All around us, people are working on innovative solutions to pressing social problems. But those stories can be difficult to track down. Which is why we’re scouring the Web to bring you weekly links highlighting who’s solving what and how. Video Games for ...
More than 100,000 Americans are "chronically homeless," meaning they live on the streets or in shelters for a year or more. If a new campaign launched yesterday meets its goal, every one of them will be housed by 2013.
How would you go about creating a world where people live in peace? Rather than dismiss the question as hopelessly naive, think of it as a practical challenge. Where would you begin? Eric D. Dawson, the founder of Peace First, says the logical ...
How do you feel when you see a promising idea that's going nowhere? If you're like Scott Belsky, the founder of Behance Network, a popular online platform for creative professionals to share their work, you get very restless. Belsky spent six years studying ...
Media sage/prophet/futurist/demigod Clay Shirky wrote a post on his website entitled “The Collapse of Complex Business Models.” While it’s ostensibly about the need for innovation in media, it also reads as a tacit endorsement of the power of innovators and entrepreneurs in any ...
Brenda Palms Barber didn’t set out to make honey. But after spending six years teaching work and life skills to ex-offenders in Chicago—only to see them get rejected for jobs due to the stigma of incarceration—the director of the North Lawndale Employment Network ...
In India, so many people suffer during dry spells that the government uses farmers’ suicide rates as an official measurement of drought, marketing guru Seth Godin told a gathering of business, government and social sector leaders last week at the NYC Symposium for ...
Last November, student activists won what the New York Times called the “biggest victory by far” in the history of the anti-sweatshop movement. Ten months earlier, Russell Athletic, the sportswear company, closed a factory in Honduras shortly after the workers unionized. In response, ...
Three years ago New York City launched Opportunity NYC, an ambitious experiment to see if low-income, mostly single mothers could effectively be bribed to be more responsible parents. The idea was modeled on a successful Mexican program called Oportunidades, which makes cash payments ...