Developing Climate Change Resilience
Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative
Ten Cities and Counties Work Together to Become More Resilient to Climate Change
“Adapting to climate change doesn’t require the invention of an amazing silver bullet,” says Josh Foster, manager of climate adaptation at the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) in Washington, DC. “It is doing much of what we are already doing, only better.”
Protecting American Workers' Economic Security: Campaign for American Workers
Doorway to Dreams
The figures are in. The new checkbox that appeared on the IRS tax form for the first time this year allowing taxpayers to use their refund to buy bonds has been a success. As of April 17, 2010, over 18,000 taxpayers had checked that little box and saved an impressive $8 million.
Promoting Equitable, Sustainable Transportation
Transportation for America
Transportation policy is not a matter for policy wonks only. It can affect every aspect of Americans’ daily lives—from how much we have to spend on getting to work to whether our families can walk and ride the streets safely.
Transforming Health Systems
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Finding the Best Health Market Models for Developing Countries
http://healthmarketinnovations.org
“We believe that the poor in developing countries deserve high quality health care without having to pay so much that they go deeper into poverty; that’s why we launched CHMI (the Center for Health Market Innovations),” says Gina Lagomarsino, Principal and Managing Director at Results for Development Institute (R4D) who is leading the work of CMHI.
Open MRS
OpenMRS is improving health care in developing countries by providing the technical and medical experts, training and tools necessary to build open-source electronic medical record systems (EMRS).
Advancing Innovation Processes to Solve Social Problems
Villgro
Villgro, formerly Rural Innovations Network, works with smallholder farmers in rural India to develop, field test and commercialize inventions that can help significantly improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people.
Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing
GIIN
http://www.globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org/
Here’s one of the biggest challenges in philanthropy today—there’s just not enough money. Even if you put together what all the governments and all the philanthropies in the world spend to help poor and vulnerable people, the financial resources would not be enough to solve the fundamental problems. It will take much more—and more will have to come from private investment capital.
Carbon and Poverty Reduction
Nature Conservation Research Centre
Chocolate companies across the globe depend on Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa producer. Yet this country’s cocoa farms are being abandoned, jeopardizing the livelihoods of millions. So NCRC is exploring a novel solution to the problem.
Sustainable Employment in a Green US Economy
Center for Working Families
“The United States faces rising energy costs, an economy that increasingly produces low-wage jobs that lack opportunities for advancement, and energy consumption patterns that harm our planet,” Center for Working Families (CWF) Policy Director Emmaia Gelman notes.
An innovative energy efficiency program, developed with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, could reduce energy costs, create good jobs AND help our environment.
Innovations for a Metro Nation
Front Seat’s Walk Score
http://www.frontseat.org/about.html
Every year, one out of six Americans relocates to a new residence. Each of these moves provides an opportunity for a household to settle in a neighborhood that encourages walking and has more transportation options—a neighborhood that offers multiple benefits for individuals, the community and our planet.
Smart National Power Grid
Meridian Institute
Location matters—particularly when determining the sites of the transmission lines (above or below ground) that will create a new US power infrastructure. This revamped electrical system could have a profound impact on the ability of the United States to reduce carbon dependence, improve energy efficiency and security, and enhance resilience to climate change.
NYC Cultural Innovation Fund
HERE Arts Center
This award winner examines the real-life survival challenges of New York City performing artists. HERE supports artists at all stages in their careers, through fully-produced works, commissions and subsidized performance and rehearsal space. It also provides marketing, technical and administrative support.
Africa
Forum for African Women Educationalists
Underscoring the Foundation’s long-standing commitment to fortifying education across the continent, FAWE has touched the lives of some 12 million African girls.