Bahiyah is a Changemaker

Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson is founder and chief creative strategist of the Hip-Hop Loves Foundation.

Through hip-hop culture, she is fueling social justice and empowering underserved youth worldwide, beginning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the Hip-Hop Loves Rio Project, a finalist in the Changemakers/Condé Nast Traveler Challenge "Connecting to the World."

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Jessica Lin is a Changemaker

She and three other female university students created sOccket to produce a soccer ball that generates cheap, clean, off-grid electricity when rolled. The sOccket ball can be used to light an LED lamp, or charge a cellphone or battery.

After entering the Changemakers/Nike GameChangers competition, Soccket won a $1,500 award from the Clinton Global Initiative University to buy soccer balls and internal parts.

Read more and learn how to connect with sOccket. . .

Mark Arnoldy is a Changemaker

He is founder of NepalNutrition that produces a fortified peanut butter in Nepal to treat severely malnourished children.

NepalNutrition is a network partner supporting the Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation Changemakers competition. Check out path-breaking ideas to ensure all people have access to vital nutrition and vote for the winners until Feb. 8.

You can be a Changemaker for Haiti

. . . with a few simple tasks on your cell phone or computer through the online Haiti Earthquake Support Center, a part of Jacob Colker's (left) Extraordinaries micro-volunteering site, winner of The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media Changemakers/We Media competition

Search the image database for missing persons and match faces, or sort and tag disaster images.

Read more about the Extraordinaries . . .

Reba is a Changemaker

Reba Elliott founded Lifting Voices to give young people the power to use the written word to improve their lives and contribute to the policy decisions that shape their communities.

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Sarah, Marjorie, and Amy are Changemakers

They met as entrants in the Champions of Quality Education in Africa Changemakers competition.

Now they are discussing fundraising strategy, staffing opportunities, and how they can collaborate to improve teacher training in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ruchira Gupta is a Changemaker

Ruchira's organization Apne Aap Women Worldwide has helped thousands of women and girls involved sex trafficking transform from being victims to leaders.

Ruchira is a judge of the competition: Healthy Mothers, Strong World: The Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health.

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Change It: Asia!

Calling all Changemakers and social entrepreneurs from East Asia! This group will begin to find our grassroots/civil society voice and share it with the global community. Post your ideas, projects, questions and suggestions here.

Geotourism Challenge 2009:

Power of Place - Sustaining the Future of Destinations

(Feb - Sep, 2009)