Jun 04 2020
Seeking a bit of optimism, and even inspiration, in these challenging times? Take an hour or two and peruse some of the 79 semifinalist entries from around the globe for …
May 27 2020
Wuhan native Chang Liu joined a WHO team two days after the shutdown. Now he and his colleagues, hoping to save lives, are urgently sharing digital lessons learned.
May 15 2020
Passion is laced through his words when Jake Porway talks about data, demonstrating how far he’s traveled from the years when he nearly flunked out of college statistics and considered …
May 14 2020
January was drawing to a close when Lauren Sorkin reached out to her colleagues in Huangshi to wish them a happy Chinese New Year. But instead of the traditional greeting …
May 12 2020
How to Protect Densely Populated Slums from Covid-19
Hand-washing is a challenge and social distancing impossible in the Nairobi shantytown of Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa. Often, eight people …
May 07 2020
Abhinav Verma can pinpoint the day he realized that the team he leads in New Delhi, working over the last year under a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support the Health …
Apr 09 2020
Shanti Chaganbhai Parmar knows the dangers of COVID-19. But she’s more frightened of what she will face if she can’t harvest her two acres of lush, fragrant cumin and a …
Apr 02 2020
Some of the most exciting energy innovations today, from pendulum power to gravity lights, are being implemented down isolated dirt roads or across remote grasslands to communities living along the …
Apr 02 2020
At the current spending levels, thinning overgrowth to decrease fire risks would take the Forest Service over 200 years. Our grantee steps in to fill the gap.
Apr 01 2020
Without reliable electricity people stand little chance of earning a living and connecting into increasingly integrated supply chains and markets at home and around the world.