Charlie Annenberg Weingarten and Explore were featured in a recent article in USA Today.

An excerpt from the piece:

Explore’s mission, he says, is to champion the selfless acts of others and inspire lifelong learning. It’s also to tell stories.

“If you listen to the media, you’d think everyone in the Middle East is a terrorist, everyone in China is greedy, everyone in Africa is starving,” Weingarten says. Explore shows, he says, “wherever you go in the world, people are doing good things.”

His team chooses places in the news, researches the issues and identifies non-profits doing interesting work there. The ideal crew for a fact-finding mission, he says, fits in a rental car. The trips are documented in thousands of photographs and hundreds of videos on the website.

“I always call it Sesame Street for adults,” says Weingarten, who has a master’s degree from the University of Southern California film school. He tries to simplify complicated issues and give a platform to groups his team has vetted.

Read the entire article from USA Today.

Learn more at explore.org.