Keeping Kids in School
With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.
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Texting for Change
A South African foundation is leading the way in creating mobile-phone-based solutions for social change.
Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
Habitat Builds Out Its Vision
In the aftermath of the US housing crisis, Habitat for Humanity is working to build not just affordable homes, but affordable communities.
Improving Household Balance Sheets
The Citi Foundation shifts its grantmaking operations to offer hands-on financial training.
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Amplifying Local Voices
GlobalGiving’s storytelling project turns anecdotes into useful data.
The Entrepreneurial Union
Freelance workers, whose numbers are growing, are left without health insurance, a retirement plan, or a work community. The Freelancers Union meets these needs.
Five-Digit Giving
How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.
Competing for a Change
How Changemakers’ “collaborative competitions” harness the wisdom of crowds.
Scaling the Walls
How a nonprofit spurred the Indian government to help seniors.