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When Moving a Nonprofit Forward Means Altering the Founder’s CourseLeaders who succeed founders sometimes need to work against expectations of them and chart a fundamentally new path toward change, even while keeping the original…Sep 2020 -
TED2020: What if Lifesaving Prescriptions Were Available for All?As prescription drug costs skyrocket in the US, thousands of people are forced to forgo lifesaving medications — all while manufacturers and health care facilities…Sep 2020 -
Biometric Tracking Can Ensure Billions Have Immunity Against Covid-19When the Covid-19 vaccine is released, the world will embark on one of the most challenging public health delivery campaigns ever attempted. Nowhere will this…Aug 2020 -
Hospitals Want to Reduce Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in HealthThe COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis have shed light on the enormous disparities in health and social well-being in this country, particularly those…Aug 2020 -
How Artisans Offer Lessons for Us to Reshape the Post-Covid EconomyThe onset of COVID-19 prompted billions of workers to shift their work life to their home offices for the first time, introducing a new working…Aug 2020 -
Lonely Girls: How the Pandemic Has Deepened the Isolation of AdolescentsWe know that the world was complicated for girls before COVID-19. Because all of their work is powered by data, ROX recently deployed a national…Jul 2020 -
In Stockton, a Powerful Program to Prevent ViolenceWith the pandemic, and then the eruption of protests in response to the killing of George Floyd, the work of Advance Peace to end gun…Jul 2020 -
Without Water in the United StatesWhile health officials warned the nation to wash our hands frequently, in the Navajo Nation that basic protection is a luxury. In more than a…Jul 2020 -
This Al Gore-Supported Project Uses AI to Track the World’s Emissions in Near Real TimePortfolio organization WattTime announced its partnership with former United States Vice President Al Gore and a coalition of environmental groups (including OceanMind) to develop a…Jul 2020
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Grantee @Sanergy receives a $2.5M investment from @jica_direct_en to address the rising sanitation needs in Nairobi… https://t.co/okR9bjM3Cf
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.@ReachoutToPhool brings in @aliaa08 as an investor! "I admire the founder's vision of making incense and bio-leath… https://t.co/DXYds3bPn2
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For their work providing flexible & digitally-driven retirement products for informal workers in Ghana + promoting… https://t.co/uTALcXc6l2
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Thrilled to see so many DRK entrepreneurs as finalists for @ElevatePrize! Powered by @SolveMIT, The Elevate Prize i… https://t.co/2vZyJDqdb4
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Grantee @weareMORTAR receives funding from @Jumpman23 to "empower their work of building equitable entrepreneurship… https://t.co/Nuy4JqNVds
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.@PropelAmerica founder and CEO @Rouhanifard shares how "jobs-first" higher education can shift the paradigm to put… https://t.co/zzqKb7m7Fd
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.@LandedHomes announces their latest round of venture capital financing: $31M in equity, bringing them to nearly $1… https://t.co/wk10fu1dKi
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"Violent crime, specifically gun violence, plagues many urban neighborhoods, and we have seemed to have but one ans… https://t.co/cRJnIrScYg
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Exciting news from @wattTime, in collaboration with @OceanMindGlobal. The impacts from @ClimateTRACE are big - we c… https://t.co/41OvqMG0vR
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Last year, @icivics inspired millions of kids to try to win the White House. For her dedication to inspire the next… https://t.co/F7NT0OFNTG
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"If prisons made people safer, America would be the safest nation on the planet. And we’re not. Our methods don’t w… https://t.co/H93fNWiEeV
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"Corporations wield tremendous influence over the political system. But on climate, most corporations have decided… https://t.co/54q3YB69ni
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Watch the debut of @patagonia Provisions’ film "The Ocean Solution" on 9/9 at 5pm PT. Feat. @GreenWaveOrg & co-fo… https://t.co/xsXOspp4Yi
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"There is a huge human and environmental cost to the food that we are producing, and if we are wasting it, it’s cri… https://t.co/fDM6wPkz4S
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In Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, many people build their own homes using cheap materials that are no… https://t.co/jBNMpduYX1
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"What will it take for us to transform our society such that we would be able to delight in watching each other gro… https://t.co/lrNskSKrG7
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Applications for three of the @Halcyoninspires Incubator’s Fellowship Programs are open! All global social entrepre… https://t.co/qjUmX95z6K
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Grantee @public_rights has launched a publication on @medium dedicated to exploring #workersrights in America and c… https://t.co/1krNBIApjM
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.@ZarlashtH, founder of @RefugeeTraumaUK, shares her family's raw and emotional story of seeking asylum as refugees… https://t.co/I50KU6rxwB
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Millions of households across the US lack climate-safe and affordable housing. On 7/21, @ElizabetHausler, founder &… https://t.co/lK4jFvFLYY