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Nancy Lublin Wins 2019 Skoll Award for Social EntrepreneurshipWith suicide claiming nearly 50,000 lives in the U.S. alone every year — more than twice the toll of homicide — Crisis Text Line saw…Apr 2019 -
Meet The Social Entrepreneur Who Discovered A Problem Hiding In Plain SightThere are lots of people who want to change the world—people who wish to use their time and talent to “do good.” But there’s no…Mar 2019 -
How to Revive Struggling Local News RoomsCNN talks with Report for America co-founders Charles Sennott and Steven Waldman about their mission to strengthen local community newsrooms. Watch the full video here.Mar 2019 -
The Hunt for the Fish Pirates Who Exploit the SeaBBC Future covers the efforts of OceanMind and others to track and capture the notorious illegal fishing vessel STS-50. Read the full article here.Feb 2019 -
Lessons for Charity Leaders From EducationSuperHighwayEvan Marwell, founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit formed to bring broadband internet to every public school in America by 2020, has some advice…Feb 2019 -
TEDx: Mariana Costa Checa of LaboratoriaCo-founder and CEO of grantee Laboratoria, Mariana Costa Checa is changing the face of tech in Latin America. She has taught coding to hundreds of women…Jan 2019 -
Becca Heller Receives MacArthur 'Genius' FellowshipWe are thrilled to share that Becca Heller, Executive Director and Co-founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), was named a recipient of this year’s prestigious MacArthur…Oct 2018 -
MaTontine's innovative digital solution will help to make small-scale savings workA new project that aims to reach 50,000 Senegalese women with financial services, powered by grantee MaTontine, was just launched. The project aims to conduct all the…Sep 2018 -
Charles Bronfman Prize Names Amy Bach, Founder of Measures for Justice, as 2018 RecipientThe Charles Bronfman Prize announced its 2018 recipient: Amy Bach, Founder, Executive Director and President of Measures for Justice (MFJ), the first organization to publicly…Sep 2018
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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