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Scott Harrison found meaning in life by starting charity: waterBy building freshwater wells, rainwater catchments, or providing sand filters, charity: water finds simple solutions to help solve the world’s water crisis: Roughly 1 in 9 people around the globe lack access to clean water.
Rachel Faller launches socially conscious fashions in CambodiaKeoK’jay, an innovative fashion label in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, combines social and environmental responsibility with contemporary designs.
Honesty earns Boston homeless man $104,000 – and countingGlen James found more than $40,000 in a backpack and turned it in to police. After reading media accounts of James' honesty, Ethan Whittington, started a fund for James on the crowdfunding site, gofundme.com.
Books to Prisoners answers pleas of inmatesBooks to Prisoners, a nonprofit group that sends free reading material to prisoners across the United States, operates on a shoestring but with dogged determination.
An American mom helps build a school in Uganda'Give it up for Gulu' began as a simple fundraiser by a stay-at-home mom but became a long-term passionate project aimed at building a pre-school in Uganda.
Volunteering helps to promote 'One America'Points of Light is sponsoring One America, an effort to get people of all political, social, and religious backgrounds to work together as volunteers on 'roll up your sleeves' projects.
Ninety percent of kids give to charityChildren whose parents talk to them about giving are 20 percent more likely to give than those whose parents don’t, a recent study finds.
Satellite images of Syria help a nonprofit gather data, keep witnesses safeSatellite imagery allows Amnesty International to gather critical data quickly and without putting witnesses or researchers in danger.
SolePower puts a charge in your stepSolePower’s shoe insert converts walking energy into electrical power, a potential game-changer in the developing world, where many people now have cell phones but poor access to electricity.
Young leaders from the Middle East gather to tackle the region's big challengesAt an intensive six-week session in Portland, Ore., this summer 18 students studied ways to create jobs and resolve conflicts in their home communities.
Jailed Yorm Bopha symbolizes a widespread problem in Cambodia – land grabsResidents of a Phnom Penh neighborhood have had their land taken away by the government. Protesters like Yorm Bopha, a young mother, are trying to do something about it.
Detroit bankrupt? Six ways the Motor City is thrivingNews media accounts of Detroit's bankruptcy miss the growing industries, strong communities, and policy changes laying the foundation for the city's recovery.
Bin Donated makes unwanted items 'gone for good'Jud Kinnucan founded the Chicago area nonprofit group Bin Donated to collect useful items that businesses might have thrown away and give them to those in need.
Serving Brazil’s poorest micro-entrepreneursThe Tenda Atacado Group provides products, credit, and learning opportunities that support entrepreneurs at the Base of the Pyramid – the poorest of the poor.
Detroit charity turns blight into gardens, parks, and homesMotor City Blight Busters is fighting to bring Detroit back one abandoned building and one vacant lot at a time. The nonprofit demolishes abandoned buildings that are beyond repair, renovates homes, and cleans up parks and illegal dump sites.
Manufactured homes can provide low-cost housing that saves energy tooLow-income families can benefit themselves and the environment by moving into energy-efficient manufactured homes, says the founder of Next Step.
YouthBuild: solving America's youth crisisYouthBuild has helped 120,000 low-income high school dropouts produce more than 23,000 units of affordable housing while studying for their high school equivalency diploma.
A new way to finance education: Pay part of what you earnInstead of taking out a college loan, students pay back the cost of their education using a portion of their earnings after graduation.
SCORE helps small businesses start, grow, succeedNonprofit SCORE provides education and mentoring services to small-business owners across the US, with more than 10 million clients so far.
- UN turns to Twitter and Beyonce for fundraising
The UN is turning to the power of celebrities and their social media following to raise money and awareness of international humanitarian needs.
