official declined to provide any new details of how it spent nearly $500 million donated after the 2010 earthquake. The Red Cross called a press conference, held at the Le Plaza Hotel in downtown Port-Au-Prince, in response to ProPublica and NPR's story published last week revealing a string of Red Cross failures in Haiti.

  • Abused Daughters Of Sex Workers Dream Big At This Mumbai School

    There are 15 girls who study at Kranti, an educational NGO in Mumbai, all of them between the ages of 12 and 20. If you didn’t know better, you’d never guess these chatty teens are the daughters of sex workers in Kamathipura, Mumbai’s largest red-light district. Chaurasiya founded Kranti—which is the Hindi word for “revolution”—in the winter of 2010 to empower underserved young girls through education.

  • The Belief That You Can Change The World Hasn't Been 'Beaten Out' Of Student Activists Yet

    For example: The protest at Florida State University last fall, when students didn’t like the idea of having the Republican state politician John Thrasher as their school’s president and launched a campaign—#SlashThrasher—against his candidacy. Citing the lawmaker’s corporate ties, various groups staged demonstrations, including some who organized a march to the city center. Or the protest at the University of Michigan in September, when, amid frustrations over their football team’s losses, students rallied at the home of the school’s president to demand that he fire the athletic director.

  • A Key To Preventing Recidivism May Be Spreading Ex-Prisoners Among Different Neighborhoods

    According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, within three years of release, 68 percent of prisoners are rearrested for a new crime -- a concept known as recidivism. Intrigued by the potential of spreading ex-prisoners prisoners across varied areas, researcher David Kirk analyzed prison data following Hurricane Katrina, which presented a unique research case. Louisiana, for one, doesn’t limit where ex-convicts can live.

  • What We Should Know About Sending Western Therapists To Help After Disaster Like Nepal Earthquake

    Following the earthquake in Nepal, psychologist Alessandra Pigni recalls her experiences in humanitarian aid: she reminds Western do-gooders that affected populations are resilient and that pathologising suffering after a traumatic event may get in the way of healing and recovery. There has been an understandable outpouring of sympathy in response to the powerfully destructive earthquake in Nepal. The World Health Organization estimates that between five and 10 percent of people impacted by humanitarian emergencies suffer from a mental health condition as a result.

  • What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Toms Shoes' Philanthropic Struggles And Comebacks

    Millennials are on track to spend $200 billion per year starting in 2017. According to a survey by Deloitte, 73% of Millennials believe businesses can have a positive impact on the world, but they also think today’s companies aren’t doing a very good job. In order to capture those Millennial dollars, entrepreneurs are making philanthropy as much a part of their businesses as marketing and new product development.

  • Social Experiment Proves Consumers Care About Factory Workers Making Our Apparel

    To demonstrate how cheap clothing often translates into cheap labor, advocacy group Fashion Revolution set up a vending machine in a busy European square that sold tops for 2 euros (about $2). The social experiment coincided with last month’s second annual Fashion Revolution Day, an awareness event that pays tribute to the infamous Bangladesh factory collapse, which claimed more than 1,100 lives in 2013.

  • What Every City Can Learn From Charlotte About Ending Homelessness

    Home is where the heart -- and the solution to ending homelessness –- is, a new study has confirmed. Moore Place, a nonprofit that provides permanent housing and other services to homeless people, has saved Charlotte $2.4 million in medical costs alone since 2012, according to a new report from UNC Charlotte. The study also found that the program’s clients are more likely to take advantage of preventative health care services, and get off the streets for good, than people who aren’t offered stable housing.

  • How Abandoned Nepal Earthquake Survivors 'United' To Rescue One Another

    The men, women and children of the small community high in the hills 50 miles northeast of Kathmandu wrapped the seven bodies in makeshift shrouds and carried them down through terraced fields and woods to the fast-flowing river. There the remains of the four children, all very small, and three adults were cremated according to traditional Hindu rites.

  • View From A Helicopter Proves Miami Truly Is The Magic City

    Helicopters have been dubbed “magic carpets” for their ability to traverse through any terrain, and this was never more true than in the Magic City. Miami’s undergoing an unprecedented boom -- the magnitude of which can best be grasped from a bird’s eye view. Real estate is exploding, an art revival has taken hold in an area that was once home only to gangs and drugs, and its beaches are drawing hordes of tourists even during summer’s sweltering months. To get the full picture of Miami’s evolution, locals and tourists can now -- in a moment -- peer at Brickell’s construction and take in the turquoise water.

  • Shooting Victims' Clothes Displayed As Art Activism To Help Get Guns Off Streets

    Blair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. Earlier this month, a mannequin modeled after Holt’s height and weight, which was clothed in items his mother had saved, stood at the St. James Cathedral plaza in Chicago. From the light gray hooded jacket down to his Nikes with a bright orange swoosh, the structure nailed Holt’s signature style.