Daniel Rubins is a musician and heartivist. He founded Hear Your Song, a non-profit organization...

Poli Sotomayor is a Mexican activist, social media influencer, singer, writer and member of our...

Active citizenship, community empowerment and volunteer experiences: how three Italian women are...

There are people who are born with a light inside, capable of illuminating the path of those who...

“Bree is a rooster, but he is an intelligent, feeling Being that craves love and peace, just like...

This week, we want to use this space to amplify changemakers whose work has special relevance to...

Eric and Sheryl Kolb lost Sheryl’s grandmother, Olive, to Alzheimer’s in 2006. Just two years...

In the midst of so much chaos and confusion that descended on America’s capitol last week, it...

One day several years ago, photographer and animal activist Tamara Blazquez Haik was walking home...

Dorcas Apoore grew up in Northern Ghana, in a remote village so small that it isn’t even on a map....

When she became pregnant at 18, Maria del Mar Jaramillo felt her dreams come crashing down around...

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.

Growing up, Jenna Bardroff’s best friend was a potbellied pig named Arnie. When she made the...

Sohibjamol Rakamova is an unlikely chess champion. In her native Tajikistan, chess is a game of...

Nearly ten years ago, Bethany Fancher packed her bags and flew to Hyderabad, India, and then...

This is a story of brotherhood. Raoul Vecchio is an architect and engineer. One day in his native...

When the pandemic came, some people drank about it, some people wrote about it — and some people...

Before she was a banker, Tiffany Kirk was an elementary school teacher. She never really stopped...

Earlier this year, Laura Lavigne awoke from a vivid dream about contagious red hearts. In the...

Fontoh Desmond Abinwi did not grow up in a home or country that had great material wealth, yet he...

Jessica Gonzalez Castro is a reader. One book in particular has shaped the trajectory of her life....

Racheal Inegbedion was visiting a home for people with disabilities when she saw something that...

The evening of August 4th was like any other for Beirut-based Malak Yacout. Then, buildings around...

One day, Chimwemwe Chitambala heard a knock on her door. She was living in a student hostel,...

On a warm night in late July, Sarah Reidenbach and Kate Kuzminski got into “Clifford,” their big...

From Darel Scott’s desire to make both nature and the environmental movement more inclusive, Earth in Color was born. Earth in Color started as an art festival on a farm to celebrate people of color and their cultural connections to the natural world. That day under the spring sun—filled with art, food, music, and connection—highlighted the importance of people of color being able to see themselves through this lens of health and sustainability.

Like many of us, Miracle Adesina watched the COVID-19 pandemic spread through the lens of social media. As a healthcare professional, what he saw coming through his social feeds gave him great cause for concern. Part of the problem, Miracle felt, was that critical health messages were not available in many of the 70+ indigenous languages throughout Africa. The Pollination Project supported Miracle’s translation project with a seed grant.

Lucas Akol’s son, who has sickle cell disease, inspired him to become a community educator and support for other families. During COVID-19, Lucas is providing these at-risk children and families with food and hygiene supplies to stay safe.

In some ways, the story of the Minnesota Black Community Project is a tale of two men named Walter Scott. Only one of them has had their story told.

For Eric Miller, the path to a young person’s potential runs through the yard of a neighbor in...

Jennifer Rae Myers learned the power of words from her father, Raymond Banks. A writer himself, Raymond raised Jennifer to value the art of communication. He took her to the library after school, encouraged her to read, and showed her through example how to advocate for historically disadvantaged people through language. In third grade, her essay on Harriet Tubman won a writing contest on American heroes, a moment she still recalls as the point in which she realized the gift her father’s encouragement had offered her.

The force that moves me is compassion,” said Gelli, a TPP changemaker whose sanctuary—which, in part, rescues domestic animals who were abandoned because their owners feared they could carry the coronavirus–was awarded funding by TPP’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. “I cannot see any living thing suffering. I cannot. I’m not able to pass by if I see someone or an animal suffering.

She only had enough food left to feed her family for one week. This 35-year-old widowed woman, let’s call her Amara, and her family live in Dharavi, India. You may know Dharavi—it was the slum featured in the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.” This woman lost her husband due to alcoholism a few years back, and since then she has had full responsibility for the caregiving and support of her three children.

Ghosh knew he had the opportunity to use his specialized knowledge to help the communities he had worked with for so long. His ingenious plan? Using the WHO’s gold standard recipe, he created his own hand sanitizer by mobilizing the youth in the Kolkata slums to help him.

Cavanaugh Bell has spent the last two years giving back to his community of Gaithersburg, Maryland, a significant amount of time for anyone, but even more so when you consider his age–which is 7. You read that right. Bell first began leading a host of care pack initiatives to help the homeless in his community when he was just 5 years old.

But then, once again, the unthinkable happened—a pandemic swept through the nation, with California being one of the hardest hit states. All of a sudden, Lowrey was thrust again into emergency mode. “[Our family, friends, and neighbors] have survived the nightmare of the fire and had just gotten back to work. They were finally feeling hopeful again … and then COVID-19 happened. We are now hit with a second disaster before we have recovered from the first.”