CAMFED

What’s so scary about smart girls?

When terrorists in Nigeria organized a secret attack last month, they didn’t target an army barracks, a police department or a drone base. No, Boko Haram militants attacked what is even scarier to a fanatic: a girls’ school.

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.

Jan Sahas

Philanthropic communities join hands to help migrants

India’s leading philanthropists have come together to introduce the Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC) committed to ensuring safety, security and mobility for vulnerable migrant families across India.

Jan Sahas

How to build long-term resilience

After a year of no income and mounting debts, tens of thousands of migrant workers in India had just returned to cities to seek work when COVID-19’s second wave hit. It was a crisis on top of a crisis, says Sumit Singh, former communications manager at Jan Sahas. 

Put some Audacity into your giving season!

Give boldly by supporting the work of Audacious grantees making a big impact. 

Educate Girls

When schools closed their doors, Educate Girls brought school to the girl.

Team Balika, Educate Girls' volunteer outreach team is enrolling girls in school (and keeping them there).

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?

Code For America

Code for America Is Making Public Benefits More Accessible

The tech nonprofit reduced the online application time for Minnesotans.

World Central Kitchen

Feeding Essential Workers, and Putting Restaurants Back to Work

Frontline Foods is working with World Central Kitchen, a global nonprofit organization that is delivering fresh meals to essential workers and others in need.

World Central Kitchen

Bay Area effort to help restaurants feed hospital workers partners with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen

An effort I’ve been following in the Bay Area to deliver meals to front-line hospital clinicians dealing with the results of COVID-19 is announcing a big new partnership today that should give it a national stage. Frontline Foods is partnering up with World Central Kitchen to scale up its ad-hoc efforts across the US.