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Global Fishing Watch

‍How China targets the global fish supply

With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.

Glasswing International

How do we heal and strengthen Latin America’s communities? The secret is in our people.

Latin America has only 8% of the world’s population but over a third of its homicides and addressing the effects of trauma on these violence-affected communities has never been more urgent. Audacious Project Lead Celina de Sola of Glasswing International calls for a community-led approach to healing.

BRAC

What’s the best way to help extremely poor people? After 20 years, the evidence is in.

Is it really useful to “teach a person to fish” or should you just give them the damn fish already?

Institute for Protein Design

COVID-19 vaccine with IPD nanoparticles wins full approval abroad

This protein-based vaccine outperforms Oxford/AstraZeneca's and does not require freezing. It is our first designed protein medicine.

Innovative Genomics Institute

Can genome editing of common crops fight climate change?

Using CRISPR genome editing on a few common crops, a team of plant and soil scientists seeks to vastly increase and speed up carbon storage to help fight climate change.

CAMFED

Empowering African youth through education

Angeline Murimirwa, CEO of CAMFED, is helping girls across the continent gain equal access to education. Humphrey Nabimanya is educating the youth about sexual and reproductive health through his organization, Reach a Hand Uganda.

Clean Slate Initiative

12 mind-blowing facts about the criminal justice system

There is only so much a statistic can show about the criminal justice system, and how to change it for the better. Many are well aware, and have been for years, of its racial biases, of its great financial costs to the government, of its deep reach into the lives of a huge proportion of Americans and their families.

Upstream USA

How one clinic in Texas explains the threat to contraception

n a small one-story clinic with peeling white paint, Community Health Services provides health care, including family planning, to low-income, mostly Latina, women in this city a 45-minute drive south of booming Austin.

Introducing The Audacious Project’s new cohort

The 2021-22 cohort features nine audacious responses to some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Donors Pledge $41 Million to Monitor Thawing Arctic Permafrost

The six-year effort by climate scientists and policy experts aims to fill gaps in knowledge about planet-warming emissions and help affected communities in Alaska

Code For America

Code for America Is Making Public Benefits More Accessible

The tech nonprofit reduced the online application time for Minnesotans.

Innovative Genomics Institute

Doudna and Banfield introduce microbiome community editing