While the global number of people living on less than $1.90 per day is down to 675,000, progress has slowed — and arguably regressed — in countries facing conflict, disasters, poor governance, and high population growth.
The Bail Project
Rasha Almulaiki is at work inside Detroit's Division II Wayne County Jail, trying to select people with the right criteria to bail out. She is not a bail bondsman. Rather, she's a "bail disrupter" — the only one in Detroit.
While emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence capture our imagination, the most game-changing innovations for smallholder farmers are seeds, roads and electricity.
Sightsavers
Sir John Wilson founded The British Empire Society for the Blind — known today as Sightsavers — in 1950 after mortgaging his home. It's grown to be one of the most-respected nonprofit organizations.
Their ideas are ambitious, with the goal of changing outdated systems and impacting millions of lives. It’s been five months since The Audacious Project’s first class of project leaders spoke at TED2018, and each one is gaining momentum.
To tackle childhood diseases in rural Africa,Living Goods founder Chuck Slaughter borrowed a page from the cosmetics giant Avon’s playbook, now with a tech twist.
Meet T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, two of Women's Health's 2018 Game Changers.
Bail reform is hot, says Robin Steinberg. From New Jersey to California, and Rand Paul to Bernie Sanders, there is widespread agreement that the cash bail system is broken. But while there is consensus about the problem, there are divisions about the solutions.
Since The Bail project launched, NBC's Dateline has had a frontline view of how the program is working in cities like Tulsa and St. Louis.
Extreme weather is a hallmark of climate change, and smallholder farmers we work with are already feeling the toll.
In the United States, nearly 70 percent of the people held in local jails are there for one reason: they don’t have enough money to pay bail. Here’s a look at how this came to be and what it would take to change it.
GirlTrek, the largest health movement for Black women in America, has started local treks around Selma, Alabama.
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