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Article - 05/29/2019
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Given all the tools and technologies available today, it seems like air pollution ought to be something we can solve – or at least keep from getting worse. But a recent report in the Times of India suggests that an abnormal 152% growth in private...
Article - 08/08/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
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 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
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 - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): India, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: 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
When you get out of prison with no place to live and no job, it’s got to seem pretty bleak. Yet for many, that’s the reality. Data suggests the number of people leaving Australian prisons with nowhere to go has increased 54% in the last three years...
Article - 06/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Families struggling to make rent and pay utility bills often find there isn't a lot left in the budget to make healthy food choices. A box of mac and cheese, after all, is much cheaper than a piece of fish and some fresh vegetables – if the latter...
Article - 06/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Wellness
It's difficult to understand how, in 2017, the digital divide still exists. And it doesn't just exist in developing countries – one report suggests 14% of people in Europe have never used the Internet. And 2015 U.S. Census data found about one-fifth...
Article - 06/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
The headline on a recent editorial in the Seattle Times says it all: "Focus on data, not good intentions, to combat homelessness." As it has for the past five years, Seattle's point-in-time count of the homeless climbed this year. Given that "by...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter
With high youth unemployment rates at a crisis level in many parts of the world, some see the situation as a ticking time bomb. Others worry we're losing an entire generation that wants to contribute value to society, but can't seem to find a way....
Article - 06/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
"Poor housing linked to rising asthma cases in Europe," reads a recent EURACTIV headline. Damp and moldy buildings, bad heating, poor insulation are all suspect. In fact in Bulgaria, the article suggests 46.5% of the population is unable to keep...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
We’ve written previously about efforts to use technology to battle social isolation, from the SmartLab in Seattle to a Meal Makers program in Scotland to the Dublin-based Freebird travel club for seniors. But to emphasize the importance of this...
Article - 05/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
I'm sure most of us walk by homeless people on the streets or drive by their encampments and wonder how they got there – and what it would take to get them into a better place. Andrew Funk, an American entrepreneur living in Barcelona, not only...
Article - 05/03/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
There's lots of wind in Berwickshire, a historic Scottish county that borders the North Sea. There's also some innovating thinking blowing through too. Case in point: The local housing charity partnered with a renewable energy charity to harness...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
We continue our Quick Takes series with a look at some intriguing initiatives communities are undertaking to bolster their affordable housing stock and/or make existing housing more affordable. What’s notable in some of these examples is that they...
Article - 04/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Visionaries from the ranks of social entrepreneurship to K-12 STEM education are gathering this week at Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA for DigiFabCon. The event is billed as an exploration of how the...
Article - 03/29/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Wellness
In a column on food waste, Liz Goodwin of the World Resources Institute writes: "It takes more land than the size of China to grow all the food that’s never consumed." So it's easy to make the case that producing food that never makes it from farm...
Article - 03/27/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
An estimated 15% of the world’s population, more than 1 billion people, lives with some form of disability. People with disabilities have poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements, less economic participation and higher rates of poverty...
Article - 03/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Recently we wrote about drones being used for humanitarian purposes – shedding a positive light on a technology not everyone is comfortable with. Same issue with robots; hardly a day goes by without a headline citing fears that they'll take jobs...
Article - 03/08/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness