Conditions were far from modern or sanitary in the hospital in Haiti. The floor was dirt, the walls were the corners of a tent and Barbara Bates-Jensen had an influx of 75 to 100 patients a day. Read more...

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Barbara Bates-Jensen, left, an associate professor of nursing at UCLA, acted as the chief of wound care in Port-au-Prince after the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

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Upscale charity fundraisers weren't exactly on Jonathan Lehmann's post-grad radar. Read more...

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KarmaGoat head of marketing Tony Vassiliadis, left, and CEO Jonathan Lehmann, far right, show potential customers how to sign up for their online marketplace startup. With KarmaGoat, people can buy and sell items while donating proceeds to a charity of choice.

After a nine-hour flight from San Francisco to Düsseldorf, two hours in the terminal, an hour and a half delayed on the tarmac and another hour in the air, I had arrived at my final destination. Read more...

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Elizabeth Case