Environment
Look for the Wild Animal Label
The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network makes a business case for protecting Asian elephants.
Brandon Keim
Social Enterprise
Workers of the World, Buy!
iCare is enabling Southeast Asian workers to purchase the basic goods of middle-class life without falling into debt.
Environment
One Day at a Time
An incremental approach to fostering sustainable eating habits is the hallmark of Green Monday, an organization based in Hong Kong.
IMPACT INDIA
Akshaya Patra
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Food
More Than a Meal
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Socially Responsible Business
Entrepreneurship and Ebola
Creating an ethically sourced apparel company in West Africa is hard enough, but when Ebola strikes, the challenges become almost insurmountable.
Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Economic Development
Filling Out the Middle
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a “missing” segment in emerging economies.
Technology & Design
Babel of Video
Some 200,000 videos have been subtitled in 100 languages, thanks to software that makes translating subtitles easy and relies on multilingual crowds.
Civil Society
Follow the Money
MapLight, a nonprofit that crunches data to determine the influence of money in politics, aims to make government more accountable.
Technology
Open Source for Humanitarian Action
Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.
Urban Development
Networking for Sustainable Transport
EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts, has grown quickly,
thanks to impressive fundraising and the design of a model program.
Environment
LEED the Way
The LEED green-building certification system is one of the fastest growing nonprofits in America.
Technology & Design
Grassroots Concrete
Build Change is shaking up construction practices in earthquake-prone areas.
Environment
From the Ground Up
Part academic institution, part activist group, part think tank, ATREE crosses sectors to breed a new species of conservation agency in India.