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Vegan Kitchen in Ukraine: A Light of Hope in a Dark Time
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Art-making as Therapeutic Practice for Refugees
In the summer of 2019, a small group of volunteers began to notice an important need within the...
“I Matter”: Uplifting the Voices of Youth Around the World
Isabella Hanson received her first Pollination Project grant for her work which focused on ...
One Woman’s Expressive Quilts Inspire Us All to Create a Better World
Allyson Allen is not only an exceptional quiltmaker, she’s an artist and storyteller who is using...
Tumbleweed Sanctuary: An Illustration of Love and Respect for All
Imagine driving along a four lane road when you suddenly come upon a dog standing in the middle of...
One Man Recycles Trash to Create Healthy Food and Feed a Town
The Mushroom Guy. That is the name the community has given to him. It might have something to do...
Inspiring Young People to Apply Design Thinking to Social Issues
As a young girl, AnnaLise Hoopes felt overwhelmed by all the problems in the world and continually...
Raising the Voices of Indigenous People in an Effort to Save Our Planet
When Abdel Mandili, a filmmaker from the Netherlands, returned home after working on a project...
One Inspiring Program Empowering Women Entrepreneurs
When two, talented women with a love of technology and entrepreneurship came together to create a...
Dancing with the Natural World
Imagine dancing upon a beautiful, wooden dance deck that lives among a lush landscape of gardens...
Hope Floats on the Wings of a Butterfly
Perhaps it was witnessing her mother’s commitment to environmental politics and the work she did...
One Woman’s Inspiring Journey to Provide Access to Education for Children in Nigeria
The Beyond the Classroom Foundation, an incredible volunteer-driven nonprofit working to improve...
Compassion in Action: Saving One Wildlife Animal at a Time
Gretchen Strate had always loved animals but witnessing a terrifying incident inspired a far...
TogetherWell: Listening & Empowering the Community to Increase Access to Mental Health Education
Dr. Michele Haley has a beautiful and distinctive ability to make people feel seen. The way she...
An Invitation to Dream Big Opens the Door to Lasting Change
When the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin decided to install a public art mural...
2021: Projects & Changemakers
Dear Pollination Nation, As we approach the end of 2021, we’re taking a moment to pause as we look...
A Compassionate Dialogue to Change the World for Generations to Come
While working on her Masters degree in 2019, Greshma Pious Raju had an amazing opportunity to do...
Diane Callaway: Life is Delicious
Faith in the Unknown Inspires One Woman to Make Life More Delicious for All Faith is what it takes...
A New Story for a Forgotten Animal
When Tracey Glover was seven, she and her Dad surprisingly stumbled upon kittens in a flower...
A Thank You from Our Hearts to Yours
Each week, we choose a changemaker to feature whose actions and intentions are creating a kinder,...
A Voice for the Voiceless Creates Space for Wildlife to Flourish
At the age of seven, Jeremy Gregory wanted more than anything to save the harp seals and blue...
One Extraordinary Alzheimer’s Organization Adapted to Challenges and Touched Even More Lives
When Lydia Guo joined National Alzheimer’s Buddies (NAB) as a neuroscience student at Wellesley...
A Powerful Voice Leading the Fight Against Diabetes
Bridget Saffold, a registered nurse and Superhero in the fight against diabetes, is working hard...
Love in Education and Beyond: Irene Greaves
When students need to learn how to add or subtract, we teach them Math. When they need to know how...
Poetry on the Streets: Melanie Faranello
“Set up on a street corner, at a bus stop, in a park with my Smith-Corona vintage blue typewriter,...
It Takes a Village: Cecelia Rich
A long career in social work gave Cecelia Rich a firsthand perspective on the many issues her...
When the Students Become the Teachers: Student-Led Ed
In the summer of 2020, Kerry Dolan, an assistant principal at a Chicago high school, received a...
Jose German-Gomez: Bounty in Small Packages
Jose German-Gomez is a retired corporate accountant, environmental activist, and master gardener....
Amanda Cats-Baril and Anne McGuinness: United for Women’s Empowerment
In 2014 Amanda Cats-Baril and Anne McGuinness were working in Nepal in the humanitarian sector...
Pigs & Kids: Allie Gadziemski
Allie Gadziemski is a homeschool mother of four sons, all of whom are vegan and passionate about...
Antonette Franceschi-Chavez and Marysol Perez: Finding Equity through Literacy
In the United States, the ratio of high-quality, age-appropriate books in low-income communities...
Finding Sanctuary in Stories: Rosa Sabido
After living in the United States for more than 30 years, Rosa Sabido was facing deportation. She...
Teaching the Value of Veganism: Alysson Augusto
While attending philosophy school in 2013, Alysson Augusto studied the countless consequences of...
Obrobibini Peace Complex: A New Form of Global Deepening
Since 2017, Dr. Christian Andres has worked to turn two hectares of land in Busua, Ghana, into a...
Material Innovation Initiative: Redefining Sustainable Materials
Each year, over 3.6 billion animals are killed, sheared, or plucked to supply leather, fur, wool,...
