Glimpse Quarterly Exposes Global Inequalities in Special Report
April 27, 2007 — A special report in Glimpse Quarterly's Summer 2007 issue brings into question the role of the United States and other developed countries when it comes to sharing the world's resources. Chock-full of eye-opening statistics, graphs and anecdotes from study abroad students.
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Glimpse Offers the Only Blogging Services for Study Abroad Students Nationwide
March 21, 2007 — Glimpse announces its redesigned and enhanced blogging services, intended to help study abroad students and international volunteers share their overseas experiences with friends, family and a wider audience back home.
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The Glimpse Foundation Unveils New Online Store for Study Abroad and Cross-Cultural Resources
February 18, 2007 — Glimpse has launched a new online store that consolidates the resources it offers to further cross-cultural understanding and to help prepare students and volunteers for their overseas experiences. Among the new store's many offerings are subscriptions to Glimpse Quarterly, back issue box sets and PDF Study Abroad Guides.
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Carol Bellamy Headlines the Glimpse Foundation's Fifth Birthday Celebration
December 13, 2006 — Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning and former director of both the Peace Corps and UNICEF, joined the Glimpse Foundation and its top-level supporters to help celebrate Glimpse's five years as a pioneering nonprofit in the fields of international education and cross-cultural exchange.
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Glimpse Board of Trustees Announces $15,500 Challenge Grant
December 8, 2006 — For a short time you can double your donation! In celebration of Glimpse's 5th birthday, our Board of Trustees has issued a $15,500 Challenge Grant that will remain in effect until the end of 2006. So make your pledge before Jan. 1, 2007 and every dollar you donate is worth two dollars to Glimpse!
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Islam vs. USA? Stories From Americans Who Know Better
November 20, 2006 — The Glimpse Foundation is proud to announce the release of our first-ever special year-end issue about Islamic practices around the world. Our Winter 2006 issue includes the results of a survey conducted by the Glimpse Foundation of 130 Muslims studying in the United States--both American- and foreign-born. The results reveal very positive impressions of the general American public, but marked frustration toward the U.S. media for its distorted and one-dimensional portrayals of Muslims.
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Take Glimpse's "Share the World" challenge
Nov. 13, 2006 — Join us in celebrating International Education Week by participating in our first-ever "Share the World" challenge. How many people can you tell? We challenge you to spread the word about Glimpse to your family and friends. The more people you tell, the better chance you have to win a $250 travel voucher, courtesy of STA Travel!
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New Study Abroad Acclimation Guides
Sept. 20, 2006 — The Glimpse Foundation announces the release of three new PDF Study Abroad Acclimation Guides, "Gender Roles Abroad," "Race Abroad" and "Traveling to Developing Countries." The guides are based on reponses from an in-house survey of 200 returned study abroad students.
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Glimpse's 2007 Calender is Here!
Sept. 12, 2006 — Featuring the top 12 submissions from our Spring 2006 Photo Contest, our 2007 calendar depicts family life around the world. Get your copy before we sell out! $12.95 each plus shipping.
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Gritty Italy: What the Tourists Don't See
Aug. 28, 2006 — The Fall 2006 issue of Glimpse Quarterly features a special spotlight section on Italy's North-South divide, including interviews with anti-Mafia activist Anna Puglisi and renowned chef Giuliano Hazan. The issue also features an exclusive report on the U.S. role in the declining state of the world's environment.
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Glimpse Receives Special Grant from the Luce Foundation
July 16, 2006 — A special grant from the Henry Luce Foundation aims to help the Glimpse Foundation provide forums for students and other young adults to share their international experiences through Glimpse's publication and website. Higher education is a central focus for most of the Henry Luce Foundation's programs, with an emphasis on innovation and scholarship. Says Vice President Terrill Lautz, "We are delighted that the Luce Foundation can lend a hand in helping Glimpse to expand the international/global horizons of the next generation of students--and others--in the United States."
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Go Away, On Us
May 11, 2006 — Go away this summer, courtesy of our friends at STA Travel. While you're at it, help other kids go away too. Participate in our Summer 2006 "Go Away" Raffle, and you will have at least one chance to win a $250 STA Travel voucher! Anyone is eligible to enter. Purchasing tickets will not only enter you to win a free airline voucher, but you'll also be supporting the nonprofit Glimpse Foundation! After all, this is the Year of Study Abroad. Help us in our efforts to internationalize college campuses and send more students overseas. The future of our country depends on it. Deadline: June 15, 2006.
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South Africa: Then and Now
May 1, 2006 — The Summer 2006 issue of Glimpse Quarterly spotlights race relations in South Africa. Over a decade after the end of apartheid, how far has the country come? Plus, learn how to spice up your summer barbecue (ever tried yak penis?), find out how Bill O'Reilly and Sharon Stone shamed America, discover new ways to fill your lazy summer days (cheese chasing?) and delve into the aftermath of a war that the United States started but that few Americans know anything about.
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The $50,000 Hire Campaign is on!
May 1, 2006 — We are pleased to announce that Glimpse grew its overall business by 30 percent in 2005 while cutting its reliance on charitable income by 20 percent--a major accomplishment! However, many revenue opportunities slip through our fingers on account of limited staff. To guarantee salary for the newest addition to the Glimpse Staff over the first year, we are therefore announcing a new $50,000 capital campaign. If you're interested in helping us make this possible, make a challenge grant and reference our "Hire Campaign" in the comments field. If you're interested, here's some more information on the new position.

