Coral Vita was part of the team that won XPRIZE Visioneering, a competition that convenes a select group of leaders and experts to evaluate, prioritize and fund competition designs. As a result of their efforts, there will be a "Coral
Innovation Prize Awardees Molly Hemstreet and Sarah Chester of Industrial Commons and Brandon Dennison of Coalfield Development were named two of the ten grantees of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a collaboration between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Yasmine Arrington and five of her ScholarCHIPS scholars were interviewed by long-time journalist, Barbara Hasrrison, on NBC 4. Watch the full video here.
Christina Fialho, co-founder of Freedom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC), offers insight into the abuses of our current immigrant detention system and how community-based alternatives to detention, such as her Revolving Immigration Detention Bond Fund, offer a more humane and cost
Cora Vita will soon begin constructing the world's first land-based coral farm in the Bahamas. In these farms, they intend to not only grow coral faster than it grows in the ocean - but to help make the coral more
Welcoming America's Executive Director, Rachel Peric, spoke with WABE's Jim Burress about Atlanta's new regional welcoming plan. Listen to the discussion here.
California Harvesters, a project of The Workers Lab and 2017 Innovation Prize awardee, is transforming agricultural labor practices and improving the treatment of farmworkers. Read Fast Company's full article here: How a Small Worker-Owned trust Could Transform Agricultural Labor
Made in Brownsville, one of our Brownsville grantees, was featured in Hyundai's Young Entrepreneurs video series. Watch the video here.
In "All Serious Criminal Cases Deserve Podcast-Style Scrutiny," Liz Vartkessian notes that careful investigation of a conviction, theoretically guaranteed to all facing capital charges, can mean the difference between life and death. However, this type of scrutiny is done almost
Victoria Herrmann, one of our 2017 JMK Innovation Prize Awardees, was named one of Saving Places "40 under 40." Read more about Victoria, and the rest of the forty recipients: 40 Under 40: People Saving Places.