Crowdrise
PBS-style fundraising gets a jolt of fresh energy on Crowdrise, a spunky platform that uses teams, points, leaderboards, contests, and more to help engaged citizens raise billions, and have fun doing it...
23 March, 2019
Crowd Justice
Kids are storming the courts and so can you, by contributing to crowdfunded public interest lawsuits against gerrymandering, water pollution, transgender discrimination, and more...
23 March, 2019
Conversation
The Conversation is seeking to rebuild public trust in expertise by translating academic research into accessible prose, with all potential conflicts disclosed. 76,000 scholars around the world are already participating, and more than 10 million readers are listening to what they have to say...
23 March, 2019
Audacious Project
TED Talks get real: Disrupting bail, building the largest farmer network in Africa, digitally empowering community health workers--TED's taking the biggest ideas crossing their transom and putting money behind them--$406M at last count--yours could be next...
23 March, 2019
Your Bias
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has been the lead mapper of the hidden hard-wired biases that fool we, the people, over and over again.School Of Thought has distilled these down to a point where K-6 educators could teach kids how to avoid them...
23 March, 2019
Vote16
One of the longest, most painstaking, and ironic arcs in American history has been voting rights--apres Parkland, could kids be next to get them? A coalition of K-12 civics groups is working to make it so...
23 March, 2019
Ulster Project
The UK only began civics education in 2002, but the Ulster Project has been bringing together Catholic and Protestant teens from Northern Ireland to the great melting pot (that would be us) for more than forty years...
23 March, 2019
Teaching Hard History
The Southern Poverty Law Center introduces its Teaching Hard History curriculum (and a rich set of resources & recs) as an antidote to our childrens' troubling incomprehension of fraught events that continue to shape our civic landscape...
23 March, 2019
Our Children’s Trust
In the "trial of the century," and potentially one of the greatest civic learning experiences of all time for America's youth, kids are suing the government over climate change, and so far they're 9-0 vs attempts by the administration to stop them...
23 March, 2019
Our American Voice
Our American Voice is taking kids back to the future, showing them how they can apply the wisdom and lessons of the founders to solve problems in their schools and communities today...
23 March, 2019