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Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Your American Dream Score project aims to engage people in thinking about issues such as poverty, inequality, and opportunity and offers strategies and resources that can help people move up in life....
Confronting Poverty, a long-running project spearheaded by researchers at Cornell and Washington University in St. Louis, provides a set of tools for learning more about poverty and inequality in the United States....
FundingTheOcean.org is a dynamic knowledge hub designed to track, inform, and inspire ocean conservation philanthropy around the world....
FOIA Mapper compiles information related to Freedom of Information requests — documents, database schema, logs, and more — into a centralized catalog, searchable by topic....
Wellcome Open Research publishes scholarly articles detailing basic scientific, translational and clinical research funded (or co-funded) by the UK-based Wellcome Trust....
Gapminder is an independent Swedish organization that works to combat misconceptions about global development with statistic-based presentations and teaching materials....
Billed as a work in progress, Zilient is an online platform that brings together resilience professionals from the NGO, INGO, government, and private sectors to learn from each other and create new solutions to the challenge of climate change....
Launched by Foundation Center earlier this month, Visualizing Funding for Libraries is a free comprehensive database of grants awarded to or in support of libraries by U.S. foundations....
The Refugee Project synthesizes data gathered by the United Nations since 1975 to visually narrate the forced migrations of refugees around the world....
Located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., NMAAHC is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African-American life, history, and culture....
The HeForShe campaign for gender equality provides a systematic approach to and targeted platform on which men and boys can engage and become change agents for the achievement of gender equality....
GiveDirectly makes it easy to transfer $1,000 in cash — a year's budget for a typical household — to an extremely poor family in Kenya or Uganda....
Created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford, digitalIMPACT.io supports the efforts of civil society organizations to manage and govern their digital data with the same degree of care they commit to managing their financial resources....
In the first documentary of its kind, journalist Bill Moyers asks half a dozen people who have been incarcerated on Rikers Island to tell their stories on camera, providing a vivid and disturbing description of the Rikers experience....
