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 ...
In 1983, Vivian Stromberg traveled with a women’s delegation to Nicaragua in the midst of a brutal civil war. There, she witnessed day care centers, schools and clinics that had been bombed by the U.S.-backed Contra armies. Stromberg and her American colleagues wanted ...
Last week Changemakers interviewed our director, Emily Spivack, about her experiences as the founder of Shop Well with You, a body-image resource for women with cancer. Emily started Shop Well with You as an undergraduate at Brown University and, nine years later, the ...
Forty years ago, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day to call attention to impending ecological crises. Today, over 192 countries will observe it. To capture the day's meaning, we asked three leading environmentalists - Gillian Caldwell, Majora Carter, and Peter Goldmark - ...
Geoff Cape, whose background was in carpentry and real estate development, founded Evergreen in 1991 to help city-dwelling Canadians reconnect with nature at a time when urban planning was obsessed with expanding the built environment. He has enlisted tens of thousands of volunteers ...
Bill Abram’s jokes that when he was hired as president of Trickle Up the staff "thought the board had lost its mind.” He'd spent 30 years in the media industry, where the goal is to maximize profits not to pursue social impact. Nonetheless, ...