From Prison Back to School
Boston Uncornered gives gang-involved individuals a stipend and social support to attend college.
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Desegregating the Home-Sharing Economy
A collaboration between the NAACP and Airbnb is one of several new efforts to reduce racial discrimination on home-sharing platforms.
Bringing Together Research and Action
Two new programs aim to help academics to engage more directly with nonprofits and social change initiatives.
Making Kids Into ‘Makers’
The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.
Planting Trees With Drones
To fight deforestation, a UK-based startup is using unmanned aerial vehicles that can plant seeds 60 times faster than humans can.
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Retailing with Heart
At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.
Antipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
Stopping Child Porn
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
Curling Up with E-Readers
Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.
Trawling for Trash
An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.