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The potential for technology to solve challenges in new ways, to enable faster scale, and to invite people around the world into the global economy is limitless. With technological innovation and entrepreneurial resolve we know change is possible.
We hope everyone will join us as we track the Living Progress Challenge solutions. We know the deeply exciting advances for the organizations, and the people they serve, lie just ahead.
After a highly competitive process with more than 130 proposals submitted from 28 countries around the world for Hewlett Packard Enterprise's the Living Progress Challenge:
- 17 proposals were selected and designed into prototypes
- 10 teams pitched live at the final pitch event in New York.
- 4 innovative solutions were ultimately selected as the final winners
These solutions span a range of impact areas from helping rural women save money and gain access to financial tools; to combating the illegal trade of fisheries products; to connecting youth in Mexico with mentors; and helping the world's largest volunteer organization transform the way people engage in their communities.
Each solution is in its final testing phase and will be launched over the coming weeks and months. These teams reflect that same innovative and entrepreneurial drive that is heralded so many Silicon Valley start-ups. For some of the NGO teams, this was the first time pursuing digital tools into their problem-solving. Teams were courageous, they learned about their user needs. Read the Entire Article
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A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Funding Will Support Further Wine Research at Brock University 
A Canadian university is preparing to open what it says will be the country's first "clean plant farm"a greenhouse-free operation where grapevines will be grown to make wine, the BBC...more
A Canadian university is preparing to open what it says will be the country's first "clean plant farm"a greenhouse-free operation where grapevines will be grown to make wine, the BBC...more
Ai Innovation Challenge 
The New York Climate Exchange is putting its money where its mouth is. The nonprofit is holding its first-ever AI Innovation Challenge, and it's looking for students to come up with solutions to...more
The New York Climate Exchange is putting its money where its mouth is. The nonprofit is holding its first-ever AI Innovation Challenge, and it's looking for students to come up with solutions to...more
Climate Solutions: Fg, Unido Award $32,500 To 3 Nigerian Startups 
Three young entrepreneurs in Nigeria have won $32,500 for their clean-tech solutions to climate-related problems, the Guardian reports. Schrodinger Tech, Givo Africa, and E-Sam Energy Solutions...more
Three young entrepreneurs in Nigeria have won $32,500 for their clean-tech solutions to climate-related problems, the Guardian reports. Schrodinger Tech, Givo Africa, and E-Sam Energy Solutions...more
Caltech Turns Jellyfish into Climate Researchers 
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology think they've figured out a way to turn jellyfish into ocean researchers, the Los Angeles Times reports. They're working on a "go-faster cap"...more
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology think they've figured out a way to turn jellyfish into ocean researchers, the Los Angeles Times reports. They're working on a "go-faster cap"...more
Can Climate Change Pakistan'S Economy? 
"We are grappling with uncertainty about how to deal with yearly floods," says a 55-year-old resident of Pakistan's Shikarpur. "My home has been destroyed, cattle drowned, and yearly crops...more
"We are grappling with uncertainty about how to deal with yearly floods," says a 55-year-old resident of Pakistan's Shikarpur. "My home has been destroyed, cattle drowned, and yearly crops...more
Opportunities and Challenges for Financing Women'S, Children'S and Adolescents' Health in ... 
Women, children, and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and they're going to bear the worst of it, even if they...more
Women, children, and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and they're going to bear the worst of it, even if they...more
Future Works Announces Official Launch: Unlocking Leaps in Innovation with Bespoke Ai Solutions 
If you're in the business of using artificial intelligence to improve your products and services, you may want to check out a new company called Future Works. It's a merger of two tech companies...more
If you're in the business of using artificial intelligence to improve your products and services, you may want to check out a new company called Future Works. It's a merger of two tech companies...more
Engineers Develop Innovative Battery Technology That Could Change the Future of Remote Devices 
A team of researchers at the University of Utah is reporting in the journal Energy & Environmental Science that it has developed a new type of battery that could someday power a wide range of...more
A team of researchers at the University of Utah is reporting in the journal Energy & Environmental Science that it has developed a new type of battery that could someday power a wide range of...more
Video. How Climate Change Is Threatening One of Portugal'S Best Carbon Sinks
corks aren't just good for the environment, they're good for your wallet, too. Portugal's leading cork company says its trees can capture 73 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kilogram of cork...more
corks aren't just good for the environment, they're good for your wallet, too. Portugal's leading cork company says its trees can capture 73 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kilogram of cork...more
The Impact Investing Case for Telecom Companies 
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
Social Entrepreneurship
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Social Enterprise Pushes Continuity of Care and Home Births
The Neighbourhood Midwives, the brainchild of Annie Francis of Hampshire, offers midwifery services geared for the continuity of care to women and their families.
