"Maybe everything that dies, someday comes back," Bruce Springsteen belted out in Atlantic City.  He could have been singing about his own hometown...

08 March, 2020

The Indian village of Sadhan has been proving for years that Hindus and Muslims can literally live together in peace...

10 February, 2020

One of the best examples of a K-12 school doubling as a community hub in the U.S. is also one of the our most innovative, the Navajo STAR School in Arizona...

04 January, 2020

The school as hub for the community around it has become a cutting-edge ideal; nowhere is it being more fully realized than in some of the world's poorest places...

04 January, 2020

A small town in the heart of Texas has become an unexpected leader among the growing number of municipalities seeking to bring all generations together...

01 September, 2019

For more than a decade, San Francisco and other Bay Area communities have been leading a revolution in voting that's reducing extremism and partisan division from coast-to-coast...

08 August, 2019

In Pittsburgh, PA, Landforce is reaching out to those returning from incarceration, people recovering from substance abuse and others struggling to get a foothold in the job market to develop fresh green infrastructure...

31 May, 2019

A community-based enterprise created by nonprofit Hacienda, Verde is partnering with the city of Portland on a model that fuses green infrastructure with building community wealth, offering people with limited skills and work history a pipeline to good jobs and even businesses of their own...

31 May, 2019

With twice as many followers as residents, and an overall reach of 25M, the small city of Roanoke, Virgina (pop. 90,000) has taken civic engagement viral, and done it with an in-house staff of one...

31 May, 2019

What if we just gave the poor money instead of creating programs to help them? GiveDirectly has been doing just that for more than a decade with surprising results...

03 May, 2019
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