The Right To Relate: Cycling Without Age
How a Danish-led global movement is combating isolation among the elderly, and adapting fast in the era of social distancing.
Fact Checking Stories About Covid-19: How A World-Wide Network Of Scientists Is Kept Very Busy
Getting the science right in a public heath crisis. Emmanuel Vincent talks with Ashoka's Konstanze ... [+] Frischen. Ashoka Science Feedback is a not-for-profit organization that works with a network of scientists all
Bangladesh’s New Generation Of Women-Led Labor Unions Confronts The Pandemic
Four million women work in Bangladesh's fast fashion factories. Awaj Foundation What are you wearing? There’s a pretty good chance that the shirt on your back or the pants in your closet
Bangladesh’s New Generation Of Women-Led Labor Unions Confronts The Pandemic
For the country's four million garment workers, this is an especially fraught time. But some workers and factories are finding solutions.
Rising To Thailand’s Covid-19 Challenge
Dr. Kongkiat consults with hospital staff in Phuket, Thailand. Hospital OS Kongiat Kespechara is an internist and the founder of Hospital OS, whose open-source management software for hospitals and clinics is in
Rising To Thailand’s Covid-19 Challenge
As the virus spreads, one doctor is raising an army of volunteers to prepare the health infrastructure for the battle of a lifetime.
We Must Flatten The Curve For Small Businesses Too
Alison Lingane is co-founder of Project Equity, a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, retain selling owners’ legacies, and address income
We Must Flatten The Curve For Small Businesses Too
Small businesses contribute nearly half of the national GDP and employ 47% of the private sector workforce. Read how employee ownership offers a path to economic resiliency.
Here’s How We End U.S. Immigration Detention
Christina Fialho (center) with actors of "Orange Is The New Black," the Netflix hit that featured ... [+] Freedom for Immigrants’ crisis hotline. The hotline was later suspended by ICE,
Here’s How We End U.S. Immigration Detention
More than 50,000 immigrants are detained every day in the U.S. in county jails and for-profit prisons. Read how Freedom for Immigrants is working to change this.
Respirators From 3D Printers: How The Spanish Maker Community Fights Covid-19 From Their Living Rooms
Open source innovators César García Sáez (top) and David Cuartiellies (right) created Coronavirus ... [+] Makers Forum. Ashoka As hospitals prepare to take in more patients with the coronavirus, they are in
Preventing Disease Outbreaks: Lessons From Uganda
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka works at the intersection of animal and human health - with a focus on... [+] Uganda's famous mountain gorillas. CTPH Conservationist, veterinarian, epidemiologist, and health worker in the villages near wild
Preventing Disease Outbreaks: Lessons From Uganda
Veterinarian and public health advocate Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka on why wildlife health and human health go hand in hand, and how we can prevent the next epidemic.
Prosecutors Can Help End Mass Incarceration
Adam Foss, founder of Prosecutor Impact. Ashoka How do we fix mass incarceration in the U.S.? It's a system that puts 2.3 million Americans behind bars, far more per capita than
Prosecutors Can Help End Mass Incarceration
Ending mass incarceration in the U.S. starts with changing the culture among prosecutors, says Adam Foss, founder of Prosecutor Impact.