Australia's Love Affair with the Great Outdoors
Feb. 1, 2006 — The Spring 2006 issue of Glimpse Quarterly spotlights Australia, exploring the country's unique relationship with the "Great Outdoors," in both Aboriginal and European contexts. Additional content explores an insider's take on Colombia (a bloodthirsty cocaine factory?) and the worrisome preparatory measures that Beijing is taking to prepare for the 2008 Olympics. Additional content from Denmark, Mexico, Ecuador, Cape Verde and Thailand.
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Keeping Morocco's Cultural Legacies Alive
Nov. 15, 2005 — The Winter 2005 issue of Glimpse Quarterly has been released! Spotlighting Morocco, the issue explores Morocco's indigenous Amazigh culture, and the ways in which it is simultaneously being preserved and adapted to changing times. The issue includes a special report on American impatience, comparing concepts of time in cultures around the world. Additional content from Korea, Bhutan, Thailand, Australia, Italy and Costa Rica.
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Glimpse PDF Study Abroad Acclimation Guides
Oct. 15, 2005 — Based on survey responses from hundreds of returned study abroad students across the country, Glimpse PDF Study Abroad Acclimation Guides give students the inside scoop on how to confront such challenges as culture shock, language learning and anti-Americanism. Fresh, funny and engaging, our guides are chock-full of anecdotes, advice, statistics, article excerpts and more.
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A Day's Rest: Glimpse's 2006 Calendar
Aug. 30, 2005 — Glimpse's 2006 calendar is now available for sale ... get yours while supplies last! Featuring the winning photos from our Spring 2005 photo contest, "A Day's Rest." We may be experts in multi-tasking, but perhaps one of the most valuable lessons that other countries have to teach us is how to slow down and unwind. This is certainly not to say that people beyond U.S. borders aren’t hard workers—our last year’s calendar, “A Day’s Work,” captured a stunning variety of work routines from around the globe. But when “A Day’s Work” is over, the people depicted in our 2006 Glimpse Calender enjoy “A Day’s Rest,” whether it be by playing backgammon, chatting with friends or embarking on a quiet sunset fishing trip. The calendar includes photographs from Germany, Lebanon, India, Spain, Mauritania, France, Brazil, Morocco, Vietnam, Laos and Croatia.
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Hope & Loss South of the Border
Aug. 15, 2005 — The Fall 2005 issue of Glimpse Quarterly has been released! Spotlighting Mexico, the issue explores the U.S.-Mexico border, and the impact that the cross-border flow of people, companies and cultural practices has had on the daily lives of our southern neighbors. The issue includes an interview with acclaimed author, poet and musician, Ruben Martinez, as well as additional content from Wales, Slovakia, Zanzibar, China, Russia, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
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Glimpse's New Look
July 1, 2005 — After more than two years of development, The Glimpse Foundation has finally launched its brand-new website! We invite you to take a look around. Not only is our new site vastly improved in the aesthetic realm, but it also features a variety of new services that will bring us ever closer to our vision of a globally informed young adult population.

