The Bail Project
We have a vision of justice as blind, impartial, and fair — but in reality, the law often fails those who need it most.Robin Steinberg and other TED speakers explore radical ways to change the legal system.
Sending a mother to prison can have a devastating effect on her children. Why, then, do we lock so many women up?
Sightsavers
When Caroline Harper found herself jobless in her mid-40s, she decided to step off the corporate ladder and travel to all the places she’d always wanted to go, from Antarctica to Egypt. Here’s how it changed her life — and her career.
Center For Tech and Civic Life
While the global number of people living on less than $1.90 per day is down to 675,000, progress has slowed — and arguably regressed — in countries facing conflict, disasters, poor governance, and high population growth.
Rasha Almulaiki is at work inside Detroit's Division II Wayne County Jail, trying to select people with the right criteria to bail out. She is not a bail bondsman. Rather, she's a "bail disrupter" — the only one in Detroit.
While emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence capture our imagination, the most game-changing innovations for smallholder farmers are seeds, roads and electricity.
Sir John Wilson founded The British Empire Society for the Blind — known today as Sightsavers — in 1950 after mortgaging his home. It's grown to be one of the most-respected nonprofit organizations.
Their ideas are ambitious, with the goal of changing outdated systems and impacting millions of lives. It’s been five months since The Audacious Project’s first class of project leaders spoke at TED2018, and each one is gaining momentum.
To tackle childhood diseases in rural Africa,Living Goods founder Chuck Slaughter borrowed a page from the cosmetics giant Avon’s playbook, now with a tech twist.
Meet T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, two of Women's Health's 2018 Game Changers.
Bail reform is hot, says Robin Steinberg. From New Jersey to California, and Rand Paul to Bernie Sanders, there is widespread agreement that the cash bail system is broken. But while there is consensus about the problem, there are divisions about the solutions.
We’ll send you news and updates on how ideas are taking shape.
