All People Making a Difference
Ashoka Future Forum tackles 'Tomorrow's Media,' 'Leadership'The Ashoka Future Forum May 30 and 31 in Washington, D.C., (see a live video feed below) brings together social innovators, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to explore how people can solve problems in their families, communities, and workplaces.
Gaza Sky Geeks backs tech startups in the Gaza StripThe conflict-torn Gaza Strip produces more than 2,000 young graduates with technical degrees each year. Gaza Sky Geeks helps them launch their own high-tech businesses.
Filmmaker Mira Nair tells stories 'no one else will'Her latest feature film, 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist,' and her free film school in Kampala, Uganda, are just two ways she's broadening the stories being told on screens.
100 years on, Rockefeller Foundation still promotes 'the well-being of mankind'The Rockefeller Foundation, chartered in 1913, took philanthropy in new directions with its global outlook and diligent, scientific approach that became a model for the field.
From housing to health care, 7 co-ops that are changing the economyHow manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
Difference MakerDave Valle plays on a new field: microloans that help to end povertyAs a pro baseball player in the Dominican Republic Dave Valle saw poverty up close. Now his microloans are helping to end it.
Changing the world, McDonald's style: 5 great social franchisesSocial franchises 鈥� businesses with a charitable purpose 鈥� develop and market cheap, innovative products that solve a social problem. Here are five examples.
Dana Frasz wants to see a Food Shift 鈥� away from wasteForty percent of all the food produced in the US is wasted. But a number of efforts in the US 鈥� such as Food Shift 鈥� and others abroad are taking on the problem.
Geeks to the rescue: How to save the world in 54 hoursAt Tech4Change participants pitch, build, and present tech-oriented social enterprise concepts that can create jobs and solve problems for the world's poorest of the poor.
Oklahoma City tornado: more ways to helpA massive tornado tore through parts of the Oklahoma City area May 19, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Here are some of the ways you can help.
An art museum uses technology to lure young patronsThe Cleveland Museum of Art is embracing cutting-edge technology to try to lure new audiences to its collection of masterworks.
Steve Jobs widow: How is Laurene Powell Jobs spending her wealth?Steve Jobs widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, is emerging as a education philanthropist and immigration reform campaigner. Since her husband, Steve Jobs, passed on, Mrs. Powell Jobs has joined the push for passage of the Dream Act.
Actor, dressed as woman, feels Egypt's sexual harassmentAs part of a documentary TV series, a young male actor took to the streets of downtown Cairo dressed as a woman and experienced sexual harassment firsthand.
Difference MakerScott Budnick serves breakfast 鈥� with a side order of respect 鈥� to the homelessSunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'
How mussels could help clean polluted watersAlong the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether mussels, a hardy bivalve, might be grown in urban areas as a way of cleaning coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants.
Sharing good news helps break down the myth of our own powerlessnessScary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but there are plenty of empowering stories of progress 鈥� if we look for them.
US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian missionThe US Navy has been sending its vessels on humanitarian missions since 2006, when it sent the hospital ship USNS Mercy to the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian countries.
Two extraordinary African women tell their storiesAs disabled women refugees, Dahabo Hassan Maow and Aitm Caroline Ogwang faced tremendous obstacles. But they've overcome every one and now advocate for other women in need.
Detroit calls on its Do-It-Yourself DepartmentA growing number of volunteers, some affluent, some just average guys riding their Toros, perform services, such as mowing the parks, that Detroit can no longer afford.
Difference MakerMalcolm Boyd brought 海角大神ity into the streets to promote civil rightsEpiscopal priest Malcolm Boyd has taken the message of 海角大神ity outside the walls of church to champion minority rights and show that God is everywhere.
