All People Making a Difference
From hazelnut trees to Foxconn and iPhones, corporate responsibility is growingMountain Hazelnut Venture is planting trees, paying fair wages, and supplying customers in a triple win for corporate social responsibility.
Tacugama gives sanctuary to chimpanzees - through war and peaceEven an 11-year civil war couldn't stop Bala Amarasekaran from rescuing and rehabilitating chimps in Sierra Leone.
Helping New Orleans make a comeback is her personal passionBrittany Aydelotte has visited New Orleans 10 times, sharing her love for the city with each new group of volunteers.
'Lemonade Detroit' film shares stories of resilienceDocumentary film by Erik Prouix highlights the resilience of Detroit while paying for itself through a Buy-A-Frame offer
Bringing quicker, easier solar power to rural AfricaSolarNexus custom designs small solar power systems so that they can be easily installed in the field, providing a kick-start to the local economy.
ICNL wins $1 million MacArthur Award to promote freedom of assembly around the worldThe ICNL(International Center for Not-for-Profit Law) received $1 million from the MacArthur Foundation to advance its mission of creating a legal framework for the right of assembly and association in countries around the world.
Turning the opinions of Arab Spring youths into data 鈥� and creating changeSilatech and Gallup have teamed to collect detailed data on the views of Arab youths toward jobs and success 鈥� all to help policymakers make better decisions.
Difference MakerGiving London street kids 鈥� even teen gang members 鈥� a safe (and colorful) homeCamila Batmanghelidjh founded Kids Company to help children 鈥� and now helps troubled teens. who often get little sympathy since the London riots.
Crisis Action makes a big noise using quiet citizen diplomacyCrisis Action acts like a coach or talent scout for humanitarian and other citizen groups 鈥� but always behind the scenes.
Solar power: cheap electricity for world鈥檚 poorMore than a billion people worldwide lack access to electricity. The best way to bring it to them is to provide ever-cheaper, clean, locally produced solar power that can replace dirty and dangerous kerosene.
Five private companies helping to reduce hungerPepsico, Kraft, Cargill, Land O' Lakes, and TNT Express are among many companies that have created nonprofit divisions to help alleviate hunger in developing countries.
Question Box helps people Google can't reachMillions of people in the developing world lack internet access and the ability to 'Google' an answer to their questions. Question Box provides a simple solution.
What women really want for Valentine's Day: more freedomThe biggest Valentine's Day gift to women would be more freedom to make their own choices about when and how often to give birth, says Worldwatch Institute president Robert Engelman.
Charlie Weingarten finds fresh ways to champion selfless acts of philanthropyA member of a philanthropic family founded Explore.org to inspire selflessness and lifelong learning.
Five reasons to serve othersWhen you serve, you discover that often the most important things you have to offer are not things at all, says the founder of Servicespace.org
Paddling down the Colorado River to surface its secretsWill Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore traveled 1,700 miles to assess the state of the beautiful but threatened Colorado River.
Thistle Farms cultivates a better alternative to life on the streetsEpiscopal priest Becca Stevens founded Thistle Farms 鈥� which makes bath oils, candles, and thistle paper 鈥� to help women in trouble reboot their lives.
Can Facebook pursue a social mission and go public at the same time?Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is about more than making money 鈥� it has a 'social mission to make the world more open and connected.' Are the two goals compatible?
As tensions over wealth gap rise, the rich are giving moreThe top 50 charitable donors gave more in 2011: Are the super rich feeling the sting of public opinion?- Difference MakerDeng Fei goes beyond journalism to right wrongs in ChinaOnce a top investigative reporter in China, Deng Fei now writes a popular microblog that moves readers to action.