Passions
Learn how ordinary individuals turned their passions into extraordinary careers helping others and improving the world.
Rehabilitation
After the mass closure of California’s state-owned psychiatric hospitals in the early 1970s, a few active citizens jumped in to help fill the gap. Rubicon was hatched.
Connectivity
One Laptop per Child shows the power of public-private collaboration to solve pressing social goals.
Leadership
Public Allies is an innovative and effective nonprofit program that identifies leadership at the grassroots level and cultivates it make a difference at every level of business and government.
Experience
Experience Corps leverages the experience of adults over age 55 by placing them in classrooms around the country to mentor children in reading and writing.
Education
New York City public high school teacher Charles Best was dissatisfied with what he saw as the unequal distribution of learning materials in public schools, so he did something about it: he founded DonorsChoose.
New York City
In 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a bold new program to involve the city's residents in the solution: NYC service. NYC service asks New Yorkers from around the city to mobilize through Impact Service Projects aimed at combating
Volunteerism
Give a year, change the world: That's the motto that both Michael Brown and Alan Khazei have built City Year around for over 20 years.
