NOSSAS - Building People Power in Brazil

NOSSAS builds digital mobilization tools for real-world action to amplify civic engagement and resource a network of activism in Brazil. NOSSAS engaged over 1.2 million Brazilians in 18 cities, and successfully advocated for 25 public policy chang...

Ali AKA Mind - Uplifting Columbian Communities Through Hip Hop

Ali Rey Montoya better known as Ali AKA Mind ( Bogotá , February 4 , 1982 ) is a rapper, MC and Colombian producer. His music is influenced by multiple genres from the American rap of Boot Camp Clik to the boleros of Julio Jaramillo , and from th...

CONEXSUS

Conexsus?addresses the gaps that prevent?the development of a forest-based economy in Brazil by?connecting sustainable community enterprises?to technical assistance and capital. Conexsus has deployed $3 million in loans to?85?enterprises, benefitt...

They Are Missing Us

Explore Indigenous climate solutions with Juan Carlos Jintiach. Juan Carlos Jintiach Arcos, current Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (AGCT), recently nominated as a candidate for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, b...

The Space Between Us

Sarah Crowell is Black. Keith Hennessey is white. They are both dancers, who have known each other for nearly 30 years. But they’ve never had an interaction like this, until now. The Space Between Us is a radical experiment in the power of beari...

Decentering Whiteness - A Spoken Word Poem by Darius Simpson

“I want to talk about how reality can be obscured by a sentence, or how a sentence can be obscured by the color of your skin,” says spoken word poet, Darius Simpson, in this short film created to explore the idea of decentering whiteness in popula...

A Most Unusual Way To Connect

This is a short film about what happened when a group of strangers gathered in public to share their vulnerabilities. See the magic that happens between people when we let down our guard and let ourselves be seen. Do you relate to any of these sig...

Dance With Me - A Public Blindfolded Dance Experiment With Strangers

As many of us retreat further into the silos of our devices and our tribes, avoiding contact with strangers, I wanted to see if anyone would take me up on this invitation. I wanted to remind the world, but mostly myself, that extraordinary connect...

The Color of Covid - Spoken Word Poetry by Darius Simpson

Are we all in this together? It has become glaringly clear that the impacts of the pandemic are not felt equally by all. We may all be in the same storm, but we’re not in the same boat. This short film written and voiced by Darius Simpson explores...

Pay As You Go Solar

One billion people live in extreme poverty and off the grid, without basic infrastructure, reliable energy, or efficient consumer products. The past decade has seen the development and distribution of scores of life-changing products designed spec...

Research To Save The World

Solving two of the world’s biggest environmental challenges, climate change and air pollution, will demand rapid progress toward cleaner, more efficient technologies for all modes of transportation. In 2017, transportation accounted for roughly on...

mPEDIGREE The Business Of Trust

Counterfeit drugs kill an estimated one million people every year, while counterfeit agricultural inputs hinder productivity and keep smallholder farmers in poverty. Through using innovative technology to uncover counterfeit products, mPedigree is...

mPedigree

We Are In The Field

A young Nepalese man struggles to protect the wildlife and natural habitat of his country. This documentary follows Manoj Gautam on a passionate quest to protect animals and wildlife from cruelty and extinction. As a child he was inspired by the w...

Vulnerable Rally Rise Mikey Pauker

If you were to make a sign that reveals something about yourself you want to hide from the world and hold it in public, what would it say? That’s the question Vulnerable Rally, conceived by Gabriel Diamond and co-created with Candice Holdorf, asks...

Tyranny of Distance

Fifteen years of civil war in Liberia has resulted in one of the world’s worst doctor shortages and cut off the country’s rural poor from basic healthcare. Community health workers trained and equipped by the non-profit Last Mile Health are workin...

Street Workers Unite

India's street vendors and rickshaw drivers are among the country's most vulnerable citizens. For years they’ve lived and worked without legal protections and without access to financial services, and have been subject to harassment by the police,...

The Slum Dwellers

Many of the world's urban poor live off the grid in informal settlements, ignored by government and quarantined from the rest of society. Jockin Arputham--a lifelong community organizer from the Indian slums--created an organization to build the v...

Educate Girls

In India, the majority of girls do not complete their primary education. Educate Girls is working to make education more accessible to girls by partnering with public schools, training local champions for girls’ education, and mobilizing communiti...

The Equal Justice Initiative

The US has the world’s highest incarceration rate, with nearly a third of young black men in the criminal justice system. In Montgomery, Alabama, Equal Justice Initiative is working to end mass incarceration and confront a legacy of racial injusti...

Creating Social Fiction

What is the world you are working to create? Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank urges us to live the “social fictions” we dream of seeing tomorrow, today.

Still I Rise

A visual and musical interpretation of American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s electrifying poem "Still I Rise." Juxtaposing Angelou's timeless words with imagery of struggle and changee from the past to the present, "Still I Rise" ...

The Promise of the Commons

Jagdeesh Rao Puppala of Foundation for Ecological Security in India is securing common land to ensure a better future for the rural poor. In India, many poor rural communities rely on publicly-owned lands for their food and livelihood. Yet these...

Eco Peace Middle East

In an area famed for hopeless divisions Eco Peace Middle East is finding a way to bridge the divides between Israelis and Palestinians in a most unique way, and protecting the environment along the way... EcoPeace co-founder Gidon Bromberg descri...

Blue Skies Over China

In this video, the Skoll Foundation visits Ma Jun of Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) in China, where he is lifting the veil on pollution. This video debuted on the big screen at the 2015 Skoll Awards Ceremony in Oxford, UK, Apr...

Kofi Annan The World I am Working to create

Blue Ventures

Ten years ago, in a coastal village in Madagascar, Alasdair Harris tested an elegantly simple model that put Blue Ventures on the map. He encouraged residents to take charge of their local fishery by cordoning off a small section of their octopus-...