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Own a home in just four years? This program does it.In Cleveland, worker-owners at Evergreen Cooperatives can buy homes without a loan, keeping workers near their jobs and helping revitalize neighborhoods.
On former battlefields, Vietnam's pepper crop yields a brighter futureRoots of Peace provides Vietnamese farmers with training, seeds, and tools that have helped their pepper orchards to thrive.
In rural Africa, climate work brings political power to womenIn Mali, women have become central to efforts to adapt to climate change. Their work is gradually helping them increase their political clout too.
For young girls, an education; for older women, jobsA successful businessman in the US, Virendra Singh returned to his home in India to found a nonprofit group that educates girls and employs older women.
School gardens fight hunger in developing countriesGovernments and private groups are seeing the potential of school gardens to help overcome a nutritional crisis.
World’s most endangered big cat may be on the reboundThe number of Amur leopards has more than doubled since hitting a low in 2007, researchers in Russia and China say.
New-style roller derby puts an emphasis on communityIn modern roller derby, the women skaters are part of every aspect of the operation, including choosing charities to help that are close to their own hearts.
Take dams off rivers – but keep the electricityMany hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to river life. Why not build solar and wind farms in the drained reservoirs?
Nonprofit group fills empty New York spaces with artNo Longer Empty involves the local community and then comes up with a theme for its art exhibitions that relates to local history.
To save forests, a tea factory brews up a new way to dry teaThe Makomboki Tea Factory in Kenya has stopped burning firewood and switched to a greener and cheaper fuel – biomass briquettes.
Handicrafts from beyondBeanie warm a head, lend a handThe social clothing company makes beanies and accessories that support artisans in Bolivia and help provide meals, supplies, and dental care to children in need.
Students document the stories of Holocaust survivorsNew York City high school students in the The 'Names, Not Numbers' oral history project record interviews with the vanishing survivors of the World War II Holocaust.
TechGirls: talented teens from North Africa and the Middle East visit the USThe exchange program aims to engage, inspire, and empower a new generation of women and girls in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
HistoriCorps engages volunteers as a 'workforce for saving places'Volunteers help to 'save the last great places' while experiencing the great outdoors.
As oceans heat up, so does a search for 'super corals'The world’s coral reefs are increasingly threatened by warmer and more acidic seas. Scientists looking to create species with the best chance to survive.
William Schulz: The UUSC stands with those in needThe Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is marking 75 years of helping people worldwide.
In Pakistan, solar lamps turn women into entrepreneursA project is training Light Ladies, who operate and maintain solar charging stations in their homes that boost their incomes significantly while cutting carbon emissions.
Mobile schools educate girls in rural KenyaRun by nonprofit groups, the schools bring learning to girls whose families are forced to move around the region to survive.
The 'lost girls' of South Sudan – and the woman who found themIn 2006 Cathy Groenendijk saw young girls living on their own on the streets of South Sudan. She offered them tea, food, and a place to sleep. She hasn't stopped since.
You, too, can hack for good causesHackathons offer opportunities to design new software and hardware. Citizens from all walks of life are using them to battle social problems – local and global.