Youth for Aarey: Fighting for the Last Green Space in Mumbai
The Aarey Forest, part of the Sanjay Ghandi National Park, is home to 15,000 indigenous peoples...
Studio Kunukku – Woodblock Printing’s Revival
Last week’s Fashion Week in Rome featured pieces by a designer who used a nearly extinct craft to...
Ruben Diaz: Transgressing Oblivion in the Amazon
Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an ancient culture is struggling to survive. The Sapara people are...
Black Girls Dive: Empowering Young Women in STEM
This fall, the Black Girls Dive Foundation will observe its first young woman, Skye Garrett, go...
The Alukakin Women’s Group – Giving the Gift of Learning
Each day in Uganda, 30 million people survive without access to electricity. In rural communities...
Community Gardening: Bringing Sanctuary to Refugees in Tijuana
On Sunday, June 20, we celebrate World Refugee Day; an opportunity to honor those fighting for...
Fresh Minds Radio Program – Bringing Awareness to Mental Health
When mental health advocate Mercy Mkandawire was invited to discuss mental disorders on a radio...
Unadilla Community Farm – A new generation of farmers
Our Changemakers of the week are the farmers of Unadilla Community Farm in Edmeston, New York. The...
Now You Hear Us – The voices of our youth
“From the highway all I can see is the road, but I know that beyond this lies camps with tents and...
Sanjoh Rose Egbe – The Survivors Project
Rose is from Cameroon, has a university degree in history, and is a survivor of human trafficking....
Engage Globally: planting trees to save a community
Northern Ghana is a region that faces many intersecting challenges: severe poverty, illiteracy,...
Smitha Daniel: Protector of the Forest Babies
Smitha Daniel was working in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation when she found an animal she had...
Hear Your Song: empowering kids through songwriting
Daniel Rubins is a musician and heartivist. He founded Hear Your Song, a non-profit organization...
Human rights, dignity, & menstrual health: 3 women changing the world.
Millions of women and girls in the world have little or no sanitary protection. Lack of...
Polifacética: the Spanish voice of conscious activism
Poli Sotomayor is a Mexican activist, social media influencer, singer, writer and member of our...
Ngọc-Trân Vũ: bringing a healing narrative in the Vietnamese-American community
My mind is PonderingMy heart is VietnameseMy soul is an ArtistMy conscience is a Healer -...
Rodolfo Alvarez: Building ‘Eden’ in Guatemala
When Rodolfo was fifteen, he began volunteering at a summer camp called Viamistad. For the first...
Seeds of responsible citizenship
Active citizenship, community empowerment and volunteer experiences: how three Italian women are...
Women’s Day: Honoring our Changemakers
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and this week we are celebrating all our female...
Hands of Honour: The Legacy of Paul Talliard
There are people who are born with a light inside, capable of illuminating the path of those who...
The Bree and Me Project: Camille Licate
“Bree is a rooster, but he is an intelligent, feeling Being that craves love and peace, just like...
Jacob Cramer: From “Bingo Boy” to “Letter Boy”
When he was 10, Jacob Cramer lost one of his favorite people on earth: his grandfather. After the...
Celebrating Black History Month: Five Changemakers to Know
This week, we want to use this space to amplify changemakers whose work has special relevance to...
Songs & Smiles: Eric & Sheryl Kolb Bring Joy through Sing-Alongs
Eric and Sheryl Kolb lost Sheryl’s grandmother, Olive, to Alzheimer’s in 2006. Just two years...
Waging Peace: Mary Liepold and Eli McCarthy
In the midst of so much chaos and confusion that descended on America’s capitol last week, it...
A Hidden Ecosystem: Tamara Blazquez Haik
One day several years ago, photographer and animal activist Tamara Blazquez Haik was walking home...
Dorcas Apoore: Hope by the Basketful
Dorcas Apoore grew up in Northern Ghana, in a remote village so small that it isn’t even on a map....
Birthing a New Dream of Equality
When she became pregnant at 18, Maria del Mar Jaramillo felt her dreams come crashing down around...
Save the Food, Feed the People
In a shed in downtown Merced, California, there is a random refrigerator overflowing with an ever-changing bounty of persimmons, lettuce, celery, and other locally sourced whole fruits and vegetables. Everything in the fridge is free; twenty-four hours a day, anyone can visit to pick up what they might need. “The People’s Fridge” is a volunteer labor of love, organized by Erin Meyer and Steve Roussos.
Going the Social Distance
Growing up, Jenna Bardroff’s best friend was a potbellied pig named Arnie. When she made the...
The Vilka Chess Club
Sohibjamol Rakamova is an unlikely chess champion. In her native Tajikistan, chess is a game of...
Immunity Gardens: The Painting That Came to Life
Nearly ten years ago, Bethany Fancher packed her bags and flew to Hyderabad, India, and then...
Raoul & Jali: Keepers of Memory
This is a story of brotherhood. Raoul Vecchio is an architect and engineer. One day in his native...
Friendship Blooms Eternal
When the pandemic came, some people drank about it, some people wrote about it — and some people...
Tiffany Kirk: Building Community for the Formerly Incarcerated
Before she was a banker, Tiffany Kirk was an elementary school teacher. She never really stopped...