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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
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, many...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
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
In coming months, Bengaluru will witness a massive public bicycle sharing (PBS) project proposed by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT). The project, with around 4,000 cycle and 350 docking points, is touted to be India’s largest cycle-...
Article - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Upward Mobility, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
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