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The Community.com: Network for Peace and Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

You might be able to if you join the newly launched social network, TheCommunity.com. From the home page: "Our social network just launched! November 26, we have just launched our new social network, to put you in touch with Nobel Peace Prize winners and other peace builders around the globe. What is this network about?

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

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Ensuring a healthy U.S. democracy in the face of extreme weather events

Candid

Accelerating extreme weather events have inspired creative solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change on physical infrastructure: Copenhagens permeable tiled roads absorb stormwater, Timor-Lestes vetiver grass plantings prevent landslides, and New York Citys reflective cool roofs reduce urban heat capture. But it is also hopeful.

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