TOPIC: LOCAL COMMUNITIES (54)

Stockbox Grocers

Stockbox’s mission is to bring food back into communities – like an old-fashioned corner store, but with a modern twist. Our small format stores are placed throughout urban areas, to offer fresh produce, meal solutions, and grocery staples. We place mainstream staples, alongside organic products, and source produce from local farms when possible. Grab-and-go options in meals and snacks make it easy to shop, with selection changing frequently so there’s always something new to explore. We offer loyalty programs, recipes, and specials. Pricing is affordable – competitive with local grocery stores and below convenience stores. 

Meetup

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Neighborland

On Neighborland you can share your ideas and insights for your city, support your neighbors’ ideas, and connect with people who share your interests. We are providing residents, neighborhood organizations, economic development groups, and municipalities with a powerfully simple platform to connect and make good things happen.

MESH Cities

MESH Cities explores the wireless systems empowered, 21st Century city through the eyes of its super-users. These are the people who are embracing the new communications and infrastructure tools that will determine the ultimate livability of the modern city. The growing ubiquity of high-speed wireless connections allows people to experience the city in ways never before possible. More than that, they can contribute their ideas about how to make our cities more accommodating and responsive .

The Root Collective

The Root Collective is a socially-conscious, ethical fashion company that works with small-scale artisans and cooperatives in developing countries. We work to ensure fair pay and ethical treatment of workers in rural and urban slum communities. We also partner with nonprofits in our 10% Give Back program. We believe that a hand up, not a hand out, can change lives and break the cycle of poverty that plagues many of the communities in developing countries. To this end, we parter with nonprofit organizations that work directly in the communities where our partner artisans live.

Spacehive

Spacehive is the world's first funding platform for neighborhood improvement projects. We make it as easy to fund a new park or playground for your area as buying a book online.

WLS International

WLS International is a British Volunteer Organization that offers rewarding and affordable volunteer programs in Asia. For over 10 years we have been organizing volunteering programs in Asia to thousands of international volunteers from all over the world. We are committed to promoting cross-cultural awareness and helping communities in developing countries in Asia.

TekVenture

The Mission of TekVenture is to provide an environment offering space, tools, materials, and mentors where the community can realize their creative potential, satisfy their need to make things, talk shop with other makers, and connect with emerging technologies and the industries that use them.

Trip4real

Trip4real is a community-driven platform connecting locals with travellers across Spain, by enabling locals to become tour guides in whatever they are passionate about. Travellers can then browse through thousands of tours and activities offered by ordinary locals, read their profiles, reviews & ratings before arranging to meet them. Founded in 2012, trip4real was created as a tool to help those travelling to Spain have authentic experiences of the places they visit, alongside locals. The platform currently has over 10,000 users from 190 different countries, with as many as 2,500 locals from 52 different towns & cities offering activities.

Piano! Push Play!

Piano! Push Play! began with two objectives: to give young pianists a new exciting way to share their talent and hard work, and to give the public a chance to experience trained musicianship outside and away from the typical concert hall.  
This outreach project is about developing more ways for people to see, hear and enjoy this instrument in action. 

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, ICIC strengthens inner city economies by providing businesses, governments and investors with the most comprehensive and actionable information in the field about urban market opportunities.

Amazig Leathers

Amazig Leathers is a for-profit company that has grown out a call for ethical businesses which engage in social entrepreneurship. US offices, located in Knoxville, TN, ship the leather goods imported directly from the North African artisans who craft them. Brandi Jordan, the CEO and founder of Amazig Leathers, is currently finishing her master’s degree in International Development. She has worked in Southeast Asia, Central Africa, and North Africa, where she has learned to respect the legitimacy of craftsmen the world over.

Roots Interns

 Our mission is to create the perfect balance between meaningful work and valuable learning. That’s why we offer nonprofit internships in Africa for people around the world; internships that support important social and conservation initiatives happening at a grassroots level. And we offer a wide range of NGO internships in Africa so that we can offer the perfect experience for students of different areas

NeighborGoods

NeighborGoods is a safe community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends. Need a ladder? Borrow it from your neighbor. Have a bike collecting dust in your closet? Lend it out and make a new friend.

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Project 10

Project 10 works to promote the personal, social, sexual and mental well being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersexed and questioning youth and adults 14-25.