The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2014 15 L ooking for a New Year’s resolution that is easy and painless to keep, yet does real, tangible good? Bookmark GreaterGood.com ! We actually featured its precursor, The Hunger Site.com , as our Site of the Month in the March 2012 edition of Cybernotes (as this department was then known). Last year the site, which will celebrate its 15th anni- versary in June, was expanded and rebranded as GreaterGood.com . But its purpose and setup remain the same: to focus the power of the Internet on advancing good causes. Greater Good focuses on a spe- cific project each month and also serves as a portal to The Hunger Site and seven sister sites, each with its own specialized mission. These range from fighting breast cancer and diabetes, treating children with autism and raising awareness of the issue, and promoting child health and literacy, to feeding and assisting homeless and hungry veterans, protecting rainforests and supporting animal rescue initiatives. (Icons for all nine sites are prominently displayed at the top of the GreaterGood homepage.) Since the site’s launch in June 1999, 300 million people from around the world have donated more than $30 million simply by clicking on the button labeled “Click Here to Give—It’s Free.” That’s it! The donations are paid for by site sponsors and distributed to those in need by various charities and corporations. For The Hunger Site , these include Mercy Corps, Feeding America and Millennium Promise. As each site notes, 100 percent of sponsor advertising fees goes to the site’s charitable partners. Visitors can help even more by shopping for items displayed on each of the nine sites. Each online store offers a wide array of fair-traded, handcrafted items from around the world. —Steven Alan Honley, Editor SITE OF THE MONTH: www.GreaterGood.com Shortly after the activist traveled on to Spain, however, he was arrested in response to a Russian request issued through Interpol. Silaev spent eight days in prison, then had to surrender his pass- port and stay for six months while fighting extradition. Though a Spanish court even- tually dismissed the Putin government’s request, ruling that his arrest was politi- cally motivated, Interpol has yet to remove Silaev’s name from its database. Americans are also at risk, as a recent Heritage Foundation paper (“Necessary Reforms Can Keep Interpol Working in the U.S. Interest”) warns. In retaliation for his campaign to pub- licize Russian human rights abuses, Mos- cow police asked Interpol to arrest William Browder. The investment banker was instrumental in U.S. passage of the 2012