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Getting young people excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a positive outcome any way you look at it. Getting them excited about how they can use STEM to solve environmental challenges is better yet. That’s what UL and...
Article - 08/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
We frequently write about efforts to encourage more girls and minorities to pursue career paths in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM). Recent examples include UL's free program that promotes STEM learning in middle schools and the new...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Two billion people in the world remain financially excluded, according to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a financial inclusion think tank housed at the World Bank. They lack access to basic financial services such as savings accounts...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...
Article - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
From the rapid growth of social impact investing to the emergence of artificial intelligence apps created by tech-oriented nonprofits, we're seeing some fascinating developments in the human services sector. Scroll down for a look at five that...
Article - 07/19/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness
Do you find it difficult to believe that in 2017, there are 34 million Americans who still lack broadband Internet access? Or that a school teacher in Africa would have to spend a full month's pay just to download a single iTunes movie? Sadly...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
Mobility has several connotations. But it’s exciting to see an innovative company best known for manufacturing automobiles taking a broad view of what the term can mean. You’d expect Toyota to focus on physical mobility – how people get from point A...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Shelter
With all the gloom and doom we see in the news, we owe ourselves an occasional reminder that there are compassionate people and organizations doing great work to improve lives every day all around the world. We’ve highlighted a few examples below...
Article - 07/05/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
It's hard to make sense of a scenario where people who are poor pay more for essential goods and services than wealthier folks. Yet the University of Bristol suggested in a 2016 report that the so-called "poverty premium" paid by low-income families...
Article - 07/04/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
"We urgently need to transform the labor market so everyone can compete with equal dignity for today’s jobs." So says Zoë Baird, CEO and president of New York-based Markle Foundation, which just announced a partnership with Microsoft to...
Article - 07/03/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
What's so compelling about what Louisville has done to raise awareness about redlining – the discriminatory lending practices that emerged in the 1930s – is the way it has connected the dots to show its lasting impact on the city and its citizens to...
Article - 06/28/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
I learned a long time ago that when Dubai takes action, especially where smart technologies are concerned, it's going to be interesting. Consider the robotic police officer it introduced earlier this year – or its data-driven effort to become the...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, the state's lowest level since the U.S. Department of Labor began publishing state unemployment rates in January 1976. Some will tell you Mississippi's pioneering efforts in...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
When you get out of prison with no place to live and no job, it’s got to seem pretty bleak. Yet for many, that’s the reality. Data suggests the number of people leaving Australian prisons with nowhere to go has increased 54% in the last three years...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Originally launched in 2014 by Cisco Canada and now led by TakingITGlobal (TIG), the Connected North program uses Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to link students in remote Indigenous communities to a range of virtual education and youth mental...
Article - 06/20/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
It's difficult to understand how, in 2017, the digital divide still exists. And it doesn't just exist in developing countries – one report suggests 14% of people in Europe have never used the Internet. And 2015 U.S. Census data found about one-fifth...
Article - 06/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
With the unfortunate state of youth unemployment around the world today, a glimpse at what the next generation of job seekers is thinking about college, careers and their futures is pretty revealing. The research recently conducted by EY and Junior...
Article - 06/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
With high youth unemployment rates at a crisis level in many parts of the world, some see the situation as a ticking time bomb. Others worry we're losing an entire generation that wants to contribute value to society, but can't seem to find a way....
Article - 06/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
The U.S. Department of Labor projects that STEM jobs will increase by 17% between 2014 and 2024 – faster than any other type of job in the U.S. With high demand for tech workers, high levels of youth unemployment and a large percentage of low-income...
Article - 05/17/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
As human rights challenges in communities around the world not only proliferate but grow increasingly complex, we're encouraged by the news this week that Microsoft is partnering with the United Nations Human Rights Office to ensure technology plays...
Article - 05/17/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Upward Mobility