Nicholas D. Kristof’s op-ed piece “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution” offers insight into the efforts of a few “passionate individuals with great ideas” who are working to “help the world’s most vulnerable people.” This article is eye-opening: who knew that the price of sanitary napkins in Mozambique is causing absenteeism in the workplace? Mr. Kristof tells the [...]

Hospitals are always places of hope and pain, illness and recovery, joy and sorrow. Make it a children’s hospital, and emotions run higher and deeper. Make it a children’s hospital in a poor country — and you’ve got a place that needs help and love and commitment. We’re really pleased to be able to place [...]

by Theresa Higgs, UP Vice President of Global Operations This week kicks off a year of celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps! At 2:00am on October 14, 1960 on the campaign trail, John F. Kennedy gave an impromptu speech to thousands of students on the steps of the University of Michigan. The [...]

One of the great things about being associated with UP is the chance to meet the generous and big-hearted people who hang around here. Last week, the Chair of the Board of Directors showed that spirit once again — he donated a Quest to Costa Rica to a fund-raising auction at Lake Forest Academy high [...]

I was crammed into a booth with my mom and my two daughters, and the restaurant suddenly hushed, and we looked over, and there it was on the TV above the bar: another miner climbing out of that hole and falling into the arms of his loved ones. We were transfixed for a moment, and [...]