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Top tips for traveling with grandchildren

Having missed many precious family moments during the pandemic, grandparents are planning special trips with their grandchildren to make up for lost time.

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Who are you when you travel?

Travel is a way to reinvent ourselves—to incarnate, reclaim, or discover a piece of identity we may be hungering for or have neglected.

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Integrating slow travel into donor trips

Slowing down your donor trips and tuning in to the “WHY?”

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Nine questions to help decolonize your photography

Pictures say a lot but they don’t tell the whole story.

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A checklist for your first travel post vaccination

What you need to know before you get back onan airplane.

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

14 questions you need to ask about travel insurance

Protect your travel investment and gain essential peace of mind.

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8 essential questions you should ask your travel provider during COVID

  Traveling with a trusted and experienced provider is more important than ever in ensuring the quality and safety of…

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Four tangible ways to lessen your environmental impact abroad

Tourism and environmentalism are, in many ways, in direct conflict. It is no secret that global tourism has an enormous carbon footprint.

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Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Eight tips for traveling on your next philanthropic donor trip

To acknowledge how you make sense and meaning of your experiences on any philanthropic donor trip, you must carve out…

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4 Ways to Support Positive Group Dynamics on Donor Trips

By Julia Breul, Associate Director of Social Impact Journeys In our experience working on the nuts and bolts of donor…

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

We Should Not Go Back to “Business as Usual”

by Meredith Hauser   When the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, we’ll all breathe a sigh of relief. We’ll begin to…

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

The Importance of Understanding Religion When You Travel

By Meredith Hauser, Manager of Social Impact Journeys and Events Coordinator Imagine you are a tourist in the fictional country…

Destinations, Travel Tips

Africa’s Big 5 Safari Animals and Where to See Them (Plus Other Iconic Species!)

If you’re considering taking your family on an African safari, but still can’t decide where to go, why not base…

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