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Article - 01/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
If you’re looking for an innovative solution to a pressing problem, one of the best places to start is with the innovative thinkers who live and work in your city. Universities and tech firms are often an untapped source of valuable expertise....
Article - 08/09/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Health and human services
Before Juneau's Housing First Project opened its doors in September, 2017, the city had no supportive housing options for homeless people. Fortunately, that has changed. Providing housing for the homeless presents a variety of challenges for cities...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Health and human services
Dirty air has consequences — very serious consequences ranging from climate change to lung disease. In villages in India, clean-burning stoves are one key solution. The problem has been getting people to use them.Below, read about an innovative...
Article - 06/06/2018
Active Region(s): India, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Urban environments are becoming more crowded, and high-density developments are being planned and built to house all those new citizens. But how do we ensure we're building healthy, livable environments? The story below describes a collaborative...
Article - 05/03/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter, Built environment, Health and human services
A word of thanks to the Economic Roundtable (based in LA) for their work on developing data driven tools to reduce homelessness. Last year it was the Silicon Valley Triage Tool, this year an extensive report providing insights into how to...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services
Getting young people excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a positive outcome any way you look at it. Getting them excited about how they can use STEM to solve environmental challenges is better yet. That’s what UL and...
Article - 08/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Earlier this year we quoted Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent calling it a terrible thing when 75 million young people are ready to enter the workforce but can't find jobs and opportunities to create value. And it is terrible thing that affects way too many...
Article - 08/09/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
At Google's campus in Silicon Valley this week, teams of girls ages 10 to 18 are competing in an international mobile app competition. The Technovation World Pitch Summit promotes STEM education by encouraging girls to learn and apply technology to...
Article - 08/09/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Dr. Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, makes a great point when he says getting accurate data is a crucial first step in battling the opioid crisis. "This is particularly important when we...
Article - 08/09/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
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
Last year the medical journal Lancet published some eye-opening statistics about breastfeeding. Among them: Every year, 800,000 children’s lives could be saved with increased breastfeeding rates. What's more, the estimated global economic costs of...
Article - 08/02/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
During a conference in Rome last month, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed after years of progress, world hunger has increased. In fact, FAO’s Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said the world is facing the worst food...
Article - 08/01/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
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
I would guess one of the most daunting challenges city leaders and human services providers have on their plates today is how to help the homeless in their communities and at the same time protect public health and safety. In the case of homeless...
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
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
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
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
In China, rescue stations that take in the homeless and mentally ill people tend to be run by the government. Some have policies that after 10 days of free accommodations and food, they are issued a ticket to return to their home towns. As you'll...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
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
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
You hear a variety of reasons why so many young people today are living on the streets, in a car, on someone’s couch or in youth shelters. And it can be a challenging population to help as the number of homeless youth continues to increase in many...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, RG ANZ, RG Europe
Category: Shelter
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
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
"We urgently need to transform the labor market so everyone can compete with equal dignity for today’s jobs." So says Zoë Baird, CEO and president of New York-based Markle Foundation, which just announced a partnership with Microsoft to expand its...
Article - 07/03/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
What's so compelling about what Louisville has done to raise awareness about redlining – the discriminatory lending practices that emerged in the 1930s – is the way it has connected the dots to show its lasting impact on the city and its citizens to...
Article - 06/28/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
I learned a long time ago that when Dubai takes action, especially where smart technologies are concerned, it's going to be interesting. Consider the robotic police officer it introduced earlier this year – or its data-driven effort to become the...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, the state's lowest level since the U.S. Department of Labor began publishing state unemployment rates in January 1976. Some will tell you Mississippi's pioneering efforts in...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Some interesting findings in Deloitte's latest volunteerism survey – particularly what it reveals about millennials in the workplace. As the largest portion of the workforce in the U.S. today, it's important to understand what it will take to...
Article - 06/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities
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
Originally launched in 2014 by Cisco Canada and now led by TakingITGlobal (TIG), the Connected North program uses Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to link students in remote Indigenous communities to a range of virtual education and youth mental...
Article - 06/20/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Analytics leader SAS is used extensively by local, state and federal governments agencies to tackle some of society's toughest challenges – opioid addiction, child abuse and neglect and human trafficking among them. Now it's pulled advice and...
Article - 06/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, 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
A survey conducted last year by nonprofits G3ict and World Enabled with 250 experts worldwide found that about 60% of global respondents believe smart cities are failing people with disabilities. So when tech heavyweights like Microsoft and AT&T...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness