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28 Sep 2026
Five post offices in Assam, India, have screened nearly 9,000 people and handed out free reading glasses, most of them to first-time wearers. Why the post office works as a clinic, what a trial in Assam's tea gardens found, and what the pilot has not shown yet.
25 Sep 2026
On 23 September 2026 the HALO Trust closed its Kosovo programme after 27 years. Of 585 mine and bomb casualties since 1999, 438 came in the first two years. The clearance that mattered opened an airport, a motorway and mountain trails, and about 6.67 km² of cluster contamination is still Kosovo's to clear.
23 Sep 2026
2,117 corrals in northern Tanzania are fences grown into living trees, and a controlled comparison credits them with stopping 99.9 percent of night attacks. In Kenya, the best predictor of whether a fortified boma got repaired turned out to be the distance to the next one.
23 Sep 2026
More than 450 family health houses put a midwife within walking distance for 82 percent of the women around them. The 1994 paper everyone quotes by its title says distance was only one delay of three.
21 Sep 2026
A yacht club in Galicia has taught adapted sailing free of charge since 2012, at about €150,000 a year. The hardware problem was solved long ago; the sport has still been refused the Paralympics three times.
20 Sep 2026
A decree banned shark fishing across Colombia in 2021 and changed almost nothing on the Wayuu coast. A project that hands fishers a notebook changed seventeen boats out of twenty.
How deep can your mind go? From cinematic mysticism to real neuroplasticity.
Combining neuroscience and mindfulness into a single working system.
History's most consequential changes have rarely come from wealth or authority. These ten stories share a common structure: one person, a clear moral conviction, and the decision to begin without waiting.
Read →Social enterprise doesn't mean sacrificing profit for purpose. These 15 ideas prove you can build something meaningful that also pays the bills.
Read →Impact investing — directing capital toward companies and funds that generate measurable social or environmental benefit alongside financial returns — has grown from a niche concept to a $1.1 trillion market. Here is what individual investors actually need to know.
Read →B Corp certification is the gold standard for ethical business — but the process is rigorous and the cost real. An honest look at what it involves.
Read →Turning your passion for social change into a legal organization requires more than good intentions. Here's what the process actually involves.
Read →Social enterprises are businesses that exist to create social or environmental impact alongside — or instead of — profit. They represent a growing challenge to the assumption that commerce and conscience must be separate.
Read →GiveWell, Giving What We Can, and 80,000 Hours have spent decades building rigorous frameworks for evaluating charitable impact. Here is what their latest research shows about where donations do the most good.
Read →Not all charities are equally effective — or honest. A data-driven guide to evaluating organizations before you donate.
Read →The research on micro-giving challenges the intuition that only large donations matter. Small, consistent giving — even €5 per month — creates measurable outcomes and produces behavioral changes in donors that compound over time.
Read →Most crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their goals. The ones that succeed share a handful of specific characteristics. Here is what separates a funded campaign from one that quietly dies at 12%.
Read →Most charity evaluation advice focuses on overhead ratios — a metric experts widely consider misleading. Here is what the evidence-based giving community actually recommends for evaluating where your money goes.
Read →A community cleanup is not primarily about litter. It's a public declaration that people care about a shared space — and research shows it changes how residents perceive and use that space for months afterward.
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