All People Making a Difference
- Difference MakerColin Flahive opened a restaurant in China that's a beacon of enlightened management
Caring for his employees led him to undertake an ever-wider range of nonprofit and humanitarian efforts across the province.
- Planting mangrove trees pays off for coastal communities in Kenya
Members of the Dabaso Creek Conservation Group have planted an estimated 10 million mangrove trees. The forests, in turn, have provided for the community, bringing in birders and other tourists and becoming a habitat for crabs and fish to harvest.
- Cleaning up the global aquarium trade
About 30 million fish and other creatures are caught annually to supply the home aquarium market, taking a toll on some reef ecosystems. But conservationists are working to improve the industry by ending destructive practices and encouraging aquaculture.
- New generation activists build bridges
A traditional organizing approach makes opponents into 'enemies,' but a new crop of union and other activists is using love and empathy to create alliances and new possibilities.
- Marga Fripp empowers women immigrants in the US
Her group Empowered Women International gives a voice to the Washington D.C. area’s immigrant and refugee women, enabling them to pursue their dreams of becoming a part of their new community.
- Bank Andara, a bank for banks in Indonesia, grows micro businesses – and turns a profit
Bank Andara has partnered with 737 microfinance institutions in Indonesia, reaching nearly 1.2 million low-income clients with ‘one stop’ shopping for all their banking needs.
- Solar kits bring clean light to Kenya's poor
Buyers make payments securely from home using their mobile phones, which also can be kept charged with the solar kit.
- How better-trained farmers slow Brazil's deforestation
Imazon helps farmers formalize their land titles and trains them in improved farming techniques, like rotating crops and limiting overgrazing, to make their land more productive and reduce the need to cut down more rainforest.
- Christine's Hope for Kids gives kids a chance to be kids
The nonprofit group Christine's Hope for Kids has given more than $300,000 in donations and in-kind support to groups in New Jersey and across the country that work with children.
- Double win for Haiti: human waste into valuable fertilizer
The social enterprise SOIL provides clean facilities for families in Haiti while also supplying a local source of fertilizer to sorghum farmers.
- 10 organizations that protect the environment We tell you about 10 organizations that are working to protect and conserve the environment. All 10 of these organizations have four-star ratings from Charity Navigator and at least $13.5 million in total annual expenses.