A Stronger Community
July 1, 2005 — Now called "Glimpse Abroad," our online collection of first person, cultural experience articles is so much more than a static body of content. Dynamic, interactive and ever-expanding, Glimpse Abroad works to forge a community of young adults with a shared interest in cross-cultural learning and exchange. It will soon offer interactive web capabilities—including forums, blogs, photo sharing and message-boards—to all registered users. In this way, young adults who have lived or are living abroad can connect with peers at home to report on their experiences, share their cultural insights and offer advice to prospective travelers.

Winners Announced for our Spring 2005 Photo Contest
May 23, 2005 — After receiving an overwhelming number of submissions, judges announced the first-place winner and 11 runners-up for our Spring 2005 Photo Contest, "A Day's Rest." The contest asked participants to explore how people around the world spend their leisure time. Congratulations to first place winner Cory Eldridge and runners-up Alpen Sheth, Andrew Marantz, Christopher Quirk, Clara Valenstein, Daphne Hollinger, Ian Dorant, Kevin Royer, Meghan White, Narayan Mahon, Natalia Reddy, and Paul Goodman. Results will be showcased in our 2006 Glimpse Calendar. Stay tuned!

The Fall 2004 Cover Takes 5th Place
January 30, 2005 — At its annual conference held in San Francisco, CA, the Members of the Independent Press Association (IPA) awarded the Fall 2004 issue of Glimpse Quarterly fifth place in its annual Best Cover Contest. Judges, which included hundreds of editors and publishers from independent publications across the country, commented on the cover's striking photography and intriguing design. To view the cover, visit our list of back issues.

News

A Glance at the Winter Issue of Glimpse: Readjusting to the States
Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 6, 2005
Catching up again to the fast-paced American lifestyle is one of the hardest challenges for American students returning home from study abroad, according to surveys conducted by the travel magazine. Kerala Goodkin, the magazine's editor in chief, writes that Americans obsess over productivity and efficiency, and that such fixations have led to "on the go" eating mentalities, excessive sugar consumption, a reliance on cars, and poor health. That "hurried" lifestyle, she explains, is all the more difficult for students to adjust to after living in countries with more-relaxed outlooks.

Student-launched Web site and magazine provides inside look at studying abroad
Brown Daily Herald, Nov. 15, 2005
Learning to love fondue, discovering the best types of beer and making friends with locals are just some of the cultural information often overlooked when students are considering studying abroad. Read full article.

Glimpse on TV
May 22, 2005 — On Sunday, May 22, The Glimpse Foundation's Editor in Chief, Kerala Goodkin, was invited as a guest on The Truman Taylor Show, a weekly news program on ABC 6. Kerala discussed the worrisome disparity between the amount of power that the U.S. exerts over the rest of the world and the amount we know about the daily realities of life in other countries.

Utne Reviews the Fall 2004 Issue
Nov. 2004 — "Written mostly by university student and recent grads living abroad, Glimpse Quarterly reports on wide-ranging topics from around the world. Now in its third year, it's published by The Glimpse Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes global understanding. The Fall 2004 issue spotlights India but also includes writings about life in Australia, Guatemala, and Denmark."

Library Journal Reviews the Winter 2004 Issue
"Glimpse seeks to promote global understanding by providing readers, particularly younger ones, with a deeper, more well-informed perspective. Each issue spotlights a different part of the world -- the issue examined looks at China -- via essays, photos, and observations by Americans living abroad or foreigners living in America. The glossy paper, striking photography, maps and mid-size format all make for an attractive package. A strong addition to most collections."

Getting a Glimpse of different news
Providence Phoenix, June 27 - July 3, 2003
Most people, if they know anything about a foreign country, know it from reading the newspaper or watching TV news. But after living in southern France for six months, Nicholas Fitzhugh, 24, was astounded when he read about that region in American newspapers. "They just knew nothing about the actual country or the culture," he recalls. Read full article.

