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Herndon, VA-based Smart City Works is an infrastructure actuator and business accelerator focused on improving livability, operations and resilience in cities. Its fall cohort will for the first time include two slots for nonprofits focused on...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, 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
I would guess one of the most daunting challenges city leaders and human services providers have on their plates today is how to help the homeless in their communities and at the same time protect public health and safety. In the case of homeless...
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
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
If you've ever wondered if we've already seen the best technology can offer, I encourage you to check out the recent TechWorld piece that highlights 24 pretty amazing technologies developed for social good in the UK and beyond. Bright minds in...
Article - 07/19/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
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, many...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
In China, rescue stations that take in the homeless and mentally ill people tend to be run by the government. Some have policies that after 10 days of free accommodations and food, they are issued a ticket to return to their home towns. As you'll...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
We told you late last year about the new Poverty and Technology Lab at Stanford University, where they also have a Center on Poverty and Inequality. As part of these initiatives, Stanford offers a course where students learn about the basics of...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
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
Concerns about a mushrooming diabetes epidemic are widespread. The Hindustan Times suggests that once a disease of the affluent, diabetes is now “rampant” among India’s urban poor. A recent report by Aetna International indicates diabetes has...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
You hear a variety of reasons why so many young people today are living on the streets, in a car, on someone’s couch or in youth shelters. And it can be a challenging population to help as the number of homeless youth continues to increase in many...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, RG ANZ, RG Europe
Category: 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 expand its...
Article - 07/03/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
A new initiative is adding a human touch to measuring poverty by collecting short video testimonials from people as part of the High Frequency Survey in South Sudan. Learn in this video how it aims to provide quantitative data on poverty levels in...
Resources - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
The proliferation of mobile phones opens up new opportunities for conducting surveys in developing countries. Data about people’s lives can now be gathered much cheaper and faster. Watch in this video how the World Bank’s Listening to Africa...
Resources - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
How do you provide safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy to people who don't have access to energy? With its Villaya Microgrid, Schneider Electric helps energize communities around the world. Learn more in this brief video.
Resources - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
The Blue Lake Tribe has been on a small piece of land in Humboldt County, California since 1908. Tribal leaders want to sustain it for future generations. They also want to protect and improve lives today. Watch the video below to learn about...
Resources - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online