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
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
Vilgro
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.
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.