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GroundTruth: A mobile engagement & research platform

GroundTruth gives journalists and social entrepreneurs the tools to hyper-efficiently connect with the right people via mobile phones -- to understand their needs, their experience and to gather accurate on-the-ground information. Too often we rely only on data and intermediaries to develop an understanding of an issue or a community's needs, while ignoring first-hand [...]

Light the Night: Using Solar Power For Health

Many interventions seeking to improve maternal and neonatal mortality assume the existence of reliable energy infrastructure, and separately public will for such interventions, that simply don't exist. If a provider can't see to perform simply medical tasks because of unrealiable electricity, increasing the availability of skilled care providers or medical supplies can [...]

Multimedia Learning for Children in India

We at AGRINI are working to evolve a new model for public pre-schooling which works with the existing government pre-K school (anganwadis) infrastructure. We have developed a model of multimedia learning, using discarded old computers to deliver fun and engaging multimedia curriculum packages we develop in-house. We have installed our systems and trained teachers in two [...]

Providing Sanitary towels, undergarments, hygiene education and HIV/Aids awareness to sexually active women in Kiambu County.

By providing poor and marginalized girls sanitary towels, undergarments and hygiene education we are seeing academic performance of girls going higher which means the a better life. The project also educates young women on HIV/Aids transmission and prevention aiming at reduction of HIV prevalence which is almost 3 times higher on women than men in Sub-Saharan Africa. [...]

Photo Voice: Reconciling Definitions of Health

Indigenous understandings of maternal and child health (MCH) contrast sharply with international definitions. Because international definitions of MCH shape programming decisions and priorities, the disparate nature of these definitions is related to the failure of many MCH projects to address what local citizens view as key aspects of local maternal and child health. [...]

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Saving lives through education

Health & Fitness > Health education

Brazil

The project's mission is to promote the quality of care for Stroke and AMI patients through an education platform involving training and permanent actions in...
LEND

Business & Social Enterprise > Microfinance

United States

Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development (LEND) is a student-run, non-profit microfinance organization in Evanston, Illinois, dedicated to promoting...
The No-Fault Zone® Game

Children & Youth > Education

The No-Fault Zone® Game takes players beyond judgment and blame, to a place where people—of all ages—connect and where communication works.
KONEKUTO Changemakers

Public Participation & Engagement

Czech Republic

„Look, what is actually KONEKUTO doing?“
Let's Have A: Ball

Health & Fitness > Sports

United States

Let’s Have A: Ball invents a hybrid “one-for-one” business model by acquiring professionally signed, used sports equipment and auctioning it off; the profits...
Borderline Books: free books - free minds

Public Participation & Engagement > Citizen participation

United Kingdom

In a nutshell: we source books from publishers, libraries, shops and individuals and given them away free of charge to organizations working with homeless...
Opening Books to Open Doors

Children & Youth > Education

Ghana

Education possesses the unique aptitude to liberate people from poverty and to help them lead a more sustainable and fulfilling life. The problems of poverty...
ikusi

Public Participation & Engagement > Transparency

Uruguay

This project addresses the communication and visibility problems that non-profit organizations have in Uruguay. This also applies to Latin America, but we will...
Life is a Song Reading Club

Children & Youth > Education

Kenya

This is a chidlren's reading initiative aiming to create a passion for reading and hard work in school children as opposed to watching too much TV. There are a...
Bayfront Alternative Education Program

Children & Youth > At risk youth

United States

The Bayfront Maritime Center (BMC) is a not for profit community based organization. BMC’s mission is: to design and implement hands-on, maritime themed,...
ThirstTees

Business & Social Enterprise > Social enterprise

United States

One tee gives one person access to clean water for 25 years. ThirstTees is a philanthropic clothing line that is working to make a dramatic impact on the...
Words into Deeds

Children & Youth > Youth leadership

United States

WORDS INTO DEEDS develops friendships among students in America and Africa, and then transforms empathy into humanitarian action.

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