Magazine shows a 'Glimpse' of life abroad
Pawtucket Times
PAWTUCKET -- Tucked into the top floor of a faded brick mill building on Fountain Street is the headquarters of "Glimpse Magazine" -- a 2-year-old publication produced by a group of editors just out of college. "Glimpse" is still a small operation. Nicholas Fitzhugh, 24, serves as the magazine's publisher while Kerala Goodkin, 22, is editor-in chief. Despite the modest office, the two former Brown University students are running a magazine with a truly expansive mission -- publishing writings from dozens of students and other expatriates as they experience the ups and downs of living in foreign cultures. Read full article.

From Student Project to Nonprofit Business
George Street Journal, Sept. 12, 2002
PROVIDENCE - In June, three new Brown graduates moved operations for their fledgling foundation, called Glimpse, from a Brook Street rental to a 4,300-square-foot loft in Pawtucket. That same month, they also paid themselves for the first time in two years. It’s a far cry from the tiny apartment dining room where Glimpse was launched as an undergraduate project. The foundation’s stated mission is “to promote cross-cultural dialogue and education by connecting the people, places, and ideas of the world.” It plans to accomplish its mission through an online magazine of articles written by Americans – primarily college students – about living abroad, including a recent piece about a young woman’s experience in an Afghan refugee camp. Read full article.

Young CEO Looks To College Students To Build Cultural Bridges
Cape Cod Chronicle, August 22, 2002
CHATHAM - Nicholas Fitzhugh believes the need for cross-cultural understanding has never been greater, especially in the wake of Sept. 11. With the U.S. media continuing to do its usual superficial job following a brief spurt in international coverage, the recent Brown graduate and long-time Chatham summer resident thinks it's time for a different approach.

MHS grad's company making media waves
The Times Argus, August 5, 2002
MONTPELIER - Former Montpelier High School student Nick Fitzhugh is making waves in the high-powered media world with a start-up Internet company. He has attracted the interest and support of the BBC, The Associated Press, PBS' Frontline, National Geographic and Harper's with his online magazine that features the stories of college students living and studying abroad. The Glimpse Foundation and its Web site uses students like a band of roving reporters to write personal accounts of political and cultural events around the world. Read full article.

A Fresh Start-Up
The Providence Journal, May 2, 2002
PROVIDENCE - Nick Fitzhugh's bedroom has a secret life -- as a boardroom. Fitzhugh, a senior at Brown University, is running a nonprofit company -- The Glimpse Foundation -- from his off-campus apartment. Fitzhugh, 23, and his staff of seven raise money and organize the business from his bedroom. The company produces a magazine three times year, and updates a Web site regularly, which focuses on the issues facing students studying abroad and covers international events. "We've gone through periods where we worked half our waking hours on this," said Fitzhugh, who launched the company in 2000, as a junior. "For half of us this is our dream, it's the only thing we want to do after graduation." Read full article.

The Glimpse
International Relater, April 29, 2002
PROVIDENCE - "Bringing the World to Life" is the mission behind the Glimpse Foundation, a rapidly expanding non-profit organization made up of Brown University students. Concerned with a lack of intimacy in much of mainstream media, these energetic students have created Glimpse Magazine to report today's international news from the fresh perspective of students studying abroad. Because such students live as community members amongst coffee shop owners, taxi drivers, and other students to name just a few, they often are able to probe deeper into the stories behind the stories. These sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always enlightening perspectives are collected by Glimpse to provide a rare angle into the happenings of today's world.

Student-founded Internet mag to go national
Brown Daily Herald, April 25, 2002
PROVIDENCE - Glimpse, an Internet magazine founded by Brown students last year, is looking to hit the big time. Glimpse examines international issues and cultures from the perspective of students studying abroad. The National Geographic Society contributed $15,000 and nine computers to the Glimpse Foundation, the student-run non-profit that publishes the magazine, to fund an office in downtown Providence. Glimpse will also likely receive a $38,000 grant from National Geographic, said President and Publisher, Nick Fitzhugh ’02.

Undergrads Launch Glimpse Magazine
Brown Daily Herald, May 1, 2001
PROVIDENCE - Nick Fitzhugh '02 took a year off between high school and college to take his first trip abroad. He used that time to write articles about his experiences in France and Italy that were later published by the Providence Journal. As a fiction writer meeting and observing people, eager to probe the details and complexities of strangers' lives, Fitzhugh began to feel that something was missing in the way the mainstream media tended to cover international news.