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  • An underserved neighborhood needed a community center, not another church

    A pastor in Blue Island, Illinois, closed his satellite campus church and turned it into a community service center. Named the Hope Center, it aims to address community needs through a garden, automotive garage, and technology services department. Each program has a director and volunteers who run workshops to teach community members new skills.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the 'peace farmers' of Colombia

    La Cosmopolitana Foundation in Colombia offers courses that teach people to live in harmony with each other and nature. The classes focus on sustainability and helping rural communities to work together to create circular economies. Small fees make the classes largely accessible.

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  • Our home is where we live: volunteering school for teenagers

    The Donetsk Regional Children and Youth Center runs the Technology of Good Volunteering School, a program designed to help teenagers build social and civic skills and learn how to contribute to their communities. Graduates have spearheaded projects such as creating a children's room for a local hospital and sewing baby clothes for new mothers.

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  • Athens Repair Café Tackles Climate Change By Repairing Items, Attitudes

    The Athens Repair Café allows locals to bring in their broken items — like bikes and appliances — to be repaired by skilled volunteers in an effort to utilize a reuse model that extends the life of the items, preventing the need for purchasing replacements. The Athens Repair Café is one of 2,664 Repair Cafés worldwide registered under Repair Café International and over the past year, about 100 items have been successfully repaired.

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  • Hawaii Has Had Amazing Success Reducing The Number Of Homeless Vets. Here's How

    The Homeless Management Information System is used as a starting point by several organizations for maintaining a “by name” list of every homeless veteran in the state. The list is used to address broader issues regarding homeless veterans in the community and to provide targeted solutions for each individual on the list. Through the work of several organizations aiming to end homelessness for veterans, and with the help of the Homeless Management Information System, the number of homeless veterans declined by 51% between 2015 and 2022.

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  • In Malawi, female fish traders mobilise against transactional sex

    A women’s cooperative in Malawi empowers women to diversify their incomes by selling a variety of produce instead of relying only on selling fish. The women in the collective split the proceeds and buy fish in groups to combat increasing sex-for-fish requests from fishermen.

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  • In Brazil, 'bioeconomy' initiatives offer hope of a less destructive future

    Conexsus provides financial, technical, and mentorship support to cooperatives and small producers in the Amazon rainforest with the goal of shifting investment and resources to sustainable “bioeconomies” often managed by Indigenous communities. One such cooperative, Coopatrans, has been able to improve its relationships with farmers thanks to credit from Conexsus assuring payments can be made on time.

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  • This organization helps feed Tucson's south side one free emergency food box at a time

    A community-aid program in South Tuscon curates free emergency food boxes tailored to an individual’s dietary restrictions and dropped off at their door. Recipients only need to fill out an online form to receive a box full of fresh and shelf-stable foods.

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  • Southern India's farming nuns promote eco-centric spirituality, organic farming

    A Catholic covenant in India, Helpers of Mount Rosary, promotes organic farming to locals and visitors from across the country on 40 acres of farming and training fields.

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