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Amy Costello

Amy Costello is a former Africa correspondent for PRI’s The World. She now hosts Tiny Spark, a podcast that investigates the business of doing good. Tiny Spark takes a critical look at seemingly good ideas and asks tough questions of well-intentioned people and programs, whether medical volunteers in post-quake Haiti or the social entrepreneur behind TOMS Shoes. Amy has worked as an NPR producer and adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her alma mater. Her FRONTLINE/World television investigation “Sudan: The Quick and the Terrible” was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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Conflict
Women in the global aid sector are saying #AidToo
Shannon Mouillesseaux
Conflict
After sexual assault, this former aid worker found little help from UN
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Conflict
The Oxfam scandal shows that reform is needed in the humanitarian aid sector
Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Finance
Before you write out checks on Giving Tuesday, consider this
Children queue for aid at a makeshift center erected by a charity in an earthquake-damaged district of Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra, 2009.
Development
Discussion: How do you know that your holiday giving is going to the right place?
Dr. Gary Slutkin and Autry Phillips. Slutkin says when it comes to gun violence, he doesn't like the terms perpetrator and victim.
Conflict
Can we decrease gun violence by treating it like an infectious disease? Signs point to yes
Volunteer Health Worker
Health & Medicine
Thousands of health workers in Senegal receive no pay. Is that fair?
Global Politics
Nelson Mandela, the man who brought South Africa out of apartheid, dies at 95
Relief supplies for Haiyan victims
Environment
Read these 3 tips before you offer help to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Jennifer Hemsley, adoptive mother.
Development & Education
International Adoption: When Altruism Becomes Industry
Development & Education
Discussion: How Do You Know a Good Charity When You See It?
Dorothy Kalema holds up her bed net with large holes.
Health & Medicine
Bed Nets for Malaria: Losing the Arms Race?
Haiti Medical Volunteers: Starting a Dialogue
A boy waits for medical attention in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after 2010 earthquake.
Health & Medicine
Haiti Medical Volunteers: Learning from Mistakes
Development & Education
TOMS Shoes: Does Buy-One-Give-One Work?
Global Politics
Problem with the PlayPump